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

The Copernicus of Geosciences: Alfred Wegener presented his revolutionary theory of continental drift 100 years ago

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IOC-UNESCO Trends PO workshop

5 minute ride) or a bus to 'Hochschule Bremerhaven'. The Address of the meeting location is: Alfred Wegener Institut, Am Halten Hafen 26. Useful links: bahn.de : The main website for booking rail travel

Retreating permafrost coasts threaten the fragile Arctic environment

ever greater pace, releasing additional greenhouse gases. A large EU project, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), is now exploring the consequences

Novel lenses enable X-ray microscopy with record resolution

Marine plankton
In cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute scientists at DESY, a Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association, have developed novel lenses that enable X-ray microscopy with record

Why do Antarctic krill stocks fluctuate?

Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) and the Bremerhaven-based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have shown that the competition

European Research Council awards grant to Potsdam-based AWI researcher

Investigators Group SPACE. Together with a five-member team, the climate researcher from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam will work to combine

Publications

Publications Dr. C. Meunier epic.awi.de/view/ldapid/cmeunier.html Centropages typicus (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Greenhouse reaches the Antarctic

just 400 metres from the German Neumayer Station III in the Antarctic. It will be run by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), which is working on the EDEN ISS project together with DLR.