• Expedition with RV Maria S. Merain to the AWI Hausgarten

      22 scientific expedition participants around deep-sea biologist Dr Thomas Soltwedel from the Alfred Wegener Institute is currently conducting research on board RV Maria S. Merian in the so-called AWI

    • Polarstern returns from geo-expedition in the Arctic

      Arctic Expedition
      This morning, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven. Over the previous

    • Argentinian Ambassador visits the AWI

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

    • Ocean acidification stimulates mass development of toxic algae

      Canary Islands conducted by an international group of scientists with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The results have now been published in the international journal Nature Climate Change

    • 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

    • POLEX

      Khoshravi, Raphael Köhler, Johannes Riebold Alfred Wegener Institute, section Polar Meteorology: Dr. Christof Lüpkes, Dr. Vladimir Gryanik, Dr. Dmitry Chechin Alfred Wegener Institute, Climate office for polar [...] Potsdam Publications Project Partners Alfred Wegener Institute , Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Section Atmospheric Physics Alfred Wegener Institute , Helmholtz Centre for Polar [...] duration 1.11.2018 - 31.10.2021 Consortium Our consortium includes the following scientists: Alfred Wegener Institute, section Atmospheric Physics: Dr. Annette Rinke, Dr. Dörthe Handorf, Dr. Ralf Jaiser

    • 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

    • 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