that can quickly gain social acceptance and promote innovation. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, co-released the statement. The deep-sea

contributions to his or her field of science specialty. Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, now receives the award. The Cody Award

regions as the Arctic and the Alps. This was demonstrated in a study conducted by experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute and at the Swiss WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, recently published

archaea. Scientists from Joint Re­search Group for Deep-Sea Eco­logy and Tech­no­logy of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Max Planck Institute

moved them to take on this Herculean task? We spoke with expedition head Markus Rex from the Alfred Wegener Institute. Mr Rex, why are you and other researchers willing to become trapped in the ice of [...] temperatures and less ice than Nansen did. Polarstern navigiert in der Nacht durch das Eis (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) What will the different phases of the expedition look like? In the Central Arctic there’s [...] determining of sea ice thickness (center) and the snow thickness (Yellow box, right) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) How large is the ice floe that you’ll anchor on? In short: we’ll be on the lookout

AWI-Hausgarten
20 years ago, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) laid the “foundation stone” for a unique long-term observatory in the

Climate Modelling
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute now, for the first time, feed the results from their global models directly into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change database

Coordination & Support Action KEPLER by the European Commission. 17-19. Juni 2019 hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute at Haus der Wissenschaft , Bremen, Germany Objective : This workshop builds on a series

Alfred Wegener Institute guidelines for the environmentally correct behaviour of expedition participants in the Antarctic Date: September 2019 I. Environmental Protection The comprehensive protection of [...] consulted. Prior to the start of the expedition, the environmental protection officer at the Alfred Wegener Institute should be consulted.

kilometres of the Arctic Ocean are covered by sea ice any more, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen. This is only the second time that the annual minimum