• Extension of the Library at AWI Sylt

      all, being surrounded by knowledge,” explains Prof. Dr Karen Wiltshire, Deputy Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), in her speech at the opening

    • Taking aim at tiny threats

      the results. An international team led by Dr Sebastian Primpke and Dr Michaela Meyns from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has now presented possible solutions

    • How the Arctic Ocean Became Saline

      salt water pour in from the Atlantic. With the help of a climate model, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have demonstrated how this process took place, allowing us for the first time to understand

    • Greenhouse reaches the Antarctic

      just 400 metres from the German Neumayer Station III in the Antarctic. It will be run by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), which is working on the EDEN ISS project together with DLR.

    • How is climate change affecting fauna in the Arctic?

      embark on a joint expedition headed for Svalbard. On board the research vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) all of these disciplines are

    • Colonisation in Slow Motion

      diversity until much later. These are the findings of a unique 18-year study by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which has now been published

    • Microplastic drifting down with the snow

      regions as the Arctic and the Alps. This was demonstrated in a study conducted by experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute and at the Swiss WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, recently published

    • Anniversary in the far north

      AWI-Hausgarten
      20 years ago, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) laid the “foundation stone” for a unique long-term observatory in the

    • Earth's position in relation to the sun influences the origin and intensity of precipitation

      how future changes in the Earth's hydroclimate might affect it. A research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has now for the first time analyzed around 50,000 years of hydroclimate in the mid

    • „Wir können Watt - coastal research in time with the tides”

      will take place in the Rathauspark in Westerland. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the municipality of Sylt and provides an insight into the daily work of the