• Christian Haas

    at the University of Bremen. Sea Ice MOSAiC The sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is a major component of the global climate system, and changes in its thickness and snow cover are important indicators [...] , jpg | 747 KB Media DW (Video) | 08.08.2020 On thin ice: The Arctic and earth's climate Find out more > DW | 05.05.2020 Polarstern sets records on Arctic climate mission Find out more > Above & Beyond, Canada's Arctic Journal | 31.12.2013 On Thin Ice Find out more > Dialogue & Lectures Policy advice Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC

  • Conferences and Seminars

    FOR OPEN-WATER AQUACULTURE ON GRAN CANARIA pg.31 Jan Jacob One Ocean Science Congress 2025 June 3-6, 2025 Nice, France Event Link Poster Judith Matz 56th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics [...] Influence of light and silicic acid on the productivity of the arctic phytoplankton community. Attended; co-chaired session “Paleo including the evolution of silicifiers”; participated in ECR working [...] . CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF AQUAFARMING SARGASSUM IN THE OPEN OCEAN COMBINED WITH ARTIFICIAL UPWELLING. Dr. Miriam Phillippi Dr. Mar Fernandez Mendez

  • Outreach

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assesses the state of the oceans with Prof. Dr. Björn Rost Storing heat, absorbing CO₂, and providing habitats for countless species - yet our oceans and coastal [...] Year 2016/17 Resistant Arctic microalgae (Deutschlandfunk, 25.1.2017) Radio interview on the responses of Arctic phytoplankton to climate change on the occasion [...] single-celled algae species and an important source of food in the oceans. Dr Clara Hoppe of the Alfred Wegener Institute examines how changed living conditions as a result of climate change affect Arctic

  • Profile

    Excellent Research Meltwater pools on the Arctic Ocean. The polar regions and oceans are central drivers of climate-related processes. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Oceans cover [...] they hold resources essential to humanity’s survival. Not only do oceans and their ecosystems fulfil a key role in the control of global environmental processes; they are also subject to anthropogenic use [...] are often concentrated, the vast and unpopulated regions in the Arctic and Antarctic are also transforming. Not only are the polar regions highly sensitive to climatic changes, they themselves are one

  • Projects

    approach to generate essential knowledge on Arctic sea ice variability, a crucial indicator or ‘canary in the coal mine’ for the Arctic and global climate state. If greenhouse gas [...] with webODV services for supporting quality control procedures of ocean temperature profiles and the generation of new Arctic data products. Contact: Sebastian Mieruch-Schnülle Antarctic Sea Ice Reconstruction [...] “ (Processes and impacts of climate change in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Canadian Arctic), a collaborative project between the University of Bremen, the Alfred Wegener Institute, and a consortium

  • AWI researcher Markus Rex receives 2025 NOMIS Award

    MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition between the autumns of 2019 and 2020. For a year, the research ship drifted through the Arctic, frozen in ice. [...] gain a better understanding of the complex interaction between the ocean, the ice, the atmosphere and the ecosystem. Through the MOSAiC expedition, hundreds of scientists representing institutions from [...] global understanding of climate feedback mechanisms in the central Arctic.

  • Projects

    different species of the genus Alexandrium sp . FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic Marine Monitoring) The development of a standardized molecular observation strategy for marine eukaryotic microbes is tightly linked [...] monitor and understand how ongoing environmental changes affect Arctic marine prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities and how these changes will alter their role in global element cycling. Within [...] investigates biogeochemical parameters in the water column of the Arctic Ocean on a regular basis to better understand the impact of a variable environment on ecological processes in the Arctic ocean. ICES

  • Aerosols & Clouds

    southward, where they absorb heat and moisture over the open ocean. This perspective explains two different types of atmospheric conditions observed in winter during Arctic expeditions like MOSAiC: [...] change in the Arctic. On the one hand it is close to the Atlantic water inflow to the Central Arctic Ocean, and on the other hand it is located along [...] coordination of the station. Antarctic To be filled! Text is missing Arctic Ocean (Central Arctic) FS Polarstern MOSAiC (Photo: M. Gutsche) The polar oceans in the Arctic and around Antarctica, characterized

  • HGF-Projects

    FRAM (Frontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring) HGF infrastructur programme Duration: 01.08.2014 - 31.07.2021 Coordination: Antje Boetius, AWI, Bremerhaven The FRAM Ocean Observing System will be installed in the gateway between the North Atlantic and the Central Arctic, representing a highly [...] für Luft- und Raumfahrt , DLR), the GEOMAR – Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) and the AWI. Contact: F. Wenzhöfer

  • Antje Boetius

    research focuses on the impacts of climate change on the Earth’s oceans and polar regions, especially in connection with Arctic amplification, as well as changes in the biological pump and marine microbial [...] MB Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius Director of Alfred, jpg | 1 MB Media Arctic Circle (Video) | 15.05.2024 Arctic Circle 2024 – Panel “Arctic Climate” Find out more > Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung | 04.07.2024 Report [...] and Antje Boetius Tyler Prize Lecture | 08.04.2023 The changing arctic - Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius (AWI) Senckenberg Dialogue | 23.10.2020 MOSAiC – the largest Arctic expedition of our time