permafrost: The ground is thawing Prof. Dr Guido Grosse, Head of Permafrost Research Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Permafrost Greenhouse gases Climate change Permafrost is the technical term for p

problems to solutions Prof. Dr Mar Fernández-Méndez, marine biogeochemist and algal ecologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, head of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group SiDe-EFFECT and the Marine Algae Ecology

The diversity of life on, in and under the sea ice Dr Hauke Flores, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Biodiversity Arctic Ocean Life in the Polar Sea The sea-ice regions of the Arctic and

about the future Prof. Dr Gerrit Lohmann, Head of the Working Group Paleoclimate Dynamics at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen for the Department of Physics of the Climate

Atlantic Transect) / SoNoAT (South to North Atlantic Transect) We are pleased to announce that the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), with the support of Partnership

affect the biological pump in this important carbon export region. Dr. Florian Koch (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact: Dr. Florian Koch

Magnitude of the present-day horizontal ice flow velocity (Graphic: Thomas Kleiner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The large ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are of major importance for the global climate

region and West Antarctic margin (modified from Kipf et al., Gondwana Research, 2014). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Geodynamic and tectonic processes played a dominant role in forming the present topographic

Members Björn Rost (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Björn Rost - Being small and yet so mighty, phytoplankton are the true rulers over ecosystems, elemental cycles and climate. I, therefore, felt very [...] mechanisms that cells apply to maintain homeostasis in changing environments. Clara Hoppe (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Clara Hoppe - In the past two decades, a lot of research on phytoplankton responses [...] processes in the ocean and how these might be affected by climate change. Laura Wischnewski (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Laura Heitmann - During my apprenticeship and work as a chemical laboratory assistant

AWIPEV Atmosphere Observatory with green laser beam of the lidar instrument. (Photo: G. Tran / Alfred Wegener Institute) At the Atmosphere Observatory of the AWIPEV research base in Ny-Ålesund , Svalbard [...] mast and BSRN radiation instruments at Neumayer Station, Antarctica. (Photo: H. Schmithüsen / Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In Antarctica, atmospheric research is split into two observatories at the Neumayer [...] Regions Svalbard, Arctic Atmosphere Observatory of AWIPEV-Base in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Svalbard is a key region of climate change in the Arctic. On the one hand it is close