• Pouplation Genetics

      boreal forests to ongoing climate change. Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse Siberia Larix distribution (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental

    • Longterm timeseries

      strategies for boreal and mountain forests. Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse Wetness time series (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems:

    • Team

      Köhler, AWI) Section retreat, Gut Ankelohe, February 2017 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Section retreat, Gut Ankelohe, June 2019 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Long-term Upper-Air Meteorology

      Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen) Radiosonde launch in Ny-Ålesund. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) In Ny-Ålesund, radiosonde measurements are operated since 1991, with regular daily 12 UT launches since November [...] GRUAN emblem on the AWIPEV balloon house in Ny-Ålesund. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Publication Change of the winter mean (December-January-February) relative humidity from Ny-Ålesund radiosondes. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A manuscript on the long-term balloon-borne upper-air observations and related aspects of climate change is

    • AWI Scientist Antje Boetius honoured

      Staff
      Professor Antje Boetius, Alfred Wegener Institute, was elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. Furthermore, she will be awarded the Goldschmidt Medal

    • Antje Boetius awarded the 2019 Erna Hamburger Prize

      scientific contributions, Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, was recently awarded the “2019 Erna Hamburger Prize”.

    • AWI welcomes international scholarship holders

      Young scientists
      The Alfred Wegener Institute welcomes the new scholarship holders of the Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography. The international

    • Microplastics

      Gunnar Gerdts Dr. Antje Wichels Automated µFTIR analysis (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) FlowCam (Fluid Imaging) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) sediment separator (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) FTIR spectrometer (Bruker Tensor) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) FTIR microscopes (µFTIR; Bruker Hyperion) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Raman microscopes (785 nm laser; rap-ID) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Nano-FTIR (neaspec) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Arctic Office

      and the whole world. Therefore the German Arctic Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute serves as an information and cooperation platform for German stakeholders invested in Arctic science, politics [...] as a recognized player in international Arctic research. The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research has been working in the Arctic for more than 30 years. It is one [...] conferences. Head: Dr Volker Rachold German Arctic Office Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Telegrafenberg A5 14473 Potsdam / Germany +49 331 58174 5801 +49

    • Long-term Meteorology

      Base in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen) Ny-Ålesund from above. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Ny-Ålesund is located on a fjord at the west coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). In this region, ocean currents from [...] years 1993 to 2024 (blue and red line, respectively) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate Change Annual mean temperature in Ny-Alesund 1994 to 2025 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Since the