• 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

    • Analytical Techniques

      n which is present in organically bound form (NPOC) DOC is obtained. CN DOC Analyser (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Rebecca Schüler) Fluorometric analysis Protein Quantification in solid sample material [...] and stained with a dyeing reagent before being measured. fluorometer and photometer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Rebecca Schüler) High-speed camera Because of their scale and speed, small zooplankton

    • 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.

    • How Arctic lakes are accelerating climate change

      microbes now can produce methane. An international research team, including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now determined that the rapid thaw under lakes has been neglected in models so

    • Keeping a Close Eye on Ice Loss

      satellites burnt up in the atmosphere. Although this loss was planned, for the experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute it left a considerable gap in monitoring ice loss in the Antarctic and Greenland. Now