• List of Publications

      (North Sea) = Chancen und Limitierungen extensiver Offshore-Aquakultur in der Deutschen Bucht. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. doi:10.2312/BzPM_0543_2007 Buck, B. H. (2007). Farming [...] (North Sea) = Chancen und Limitierungen extensiver Offshore-Aquakultur in der Deutschen Bucht. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. doi:10.2312/BzPM_0543_2007 Henkel, R., Buck, B. H., [...] Gerdes, B., . . . Schröder, A. (2007). Meerestechnologien für den Umweltschutz - Entwicklungen am Alfred-Wegener-Institut. In Vortrag anlässlich des Besuches von Bundesumweltminister Sigmar Gabriel (MdB) am

    • Publications

      Leichtbau, Automobil Industrie Insight - Leichtbau Genial Einfach Press (04/2016) - Bioniker des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts auf Hannover Messe 2016 , AWI press release Magazine article (03/2016) - ELISE: Die

    • Permafrost Biogeochemistry

      northern Alaska. For scale: the size of the polygonal pattern is approximately 10 meter. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate warming is inducing drastic changes in Arctic permafrost landscapes, such as

    • RESTORE 3 Upscaling

      delivered through close collaboration between the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) , the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), and the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology Over a ten-year period, existing

    • Guided Tours at the Alfred Wegener Institute

      When: 26.08.2026, 14:30 pm Where: Am alten Hafen 26, Bremerhaven Who: Alfred-Wegener-Institut

    • Public guided tour at the Alfred Wegener Institute

    • Polarstern sets course for the HAUSGARTEN Arctic long-term observatory

      In 1999, the Alfred Wegener Institute launched an ambitious project: the HAUSGARTEN observatory in the Fram Strait between northeast Greenland and Svalbard. Spanning ice-covered waters and extending to

    • Diatom laboratory

      Amy Forster preparing diatom slides (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The extraction of microfossil remains like diatom valves or chironomid head capsules requires a chemical preparation of sediment samples [...] keys. Chironomid head capsule of the genus Paralauterborniella sp. (Photo: Larisa Nazarova, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching

    • DNA quantity & quality

      Next-Generation sequencing. PCR cycler (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Istitut, Levent Vorpahl) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 4200_TapeStation.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental

    • DNA shearing

      DNA shearing Covaris M220 Focused-ultrasonicator™ (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Covaris instrument is a focused-ultrasonicator which shears DNA into smaller sized fragments to prepare genomic DNA