• Outreach

    the Arctic environment? What changed in the Arctic over the last decades? What is permafrost? How does thawing permafrost affect the Arctic environment? How does thawing permafrost affect Arctic infr [...] explore the conflict of interests of different Arctic stakeholders. Lesson Plan Permafrost in the Arctic Living in the wild North The Permafrost Risk The Ocean Race Summit Dr. Rebecca Rolph was an invited [...] all-hands-on-deck meeting at the Ocean’s Race, an organization holds sailing races around the world. The Ocean’s Race has a growing interest in promoting sustainability and ocean conservation practices, and

  • Research infrastructure

    Bremerhaven Nutrient Facility Observatories Ocean: FRAM Water: COSYNA Meteorology Geophysics Ships Polarstern Heincke Uthörn Mya II Aade Stations Neumayer Station III Arctic Station AWIPEV Kohnen Station Marine

  • Projects

    degradation and impacts of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the oceans through case studies in the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Mediterranean. It is developing new methods for assessing the impact [...] tipping points and impacts on the functioning of local ecosystems and services. Disko Bay and the Arctic Station, Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Bay, Greenland (Photo: Uwe John) Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education [...] functional adaptations of LOV-domain blue light photoreceptors in Antarctic versus temperate and Arctic diatoms. The project is carried out in cooperation with the AG Kroth, University of Konstanz . Antarctic

  • In situ measurements

    and O. Schrems, Tropospheric ozone depletion in polar regions: A comparison of observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. Tellus, 50B, 34-50, 1998. Frieß, U., J. Hollwedel, G. König-Langlo, T. Wagner, and [...] half-life time of 3.82 days. The main source is emission of 222 Rn from terrestrial soil, while the oceanic source strength (with two order of magnitude lower emission rates) can usually considered as negligible [...] However, in case of Neumayer continental sources are far away and our measurements indicate that oceanic emissions significantly contribute to the measured signal and especially to the seasonal maximum

  • Site Infos

    Potsdam carry out expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. They are mainly devoted to Arctic research - in particular in the permanently frozen areas of Siberia and the Arctic island group Spitzbergen - and [...] in the system. German Arctic Office Since 2017, the German Arctic Office at AWI Potsdam serves as an information and cooperation platform for German stakeholders invested in Arctic science, politics and [...] Wegener Institute started its work in 1992. The scientific focus is the investigation of polar land-ocean-atmosphere linkages, complementing the marine and coastal research fields at the AWI sites in Bremerhaven

  • peer-review

    Boetius, A. (2013) FRAM - FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring: Permanent Observations in a Gateway to the Arctic Ocean. OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE. doi: 10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608008 Soppa, M. , Dinter [...] in a changing Arctic Ocean – Overview of long-term summer measurements in the Fram Strait Variability of chlorophyll a distribution in the Fram Strait, Greenland Sea and Central Arctic Ocean. Polar Research34: [...] Insights into Water Mass Circulation and rigins in the Central Arctic Ocean from in-situ Dissolved Organic Matter Fluorescence. JGR Oceans; JGRC24631: doi 10.1029/2021JC017407 Von Appen W.J., Waite A.,

  • results-S5POC

    Alvarez E. (2022) Toward the Synergistic Use of Ocean Colour Products to Improve the Description of Phytoplankton Productivity within the Global Ocean. ESA Ocean Carbon from Space Workshop, Online event, 14 [...] (2002-2020). ESA Ocean Carbon from Space Workshop, Online event, 14 – 18 February 2022. Poster.​ Bracher A. (2021) S5P+-I-OC : S5P+ Innovation Ocean Color - presentation (Astrid Bracher, AWI ESA Ocean Science Cluster [...] monitoring of surface phytoplankton functional types in the Atlantic Ocean. Report: 7th edition of the Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report (OSR 7). State of the Planet. Oelker J., Losa S. N., Richter

  • Ocean Warming and Thawing Permafrost Reduce the Arctic Ocean's Biological Carbon Storage and CO2 Uptake

    The Arctic experiences some of the most rapid climate changes on the planet, resulting in significant sea-ice melt. This transformation exposed the Arctic Ocean to increasing sunlight, driving a 56% rise [...] nutrients and carbon into the Arctic Ocean, delivered from rivers and coastal erosion. While it might seem logical that these additional nutrients would enhance the ocean’s biological carbon pump, - boosting [...] ecosystem impoverishment are undermining the pump’s efficiency, challenging assumptions about the Arctic’s ability to store carbon in a warming world.

  • More and stronger marine heatwaves in the Arctic – with severe consequences

    becoming more frequent and intense. The Arctic Ocean also suffers from this development: The absence of sea ice will lead to more extreme fluctuations in ocean temperatures, with abrupt temperature changes [...] Wegener Institute shows how marine heatwaves will also become much more intense and frequent in the Arctic in the 21st century. With drastic consequences for the ecosystem. The researchers published their

  • Core Repository

    Polarstern Core Repository The section Marine Geology curates and archives sediment cores from both polar oceans which were taken by RV Polarstern since 1983. The collection comprises more than 4000 cores from [...] Roberts Project are also maintained by the AWI repository. Lacustrine sediments cored from lakes in the Arctic and Antarctic are archived by the section Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems at AWI Potsdam