• Disappearing Lakes: New Data Platform on Permafrost Lakes in the Arctic

      technical support from North American partners, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have established the ‘ Lost Lakes ‘ database, which provides key information on the state of Arctic thermokarst

    • Dr. Sarah Kempf

      sarah.kempf@awi.de
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      Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

    • Dr. Lukas Miksch

      lukas.miksch@awi.de
      +49(471)4831-1326
      Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

    • A year in the ice: Tara Polar Station begins its drift through the central Arctic

      ice in order to explore the Arctic Ocean. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute are also taking part in the Tara Polaris I expedition (2026–2027). The Tara Polar Station has now reached the ice

    • Evidence of ancient wildfires near the South Pole

      rainforests even in what is now icy Antarctica. A team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, RWTH Aachen University and Northumbria University has now found – in a sediment core - evidence of recurring

    • Public guided tour at the Alfred Wegener Institute

    • COLDSPOT

      COLDSPOT ). The group is established as a bridge group between the Alfred-Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research ( Permafrost Research Section ), and the University of Hamburg . [...] Trail Valley Creek, Northwest Territories, Canada 2026 . (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) . (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) . (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The joint COLDSPOT–SPARC–PeTCaT expedition

    • Blind Spots at Antarctic Coasts Limit Sea Level Projections

      improved observations at a pan-Antarctic scale. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the

    • What calling and singing reveal about bowhead whales

      comes from researchers in the Ocean Acoustics Group at the Alfred Wegener Institute, who recorded the calls of bowhead whales using underwater recorders and analysed the records with artificial

    • Hajo Eicken

      geophysical processes Dr Hajo Eicken, Scientific Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice snow Arctic glaciology Sea-ice geophysics is a central research field within polar and climate sciences