• Climate modelling

    include a digital twin of every atom in the ocean and atmosphere in the model – and the processing power of all the world’s supercomputers combined wouldn’t remotely be up to the task. Accordingly, models [...] refers to the long-term state of the atmosphere and ocean over decades, centuries or millennia. To gauge the climate, the statistics of the meteorological parameters also used to determine the weather are [...] Celsius, according to the IPCC the risk of exceeding certain tipping points in the climate system will be lower. This assessment was also the basis for the 1.5-degree target included in the Paris Agreement,

  • Bluehouse

    Helgoland and the agency "studio klv". The Alfred Wegener Institute conducts research in the extreme habitats of the polar regions and oceans - from the atmosphere to the bottom of the seas. At the Helgoland and [...] on side The excavation pit is currently being prepared with the pile construction, and the next step will be the demolition of the two basement levels. In the course of the upcoming work, the subsoil is [...] around 600 square metres of state-of-the-art exhibition space. By combining haptic and virtual content, the BLUEHOUSE HELGOLAND will provide a whole new insight into the world of the North Sea and its exploration

  • Stable Isotopes in Marine Geology

    DML as well as data of the control standard IA-RO63. It can be seen that the SD of the DML house standard is higher, but it is still within the specification of the analysis system. The transparent background [...] addition, the δ 15 N values of the organic matter also provide information on the efficiency of the biological pump if terrigenous input can be excluded. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of organisms, on the other [...] archives. On the other hand, we determine the δ 18 O values in ice and water samples from the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as the δ 13 C values of dissolved inorganic carbon in the water of the polar oceans

  • Stable Isotope Facility

    g. in the opal skeleton of diatoms). The special thing about this is that the geochemical fingerprint of both substances differs depending on the environmental conditions that prevailed when the diatoms [...] example, the air temperature that prevailed at the time of formation," says AWI climate researcher Dr Hanno Meyer. He heads the ISOLAB Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam, where some of the world's most [...] Temperature data of the last 200,000 years The EPICA DML ice core had a length of 2.892 metres. In order to find out what temperature data is stored in the various ice layers of the core, the scientists took

  • 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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  • Publications

    Appreciation of 50 Years of the Study of Oceans and Lakes. Bangor 18-22 March 2002 Talk - Hamm, C. (2002): Geometry and Material Properties of the Silicified Cell Walls of Planktonic Algae: The Technical [...] Design of Radial Framework Structures: The Case of Asterolampra. In: Block, P., Boller, G., DeWolf, C., Pauli, J., & Kaufmann, W. Eds.: Proceedings of the IASS 2024 Symposium; Redefining the Art of Structural [...] Decouple Ocean Carbon and Silicon Cycles in the Iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 110 (51). 20633-20638 Paper -

  • Projects

    in the Pacific Southern Ocean since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the Earth system, both for the uptake of anthropogenic carbon and for the exchange of heat [...] inspired the concept of the Arcwatch expeditions. The SNAC-cluster now aims at providing a synoptic view of the changing CAO. The “PaRaThA” project is based on the time-integrated information from the natural [...] sedimentation rate and the spatial distribution of the controlling environmental parameters in order to: to quantify the content of organic carbon (OC) in the sediments of the Baltic Sea, assess their OC a

  • Facility Bhv

    DML as well as data of the control standard IA-RO63. It can be seen that the SD of the DML house standard is higher, but it is still within the specification of the analysis system. The transparent background [...] addition, the δ 15 N values of the organic matter also provide information on the efficiency of the biological pump if terrigenous input can be excluded. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of organisms, on the other [...] archives. On the other hand, we determine the δ 18 O values in ice and water samples from the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as the δ 13 C values of dissolved inorganic carbon in the water of the polar oceans

  • 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

  • Permafrost

    effects on the landscape, as the large ice masses melt, causing parts of the surface to collapse. The considerable diversity to be found in permafrost makes it particularly difficult to keep track of the various [...] found at the Zugspitze. Given its smaller overall land mass, there is less permafrost in the Southern Hemisphere. Although the Antarctic offers the constant low temperatures needed, the amount of land where [...] where the majority of biological and biochemical activity takes place, it is also referred to as the “active layer”, which, as the thawing layer, is not considered to be part of the permafrost. The layer