• How heatwaves are affecting Arctic phytoplankton

      been found by the first targeted experiments on the topic, which were recently conducted at the Alfred Wegener Institute’s AWIPEV Station. The phytoplankton’s behaviour primarily depends on the cooling phases

    • Tracking marine litter in the Arctic from the air

      Marine Litter
      On the current Polarstern expedition, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have deployed a multicopter with a high-resolution camera to quantify marine litter floating on the sea

    • Turning the spotlight on the Arctic

      Board, the scientific project ICE-ARC and the consortium EU-PolarNet, which is managed by the Alfred Wegener Institute, host an official side event during this year’s UN climate conference. The focus of

    • A glance into the future of the Arctic

      is the result of a study carried out by an international research team in cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which will be published in the

    • Official Opening of Palau Atmospheric Observatory

      StratoClim
      Today the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University Bremen officially open their Palau

    • Study on changes of past climate

      comparison with the present interglacial. This is one result of a study by Dr. Frank Lamy from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and colleagues in this week’s

    • Endurance test for AWI robot "Tramper" in the deep sea

      expedition on board the research vessel Sonne (So 242-2), researchers and engineers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) successfully used the autonomous AWI robot, Tramper, for the first time on a

    • Large amounts of meltwater on the East Antarctic ice shelf

      vulnerable to climate change than previously assumed. A research team in cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute has detected large amounts of meltwater on the Roi Baudouin shelf ice. This is due

    • Microbes use carbon from ancient rocks

      is an additional source of fossil greenhouse gases. This is the result of a study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, which has now been published in the journal Nature Geosciences .

    • Katha Paetz, M.Sc.

      potential carbon dioxide removal candidate in the wild and in aquafarms. katharina.paetz @ awi.de Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1030