• Seismics

      marine seismic data collection. Seismics in west Greenland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Difficult terrain (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Seismic waves penetrate through the ice sheet or shelf and [...] Snow streamer (Photo: Olaf Eisen, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Subglacial conditions play a key role in the most dynamic parts of the ice sheet: ice streams, outlet glaciers and tidewater glaciers. These fast [...] most spectacular being a 4500m high Alpine saddle, Colle Gnifetti. Gimballed geophone (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Seismic data acquisition (seismics) is a technique to generate and record elastic or

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      amount of plastic litter in our oceans. We discussed this initiative with two experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) – Dr Melanie Bergmann and Dr

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      "Meet the members"
      The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) welcomed members of the Association for Marine Technology (GMT). The AWI is itself a member of the

    • Arctic sea ice continues to track far below average

      decreased to an area of 4.4 (+/- 0.1) million square kilometres, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Bremen.

    • German President and AWI Director visit Iceland

      Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Iceland from 12 to 14 June. Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), accompanied the President at

    • After more than 100 years: The Endurance has been found!

      after the start, the team was able to locate the previously lost wreck. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute were also on board.

    • Climate change and its consequences on foreign policy

      between Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Markus Rex, MOSAiC expedition leader and scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • Jan Jacob, M.Sc.

      Title: Response of Key-Species of Benthic Sub-Arctic Macrophytes to Warming jan.jacob @ awi.de Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1020

    • Rising temperatures lead to unexpectedly rapid carbon release from soils

      from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen and from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven that was now published

    • Lidar

      to the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam via Internet, where physicist Dr. Christoph Ritter analyzes it in detail. Lidar hatch: The laser beam leaves the observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] and are detected by photo multiplier tubes (PMT) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The control software records the data (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] AWIPEV observatory towards the clear sky. This beam belongs to a LIDAR system, runned by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Potsdam for more than 25 years. With this instrument scientists investigate the