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      the report, and a 40-member panel of experts has reviewed the contributions. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam contribute with a

    • Less Forest, More Species

      mountain forests are among the most diverse habitats in alpine regions. Yet, as a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute discovered in the Tibetan Plateau, the higher, treeless areas are home to far more

    • Daily up and down of the plankton animals in the sea

      zooplankton communities: scientists of the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven observed changes during the year and between years. The Antarctic z

    • Plate tectonics without jerking

      same process in other regions leads to many minor earthquakes, according to geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

    • Sea-ice zone has a major influence on the ecosystem

      contributed to storing the greenhouse gas CO2 during the last glacial period. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) present these new findings in

    • Huge hidden flood bursts through the Greenland ice sheet surface

      A new study, led by the Lancaster University and involving the Alfred Wegener Institute, reveals how, under extreme conditions, melt water flooding underneath the ice can force its way upwards through

    • NEWS 1. Workshop, Ushuaia, October 2017 EN

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    • 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)

    • SeaKey

      of Seaweeds of the German North Sea Coast [Translate to English:] Concept of SeaKey (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enable identification of seaweeds for variable stakeholders and students on the basis [...] development. Financiation: 2018 – 2021: Earth System Knowledge Platform ( www.eskp.de ); Alfred-Wegener Institute; since 2021: Landesamt für Umwelt, Flintbek, Kiel, Germany ( www.schleswig-holstein

    • MIDO

      linary Ice-based Distributed Observatory (MIDO) Illustration of a buoy observatory (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The properties of the atmosphere, sea-ice and the polar oceans, and feedbacks between [...] +49(471)4831-2403 Benjamin.Rabe @ awi.de Deployment of an ocean profilers in the sea-ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)