• Huge hidden flood bursts through the Greenland ice sheet surface

    A new study, led by the Lancaster University and involving the Alfred Wegener Institute, reveals how, under extreme conditions, melt water flooding underneath the ice can force its way upwards through

  • Underwater Node Helgoland

    Margate underwater experimental field. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 2) Underwater node system with connectors for power and internet. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3) Underwater lander system [...] system with various sensors. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWI-COSYNA Helgoland Underwater Observatory was initiated in 2012 by installing a remote operated underwater node system about 500m North of

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • Research priorities for the Arctic have been defined

    Under the auspices of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), which is based at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, they are about to submit a report that sets out the path for a jointly

  • New species in the North Sea

    Biodiversity
    Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam, Germany have confirmed the existence of a new cryptic amphipod species in the North Sea. For the