Training Capacity Exchange

NF-POGO CofE had been hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany's foremost polar and marine research institution. The 10th and final cohort at the Alfred Wegener Institute began in May 2023 and will

WG Long-term Ecology

Wadden Sea have been collected and analysed at the marine stations on Helgoland and Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1962 and 1974, respectively ( www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/tran [...] -nordsee-auch-die-deutsche-bucht-ist-so-warm-wie-noch-nie.html ; Figure 1). Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to the research work, it is essential to make the data from the long-term

Ice-Tethered Profiler

Ice-Tethered Profiler Working principle of an Ice-Tethered Profiler (Rick Krishfield, WHOI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ice-Tethered Profilers (ITPs) are autonomous, freely drifting measurement platforms [...] from the IBCAO Atlas and is shown in blue shading (in meters from the water surface). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

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ThermoFisher Delta-V-Advantage Mass Spectrometer

( d 13 C- und d 15 N). Flash EA 2000 Autosampler (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ThermoFisher Delta V Mass Spectrometer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Polar Terrestrial Environmental

Fe-Mn Limitation

Southern Ocean phytoplankton ecology? The diatom Chaetoceros debilis. Photo: F. Pausch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Primary production by phytoplankton is governed by several factors such as light and [...] under a changing climate. Contact: Franziska Pausch Franziska Pausch. Photo: F. Pausch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Polar Day and Polar Night

Solar altitude, daily maximum and minimum at Neumayer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Day and night at Neumayer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Civil Twilight: The sun is less that 6° below the horizon

Ice Ocean Dynamics

(Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3b (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3c (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 1: Surface circulation of the Arctic Ocean (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] which mark the Atlantic origin waters (Karcher et al, 2012) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3d (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 3: Concentration of 129 Iodine [10 7 at/l] at 240m depth [...] sea ice) freshwater content (integrated in the area in blue on the map) (Graphic: T. Kovacz, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Arctic Ocean receives freshwater by run-off from Asia north of the Himalaya. Large

The Climates of the Geological Past

Publication
Alfred Wegener is known for his theory of continental drift which he published exactly 100 years ago in 1915. Slightly less known, but equally important are the studies on the climates of

First amber find on the Antarctic continent

conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg have just released a paper in the journal Antarctic