• Phytoplankton Ecophysiology

      major drivers controlling phytoplankton productivity and species composition. Björn Rost (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Working group Prof. Dr. Björn Rost Dr. Sebastian Rokitta Dr. Clara Hoppe Dr. Sinhue

    • Bettina Meyer

      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

    • Lars Kaleschke

      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

    • Olaf Eisen

      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

    • Kohnen Station

      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

    • Environment Protection Seminar

      of environmental protection in Antarctica and the provisions of the law. For this reason, the Alfred Wegener Institute, in cooperation with the Federal Environment Agency, has held from 1998 to 2024 a full-day

    • Frozen-Ground Cartoons

      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!"

    • Site Infos

      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

    • Scientific Diving

      (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

    • Development and dynamics of ice sheets

      East ¦ West Laurentide Ice Sheet Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet IBCSO_v1_digital_chart (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Little has been known about the long-term development especially of the WAIS, which