• Opening ceremony for the AWI Technical Centre “Rasmus Willumsen House”

    Centre on the new Climate Campus in Bremerhaven. In future, the Technical Centre is where the Alfred Wegener Institute will develop, test and prepare new equipment for use on expeditions. The project received [...] Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal State of Bremen. In honour of Alfred Wegener’s last companion, the building was named after the Greenlander Rasmus Willumsen.

  • Snow on Sea Ice

    satellite altimeters. Contact: Dr. Stefanie Arndt Magna probe survey on Antarctic sea ice (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) We perform snow thickness measurements during Polarstern expeditions by using a “magna [...] thickness measurements in the vicinity of the research vessel. Snow buoy, deployed on sea ice (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) We deploy snow buoys in the Arctic and Antarctic. They are equipped with echo sounders [...] can be accessed via the Meereisportal. Snow pit on sea ice, revealing different layers (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) In order to characterize different snow layers, snow pits are prepared during Polarstern

  • ECOTRACE

    feedback mechanisms. Our team EcoTrace group Picture: C. Völkner (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scarlett Trimborn (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Head of the group: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Team: Jenna Balaguer [...] Polarstern expedition ANT XXVII-2. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Southern Ocean phytoplankton are major drivers of global carbon cycling accounting for 20% of the global annual

  • NEWS BMBF Chile Day ENG

    Kate Maleike (Deutschlandfunk) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Panel discussion with Doris Abele (microphone) on German-Chilean cooperation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This year's winners of the ideas [...] ideas competition to host a scientific workshop in Chile (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Staff Units

    and safety inspect and evaluate the working conditions at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Contact Dr Roland Wittig Staff Unit HSE Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Reseach Am [...] Department of Communications and Media Relations plans and realises the public relations of the Alfred Wegener Institute. It is the institute's first contact address for journalists and everyone public interested [...] Contact Roland Koch Head of the Department of Communications and Media Relations Postal address Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven

  • STABLE

    Spring Time Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment (STABLE) STABLE was as a joint project of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, of the University of Hamburg (ZMAW), [...] tracks of the research aircraft of AWI during STABLE between 28 Feb and 28 March 2013 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Amelie Tetzlaff) The general goal of STABLE was to obtain in-situ data of processes

  • Stations

    Research locations of the Alfred Wegener Institute AWI Helgoland Kurpromenade 201 27498 Helgoland 0 47 25 / 819 0 Helgoland AWI Sylt Hafenstraße 43 25992 List Neumayer-Station III Ekström-Schelfeis, Atka-Bucht [...] .awi.de/neumayer AWIPEV www.awi.de/awipev Kohnen-Station www.awi.de/kohnen The Alfred Wegener institute maintains different infrastructures to support research in remote areas. The research

  • STABLE

    Spring Time Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment (STABLE) STABLE was as a joint project of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, of the University of Hamburg (ZMAW), [...] tracks of the research aircraft of AWI during STABLE between 28 Feb and 28 March 2013 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Amelie Tetzlaff) The general goal of STABLE was to obtain in-situ data of processes

  • MICADAS

    the MICADAS radiocarbon laboratory at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany Technology Sample processing Contacts: AWI MICADAS laboratory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Gesine Mollenhauer Torben Gentz

  • Advisory Board Neumayer

    Ilaria Corsi University of Siena Italy Neumayer III Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / U. Cieluch) Kohnen Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)