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Hosted by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the International Vista Seminar 2021 will take place on November 17 under the title "Subsea floor processes and a sustainable ocean". There, AWI Director Antje Boetius will give a lecture at 3:00 p.m. on the topic "Hydrothermal vents and deep sea mining - are we interfering with the “origins of life”?". The event can be followed via livestream.  Further information and livestream

The "Orchester des Wandels" is a non-profit association of musicians from all over Germany. Together they draw attention to climate change and deal with the climate crisis in creative concert formats. In the course of the UN climate conference COP26, the orchestra calls for immediate action: "COP26 act now!". To the current video of the Orchestra of Change  

Melting glaciers are a major contributor to global sea-level rise. In order to project the latter as precisely as possible, all relevant processes at work in the world’s large glaciers must be simulated as realistically as possible in computer models. In most simulations, the ice is exclusively depicted as a flowing body. But, as a new modelling study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute confirms, this approach neglects the ice’s qualities as a solid body. Accordingly, using the example of a glacier on the coast of Greenland, the experts showed that ocean…

As part of the 150th anniversary of the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfunug (BAM), lectures on "Science with Impact" will be held throughout the year. On November 11 at 4:00 pm, AWI Director Antje Boetius will speak on this in her webinar "Global change microbiology - big questions about small life for our future". The event can be attended online for free. Further information

At this international and interdisciplinary forum for the scientific dialogue between researchers and society, sea ice physicist Stefanie Arndt and MOSAiC project leader Markus Rex from the Alfred Wegener Institute will speak on November 9 from 12:25 p.m. under the title "Breaking The Wall To Measuring Climate Change". The event will be streamed live from the Radialsystem in Berlin.

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At the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the Alfred Wegener Institute will be present with various contributions: On November 6, AWI marine biologist and ecologist Jilda Caccavo will speak on "Marine Ecosystems Under Pressure" at the Cryosphere Pavilion for the Focus Day Polar Oceans starting at 11:00 am (CET). All contributions of the Cryosphere Pavilion can be followed live on the corresponding Youtube channel. Click here for the livestream

Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, French Special Envoy for Polar Regions and Maritime Affairs, visited the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven for a joint exchange. Topics were amongst others the German-French Arctic research base AWIPEV in Ny Ålesund as well as EU cooperations and current research projects.

With a visit to the German Emigration Center Bremerhaven (DAH), Chancellor Angela Merkel said goodbye to the state of Bremen and the Bremen Senate on November 4. After signing the Golden Book of Bremerhaven and a guided tour of the Emigration Center, she met with representatives of the political and scientific life in Bremerhaven and Bremen, including AWI Director Antje Boetius.

At the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the Alfred Wegener Institute will be present with various contributions: At the Focus Day Permafrost on November 4, AWI permafrost experts Hugues Lantuit, Paul Overduin and Jens Strauss will give presentations on seabed permafrost, permafrost emissions as well as infrastructure damage and coastal erosion caused by thawing permafrost starting at 11:00 am (CET). They will also be involved in the panel that will follow afterwards. Find out more

After dropping considerably worldwide in 2020, this year fossil carbon dioxide emissions will likely reach the level before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the conclusion arrived at by the Global Carbon Project. Every year, experts assess how much CO2 was released into the atmosphere around the globe, and how much was absorbed by natural sinks. Dr Judith Hauck, a climate researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, is also part of the team. The project has just released its preliminary report in the journal Earth System Science Data.