• Science Day at the Alfred Wegener Institute

    Symposium
    December 7 is the day of junior researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute. From 9:00 to 15:00, graduates of all disciplines present their work in the lecture hall. AWI director Antje Boetius

  • Deep-sea drilling to shed new light on the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

    Antarctic Expeditions
    Over the next few months, geophysicists and geologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research will gain unprecedented insights into the

  • Greenland loses more ice than assumed

    to 2015 compared to previously calculated 253 Gt per year. Ingo Sasgen and Veit Helm from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research as well as Kevin Fleming from the GFZ

  • Ten-year anniversary of the Neumayer Station III

    Circle, where researchers are the only inhabitants. Despite the hostile conditions, here the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) operates a research station where

  • poster_mlanger_20180617.pdf

    Jacobi1, Sebastian Westermann3, Simon Zwieback4, David Loibl2, Paul Overduin1, Julia Boike1,2 (1) Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Potsdam, Germany, moritz.langer@awi

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  • EUCOP2018_extended_abstract_Schneider_von_Deimling_final_with_figure.pdf

    Thomas Schneider von Deimling1,2 Jan Nitzbon1 Soraya Kaiser1,2 Stephan Jacobi1 Moritz Langer1,2 1Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research 2Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

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  • ICRSS_Abstracts.pdf

    imagery S. Kaiser1,2, T. Schneider von Deimling1,2, S. Jacobi1, R. Mommertz1,3, & M. Langer1,2 1Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany; 2Department of Geography

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  • 20171215_EUCOP2018_extended_abstract_Kaiser_Soraya.pdf

    Kaiser1,2 Thomas Schneider von Deimling1,2 Stephan Jacobi1 Richard Mommertz1,3 Moritz Langer1,2 1 Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany 2 Department of Geography

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  • Cracks herald the calving of a large iceberg from Petermann Glacier

    reaches of Greenland indicate the pending loss of another large iceberg. As glaciologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) report in a new study, the glacier’s

  • Arctic sea ice continues to track far below average

    decreased to an area of 4.4 (+/- 0.1) million square kilometres, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Bremen.