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New satellite technology promises great progress for glacier research

Satellite Remote Sensing
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute are developing with experts from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) a new satellite measurement method for the observation from space

Ice algae: The engine of life in the central Arctic Ocean

greater role for the Arctic food web than previously assumed. In a new study, biologists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research showed that not only animals that live

Domino Effect in the Amazon Region

Geosciences Department, the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, have investigated how a change in Atlantic circulation would impact the Amazon Rain

Bremen Senate Medal for Art and Science awarded to Prof. Antje Boetius

In recognition of her services to science, to the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and to Bremen as a location for science, Prof. Antje Boetius has been awarded the

From River Weser to the North Sea

litter is on the rise. A new project jointly coordinated by the University of Bayreuth and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is the first to approach the

Falling sea level caused volcanos to overflow

international research team led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research has now discovered that a falling sea

Arctic Survivalists

productivity and biodiversity. This was the main finding presented in a study by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, which they jointly release with their Canadian colleagues advanced online in the journal

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

First conference for research software in Germany with AWI participation

in Germany took place on the subject of research software. The Potsdam Research Centre of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) organized the conference together

Climate researchers are pursuing better ice and weather predictions for improved safety in the Arctic and Antarctic

Project launch
Today, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) officially announced the start of the international

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