• Antje Boetius as keynote speaker

      choosing not to invest in climate 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

    • Visit in Bremerhaven before expedition starts

      of the transit cruise of the so-called Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) visited the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar dnd Marine Research (AWI) last Saturday. The guests su

    • Research Minister Wanka visits the University of Oldenburg

      Biodiversity. The new institute will bundle and expand the research excellene in this field of the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Oldenburg. AWI Director Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte attended as well

    • Advancing Global Ocean Monitoring from Space

      A team from the Physical Oceanography section of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), led by Hongyan Xi, contributed to the recently published 9th Copernicus

    • Before the ice were the rivers

      Geoscience researchers at the University of Bremen, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and other international participants, have discovered a vast river system in the Antarctic

    • Mud binds carbon

      Over the past three years the collaborative research project APOC, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has investigated how climate change and anthropogenic activities and pressure impact the carbon cycle

    • Scholarship holders finish their education

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      Today the graduates of the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) say goodbye to the AWI. During the past ten months the scholarship holders from

    • DNA shearing

      DNA shearing Covaris M220 Focused-ultrasonicator™ (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Covaris instrument is a focused-ultrasonicator which shears DNA into smaller sized fragments to prepare genomic DNA

    • Carbon and nitrogen isotope analytics

      er ThermoFisher Delta V Mass Spectrometer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Flash EA 2000 Autosampler Flash EA 2000 Autosampler (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems:

    • continuous

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