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The Helmholtz Association’s network of Regional Climate Offices has produced a regional climate atlas for Germany showing the possible effects of climate change at the regional level. The climate scenarios for Germany’s federal states are now available to the public for online reference.

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Today scientists at the Centre of Scientific Diving of the Biological Institute Helgoland start a project that is unique thus far for the North Sea: “MarGate”, an innovative underwater experimental field. “MarGate” is part of the COSYNA oceanographic research infrastructure coordinated by the GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht and financed within the research field “Earth and Environment” of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

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The new LOICZ Regional Node South Asia was opended in Chennai, India, at the Institute for Ocean Management of the Anna University Chennai.

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Euro 5,000 for young materials scientist: The German GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht has distinguished a researcher with the International Magnesium Research Award 2009. With the price young researchers will be honored for their innovative magnesium research.

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Since September scientists from the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht have been carrying out research with eleven partners in the frame of a European Union-cofunded project entitled “Self-assembled polymer membranes”, SELFMEM. In this project, self-organising membranes are developed and analysed for medical and environmental applications. The funding of around 860,000 Euros for GKSS is to be used for development of new membrane systems.

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