• Concentrated knowledge on climate change - new atlas of climate extremes

    A new atlas renders climate extremes in Germany visible: The Alfred Wegener Institute in the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM shows extremes based on the data from the German Weather Service. The

  • Graduate School POLMAR

    POLMAR! The graduate school POLMAR offers all PhD students at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) a structured qualification program to complement their individual research work. Participation in a structured [...] Coordination: Dr. Claudia Hanfland Dr. Claudia Sprengel Address Alfred-Wegener-Institut AWI Campus Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven Our offices are located in the following building: Container building

  • Phytoplankton Ecophysiology

    productivity and species composition. Björn Rost (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Working group Prof. Dr. Björn Rost Dr. Sebastian Rokitta Dr. Clara Hoppe Dr. Sinhue Torres-Valdes Naomi Gentes,

  • Members

    Members Björn Rost (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Björn Rost - Being small and yet so mighty, phytoplankton are the true rulers over ecosystems, elemental cycles [...] maintain homeostasis in changing environments. Clara Hoppe (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Clara Hoppe - In the past two decades, a lot of research on phytoplankton responses to global change has been [...] of the water column biogeochemistry. Daniel Scholz (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Daniel Scholz - Within the FRAM project (Frontiers in Arctic Monitoring), my responsibilities are the development

  • Team

    (Photo: Gernot Nehrke) Group meeting in Ankelohe 2016 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Group meeting in Ankelohe 2014 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Group meeting in Ankelohe 2011 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Team

    , Matthias Engineer Section Meeting Bad Bederkesa 2024 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Outreach

    : Wie der Weltklimarat den Zustand der Ozeane bewertet (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Press Briefing Global Carbon Budget 2025 with Prof. Dr. Judith Hauck Press Briefing on the Global Carbon Budget [...] ', but it indeed produces half of the global oxygen. For the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Dr. Clara Hoppe investigates how Climate Change affects the Phytoplanton in the polar regions. Eine Frage des Lichts (AWI, 24.2.2015) Scientists of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have discovered in a recent study that Ocean Acidification can

  • Stable Isotope Facility

    them down. One of the modern laser-optical analysers (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Health and safety instructions at the ISOLAB - Stable Isotope Laboratory Potsdam (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut [...] isotopes, 48 water samples are measured one after the other (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) When scientists talk about climate archives, they don't have a real book or a library in mind. Instead, they mean [...] part of the apparatus (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • OPP COST-Action

    indicators for marine and coastal management. P1020581.JPG (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Events Oceans Past VII 22th to 26th October 2018 Tracing human interactions with marine ecosystems through deep

  • OceanGov

    the sustainable development of the oceans. OceanGov2.JPG (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name Ocean Governance for Sustanability (OceanGov) Duration 48 months Funding international