• 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

    • Stable Isotope Facility

      modern laser-optical analysers (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Health and safety instructions at the ISOLAB - Stable Isotope Laboratory Potsdam (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) When analysing the water isotopes [...] (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) View into the laser fluorination: The samples to be analysed are illuminated with the laser beam in the right-hand part of the apparatus (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] isotopes, 48 water samples are measured one after the other (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) When scientists talk about climate archives, they don't have a real book or a library in mind. Instead, they

    • Intensification of Arctic Ocean eddy activity under global warming

      Ocean Eddies
      In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated the long-term changes in the Arctic Ocean eddy activity

    • Less Ice, Fewer Calling Seals

      For several years, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings, just released in the journal

    • Short-lived Ice Streams

      ice-penetrating radar scans of the Greenland ice sheet, that a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have just presented in the journal Nature Geoscience.

    • The gypsum gravity chute: A phytoplankton-elevator to the ocean floor

      sink, hereby transporting large quantities of carbon to the ocean’s depths. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recently observed this phenomenon for the first time in the Arctic. As a result of

    • AWI Project Awarded as Top Research

      Russian-German Cooperation
      The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and its three Russian partners received an award in the category of top-level research for

    • North pole soon to be ice free in summer

      of a new research study involving 21 research institutes from around the world including the Alfred Wegener Institute, coordinated by Dirk Notz from the University of Hamburg, Germany.

    • The new Polarstern features a high-tech heart

      gas aftertreatment system. Many of the components are genuine market innovations with which the Alfred Wegener Institute and TKMS are setting new standards in research navigation.

    • AWI receives audit berufundfamilie for the fifth time

      Award
      Arranging work and family life is a high priority at all locations of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. This is also proven by the repeated awarding