Photo festival on the Baltic
As a deep-sea researcher and Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Antje Boetius has explored oceans around the globe

satellites burnt up in the atmosphere. Although this loss was planned, for the experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute it left a considerable gap in monitoring ice loss in the Antarctic and Greenland. Now

Arctic Expedition
This morning, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven. Over the previous

for Polar 6 at the Bremen Airport today. The aircraft is one of two research planes that the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) currently uses for scientific

weather development in the Arctic leads to ozone depletion. According to the researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, in the past weeks an extreme cold

on of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere than previously assumed. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) report on the newly discovered

its home port in Bremerhaven, setting a course for the Arctic. Led by Dr Ilka Peeken from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) a team of 53 researchers from

for publications and presentations of ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) of the Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research. ePIC is an open access repository with

DNA isolation & library prep Fast-Prep®-24 Instrument (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) The FastPrep-24™ Instrument is a high-speed homogenizer for the lysis of sediment or plant samples

Antarctic krill. The journal Science dedicates an editorial by Bettina Meyer, biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, and her colleague So Kawaguchi from the Australian Antarctic Division to this topic