• GIS

    Schleswig- Holstein, the Federal Nature Conservation Agency and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research. One map shows the coastal area of Lower-Saxony (Fig.1) and one the Schleswig-Holstein

  • Research Minister Dorothee Bär and AWI Director Hajo Eicken visit Tromsø

    for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), the Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Professor Hajo Eicken, took part in a delegation trip to

  • Mak-Pak Scale-Up

    the base for the success of this project. Ulva lactuca (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut | Laurie C. Hofmann) Publication Salinity as a tool for strain selection in recirculating land-based production of

  • Mak-Pak

    packaging concept. Activities within the Mak-Pak project (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name Mak-Pak (Sustainable Packaging from Marine Macroalgae) Duration 24 months Funding national

  • GAIN

    Prof. Dr. Bela H. Buck Links GAIN Website GAIN Projekt (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Ocean Acidification

    . As such, there are 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 [...] 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 from region to region. In

  • Co-Use

    Example of multi-use of offshore wind turbine foundations (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name Co-Use Duration 24 months Funding national Partners 3 Stakeholders Research, Industry (

  • BlueChange

    boat in the port of Neuharlingersiel (Photo: Sina Loeschke, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name Blue Growth in a Changing Environment (BlueChange) Duration 12 months Funding national

  • BioDiv

    und Verlierer Arten unter dem Einfluss des Klimawandels (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Simultaneously our society exploits the North Sea to a growing extent and profits especially in fisheries and [...] Einfluss des Klimawandels auf die Miesmuschel Aquakultur (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) One result is that in the future extreme weather events, such as the increasing frequency and intensity of storms

  • BAQUA

    water test Quality Assurance ” (BAQUA) is carried out at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven) in cooperation with the German Federal Maritime and [...] tests for representative sampling. Tank_BAQUA.gif (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name BAllast water test QUality Assurance (BAQUA) Duration 8 months Funding international