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  • AWI permafrost expert Dr. Guido Grosse and his colleague Matthias Fuchs (right) are taking notes about the permafrost at Sobo-Sise Island, located in the Eastern part of the Lena Delta (Siberia, Russia).
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    Why rivers in the far north are turning orange

    AWI scientist Guido Grosse in an interview with the Financial Times: The brightly coloured waterways in the Arctic are a sign that permafrost is thawing, with potentially hazardous consequences.
  • AWI in the Media

    Trump rollbacks threaten global treaty on plastics pollution

    Hopes for a "last-chance" ambitious global treaty to curb plastic pollution have dimmed as delegates gather this week at the United Nations in Geneva for what was intended to be the final round of negotiations. AWI scientist Melanie Bergmann is taking part in the talks.
  • Penguins in Antarctica
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    Secrets of the Penguins

    Forbes magazine spoke to the makers of the new Natonal Geographic documentary “Secrets of the Penguins”. Filming also took place at Neumayer Station III in the Antarctic.
  • [Translate to English:] EastGRIP-Camp auf Grönland
    AWI in the Media

    Inside an ice stream

    “Science”: Ice cores from 2300 meters’ depth await processing at the East Greenland Ice-core Project, a Danish-led drilling project in northeastern Greenland
  • AWI in the Media

    "The world has been warming faster than expected"

    CNN Article about a paper in “Science” by AWI scientist Helge Gößling
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    Antarctica’s first known amber whispers of a vanished…

    Nature: The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just offshore.
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  • Atka Bay

    Antarctica InSync

  • The icebreaking research vessel Poalrstern is home and shelter for the MOSAiC scientists and crew.

    5 years Welcome back MOSAiC

    It was the largest Arctic expedition in history: on 12 October 2020 our research vessel Polarstern returned after a year-long drift.
  • Antarctic sea ice, Weddell Sea

    UN Agreement for the Protection of the Ocean

  • View across the ocean

    UN Decade of Ocean Science

Short notices

  • Group photo (from left to right) Karolina Kumar, Henrike Müller, Hajo Eicken and Karsten Wurr

    Political visit to the AWI

    10. April 2026

    Henrike Müller, Bremen’s Senator for the Environment, Climate and Science, and State Councillor Karolina Kumar were given an insight into current research and technological developments at the AWI. Accompanied by AWI Director Hajo Eicken and AWI Administrative Director Karsten Wurr, they visited the NMR laboratory, the Centre for Aquaculture Research and the Technical Centre, also known as the 'Rasmus Willumsen House'. The aim is to further intensify this exchange and specifically expand cooperation with the private sector in Bremen in future.

  • Stephan Ende

    Honorary Professorship in Biology

    30. March 2026

    AWI scientist Stephan Ende has been appointed Honorary Professor by Bremen University of Applied Sciences. His tenure will begin in the summer semester of 2026 in the International Programme in Technical and Applied Biology (ISTAB). The honorary professorship recognises outstanding achievements in research and practice, as well as sustained commitment to academic teaching.

  • Ayla Murray erhält Annette-Barthelt-Preis

    Annette Barthelt Prize for Ayla Murray

    23. March 2026

    Dr Ayla Murray was awarded the Science Prize of the Annette Barthelt Foundation at GEOMAR on Friday for her doctoral thesis completed at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Further information can be found here.

  • Photo in the lecture hall. The audience is seated, and a speaker, Maarten Boersma, is standing at the front.

    Visit of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

    19. March 2026

    Exchange at the AWI: The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) visited the AWI’s main campus in Bremerhaven. AWI Interim Director Maarten Boersma welcomed the delegation. This was followed by presentations from the AWI faculty and a tour of the institute. The ITLOS is an independent organisation within the UN system, operating on the basis of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982.

  • Group photo

    Scientific exchange at NCPOR

    16. March 2026

    During a delegation visit to Goa, India, Maarten Boersma, Nicole Biebow, Frank Lamy, Lester Lembke Jene, Hanno Meyer and Wolfram Geissler visited the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) at the invitation of Director Thamban Melot. At the meeting on 12 and 13 March, the participants discussed the further cooperation between the AWI and NCPOR, particularly in the fields of palaeoceanography and within the Antarctica InSync project. The discussions were based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that was signed two years ago.

  • Flugzeug in der Arktis

    New measurement campaign investigates clouds over Arctic sea ice

    13. March 2026

    The international research campaign COMPEX (Clouds over complex environment) is kicking off with Polar 5 measurement flights over the Arctic and will investigate the properties of clouds over sea ice that cannot be detected by satellites. Since clouds play a central role in the climate of the polar region, the results will help scientists understand why this region is warming particularly rapidly compared to the rest of the world. The University of Cologne  is leading the research campaign. To the original press release.