From Berne to the Caribbean
BERNE The Fassmer shipyard has recently completed four new lifeboats for its client Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of the Carnival Corporation, and shipped them from Hamburg to the Caribbean on 14 October.
Böttner receives Briese award
30.11.2021
LEER. The ‘Briese Prize for Marine Research’ is an annual award that honours outstanding researchers. In 2021 it was awarded to Dr Christoph Böttner, who addressed in his thesis the question of how fluids and gases spread in marine sediment. According to the shipping company, which awards the prize annually, Mr Böttner combined methods from geophysics, geology and geochemistry in a new way in order to analyse the underlying geological processes more precisely. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros.
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