• Germany starts gearing up for the 2032/33 polar year

    The 25th Arctic Dialogue
    The 25th Arctic Dialogue at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam focused on international cooperation in polar research

  • Most accurate map of Antarctica published

    scientists under the Head of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The map, called Bedmap3, covers more than six decades of survey data collected by

  • Triaxus

    Typical sensor configuration (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Specialty of CTD data CTD Sensors: starboard and port side of the "Triaxus" sensor carrier (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The specialty of the [...] vertical "Undulation" mode Undulation mode (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Triaxus data example based on PS113 024_02 "equator crossing" (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) With the setting "Undulation" in the [...] Triaxus Towed System "topAWI" Triaxus towing body on deck of RV Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The topAWI Triaxus (towed ocean profiler of the AWI) is a towed system manufactured

  • SeaKey

    of Seaweeds of the German North Sea Coast [Translate to English:] Concept of SeaKey (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enable identification of seaweeds for variable stakeholders and students on the basis [...] development. Financiation: 2018 – 2021: Earth System Knowledge Platform ( www.eskp.de ); Alfred-Wegener Institute; since 2021: Landesamt für Umwelt, Flintbek, Kiel, Germany ( www.schleswig-holstein

  • Neuseeland Muschel Aquakultur

    unlock the potential of this new aquaculture frontier. OOA_NZ_Image_Homepage_AWI.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Fact Sheet Project name Novel farming systems enabling multiple shellfish species [...] Contact Prof. Dr. Bela H. Buck Links Cawthron Institut NZ-ProjectBi-Stable_klein.mp4 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • NEWS 1. Workshop, Ushuaia, October 2017 EN

    at 1st DYNAMO Workshop in October 2017 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar in the harbour of Ushuaia (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • MIDO

    linary Ice-based Distributed Observatory (MIDO) Illustration of a buoy observatory (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The properties of the atmosphere, sea-ice and the polar oceans, and feedbacks between [...] +49(471)4831-2403 Benjamin.Rabe @ awi.de Deployment of an ocean profilers in the sea-ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • 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)

  • Automatic Weather Stations

    Berger AWS Søråsen AWS Filchner AWS Halvfarryggen AWS Kohnen AWS test site at Neumayer_III (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) At AWI, modifyed AWS-systems based on stations from Campell Scientific are in use. [...] get saved locally inside the AWS. In parallel, they get transmitted hourly via IRIDIUM to the Alfred Wegener Institute. The most recent data get forwarded into the Globale Telekommunikation System (GTS)

  • World Press Photo Award for AWI Photographer

    the MOSAiC ice camp – with this image Esther Horvath, a photographer and photo editor at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), won the World Press Photo Award