• Climate Office

      for the global climate system. The Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is part of the regional Helmholtz [...] polaire français Paul Emile Victor, IPEV) and organised annually by the Climate Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research by Dr Renate Treffeisen on the AWI side

    • C-14 lab

      Unlocking polar climate archives Thanks to a new high-tech tool, the Alfred Wegener Institute can finally unlock many polar climate archives for the first time. At its C-14 dating laboratory, AWI researchers [...] samples gathered from the seafloor requires high-precision analytical work – a challenge that the Alfred Wegener Institute’s C-14 lab has now overcome. To do so, the scientists use a method called radiocarbon

    • Neuseeland Muschel Aquakultur

      potential of this new aquaculture frontier. Working on the OOA project in New Zealand. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name Novel farming systems enabling multiple shellfish species

    • WP5 engl

      public engagement About the WP Leader Gesche Krause Gesche Krause is a social scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany. She was trained at the

    • [Translate to English:] Kohnen 2023-4

      temperature measurements across the plateau of Antarctica. Installing borehole electronics (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Green Hygiene

      sted extraction, optimised cultivation conditions). Green Hygiene Production Process (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Meeting in Berlin In March 2024, we met with our project partner to visit their

    • InCraSus

      invasive species to valuable raw material – the Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir chinensis) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / H. Alberts-Hubatsch) Partner Funding

    • Sustainability

      Sustainability at the Alfred Wegener Institute In its focus areas climate, biodiversity and Earth system research, the AWI makes important scientific contributions to sustainability-related issues. To

    • DynaDeep

      oberflächennahen Strandsedimenten [Translate to English:] DynaDeep field site on Spiekeroog. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The aim of this project is to investigate the dynamic reactive transport of oxygen

    • APOC

      [Translate to English:] Automatisierte in-situ Messung durch ein benthisches Absatzgestell. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The aim of APOC is to investigate the transport and accumulation of particulate organic