• New Polarstern vessel: Model Masters the Testing Phase

      hull's seakeeping and icebreaking behaviour. In addition, the TKMS shipyard, commissioned by the Alfred Wegener Institute to build the vessel, has now ordered further vital components, such as the hydroacoustic

    • Maarten Boersma

      a Changing Climate – A Key to Healthy Oceans Prof. Dr Maarten Boersma, Deputy Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Head of the Marine Station Helgoland and the section Coastal Ecology. Zooplankton

    • Ocean warming drives melting of Antarctic sea ice

      climate models and prediction. A new study led by the University of Gothenburg and involving the Alfred Wegener Institute contibuting to this research field has been published in the journal Nature Climate

    • Data Science Support

      Data Science Support hasrullah_ (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Data Science Support Group (DSS) focuses on several key areas: bio and geo data science, data analysis, pattern recognition, artificial

    • Tatiana M. Torres, J.D./D.C.L./M.Sc.

      parvispora ORCID: 0000-0003-3601-7421 tatianamichelle.torres @ awi.de Project Manager Ocean Gardens Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1005

    • Seafloor spreading

      parts of Wegener's inheritance as well as historical images of his expeditions. Related research Geophysics Bathymetry Magnetometer More about Alfred Wegener Continental drift Alfred Wegener [...] Seafloor spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the globe (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) It wasn’t until the mid-1960s, around third years after Wegener’s death, that his ideas received recognition in science.

    • Continental drift

      Handwritten letter from Alfred Wegener. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Handwritten letter from Alfred Wegener. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Continue your research Estate The AdP - Archive for German Polar [...] (from Wegener's book "Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane") (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Pages from Wegener's book with his personal notes. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Pages from Wegener's book [...] entries by Wegener and published them online. Transcription of Wegener's entries (in German language only) Dr Reinhard Krause, Scientific Historian and expert on Alfred Wegener (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • AWI welcomes its new director

      Glaciologist Hajo Eicken has officially taken over as Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute. He returns to Bremerhaven after almost 30 years in Alaska.

    • Imprint / Contact

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    • Mesocosms

      running experiment at the mesocosms facility (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Six mesocosms for winter experiments in the greenhouse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Publications Meunier, C. L. , Schmidt, [...] (AWISOM) Bird's eye view of the expanded AWISOM (AWI Sylt Outdoor Mesocosm Facility). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWI Sylt Outdoor Mesocosms (AWISOM) consists of 24 identical mesocosms, each with