• NEWS Visit Dr. Mentaberry, April 2018 EN

    explaining the AUV to Dr. Mentaberry (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Matt Slater presenting the Centre for Aquaculture Research (ZAF) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Ingo Schewe on the topic "Data [...] "Data management and data portals at AWI" (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Arctic Office

    Arctic will affect Germany, Europe 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 [...] Germany has established itself 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 [...] research and policy at international conferences. Head: Dr Volker Rachold German Arctic Office Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Telegrafenberg A5 14473 Potsdam / Germany

  • Long-term Meteorology

    (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 beginning of our meteorological [...] in the Arctic (AWIPEV Research 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

  • 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 2016 due to be presented in

  • International Symposium 20 Years of Lena Expeditions

    Research Institute (AARI), Sankt Petersburg University of Hamburg, Institute of Soil Science (UHH) Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven and Potsdam Melnikov [...] SB RAS), Yakutsk German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH Moscow) group picture (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Symposium Program: PDF The anniversary was also celebrated with a festschrift summarizing [...] Grosse , A. Morgenstern , E. Pfeiffer , V. Rachold; L. Schirrmeister (editors) , Deutschland, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 205 p., ISBN: 978-3-88808-716-5 .

  • Antje Boetius awarded the 2019 Erna Hamburger Prize

    recognition of her outstanding scientific contributions, Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, was recently awarded the “2019 Erna

  • 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 young scientists will be embarking a ten-month

  • 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 [...] Ridge on the globe (Photo: Sina Löschke) It wasn’t until the mid-1960s, around third years after Wegener’s death, that his ideas received recognition in science. Seismological investigations showed that

  • Bremerhaven

    Bremerhaven Contact General questions via e-mail Postal address Alfred-Wegener-Institut Postfach 12 01 61 27515 Bremerhaven Glimpses of the Alfred Wegener Institut in Bremerhaven AWI Campus Bremerhaven Back of [...] (H) Klußmannstraße 3 27570 Bremerhaven info @ awi.de Overview The central main focus of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven is polar research and the exploration of the sea. Scientists of different [...] times per day. You can find the exactly timetable on the Website of VBN . [ To Wegener-House (Building D): To get to the Wegener-house of the AWI, you can take the bus routes 502, 505, 506, 508 and 509 from

  • Novel lenses enable X-ray microscopy with record resolution

    Marine plankton
    In cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute scientists at DESY, a Research Centre of the Helmholtz Association, have developed novel lenses that enable X-ray microscopy with record