• Lidar

      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 atmosphere and look for thin [...] leaves the observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Some facts about KARL The laser consumes a lot of energy: 30´000 Watt are used, as much as 500 60W light bulbes. [...] fibre and are detected by photo multiplier tubes (PMT) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The control software records the data (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Stable Isotope Facility

      them down. One of the modern laser-optical analysers (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Health and safety instructions at the ISOLAB - Stable Isotope Laboratory Potsdam (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 mean [...] part of the apparatus (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • DNA isolation & library prep

      DNA isolation & library prep Fast-Prep®-24 Instrument (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The FastPrep-24™ Instrument is a high-speed homogenizer for the lysis of sediment or plant samples prior to DNA

    • 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

    • 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

    • Short-lived Ice Streams

      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

      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 this massive algal transport,

    • 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

    • North pole soon to be ice free in summer

      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

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