• The Wadden Sea Over the Course of Time

    Wadden Sea. Wadden Sea Station Sylt (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Lars Grübner) Figure 1 (Graphic: Wiltshire, Amorim et al. 2022) Figure 2 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Victor Odongo En

  • Library in the Ice

    the Antarctic in the summer season 1994/1995. He was the first German artist to travel to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s previous Neumayer Station on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. The laboratories [...] his second trek to the Antarctic, this time to launch his art project “Library in the Ice”. The Alfred Wegener Institute supplied the insulated cargo container that would house the library and transported

  • Flyer_PERPLEX_EN_digital010316.pdf

    software package for the planning and execu- tion of seagoing expeditions. It was developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and improved during numerous research cruises with [...] efficiently and precisely than before. Screenshots of the GUI of PERPLEX Contact Gerd Rohardt Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven

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  • AWI-Faltprospekt-Klimawandel_DIN_A4_englisch_ANSICHT_170503_final.pdf

    People and the North Sea under changing climate (2017), Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz-Centre for Polar und Marine Research Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar und Marine Research

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  • Ocean Acidification

    plenty of reasons for the experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute to take a closer look at the consequences of acidification. Fish swarm (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How long have we known about the [...] Columbia University, USA, first coined the term “ocean acidification”. Bleached Acropora (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How bad has the acidification become? The amount of carbonic acid in the ocean varies

  • IceBird

    airborne surveys to collect measurements of sea ice thickness in the Arctic conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Airborne surveys provide insight into composition [...] Download Aircraft Polar 5 with an EM-Bird under its belly on its way to the surveying area. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Much of AWI’s research is conducted in the inaccessible, ice-covered regions of the [...] and Polar 6 research aircraft includes an EM-Bird, a laser scanner, and a snow radar. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The EM-Bird The purpose-built EM-Bird is a towed sensor that measures the combined

  • Knowledge transfer

    Program on Biological Diversity. Ecosystem services of a biogenic reef of Ostrea edulis. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Team: Project Lead: Dr. Bernadette Pogoda Projekt Coordinator: M.Sc. Corina Peter Website

  • Marcel Nicolaus

    Sea ice and snow – the key elements Dr Marcel Nicolaus, sea ice physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and deputy head of the Sea Ice Physics Section. Sea ice Snow MOSAiC Autonomous Systems ROV Sea

  • Torsten Kanzow

    Climate Sciences Division and Head of the Section Physical Oceanography of Polar Seas at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen. Ocean currents Ocean topography of polar

  • MELTEX-I

    2015, and Istomina et al., 2015). The campaign MELTEX-I was a joint project conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IPA) at