• Phycotoxins

      detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Bioassay-guided fractionation to chemically characterise secondary metabolites Analytical techniques to identify [...] 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 phycotoxins. Chemical

    • “Face-to-face” Teaching at Last

      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 to become oceanography

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

      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 part in a delegation trip to

    • Most comprehensive projections for the future revealed

      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 edition of The Cryosphere.<br

    • New Tsunami scenarios for Indonesian Early Warning System

      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

      that could 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 [...] 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 wind-driven [...] slope, where the 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

    • Tiny plastic particles are found everywhere

      . 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

      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 2019”, a prize bestowed

    • Special courses

      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 upon

    • 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