• Back to the Roots of Antarctic Research

      Antarctica
      This year, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as

    • 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

    • Visit in Bremerhaven before expedition starts

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

    • Research Minister Wanka visits the University of Oldenburg

      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

    • Before the ice were the rivers

      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. Around 34 million

    • Mud binds carbon

      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 in the

    • Scholarship holders finish their education

      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 different nations have learnt

    • Carbon and nitrogen isotope analytics

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

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