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In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

  
  Alfred Wegener
Wegener also found that the fossils found in a certain place often indicated a climate utterly different from the climate of today: for example, fossils of tropical plants, such as ferns and cycads, are found today on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
Wegener was not the first to suggest that the continents had once been connected, but he was the first to present extensive evidence from several fields.
Wegener thought that the continents were moving through the earth's crust, like icebreakers plowing through ice sheets, and that centrifugal and tidal forces were responsible for moving the continents.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/wegener.html   (1288 words)

  
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The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and temperate latitudes.
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research coordinates polar research in Germany, and provides important infrastructure, such as the research icebreaker Polarstern and stations in the Arctic and the Antarctic, for international science organisations.
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research is one of 15 research centres of the 'Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft' the largest scientific organisation in Germany.
www.cousteau.org /camlbackup/data/popups/AWI.html   (79 words)

  
 AWI: The Alfred Wegener Institute
The Alfred Wegener Institute conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and at temperate latitudes.
The Foundation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research includes the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven the Potsdam Research Unit (1992), the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland and the Wadden Sea Station Sylt.
It is a member of the Hermann von Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF); the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) covers 90% of financing, the state of Bremen 8% and the states of Brandenburg and Schleswig-Holstein provide 1% each.
www.awi-bremerhaven.de /AWI   (305 words)

  
 AWI: Research Unit Potsdam
The main fields of research of the Potsdam Research Unit are terrestrial geoscience studies in the periglacial regions at the margins of inland ice sheets and in permafrost areas as well as model and experimental investigations of atmospheric processes in the polar regions.
These studies complete the programme of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, which is mainly concerned with marine studies and ice-core drilling.
In particular, the polar researchers at Potsdam concentrate on the Arctic realm, the key to an understanding of European climate.
www.awi-potsdam.de   (150 words)

  
 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Institute
It is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres; the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) covers 90% of financing, the state of Bremen 8% and the states of Brandenburg and Schleswig-Holstein provide 1% each.
The Institute's research mission is to improve our understanding of ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions, the animal and plant kingdoms of the Arctic and Antarctic, and the evolution of the polar continents and seas.
It sends scientists to other institutes throughout the world, to other research ships and stations, and invites scientists from other nations to cruises aboard "Polarstern", as well as to Bremerhaven and Potsdam.
www.awi.de /en/institute   (332 words)

  
 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Research
The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) conducts research in the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as in temperate latitudes.
The AWI coordinates polar research in Germany and provides the necessary equipment and key infrastructure for polar expeditions.
At the Alfred Wegener Institute, scientists from various disciplines and nations are using state-of-the-art technology for cooperative and interdisciplinary investigations of the global climatic, biological and geological systems of the earth.
www.awi.de /en/research   (266 words)

  
 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
From the Arctic ice to the bottom of the oceans: Helmholtz scientists working at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven study the poles, the oceans and the climate.
Research at the Department of "Pelagic Ecosystems" focuses on the interactions taking place between plankton organisms and the biogeochemistry of the ocean.
Their research work often takes the Helmholtz scientists from Bremerhaven out to sea or even direct to the ice at the North and South Poles.
www.helmholtz.de /en/Who_we_are/Research_Centres/Alfred_Wegener_Institute_for_Polar_and_Marine_Research.html   (480 words)

  
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 A new look at the state of the oceans
Prof Wiltshire is Assistant Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.
Her own research emphasis is on plankton, and her work is carried out at the Biological Station Helgoland which is part of the Alfred Wegener Institute.
This data centre represents a virtual institute and is administered by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-07/awif-anl071306.php   (791 words)

  
 eoPortal directory: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
The mandate of the AWI includes fundamental scientific research in the polar regions, national coordination of polar research projects and logistic support of polar expeditions from other German institutes.
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is one of the 16 national research centres in Germany.
The Institute was established as a public foundation in 1980 and was named after the geophysicist and polar researcher, Alfred Wegener, who died in the Greenland ice in 1930.
directory.eoportal.org /info_AlfredWegenerInstituteforPolarandMarineResearchAWI.html   (185 words)

  
 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Traditionally about 20 courses from different universities are visiting the Wadden Sea Station each year, and generations of biologists made their first excursions to tidal flats around the island of Sylt.
In 1998 the Station became part of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the frame of the unification of the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland (BAH) and AWI.
The research of the Wadden Sea Station still focuses on current topics of coastal ecology and geology.
www.awi-bremerhaven.de /Benthic/CoastalEco   (309 words)

  
 Antarctic research within the International Polar Year IPY 2007/08 High season for research in Antartica | SpaceRef - ...
The 27th research campaign of Bremerhaven's Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research marks the beginning of the summer research season in the Antarctic.
As part of the global research project 'Census of Marine Life' (CoML), an expedition aboard the research icebreaker Polarstern is currently investigating an oceanic region alongside the Antarctic Peninsula which, for the first time, has become accessible to science after a large section of the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed in 2002.
The 'Census of Antarctic Marine Life' is the largest marine research programme in the Antarctic and hence represents one of the major IPY projects.
www.spaceref.com /news/viewpr.html?pid=21558   (1082 words)

  
 Potsdam.de - The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
The goal of the scientific work of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is to come to a better understanding of these complex interactions.
Polar and marine researchers perform an important service in learning more about these connections.
Polar and marine research are the main subjects of the earth's geosystem and environmental research.
www.potsdam.de /cms/beitrag/10001177/35160   (203 words)

  
 Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Bremerhaven, Germany: Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
Gotthilf Hempel Fishery biologist: Director of the Centre for Marine Tropical Ecology at the University of Bremen (Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie an der Universität Bremen)
Karin Labitzke Meteorologist: Institute of Meteorology at the Free University Berlin (Institut für Meteorologie der Freien Universität Berlin)
www.ciesin.org /docs/008-600/brochure-eng.html   (2006 words)

  
 Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
As a precursor to the International Polar Year 2007/2008, the current Polarstern expedition conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for polar and marine research releases short seafloor video clips taken by ROV only a few hours after the robot has been recovered.
An international group of researchers has succeeded in identifying a previously unknown group of algae.
As currently reported in the scientific journal Science, the newly discovered algae are found among the smallest members of photosynthetic plankton - the picoplankton (‘Picobiliphytes: A marine picoplanktonic algal group with unknown affinities to other Eukaroytes” Science, Vol.
www.awi-bremerhaven.de /index-e.html   (161 words)

  
 Chemical depletion of Arctic ozone in winter 1999/2000
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
During Arctic winters with a cold, stable stratospheric circulation, reactions on the surface of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) lead to elevated abundances of chlorine monoxide (ClO) that, in the presence of sunlight, destroy ozone.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2002/2001JD000533.shtml   (749 words)

  
 ePIC - electronic Publication Information Center from Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
Welcome to ePIC, the open access repository for publications, presentation and technology transfer of Alfred-Wegener-Instistut for Polar- and Marine Research.
Applications of compound-specific 14C analysis for the study of sedimentation processes and carbon cycling in marine sediments
Global change and the future marine carbon cycle
epic.awi.de /Main?language=english   (157 words)

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