• World's largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica

      Protected Area in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. A team led by Autun Purser from the Alfred Wegener Institute publish their results in the current issue of the scientific journal Current Biology

    • How unstable is the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?

      expedition of around eight weeks to the Antarctic. Extensive preventative measures have allowed the Alfred Wegener Institute to tackle important research on former instabilities of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

    • Meltwater influences ecosystems in the Arctic Ocean

      on when carbon from the atmosphere is absorbed and stored, as a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now determined with the aid of the FRAM ocean observation system. Their findings

    • Beyond EPICA explores the climate of the past – drilling commences

      the Antarctic, which contains climate data from the past 1.5 million years. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute make up part of the team. Initial drilling is about to begin.

    • Drought risk in the Northern Hemisphere rises with intensified warming

      Northern Hemisphere. An international team of scientists led by climate researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute arrive at this conclusion in a new study released today in the journal npj Climate

    • Ulva Tomorrow’s ‘Wheat of the Sea’

      has grown significantly. A team of experts from 28 countries, including scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has launched the SeaWheat project

    • Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica

      Where do these tiny pieces of plastic come from? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred Wegener Institute have shown that it takes precise analysis to answer this question.

    • Announcement_SD_course_2022_AWI_ZMT_TER.pdf

      Announcement_SD_course_2022_final Das Alfred-Wegener-Institut Centre for Scientific Diving, der Ausbildungsbetrieb Teraqua in Kooperation mit dem Hemmenhofener Trainingszentrum für Binnengewässerarchäologie [...] zentrenübergreifend mittels Videokonferenz am 15. Dezember 2021 durchgeführt wird. • Teilnehmer am Alfred-Wegener-Institut Centre for Scientific Diving werden in zwei 14-tägigen Blockkursen im April (Ort und

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    • Taking a Seismic Peek Below the Gargantuan Glacier

      Ice Sheet. As part of a major international collaboration, in the year to come experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) plan to use seismic waves to

    • Viscous AND elastic: Glaciers are more “solid” than previously assumed

      the ice is exclusively depicted as a flowing body. But, as a new modelling study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute confirms, this approach neglects the ice’s qualities as a solid body. Accordingly,