• “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

    • 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

    • The search for the Endurance

      Endurance, which sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915. The researchers on board include experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI).

    • Six German-Russian research groups receive three-year funding

      (RSF) have selected six further Joint Research Groups, including one with participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute.