• Research Vessel Heincke

    Helgoland". The "Biologische Anstalt Helgoland", originally founded in 1892, became part of the Alfred Wegener Institute in 1998. Scientific coordinator: Dr. Ingo Schewe Schedules Information for participants

  • Permafrost

    permafrost – with a host of grave consequences. Typical permafrost landscape in Yukon, Canada (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) What does permafrost look like? Some landscapes in the permafrost regions are reminiscent

  • Carbon to Value Challenge

    uni-bremen.de/series/654227e0d42f1c750a8b457a Phase II: Macrocarbon Macrocarbon Overview (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) MacroCarbon, an AWI spin-off, is a Gran Canaria-based company developing a supply chain

  • Carbon SaFaRi - Google award

    Carbon SaFaRi - Google award St.Vincent 2023 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In order to claim the active removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through algae cultivation in the form of CO2 ce

  • Janice Carolin de Mata, B.Sc.

    pelagic and benthic Sargassum species on Gran Canaria janice.da.mata @ studium.uni-hamburg.de Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1020

  • Lake on the 79°N Glacier is splitting the ice – leaving permanent changes

    surface is also playing an increasingly significant role. In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute investigated how - caused by global warming - a 21 km 2 large meltwater lake formed

  • 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

  • Scientific Projects

    reserach sites along the coastline. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The 3d underwater fish observatory RemOs1 at Kongsfjord - Spitzbergen. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic coastal systems are of special [...] about 10 000 tetrapods protect the coast from erosion and destruction by storm events (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Coastal regions are favoured habitats for humankind with more than half of the world’s [...] Systems for Northern and Arctic Seas) COSYNA cabled underwater observatory Helgoland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) COSYNA is an observing system comprising several land and sea-based sensor systems

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  • Alfred Wegener

    31-year-old meteorologist Alfred Wegener gave his talk on the formation of the oceans and continents and in the process shook the foundations of accepted doctrine. Alfred Wegener (Photo: Johan Peter Koch [...] project. 1931 Alfred Wegener's grave (Photo: Johannes Georgi / Source: AdP) In view of this situation Wegener undertook it himself to supply this station with additional food and fuel. Wegener died on the [...] which appeared in 1915 the first time as a book. 1919 Alfred Wegener at his desk (Photo: C. B. Thostrup, Arktisk Institutt Kopenhavn) In 1919 Wegener was appointed the leader of the department "meteorological