• Anniversary in the far north

      AWI-Hausgarten
      20 years ago, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) laid the “foundation stone” for a unique long-term observatory

    • New Climate Model for the IPCC

      Climate Modelling
      Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute now, for the first time, feed the results from their global models directly into the Intergovernmental Panel on

    • Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic

      covered by sea ice any more, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen. This is only the second time that the annual minimum has dropped below four million

    • Researchers see need for action on forest fire risk

      Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ in Potsdam and now at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, now provides new answers to these questions. The research team

    • Antje Boetius receives the Leibniz Ring

      Prof Antje Boetius: the deep-sea researcher and Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research was selected for the “LeibnizRingHannover 2019”, a prize bestowed

    • Antje Boetius awarded the 2019 Erna Hamburger Prize

      scientific contributions, Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, was recently awarded the “2019 Erna Hamburger Prize”.

    • Antje Boetius as keynote speaker

      protection!” – so claimed Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), at the New Year’s Reception for the Senate of the Free

    • AWI Director Antje Boetius appointed Mercator Professor

      , or Scientists for Future. Now Prof Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), has been given a new role: as the next Mercator Professor

    • A glimpse into deep ocean-floor structures

      studies in the Indian Ocean. Dr. Gabriele Uenzelmann-Neben of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is the chief scientist for Expedition SO272. Scientists from

    • Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity officially founded

      a step that will allow the University and the Bremerhaven-based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) to combine and build on their vital research in this field