• Siberian larch forests are still linked to the ice age

      cause of this paradox has been tracked using million-year-old bee pollen by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Cologne, and international partner institutions. The results suggest

    • Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo

      Celsius, which has never been satisfactorily explained. In the journal Science, a team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute puts forward a possible explanation for the rise in global mean temperature: our planet

    • Krill fishing in the Antarctic: overlaps with consequences

      themselves and on the animals that feed on krill are required urgently. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research in Bergen has now been able to use acoustic

    • "Oceanic tunnel" transported CO2 from Antarctica during the last ice age

      core analyses and highly developed climate models, an international research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has now been able to fill this knowledge gap. This is important to better understand

    • “PeTCaT” investigates the impact of greenhouse gases from rapidly thawing permafrost

      all, aims to increase our knowledge of these rapid thaw processes. Under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, researchers from Germany, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden plan to build

    • Site

      Head office for polar research Why Bremerhaven? Nowadays the Alfred Wegener Institute is an integral part of the old maritime city Bremerhaven. But none other than Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt

    • Material Research

      Material Research Microscopy laboratory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to their variety of shapes, diatoms are characterized by an extremely interesting and complex shell structure. The shells

    • Antonia Thielecke, M.Sc.

      to climate-driven changes in basic environmental parameters. antonia.thielecke @ awi.de ORCiD Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1015 Overview of Doctoral Project I study shifts

    • Radiosondes

      Recent Radiosounding Latest Radiosounding from Neumayer-Station (Linear and Skew-T) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Launching a Balloon at Neumayer (German language)

    • Technology Transfer - Offers to the private sector

      technologies and services originate, e.g. from the following R&D fields of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute: Aquaculture The Alfred-Wegener-Institute has various activities in the field of aquaculture . These are [...] Technologies As internationally acknowledged competence centre in polar and marine research, the Alfred-Wegener-Institute is one of the few institutions worldwide that conduct research both in the Arctic and [...] works at least partly autonomously. Environmental Data Fundament of the research work of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute is a multitude of scientific data that are gathered on expeditions or long-term survey