• How did Earth’s most powerful ocean current form?

      published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute describes how and when this mighty ring current developed in Earth's history. Surprising

    • Scientific Advisory Board

      Hajo Eicken Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Director Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven Germany Prof. Dr. Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz [...] Werner Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Chair of the Scientific Council Klußmannstraße 3 27570 Bremerhaven Germany Prof. Dr. Frank Wilhelms Alfred Wegener Institute [...] Allner Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Head of Directorate's Office, Focus Science Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven Germany Katharina Giesen Alfred Wegener Institute

    • DynaDeep

      oberflächennahen Strandsedimenten [Translate to English:] DynaDeep field site on Spiekeroog. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The aim of this project is to investigate the dynamic reactive transport of oxygen

    • CoastalRunoff

      Subantarctic Coasts Sediment plume of a glacial outflow area. (Foto: Kerstin Jerosch (AWI)) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We aim to quantify freshwater and sedimentary discharge from marine glacial outflows

    • CoastCarb

      in times of rapid glacier melting CoastCarb General Assembly Punta Arenas, Chile, 2022 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The multidisciplinary network CoastCarb (Coastal ecosystem carbon balance in times

    • BEMO

      of the Weddell Sea. RV Polarstern expedition PS118 (2019). (Photo: Autun Purser (AWI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) BEnToolsMaPs: BEMO - BEntic ecosystem MOdeling (BMBF 03F0977B, 2024-2027) is the AWI

    • SeaKey

      of Seaweeds of the German North Sea Coast [Translate to English:] Concept of SeaKey (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enable identification of seaweeds for variable stakeholders and students on the basis [...] development. Financiation: 2018 – 2021: Earth System Knowledge Platform ( www.eskp.de ); Alfred-Wegener Institute; since 2021: Landesamt für Umwelt, Flintbek, Kiel, Germany ( www.schleswig-holstein

    • KELPRIME

      Priming-Versuch vom Beginn (Gametophytenstadium) bis zum Ende (Ernte in der Marikultur) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) KELPRIME aims to characterize the phenology of temperature priming effects on kelps

    • PolySpon

      Waterproved) And this is the end product – freeze-dried collagen powder (Photo: K. Schiefenhövel Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Partners Funding

    • WG Community & Evolutionary Ecology

      Evol Biol 27, 2297-2307. Microbial symbiont: the host as a habitat Microbiome_Graph.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Higher organisms are not only part of ecosystems - they also represent an ecosystem