• Ice Roads

    ice boundary, light blue: lower ice boundary, green: soil temperature at 30cm depth). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Global warming and the thawing of permafrost not only lead to destabilization of the

  • S3MPC - Sentinel-3 Altimetry Mission Performance Cluster

    (RAME), Italy LEGOS (Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales), France Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France Thalès Alenia Space

  • OASIS

    marine environmental monitoring Macroalgae in the rocky intertidal zone of Heligoland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Funded by the Schleswig-Holstein state agency for the environment, we are investigating

  • Environmental sciences & Networking

    increasingly becoming the focus of our work. Our multipliers for the future. (Photo: B. Suckow, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Björn Suckow Mail an Björn Projects FutureNow! Vermittlung von Wissen zu

  • Application procedure

    admission procedure: Info evening for the new HIGHSEA class 24: Friday 14.02.2025, 5 pm At the Alfred Wegener Institute, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, main entrance. Information evening CvO GyO: [...] upper secondary schools in the Bremerhaven region (HIGHSEA profile) must be submitted to the Alfred Wegener Institute. We also need a copy of your last report card on this day. The application form and [...] You can find the application form here . Written test: 24.02.2025 at 2 am. You will come to the Alfred Wegener Institute on your own for a written test. We do not invite you to this test, you simply come

  • Tara Polar Station

    s in Svalbard. Tara Polar Station in Lorient, France, in April 2025 (Photo: Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Marcel Nicolaus Associated AWI science partners: Physical oceanography: Benjamin [...] sea ice tools and gear ROV Ann in the wet lab of Tara Polar Station (Photo: Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Climate Office

    for the global climate system. The Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is part of the regional Helmholtz [...] polaire français Paul Emile Victor, IPEV) and organised annually by the Climate Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research by Dr Renate Treffeisen on the AWI side

  • C-14 lab

    Unlocking polar climate archives Thanks to a new high-tech tool, the Alfred Wegener Institute can finally unlock many polar climate archives for the first time. At its C-14 dating laboratory, AWI researchers [...] samples gathered from the seafloor requires high-precision analytical work – a challenge that the Alfred Wegener Institute’s C-14 lab has now overcome. To do so, the scientists use a method called radiocarbon

  • Neuseeland Muschel Aquakultur

    potential of this new aquaculture frontier. Working on the OOA project in New Zealand. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name Novel farming systems enabling multiple shellfish species

  • Green Hygiene

    sted extraction, optimised cultivation conditions). Green Hygiene Production Process (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Meeting in Berlin In March 2024, we met with our project partner to visit their