Infrastructure for Underwater Research
The Alfred Wegener Institute offers or manages a variety of scientific infrastructure for underwater research:
AWI-Center for Scientific Diving
The AWI-Center for Scientific Diving (AWI-CSD) is the central platform for all scientific dive missions at the Alfred Wegener Institute.
DEPAS ("Deutscher Geräte-Pool für amphibische Seismologie", i.e. "German instrument pool for amphibian seismology") is a new pool of broadband onshore and offshore seismological stations. The ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) of DEPAS are managed by AWI.