• Klimamodelle zeigen: El Niño könnte sich grundlegend verändern – mit weltweiten Auswirkungen

    eine neue Studie, die jetzt in der Fachzeitschrift Nature Communications unter Beteiligung des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts erscheint. Ein Forschungsteam aus Südkorea, den USA, Deutschland und Irland verwendete

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    Albedyll is awarded with the Wladimir Köppen Prize 2022 for her excellent doctoral thesis in 2024. Alfred-Wegener Awards Transferprize Dr. Monica Ionita-Scholz , 2022. Video of the Prize winner Dr. Klaus Grosfeld

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  • “PeTCaT” investigates the impact of greenhouse gases from rapidly thawing permafrost

    all, aims to increase our knowledge of these rapid thaw processes. Under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, researchers from Germany, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden plan to build

  • The many uses of driftwood: the first large-scale mapping of Arctic coastlines

    large-scale distribution patterns of driftwood. Now, for the first time, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have systematically mapped driftwood deposits along an 11,000 kilometre stretch of

  • Training Capacity Exchange

    NF-POGO CofE had been hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany's foremost polar and marine research institution. The 10th and final cohort at the Alfred Wegener Institute began in May 2023 and will

  • Antarctic Office

    and shelves, intensified by climate change, has massive effects on the global sea level. The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has pursued research in this [...] (High Seas Treaty), ratified in 2023, can be implemented in German law. Dr. Stefan Hain (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Head: Dr. Stefan Hain 0471 4831 - 1152 stefan.hain @ awi.de AWI Antarctic Strategy

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