• Arctic phytoplankton

    (24), 1079-1095 (2017). Yangyang Liu Yangyang_Fig1.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 1. Comparison between Chl-a data obtained from underway AC-S flow-through system and HPLC measurements

  • Performance report

    Electronics CTD-logger on top before deployment in 2007. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Automated Elevator System by NGK, Japan, consists of a sophisticated combination of an underwater winch, a [...] initially fixed to the winch frame utilizing corrosion (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The mooring which contains the NGK Automated Elevator System and the Optimare/Sea-Bird Electronics CTD-logger has [...] ). Pressure is in dbar against CTD-logger record number (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The NGK system came back on deck in an as-new optical condition, and so did the Optimare/Sea-Bird Electronics

  • Detaillierte Beschreibung

    regions (Greenland Sea). (Photo: Gereon Budéus, AWI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Basic demands were - deep profiles (typically 4000 m) - many profiles (typically 360, i.e. 1 profile each day for

  • Introduced Alga Now Transforming the Wadden Sea

    ecosystem. Coastal scientist Prof Emeritus Karsten Reise from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) discovered the alga off the shores of Sylt last summer, and

  • Back to the Roots of Antarctic Research

    Antarctica
    This year, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as

  • Watching the Arctic Thaw in Fast-forward

    analysing an annual record of satellite images, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now confirmed these findings: thermokarst lakes in Alaska are draining one by one because warmer and wetter

  • ECOTRACE

    Polarstern expedition ANT XXVII-2. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Southern Ocean phytoplankton are major drivers of global carbon cycling accounting for 20% of the global annual [...] mechanisms. Our team EcoTrace group Picture: C. Völkner (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scarlett Trimborn (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Head of the group: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Team: Jenna Balaguer

  • GamFood

    2 Years; Funded by the AWI-Innovation Fund Gamfood.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • New Information Material on a Proposal for a Marine Protected Area in the Antarctic Weddell Sea

    a Marine Protected Area in the Weddell Sea, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have also updated the fact sheet and short video about this proposal. The two publications illustrate why the

  • Safely Navigating on the Ice

    much safer in future. The two Potsdam-based researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), took the first prize in the prestigious European “Copernicus