Summit Station is a National Science Foundation-funded year-round station at the highest point of the Greenland Ice Sheet. In addition to atmospheric research, projects for astronomy, astrophysics and meteorology are also carried out. The rains are the first ever...
From the 2021/22 summer season, alcohol consumption will be re-regulated on Australian research facilities in Antarctica. (Photo: AAD) The amount of alcohol at Australian Antarctic research stations will be aligned with current Australian Government health guidelines...
Prof. Dr. jörn Thiede (1941 – 2021) was one of the pioneers of modern German polar and marine research. In addition to his position as director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, he was also involved in the founding of the well-known...
The MOSAiC expedition, in which research teams used the German icebreaker “Polarstern” as a base for a year on the Arctic sea ice, provided gigantic amounts of valuable and previously unknown data. Now these are to be made available to the scientific...
Fin whales grow up to 27 meters in body length, almost as large as blue whales, but are much slimmer and lighter. A special feature is the asymmetrical colouring of the lower jaw: the right side is light, the left dark. Photo: Julia Hager Fin whales have been so...
