been published on Inuktitut - the language of the Inuit. Michael Fritz is a scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, responsible for the German version and one of the authors of "ES TAUT!"

Christine Wesche Namesake Heinz Kohnen (1938 -1997) was head of the Logistics Department of the Alfred Wegener Institute for a long time. The Kohnen Station was named after him. Impressions from the work

Sea-ice observation: It’s all in the details Dr Lars Kaleschke, sea-ice physicists at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice Remote Sensing Sea ice observation systems Sea ice plays an important role in

Ice sheets: can the heat harm them? Prof. Dr Olaf Eisen, glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and professor at the University of Bremen. Ice sheets Glaciers Ice dynamics in climate change The ice

Prof. Dr Bettina Meyer, head of the working group Ecophysiology of pelagic key species at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University Oldenburg. Antarctic Krill Polar pelagic key species

(certified by the German Examination Board for Scientific Diving ), all scientific dives at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute are done within the framework of the German regulations for Scientific Diving BGR/GUV-R

Our Mission The Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute started its work in 1992. The scientific focus is the investigation of polar land-ocean-atmosphere linkages, complementing the marine

61 9 0 www.naturgewalten-sylt.de Research at the AWI Sylt: The research station of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, offers a modern laboratory complex

Main building Telegrafenberg Gebäude A45 14473 Potsdam www.awi.de/potsdam Overview The Alfred Wegener Institute's research centre in Potsdam: Here the focus lies on geoscientific studies in periglacial

research is based on cooperation between the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) at DLR and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). With the installation of GRIPS 15 at the Air Chemistry