the Climate Sciences Division at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Prof Dr Torsten Kanzow (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] to map its future development – a responsibility that we, the climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, don’t take lightly. The guiding directive

Dynamics‘ Prof. Dr. Gerrit Lohmann, head of the AWI Section ‘Paleoclimate Dynamics‘ (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Without models, we can’t grasp the interrelations in the system or explain the phenomena [...] Atmosphere‘ Dr Dörthe Handorf, Researcher in the Section ‘Physics of the Atmosphere‘ (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We also need simplified climate models, which allow us to isolate some of these additional [...] Oceanography‘ Dr Claudia Wekerle, Researcher in the Section ‘Physical Oceanography‘ (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) If we can realistically simulate the past and present processes at work in the Fram Strait

Marine Environment (ICBM), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) were able to demonstrate that the

region months later. This phenomenon is the subject of an article by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, published in the current issue of the online journal Scientific Reports. Although this

now announced the Lead Authors for its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), and experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) fulfil prominent roles in this regard:

(Senior Scientist, FU Berlin) Sampling of fossil lake sediments in the Gaxun-Nur Basin. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Biodiversity
Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam, Germany have confirmed the existence of a new cryptic amphipod species in the North Sea. For the

y and biodiversity. This was the main finding presented in a study by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, which they jointly release with their Canadian colleagues advanced online in the journal

the implementation in the field the research project RES- TORE, jointly conducted with the Alfred Wegener Institute, is developing and testing restoration methods for a long-term restoration programme. A [...] (Ostrea edulis) in the German North Sea. The pro- ject brings together researchers from the Alfred Wegener Insti- tute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the BfN Marine Nature Conservation

suddenly. This was the key finding of a study by group of researchers led by geologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which has now been published in