• 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

  • AWI 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

  • Bluehouse

    Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute developed the content concept of the exhibition together with the municipality of Helgoland and the agency "studio klv". The Alfred Wegener Institute conducts [...] olstein and the municipality of Helgoland. The concept of the exhibition was realised by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which is also responsible for [...] serves as a foundation for their projects. In future, BLUEHOUSE HELGOLAND will be operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, supported by the municipality of Helgoland. However, all those involved still have

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns of different German universities and [...] momentum in and below clouds. ACLOUD employed two research aircraft, Polar 5 & 6, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute. During about 20 research flights with each aircraft properties of cloud and aerosol [...] Leipzig, Germany IGM Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Collogne, Germany AWI Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven and Potsdam, Germany TROPOS

  • 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