• Team

      Generated Image (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Sandra Coordes Team Aquaculture Research Team Bio-inspired Lightweight Design Team Marine Algae Ecology and Applications

    • Representatives of the University of La Rochelle at the AWI

      International Cooperation
      Today, a delegation from the French University of La Rochelle visits the Alfred Wegener Institute to discuss current and future projects.

    • Argentinian Ambassador visits the AWI

      International cooperation
      On Friday the Argentinian Ambassador S.E. Edgardo Malaroda visited the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Embassy Secretary Martin Suaya.

    • AWI welcomes its new director

      Glaciologist Hajo Eicken has officially taken over as Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute. He returns to Bremerhaven after almost 30 years in Alaska.

    • Partner

      internationally-respected multi-disciplinary research institutions. The partner institutions are: Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung (Germany) Centre National de la Recherché [...] Monitoring and Assessment Programme Secretariat World Ocean Council EU-PolarNet Participants (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

    • Raman Spectroscopy

      cryo-Raman spectrometer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The cryo-Raman spectrometer of the Glaciology section is optimised for measurements on ice and other frozen samples. The whole microscope unit is [...] Long-time measurements across several days are also possible. Ice sample during measurement (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The high spatial and spectral resolution and the automated mapping features enable

    • 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)

    • Filchner

      AWS as backup. Installing AWS Filchner 2015-12-28 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Yearly overview of AWS Filchner data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The transmitted data show that the AWS Filchner [...] Automatic Weather Station Filchner Location of AWS Filchner (Graphic: Google Earth) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWS Filchner is out of operation since December 2023. End of Dezember 2015 an automatic

    • 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