• Research vessel Polarstern expected in Bremerhaven

      a good six months of Antarctic expeditions. In the austral summer, the research vessel of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), penetrated into the southern

    • Great potential for comprehensive monitoring of the water masses in the ocean

      is a very big question, which is concerning scientists around the world. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now published, together with international colleagues, the usage of a new optical

    • More and stronger marine heatwaves in the Arctic – with severe consequences

      es, with abrupt temperature changes occurring at unprecedented rates. A new study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows how marine heatwaves will also become much more intense and frequent in the Arctic

    • Marked decrease in Arctic pressure ridges

      ecosystem. In a recently released study in the journal Nature Climate Change , experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute report on this trend and analyse observational data from three decades of aerial surveys

    • ShrimpWiz: More animal welfare in indoor shrimp farming through AI

      has been farmed in a welfare-compliant way. In the ShrimpWiz project, a consortium led by the Alfred Wegener Institute in cooperation with the company Oceanloop is investigating how indoor shrimp farming

    • Investigating unexplored ocean currents to the north of Greenland

      and northeast of Greenland, a research team led by physical oceanographer Torsten Kanzow of the Alfred Wegener Institute were able to collect unique data on ocean circulation in the area. A chain of six moorings

    • Hydrothermal ventfields

      differ in the presumed location of faults and heat sources. Hydrothermal ventfields (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Proxy Laboratory

      predictions about the future of our climate has to first know how it developed in the past. At the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Proxy-Lab, researchers from the Marine Biogeosciences Section are delving hundreds [...] following info-graphic. Close-up of the femtosecond laser in the AWI Proxy Laboratory (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Discover more AWI Proxy Lab: Cutting-edge technology AWI section Marine Biogeosciences [...] nces Dr. Albert Benthien Infograph Workflow in the AWI Proxy Laboratory (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Video Traces of the Past: Research in the AWI Proxy Laboratory In the depths of the ocean the

    • Tranquil-Fish

      Images from the fish transport test run (Photo: S. Zeytin-Schüning, Alfred Wegener Institute) (Photo: S. Zeytin-Schüning, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The fish transporter is being prepared for the experiment

    • WG Long-term Ecology

      Wadden Sea have been collected and analysed at the marine stations on Helgoland and Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1962 and 1974, respectively ( www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/tran [...] -nordsee-auch-die-deutsche-bucht-ist-so-warm-wie-noch-nie.html ; Figure 1). Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to the research work, it is essential to make the data from the long-term