• Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic

      kilometres of the Arctic Ocean are 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

    • Researchers see need for action on forest fire risk

      Dietze, formerly at the German 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

    • Antje Boetius receives the Leibniz Ring

      Ceremony
      A great honour for 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

    • Antje Boetius awarded the 2019 Erna Hamburger Prize

      recognition of her outstanding scientific contributions, Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, was recently awarded the “2019 Erna

    • POGO SCHOLARS 2019

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    • 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

    • AWI Director Antje Boetius appointed Mercator Professor

      National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 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

    • A glimpse into deep ocean-floor structures

      critical location for climate 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

    • Diatom laboratory

      Amy Forster preparing diatom slides (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The extraction of microfossil remains like diatom valves or chironomid head capsules requires a chemical preparation of sediment samples [...] keys. Chironomid head capsule of the genus Paralauterborniella sp. (Photo: Larisa Nazarova, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)