• AWI receives audit berufundfamilie for the fifth time

      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 of the berufundfamilie

    • ‘Astro-Alex’ visits the AWI

      Alexander Gerst recently paid a visit to his alma mater, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Before an audience of ca. 200 members of staff, he gave an

    • AWI snow buoys provide important weather information from the North Pole

      for granted but owed to the use of snow buoys, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • Micro-plastic particles in edible fish and herbivores

      at the bottom of the sea. In two new studies, scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute Hemholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) show that plastic waste is also eaten by nautili as well as

    • New Technology for Large Samples in Chemical Analysis with LA-ICP-MS

      is now funding a project to further develop this method at the Alfred Wegener Institute for the next 1.5 years, with 150,000 euros.

    • Fields of Research

      Research Focus Innovation Strategy Unit BL (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Basic Research Especially the examination of the shell structure, the formation mechanisms, and the ability of

    • Remote Sensing Methods

      in climate and nature conservation. Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Birgit Heim (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse Dr. Birgit Heim Polar Terrestrial Environmental

    • Antarctic Biology

      Hydrography, biology potter_cove_Anders_Torstensson.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Zooplankton time series of the Polarstern expeditions Background Several long-term data sets exist which have been [...] the Antarctic where zooplankton was sampled and analyzed (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Carbon

      Sampling a Yedoma cliff, Sobo Sise island, Lena Delta (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic landscapes, especially those underlain by permafrost, are threatened by climate warming and may degrade in [...] column. Scheme of the permafrost carbon feedback loop (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Today, we know that syngenetic freezing of organic matter over a period of thousands of years sequestered and

    • Low contamination of Antarctic krill with microplastics

      journal Science of the Total Environment , the team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute warns against false positive results if extraction steps are omitted during sample preparation.