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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

The eighth cohort of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute successfully completed their training on October 26, 2021.