PERPLEX Software for expedition planning Perplex7 GUI. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) PERPLEX is a software program that can be used to plan and efficiently execute expeditions with research vessels. The software was developed at the Alfred Wegener Institute and used during many cruises of the RV Polarstern. PERPLEX allows scientists and chief scientist as well as [...] trip will automatically open Perplex 7 Route viewer.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The 'Maps' tab displays the travel route, where e.g. new waypoints can be interactively added with the mouse.

A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is now researching on board of the science and outreach sailing yacht Malizia Explorer how incoming Atlantic

receive financial support from the Helmholtz Association and the Alfred Wegener Institute.

European Oyster
The Alfred Wegener Institute’s project to “establish the sustainable production of seed oysters for a long-term reintroduction programme (

from around the globe will be celebrating their graduation at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Ten scholarship holders have come to the end of a 10-month programme, and 23 young people have completed an

examinations of a massive Antarctic glacier ever undertaken. The Alfred Wegener Institute directly participated in an expedition during which researchers explored the structure of the ice and of the ground

climate change. Together with Karin Lochte and scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine research (AWI) she discusses global warming, which affects the Arctic

for resin-producing trees. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg have just released a paper in the journal Antarctic Science, in which they describe

Coordination Group under the lead of Astrid Bracher from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

Publication
Alfred Wegener is known for his theory of continental drift which he published exactly 100 years ago in 1915. Slightly less known, but