Wohlrab, Sylke Senior Scientist Woll, Matthias Engineer Section Meeting Bad Bederkesa 2024 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

energetics and mixing and their interdependence with sea ice in changing climate conditions) at the Alfred Wegener Institute want to investigate how these waves work in the Arctic, how they are related to sea

communities. In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and the Helmholtz Centre Hereon

AWI EXPERT Professor Karen Wiltshire was the Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and Director of the AWI sites on Helgoland and Sylt. At [...] the Netherlands. Since 2001, Karen Wiltshire has been working and conduction research at the Alfred Wegener Institute. In 2006, as Director of the Biological Institute Helgoland on Sylt and Helgoland,

lf re d- W eg en er -I ns ti tu t Professor Maarten Boersma has been Interim Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research since 1 May 2025. At the same time [...] years as a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Limnology in Plön, Germany, he moved to the Alfred Wegener Institute in 2001. From 2015-2024, Boersma headed the „Ecology of Shelf Seas“ section on Helgoland [...] for the Department of Biology for several years before being appointed Deputy Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute and Head of the Section „Coastal Ecology“ at the Wadden Sea Station on Sylt in 2024

Association and the Max Planck Society was established to foster the co-operation between the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Max Planck Institute for

regions and oceans are central drivers of climate-related processes. (Photo: Stefan Hendricks, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Oceans cover seventy percent of the Earth’s surface. Characterised by their fascinating [...] climate. As an internationally respected centre of expertise on polar and marine research, the Alfred Wegener Institute is one of the very few scientific institutions in the world that are equally active [...] Combining innovative approaches, outstanding research infrastructure and years of expertise, the Alfred Wegener Institute explores nearly all aspects of the Earth system – from the atmosphere to the ocean

Coastal Ecology Wadden Sea Station Sylt (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The research work of the Section Coastal Ecology covers the complex interface between land and sea. We specialise in the ecosystems

A unique ice core is currently being examined in the Alfred Wegener Institute's ice laboratory: the oldest continuous ice core that has ever been drilled on Earth. As part of the EU-funded Beyond EPICA

(Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A European biobanking strategy to safeguard macroalgal biodiversity SeaStrains Publishing Mock Ups - Abb. 1 Unser Favorit: Halbe Seite - Turquoise (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)