• Merged Analysis and Forecasting

      of processes acting on the ice cover Ice Track Plot (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Example application of how IceTrack can support campaign planning: Here IceTrack was used to investigate drift [...] Sea: comparison between observed and simulated draft. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A novel sea ice model framework, based on the single-column sea ice model Icepack ( CICE Consortium ) is currently [...] the forecasting system for the years 2018 and 2019. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The figure shows a forecast of the likelihood of encountering an ice concentration of 15 % or higher in the

    • Six German-Russian research groups receive three-year funding

      Joint Research Groups, including one with participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

    • AWI Helgoland’s student laboratory “OPENSEA” celebrates its 5-year anniversary

      mudflats. The children were supported by a small team from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • past ICRSS Conferences

      circumpolar regions of the world. ICRSS-2006 group shot (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 10th ICRSS 2008 (Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada) The 10 th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium and 29 [...] regions and elsewhere. ICRSS-2008 conference photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 11th ICRSS 2010 (Cambridge, United Kingdom) The 11th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium, September [...] out in the circumpolar regions. ICRSS-2010 group photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 12th ICRSS 2012 (Levi, Finland) The theme of the 12 th CRSS symposium, May 14-18 2012 in Levi, Finland was Polar

    • A sensational discovery: Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica

      international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have now provided a new and unprecedented perspective on the

    • World Press Photo Award for AWI Photographer

      this image Esther Horvath, a photographer and photo editor at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), won the World Press Photo Award for an individual picture

    • Changes in high-altitude winds over the South Pacific produce long-term effects on the Antarctic

      The study was prepared by Dr Frank Lamy, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, together with researchers from Chile, the Netherlands, the USA

    • The seafloor of Fram Strait is a sink for microplastic from the Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean

      Pollution
      Working in the Arctic Fram Strait, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have found microplastic throughout the water column with

    • Simulated deep-sea mining affects ecosystem functions at the seafloor

      Institute for Marine Microbiology together with colleagues at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, and other institutes now describe that deep-sea mining-related

    • Benthos in the Antarctic Weddell Sea in decline

      profound impacts on life on the ocean floor. As biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute report in the latest issue of the journal Nature Communications, between 1988 and 2014, total benthic biomass on