• New dataset reveals biological “treasure trove” of Arctic Ocean

      unique species and assessing their extinction risk. The research led by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of East Anglia is now published in PLOS Biology, futher informations

    • Scholarship holders finish their education

      development
      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

    • 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

    • Lidar

      to the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam via Internet, where physicist Dr. Christoph Ritter analyzes it in detail. Lidar hatch: The laser beam leaves the observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] and are detected by photo multiplier tubes (PMT) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The control software records the data (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] AWIPEV observatory towards the clear sky. This beam belongs to a LIDAR system, runned by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Potsdam for more than 25 years. With this instrument scientists investigate the

    • "We need to make fundamental changes"

      amount of plastic litter in our oceans. We discussed this initiative with two experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) – Dr Melanie Bergmann and Dr

    • German Association for Marine Technology at the AWI

      "Meet the members"
      The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) welcomed members of the Association for Marine Technology (GMT). The AWI is itself a member of the

    • Arctic sea ice continues to track far below average

      decreased to an area of 4.4 (+/- 0.1) million square kilometres, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Bremen.

    • German President and AWI Director visit Iceland

      Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Iceland from 12 to 14 June. Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), accompanied the President at

    • After more than 100 years: The Endurance has been found!

      after the start, the team was able to locate the previously lost wreck. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute were also on board.

    • Climate change and its consequences on foreign policy

      between Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Markus Rex, MOSAiC expedition leader and scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).