We would like to wish all customers and friends of FIELAX a reflective Christmas season and all the best for 2024. At the end of the year we are happy to be able to donate again to the Afghan Women's Association (https://www.afghanischer-frauenverein.de/). FIELAX closes over the New Year on 20.12.2023 and will be available as usual no later than 08.01.2024.
As part of the project "WEGNordOst", which is funded by the state of Bremen within the framework of the state program "Promotion of Research, Development and Innovation" (FEI) of the Senator for Economics, Labor and Europe of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, we have published some of the results together with our cooperation partners from the University of Bremen and the University of Kiel. The publication is available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11001-023-09531-2 and describes the sediment temperatures and thermal conductivities of coastal sediments in the German part of the Baltic Sea / Eckernförde Bay.
FIELAX is currently supporting with a colleague on the research expedition ArcWatch-1 with the FS Polarstern in the collection and processing of a wide variety of data.
The picture shows Frederic Tardeck at the North Pole. More about the research trip can be found at: https://follow-polarstern.awi.de/
After FIELAX has already been using its own solar power since 2019, another step has now been taken on the way to climate neutrality. Most of the offices and the workshop are now heated with air-to-air heat pumps. On very hot days, the devices can of course also be used for air cooling (then there should be enough solar power available). An additional extension of the photovoltaic system is planned for coming fall.We would like to thank the companies Peters Kälte - Klima - Lüftung (www.peters-kkl.de) and H&H Wührmann (www.wuehrmann.de) for the good planning and timely execution of the installation.
As part of the "WEGNordOst" project, which is funded by the state of Bremen under the state program "Promotion of Research, Development and Innovation" (FEI) of the Senator for Economics, Labor and Europe of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, we are investigating the interaction between temperature and thermal conductivity in gas-bearing sediments. For this purpose, we conducted measurements in the Eckernförde Bay (Baltic Sea) with the research vessel ALKOR in November 2022 and April 2023. We were able to collect a lot of interesting data, the analysis of which will keep us busy for a while. Read more
