• Upper Air Soundings

      radiosonde from the heliport (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Meridional-height section of temperature during ANT-XXI based on upper air soundings (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

    • The gypsum gravity chute: A phytoplankton-elevator to the ocean floor

      sink, hereby transporting large quantities of carbon to the ocean’s depths. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recently observed this phenomenon for the first time in the Arctic. As a result of

    • 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 category of top-level research for

    • AWI snow buoys provide important weather information from the North Pole

      availability of weather data is not for granted but owed to the use of snow buoys, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • North pole soon to be ice free in summer

      of a new research study involving 21 research institutes from around the world including the Alfred Wegener Institute, coordinated by Dirk Notz from the University of Hamburg, Germany.

    • AWI receives audit berufundfamilie for the fifth time

      Award
      Arranging work and family life is a high priority at all locations of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. This is also proven by the repeated awarding

    • ‘Astro-Alex’ visits the AWI

      exchange: Geophysicist and astronaut Alexander Gerst recently paid a visit to his alma mater, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Before an audience of ca. 200

    • Short-lived Ice Streams

      ice-penetrating radar scans of the Greenland ice sheet, that a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have just presented in the journal Nature Geoscience.

    • Intensification of Arctic Ocean eddy activity under global warming

      Ocean Eddies
      In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated the long-term changes in the Arctic Ocean eddy activity

    • Less Ice, Fewer Calling Seals

      For several years, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings, just released in the journal