• Falling sea level caused volcanos to overflow

    international research team led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research has now discovered that a falling sea

  • Research priorities for the Arctic have been defined

    Under the auspices of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), which is based at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, they are about to submit a report that sets out the path for a jointly

  • AWI research aircraft lands at Bremen Airport for the first time

    for Polar 6 at the Bremen Airport today. The aircraft is one of two research planes that the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) currently uses for scientific

  • New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic

    published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo- and climate researchers at the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of

  • REKLIM participates in environmental exhibition of the German Federal President

    Initiative REKLIM ("Regionale Klimaänderungen"/Regional Climcate Change), coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is one of 190 featured exhibitors at the 5th "Woche der Umwelt" (Week of the Environment)

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    4, 5 conference location to Kröpke Location Grand Palace hotel Hotel map_to_hotel.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Hotels: You will not need to book hotel rooms. All symposium participants will be

  • Abstracts

    Alexandra Kraberg1 1 Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27498 Helgoland, Germany 2 Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine [...] University of Hamburg, Germany, florian.mundt@uni-hamburg.de Harms, L., Scientific Computing, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany Heinrich, S., Department Molecular Plant Genetics, University [...] Federal Ministry on Research and Education (BMBF) / Hemholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany Multiyear studies on phytoplankton showed decreasing trends in

  • AWI snow buoys provide important weather information from the North Pole

    availability of weather data is not for granted but owed to the use of snow buoys, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

  • Research Minister Wanka visits the University of Oldenburg

    Biodiversity. The new institute will bundle and expand the research excellene in this field of the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Oldenburg. AWI Director Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte attended as well

  • Change of Leadership at the Alfred Wegener Institute

    New Director
    On 1 November 2017 Prof Antje Boetius will assume leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). She will succeed Prof Karin Lochte, who