• Lupinemeal is a sustainable and low-cost alternative to fishmeal in fish food

      Aquaculture research
      Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Technologie-Transfer-Zentrum Bremerhaven have taken a major step forward in their search for an alternative to fishmeal, an expensive

    • SafeSeaPack

      surrounding food webs? Current Experiments Surface - new (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Surface after 3 months (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The degradation of the packaging material in aquatic e

    • Søråsen

      König-Langlo) Yearly overview of AWS Søråsen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Daily overview AWS Søråsen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • continuous

      König-Langlo. Mounting of an ultrasonic anemometer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Visilility sensor FS11 and Ceilometer CL51 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

    • Minister President Albig visits the AWI Helgoland

      Helgoland. During this year's summer trip he was guest at the Open Sea School laboratory of the Alfred Wegener Institute last Friday.

    • Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica

      Where do these tiny pieces of plastic come from? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred Wegener Institute have shown that it takes precise analysis to answer this question.

    • AWI directorate speaks on international Arctic conference

      Arctic Circle
      Today the director of the Alfred Wegener Institute Professor Karin Lochte and Dr Uwe Nixdorf, Vice Director and head of AWI logistics, give presentations in the Country Session Germany

    • “Face-to-face” Teaching at Last

      >Every year, ten international scholarship holders from all corners of the globe come to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s two island-based sites. The POGO-Nippon Foundation Centre of Excellence trains them

    • Most comprehensive projections for the future revealed

      Antarctica is one oft he fastest warming regions on Earth. An international team which involved the Alfred-Wegener-Institut researched which impacts the warming has. The new study is published in the current

    • New Tsunami scenarios for Indonesian Early Warning System

      Chile a few days ago show how important a precise early warning system is. Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute support Indonesians to create new tsunami scenarios for the northeast of the archipelago