Outreach

research topics or explore the conflict of interests of different Arctic stakeholders. Lesson Plan Permafrost in the Arctic Living in the wild North The Permafrost Risk The Ocean Race Summit Dr. Rebecca [...] and thematic perspectives. Different questions discuss the situation in the High North: What characterizes the Arctic environment? What changed in the Arctic over the last decades? What is permafrost? How [...] Outreach Lesson Plan "Permafrost in the Arctic" The lesson plan “Permafrost in the Arctic” explores the subject of degrading permafrost and its effects on men and environment from different spatial and

20231107_Sargassum_s4s_report.pdf

Sargassum. The following presentation and interpretation of the results matches the order of the questionnaire. The small number of participants does not allow for representative insights about the local community [...] good, the other half of the group assessed the quality as bad or rather bad. Yet, the vast majority agreed that the quality of the coastal environment is not improving over time, indicating that the participants [...] worried about the future development of the coastal environment. Most of the participants indicated that they use the coastal environment for recreational activities and described the coast and the sea as

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Environment Protection Seminar

clicking on the flag symbol. At the end of the training, you will be asked 15 multiple-choice questions about the content of the training, which you have to answer correctly (see also information in the instruction [...] Training "Environmental Protection in Antarctica" The provisions of the German "Law for the Implementation of the Environmental Protection Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty" (see www.gesetze-im-internet [...] traveling to the Antarctic Treaty area (south of 60°S) with a German permit must have sufficient knowledge of environmental protection in Antarctica and the provisions of the law. For this reason, the Alfred

West Antarctic Ice Sheet

and paleo-current models of the continental rise and shelf of the Pacific margin of West Antarctica The results call for an urgent case of scientific drilling, in particular in the Amundsen Sea Embayment [...] reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat since the onset of Southern Hemisphere glaciation improves our understanding of ice sheet growth and melting processes and [...] that exceed those of any other Antarctic outlet glacier outside the Antarctic Peninsula. The incursion of warm Circum-Polar Deep-Water into the deeply incised glacial troughs of the shelves has been recognized

UN Climate Change Conference

things off the ground, for example the strengthening of the rights of indigenous communities and the close interlocking of biodiversity conservation and climate protection. The preservation of biodiversity [...] times faster than the rest of the world: the soils are beginning to thaw and release the stored carbon as greenhouse gases such as CO 2 and CH 4 . "The available data models agree that the permafrost region [...] strongly do the current and ongoing climate changes affect the snow and ice regions of our planet? The latest State of the Cryosphere Report 2024, published on 12 November, provides insights and warns of vastly

Iliana_Baums_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

world, including in the Caribbean and the Central and Eastern Pacific. She was the lead scientist on the „Jewels of the Gulf“ expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. In recognition of her scientific achievements [...] ng of the processes that shape marine life, with the goal of maintaining the diversity and productivity of marine ecosystems. Iliana Baums has led more than 30 expeditions to coral reefs around the world [...] status by the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) in 2024. The Eco Magazine also recognised her as one of the fifteen best coral reef researchers of 2020. In the same year, she received the Faculty Scholars

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AWI-CentreReview-2011_final.pdf

conducted at the Potsdam division of AWI, and the group is ranked as the first in Europe and as one of the best in the world. The achievements of this research group are outstanding. The boundary-layer [...] 2011, the review panel met with the extended Directorate of the AWI for a briefing about the organisation and the goals of the AWI centre review and PACES mid-term evaluation. During these talks, the review [...] to provide the review panel with a comprehensive overview of the research at the AWI. The posters summarized the missions, methods and results of each of the twenty scientific sections and the Junior Research

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Matthias_Brenner_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

representatives of the federal and state environmental authorities on the subject of munitions in the sea and the results of the research projects. His special interest is the transfer of knowledge from [...] Geography at the University of Bremen. Bet- ween 2005 and 2009 he was PhD student at Jacobs University and AWI and thought about the question: How can offshore windfarms be co-used for the cultivation of blue [...] munition in the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak. The aim of his research is to develop methods to detect health effects that organisms may suffer when they come into contact with or are exposed to the toxic compounds

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Wochenbericht_Alaska2021_Woche3_eng.pdf

buried peat layer at Swanson river at a depth of 80 cm. Future analyses in the laboratory will show the age and potentially the reason for the formation and burial of this peat layer. Claire and Miriam were [...] Kenai and the Division of Natural Resources of Alaska for two additional field sites on the Kenai river mouth and at the Swanson river mouth (approx. 30 km North of Kenai). With these two additional transects [...] cover the fresh- to saltwater transition in the soil and vege- tation, since the transects from last week did not show any large gradient in a first analysis of the soil water. As a result, the new field

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News from the CSD

iceberg hit the underwater cable so that the communication to the underwater part of the observatory started to become critical. With the help of the AWIPEV station personal, the REMOS part of the underwater [...] overhaul of the underwater part of the installation, including the replacement of the concrete fundament. The April dive-expedition 2018 to Svalbard was therefore dedicated almost exclusively to the renewal [...] hammered into the sediment. Then, the divers filled the steel frame with additional 72 concrete plates each of it with a weight if 18,4 kg so that the desired final weight of the entire construction of 1.8 tons