Science news articles about 'alfred wegener institute'

  • Geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute back from an expedition to Labrador Sea

    Bremerhaven, July 20th 2009. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have researched the geology of the seabed in the Labrador Sea on board of the research vessel Maria S. Merian. They have ...
  • Ocean acidification -- another undesired side effect of fossil fuel-burning

    ... Jelle Bijma, chair of the EuroCLIMATE programme Scientific Committee and a biogeochemist at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute Bremerhaven. “Ocean acidification is more rapid than ever in the history of ...
  • Fire under the ice

    ... are nothing unusual and pose a great threat for whole areas," explains Dr Vera Schlindwein of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association. ...
  • Alfred Wegener Institute inherits the radiation data archive WRMC

    The international archive for radiation data, the World Radiation Monitoring Centre (WRMC), provides climate research with high-precision meteorological series of measurements...
  • How will the Arctic sea ice cover develop this summer?

    ... per cent. Climate scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz ... data of the last twenty years into an ocean sea ice model developed at the Alfred Wegener ...
  • A world novelty for an improved tsunami early warning

    ... tsunami scenarios they calculated is now being incorporated into the system developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven. They allow an essential expansion of the database."In regard to ...
  • Successful series of measurements in Arctic sea ice

    ... 0,1°C each year since 1997. Premiere for the seaglider A premiere for the Alfred Wegener Institute was the operation of a seaglider from Polarstern. This is an autonomous vehicle which regularly ...
  • RV Polarstern on its way to East Siberian Sea

    Bremerhaven, August 19th 2008. German research vessel Polarstern, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, transits the Northwest Passage ...
  • Even seaweeds get sunburned

    ... gets white tips.," explains Prof. Dr. Christian Wiencke, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association. "The algae additionally produce ...
  • Arctic ice on the verge of another all-time low

    ... direct route through the Northwest Passage has opened up. Prof. Heinrich Miller from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany commented that, "Our ice-breaking research vessel ' ...
  • New giant clam species offers window into human past

    ... gun" for overharvesting by humans many thousands of years ago, said Claudio Richter of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. The new species appears to live only in ...
  • The green Sahara, a desert in bloom

    ... of the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Research in Bremen (Germany) and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremerhaven (Germany) studied a marine sediment core off the coast of Northwest Africa ...
  • Research around the North Pole

    ... s 23rd Arctic expedition, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute in the Helmholtz Association, started its journey on ... far unknown", explains Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Stein, geologist at the Alfred Wegener ...
  • In which way does climate change affect the complex interaction in ecosystems?

    ... . This is described by Prof. Dr Hans-Otto Poertner, physiological ecologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, in the current issue of the ...
  • A new approach in tsunami-early warning

    ... TsunAWI which is based on unstructured triangle lattices. This modelling system developed at the Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research depicts the wave propagation and flooding in a, ...

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