Neuseeland Muschel Aquakultur

unlock the potential of this new aquaculture frontier. OOA_NZ_Image_Homepage_AWI.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Fact Sheet Project name Novel farming systems enabling multiple shellfish species [...] Contact Prof. Dr. Bela H. Buck Links Cawthron Institut NZ-ProjectBi-Stable_klein.mp4 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

World Press Photo Award for AWI Photographer

MOSAiC ice camp – with this image Esther Horvath, a photographer and photo editor at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), won the World Press Photo Award

Arctic sea ice once again shows considerable melting

shrank to roughly 4.7 million square kilometres, as was determined by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Bremen and Universität Hamburg. Though slightly larger than last year

Ocean acidification stimulates mass development of toxic algae

Canary Islands conducted by an international group of scientists with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The results have now been published in the international journal Nature Climate Change

Prof. Antje Boetius receives the 2018 German Environmental Award

goes to Antje Boetius and a team of wastewater experts from Leipzig. The Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is glad to see the deep seas and

Signs of tipping point for oxygen minimum zone in the ocean

suddenly. This was the key finding of a study by group of researchers led by geologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which has now been published in

Happy Birthday, Jörn Thiede!

of today's GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and long-time director of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, celebrates his 80th birthday

New Information Material on a Proposal for a Marine Protected Area in the Antarctic Weddell Sea

the proposal to establish a Marine Protected Area in the Weddell Sea, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have also updated the fact sheet and short video about this proposal. The two publications

Negotiations on an MPA in the Weddell Sea

regarding the establishment of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Weddell Sea. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute were instrumental in preparing the application for the European Union (EU), which was submitted

Massive meteorite impact crater discovered

found under one of Earth’s continental ice sheets. The research aircraft Polar 6 from the Alfred Wegener Instittue verified the discovery with radar measurements. The research is described in a new study