• Palaeogenetics Lab

    Go Imaging System (BioRad) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific Head Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh Scienti [...] 2020 (Photo: K Stoof-Leichsenring) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Sampling room. Palaeogenetics lab 2020 (Photo: K Stoof-Leichsenring) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Technology The laboratories are

  • 50 years Hustedt Collection

    Oamaru, New Zealand (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Diatom samples from all over the world (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Friedel Hinz regards a sample (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Antarctic diatom [...] diatom Fragilariopsis (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Antarctic diatom asteromphalus (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Antarctic diatom Chaetoceros bulbosum (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) A historic collection [...] supporting today’s research Diatom book in the archive of the Friedrich-Hustedt-Centre (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) As this shows: the Friedrich Hustedt Diatom Study Centre collection is by no means

  • AWI Technical Centre: The Shell is Complete

    is now complete. Since the ongoing pandemic made a live topping-out ceremony impossible, the Alfred Wegener Institute marked the milestone for the new building with a video topping-out speech and greetings [...] workshops and laboratories, which will equip the Rasmus Willumsen House, named in honour of Alfred Wegener’s companion, to serve as a core site for the development of innovative maritime and polar technologies

  • Synoptic Observations

    access . Mounting of an ultrasonic anemometer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Visilility sensor FS11 and Ceilometer CL51 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

  • Team

    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)

  • Introductory Literature

    Leistungen des Grönlandforschers und Entdeckers der Kontinentaldrift Alfred Wegener. 1. Aufl. Gotha: Perthes (Edition Petermann). 1.2. Alfred Wegener Institute Fleischmann, Klaus (2005): Zu den Kältepolen der Erde [...] Centre (Circumpolar Studies 6). Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung; Ausstellung (1994): 125 Jahre deutsche Polarforschung. 2. Aufl. Bremerhaven: Alfred-Wegner-Inst. für Polar- und Me [...] g. 1865-1875 = The period of founding of the german polar research : 1865-1875. Bremerhaven: Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (Berichte zur Polarforschung, 114). Available online

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    measurement region over Fram Strait during ACLOUD. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar 6 after touch-down in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact Dr. Christof Lüpkes [...] aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns of different German universities and [...] momentum in and below clouds. ACLOUD employed two research aircraft, Polar 5 & 6, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute. During about 20 research flights with each aircraft properties of cloud and aerosol

  • CHARTER

    CHARTER (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Funding period: 1.8.2020 - 31.7.2024 CHARTER is an ambitious effort to advance adaptive capacity of Arctic communities to climatic and biodiversity changes. This [...] Funding CHARTER is funded by the EU research programme Horizon 2020 . Contact Dr. Heidrun Matthes Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Sciences Climate Sciences | Atmospheric Physics

  • Gesine_Mollenhauer_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    AWI EXPERT Gesine Mollenhauer is a geoscientist at the Marine Geochemistry Section of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, and a Professor of Organic [...] and to the permafrost regions of the Arctic. Since 2006, she is head of a research group at the Alfred Wegener Institute, in which she and her colleagues investigate the transport of organic materials to [...] marine sediments, as well as their impact on the global climate. Furthermore, she is head of the Alfred Wegener Institute’s 14C dating laboratory, which was founded in 2016, and has been the Speaker for G

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  • Aircraft based observations

    in Longyerbyen (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Low altitude flight of Polar 5 with dragged EM Bird to determine the sea ice thickness during PAMARCMIP 2011 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Schematic of [...] of sea-ice thickness surveys with an EM-Bird using a Basler BT-67 research aircraft (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut)