/ A lf re d- W eg en er -I ns ti tu t Melanie Bergmann is a polar deep-sea researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). She was born in Bad Neuenahr

61 9 0 www.naturgewalten-sylt.de Research at the AWI Sylt: The research station of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, offers a modern laboratory complex

beyond the capabilities and infrastructure of any single scientific programme or nation. The Alfred Wegener Institute has therefore joined forces with institutions from many different countries, including

Glaciology Ice Core (Photo: Hans Oerter, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ongoing acceleration of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, increasing contribution of ice sheets and glaciers to sea level change and

current issue of the scientific journal Nature Climate Change , a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute suggests taking a critical look at the evaluation of the statistical significance of

to mid July 2019 onboard of the German research vessel Maria S. Merian. MSM84 Logo (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Dr. Catalina Gebhardt Dr. Jens Matthiessen National cooperation partners:

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About us As a Helmholtz centre for polar and marine research the Alfred Wegener institute works above all in the cold and temperate regions of the world. Together with numerous national and international

section of the EPICA ice core. It was recovered from a depth of 2650 metres (Photo: Hans Oerter, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact Dr. Hanno Meyer (Head of Laboratory) The laboratory equipment pool The analyses [...] curve that the scientists created using the EPICA ice core from Dronning Maud Land (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The isotopic fingerprint of water The significance of the analyses in the Potsdam ISOLAB [...] kind in the world. A scanning electon microscopy image of purified diatom assemblage. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) View into the laser fluorination: The samples to be analysed are illuminated with the

From 1 May 2025, Prof. Dr. Maarten Boersma will step up as Acting Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute. As a biologist, he has been conducting research, predominantly at the Helgoland and Sylt stations