• Krill fishing in the Antarctic: overlaps with consequences

    themselves and on the animals that feed on krill are required urgently. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research in Bergen has now been able to use acoustic

  • 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

  • Germany starts gearing up for the 2032/33 polar year

    The 25th Arctic Dialogue
    The 25th Arctic Dialogue at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam focused on international cooperation in polar research

  • Biophysics (NMR)

    laboratory A look behind the scenes of the NMR laboratory. Find out more Christian Bock (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Head of group Dr. Christian Bock Head of laboratory Dr. Felizitas Wermter Team M.Sc

  • Cell physiology

    capacity of animals under future environmental scenarios. Gisela sampling an oyster. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) An opened oyster. (Photo: Gisela Lannig) Anette preparing samples for extraction. (Photo: [...] NMR spectroscopy for metabolomics . Fun in the field in Wilmington - North Carolina. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Anette and Christian at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). (Photo: Gisela Lannig)

  • Green Hygiene

    GreenHygiene_Infographic_no_logo.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Green Hygiene Every day, 17 million hygiene products are used in German-speaking countries alone. Most of them end up as plastic waste

  • Projects

    Partnership) is funded by the Helmholtz Association and aims to strengthen joint research between the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Italian Institute of

  • Antje Boetius

    Sea Climate Change Knowledge Transfer Prof. Dr Antje Boetius was the Scientific Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). In spring 2025, she was appointed [...] jpg | 2 MB Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius,German marine, jpg | 2 MB Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius Director of Alfred, jpg | 1 MB Media Arctic Circle (Video) | 15.05.2024 Arctic Circle 2024 – Panel “Arctic Climate”

  • 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