• Dr. Katja Mintenbeck

    Katja.Mintenbeck@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-2254
    Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Management

    Procedures +49 471 4831 1302 Eva-Katrin Landscheid Communication and events +49 471 4831 2333 Dr. Katja Mintenbeck Nationale Cooperation, UN Ocean Decade, UNFCCC COPs and IPCC +49 471 4831 2254 Heinrich Weingart

  • Scientific Advisory Board

    Research Consultant of the Directorate's Office Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven Germany Dr. Katja Mintenbeck Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Research Consultant

  • REKLIM participates in environmental exhibition of the German Federal President

    Event
    The Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM ("Regionale Klimaänderungen"/Regional Climcate Change), coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is one of 190 featured exhibitors at the 5th "Woch

  • Climate scientists meet in Bremen

    Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM
    Understanding regional climate change, identifying the consequences and discussing the effects. The REKLIM research association’s fifth regional conference this

  • Relaunch of the Sea Ice Portal: more intuitive layout and new features

    Sea ice plays a central part in the Earth system: it cools our planet, shapes ocean currents, and offers a habitat for countless species. Yet climate change is causing sea ice in the polar regions to

  • “klimafit” – Learning About Climate Change at Our Doorstep

    Further Education
    Rising temperatures, extreme weather events like heavy rain and storms – climate change is becoming more and more visible, and Germany is no exception. In this regard, every regio

  • How stable is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?

    New Study
    A future warming of the Southern Ocean caused by rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere may severely disrupt the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The result woul

  • Annual sea ice minimum in the Arctic

    Arctic Ocean
    The sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean reached its annual minimum of 4.81 million square kilometres on 12 September 2021. As such, the 2021 Arctic sea-ice minimum comes in at 12th plac

  • Open waters around the North Pole: Arctic sea ice in retreat

    Arctic Ocean
    This September, the Arctic sea ice extent has shrunk to 4.1 million square kilometres (sq km)-the second lowest in the history of satellite measurements. It is exceeded only by the all