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AWI Director Antje Boetius is taking part in the SCAR Open Science Conference 2024 on international collaboration in Antarctic research. On 22 August, she will lead a workshop at the conference in Pucón, Chile. The workshop will focus on the next steps of the Antarctica InSync programme, which investigates the Southern Ocean and Antarctica as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
An international study shows how the development of the Antarctic ice sheets not only influenced the Arctic, but also led to a change in climate fluctuations that still has an impact today.
Find out more >The Southern Ocean plays an important role in absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere that is released by human activities - a process that is of crucial importance for climate change. In a new study, an international research group led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute, has found that the Southern Ocean around Antarctica absorbs more carbon dioxide (CO2) than previously thought.
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When: We, 14.08.2024 - Su, 18.08.2024
Where: Havenwelten Bremerhaven
Who: Erlebnis Bremerhaven GmbH
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