• Ocean acidification stimulates mass development of toxic algae

    Canary Islands conducted by an international group of scientists with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The results have now been published in the international journal Nature Climate Change

  • Prof. Antje Boetius receives the 2018 German Environmental Award

    Award goes to Antje Boetius and a team of wastewater experts from Leipzig. The Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is glad to see the deep seas

  • Signs of tipping point for oxygen minimum zone in the ocean

    suddenly. This was the key finding of a study by group of researchers led by geologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which has now been published

  • Daily up and down of the plankton animals in the sea

    zooplankton communities: scientists of the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven observed changes during the year and between years. The Antarctic z

  • Sea-ice zone has a major influence on the ecosystem

    contributed to storing the greenhouse gas CO2 during the last glacial period. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) present these new findings in

  • Plate tectonics without jerking

    same process in other regions leads to many minor earthquakes, according to geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

  • Bär/Eicken: "The research vessel Polarstern is changing our understanding of the world's oceans"

    Bremerhaven in the presence of Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär and the Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Hajo Eicken. From its voyage

  • AWI researcher in Potsdam awarded ERC Advanced Grant

    of plant species and develop new methods and models for this purpose. The researcher from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research

  • Statements

    Statements 30 January 2026 Cargo loss at Neumayer Station III Statement of the Alfred Wegener Institute 11 June 2024 In opposition to a boycott of Israeli science and research Statement of the Alliance

  • Online - Seminar on Marine Technology, Research and Experiences in Coastal waters” – MarTREC

    forward due to the public holiday) Prof. Dr. Philipp Fischer, Alfred Wegener Institute, Centre for Scientific Diving. Marie Koch, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, High-speed measurements in the Arctic: How to d [...] ecosystems. No download available. 08.02.2024, 11:00 Dr. Bernadette Pogoda und Julius Ellrich, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Development of nature conservation [...] for the North Sea - Project RESTORE No download available. 14.03.2024, 11:00 Alexandre Le Moal, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Study of the European Flat Oyster