• Plastic Credits May Worsen Plastic Problem

    Sangcheol Moon of the University of California Berkeley and including Melanie Bergmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute, shows in the journal One Earth that offsetting schemes such as plastic credits are

  • CONTRASTS

    performed and autonomous stations are installed. The helicopter takes of for a survey flight. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Marcel Nicolaus) Main Contact Marcel Nicolaus Thomas Krumpen Associated colleagues [...] expedition. At the beginning, we will guide the new Tara Polar Station into the sea ice. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Regime 1: Future Arctic (Photo: Marcel Nicolaus) Regime 2: Present Arctic (Photo: Marcel [...] measurement types. Regions of Deployments 1 and 2 mostly host the autonomous devices. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) On-route measurements and regional surveys With Polarstern, the helicopters and also

  • How climate change is altering the Arctic Ocean

    from Bremerhaven for the Arctic. The destination of the 95 expedition participants, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, is the AWI Hausgarten, a long-term observatory situated between Svalbard and Greenland

  • Team

    Earth System Diagnostics Team members Thom Laepple Thomas Laepple (Photo: Ergenzinger) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Quantitiative interpretation of paleoclimate data I enjoy working across disciplines [...] te record to sharpen our knowledge about the climate system. Nora Hirsch Nora Hirsch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate variability based on ice core isotope records Increasing the usability of [...] visible, to see how they might affect the diffusion signal. Andrew Dolman Andrew Dolman (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Variability of past climate from proxies I started out as an ecologist, but now I study

  • Expert database

    contact. Not found what you are looking for? There are numerous other experts working at the Alfred Wegener Institute. We are happy to assist with individual inquiries. For media inquiries please contact

  • Tara Polar Station

    s in Svalbard. Tara Polar Station in Lorient, France, in April 2025 (Photo: Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Marcel Nicolaus Associated AWI science partners: Physical oceanography: Benjamin [...] sea ice tools and gear ROV Ann in the wet lab of Tara Polar Station (Photo: Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Marine heatwaves pose problems for coastal plankton

    for marine organisms. Researchers at the Marine Station Helgoland, a research facility of the Alfred Wegener Institute, have quantified the frequency and intensity of these heatwaves along with their r

  • 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

  • Publications

    Leichtbau, Automobil Industrie Insight - Leichtbau Genial Einfach Press (04/2016) - Bioniker des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts auf Hannover Messe 2016 , AWI press release Magazine article (03/2016) - ELISE: Die

  • Iliana_Baums_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), a coope- ration between the university and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. After studying biology in Tübingen

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