• Good news: European sea bass absorb virtually no microplastic in their muscle tissue

      Aquaculture/Nutrition
      In a new laboratory study, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated how many microplastic particles would be absorbed

    • Negotiations on an MPA in the Weddell Sea

      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 in 2016. In addition

    • WP1

      Seestern - ein Futtermittel für die nachhaltige Aquakultur? (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lead: Matt Slater Assistant: Vanessa Fuchs Contact: Mail to Matt or Vanessa (0)471 4831 2249 Partners: Coastal

    • QUARCCS

      Neuber, Dr. C. Ritter, A. Schulz, Prof. K. Dethloff, Dr. X. Yu Alfred Wegener Institute, section Sea Ice Physics : Prof. C. Haas, Dr. T. Krumpen, J. Belter Alfred Wegener Institute, section Polar [...] Meeting, June 2017, Potsdam quarccs-kickoff-pdm_2017.JPG (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Second Meeting, June 2018, Moscow group_photo-moscow.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Download agenda here.. [...] Cryosphere, 14, 1727–1746, doi:10.5194/tc-14-1727-2020 Partners: • Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Section Atmospheric Physics • Alfred Wegener Institute

    • The grand finale to the expedition of a century

      Minister of Research Anja Karliczek and the Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Antje Boetius. The event marked the end of a record-breaking expedition: never before had an icebreaker been near

    • Depths of the Weddell Sea are warming five times faster than elsewhere

      finding of an article just published by oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). In the article, they analyse an unprecedented oceanographic

    • The future of krill

      group of krill experts headed by Prof. Dr. Bettina Meyer from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in the journal Communications Earth & Environment - Nature

    • AWI Project Awarded as Top Research

      Russian-German Cooperation
      The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and its three Russian partners received an award in the

    • Taking aim at tiny threats

      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 in two new studies

    • Extension of the Library at AWI Sylt

      ,” 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 of the Rosenthal Reading Room