• Oceanic microseisms

    oceanic microseisms research projects. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact An ice-going OBS has emerged in a Polynia (ice-free area). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Prof. Dr. Vera Schlindwein Dr. Mechita

  • Guido_Grosse_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    st in R ol fe s / A lf re d W eg en er In st it ut e Guido Grosse is a Polar Researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and has been investigating [...] returned to Germany and, in 2016, assumed leadership of the Permafrost Research Division at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam. His research currently focuses on the role of permafrost in the Earth system

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  • Carbon

    Permafrost 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 [...] of organic matter into the soil 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

  • Visit in Bremerhaven before expedition starts

    of the transit cruise of the so-called Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) visited the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar dnd Marine Research (AWI) last Saturday. The guests su

  • Research Minister Wanka visits the University of Oldenburg

    Biodiversity. The new institute will bundle and expand the research excellene in this field of the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Oldenburg. AWI Director Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte attended as well

  • We left for a while!

    of the whole COSMUS team I would like to thank all members of the Logistic Department of the Alfred Wegener Institute, because without their unconditional support this expedition would not have been possible

  • Back to the Roots of Antarctic Research

    Antarctica
    This year, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as usual – materials and fuel to the Antarctic

  • Hans-Otto Pörtner now a member of the European Academy of Sciences

    Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II and Head of the Integrative Ecophysiology Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, has been selected as

  • Antje Boetius as keynote speaker

    choosing not to invest in climate protection!” – so claimed Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), at the New Year’s Reception

  • Before the ice were the rivers

    Geoscience researchers at the University of Bremen, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and other international participants, have discovered a vast river system in the Antarctic