• Phycotoxins

      used for sensitive and specific detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Bioassay-guided fractionation to chemically characterise secondary metabolites Analytical [...] tandem mass spectrometry) for the detection of organic trace compounds in marine samples. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) LC-MS/MS chromatogram of a planktonic field samples from the North Sea containing several

    • “Face-to-face” Teaching at Last

      >Every year, ten international scholarship holders from all corners of the globe come to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s two island-based sites. The POGO-Nippon Foundation Centre of Excellence trains them

    • Research Minister Dorothee Bär and AWI Director Hajo Eicken visit Tromsø

      Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), the Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Professor Hajo Eicken, took

    • Most comprehensive projections for the future revealed

      Antarctica is one oft he fastest warming regions on Earth. An international team which involved the Alfred-Wegener-Institut researched which impacts the warming has. The new study is published in the current

    • New Tsunami scenarios for Indonesian Early Warning System

      Chile a few days ago show how important a precise early warning system is. Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute support Indonesians to create new tsunami scenarios for the northeast of the archipelago

    • Current research

      be reconstructed for the drilling area (graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, James McKay under Creative Commons licence C-BY 4.0“.) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [01 April 2020] An international team of [...] arrows) and their movement (white arrows) under global warming (graphic: Hu Yang/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [24 February 2020] In the course of the past 40 years, the major w [...] unique sediment cores have been taken. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [04 April 2016] An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

    • Tiny plastic particles are found everywhere

      higher than previously assumed. This is one finding of a recent study by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Basel.

    • Antje Boetius receives the Leibniz Ring

      Ceremony
      A great honour for Prof Antje Boetius: the deep-sea researcher and Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research was selected for the “LeibnizRingHannover

    • Special courses

      Special courses Training for Surface Supplied Diving at Helgoland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Additional courses on special topics like „ Surface Supplied Scientific Diving “ and „ Nitrox “ are organized

    • New AI project on permafrost launches

      An international group of experts with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute receives a grant of $5 million from Google.org for the development of an AI system that can be used to study the