• Longterm timeseries

      strategies for boreal and mountain forests. Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse Wetness time series (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems:

    • High-latitude Vegetation Change

      . at high latitudes. Find out more Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Head Dr. Stefan Kruse Team Dr. Birgit Heim Dr. Mareike Wieczorek Luca Zsofia Farkas (PhD) Jacob Schladebach (PhD [...] change and disturbances. Contact : Dr. Stefan Kruse Partner : Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) German Aerospace Center (DLR) Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences [...] Edge” boreal forest type. Kontakt : Dr. Birgit Heim Partner : Alfred‑Wegener‑Institut, Helmholtz‑Zentrum für Polar‑ und Meeresforschung (AWI) Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‑ und Raumfahrt (DLR) Technische

    • Pouplation Genetics

      boreal forests to ongoing climate change. Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse Siberia Larix distribution (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental

    • Model development

      the TTE in North America and Siberia. Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching and Education

    • Vegetation Surveys

      dendrometers for monitoring tree growth). Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse [Translate to English:] anorama Aufwuchs nördlicher Wald nach Feuer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut

    • Remote Sensing Methods

      in climate and nature conservation. Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Birgit Heim (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse Dr. Birgit Heim Polar Terrestrial Environmental

    • High-latitude Biodiversity

      Alaska expedition 2024 under Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Research in the High latitude biodiversity group focuses on the reconstruction of past ecosystem changes in response [...] high-altitude environments in the future. Ulrike_Alaska (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Temporary Head Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh Team Dr. Andrej Andreev (PostDoc) Dr.

    • Past Climate Change

      Coastal erosion of Muostakh Island, Lena Delta, Russia. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) For putting present and past climate into context, glacial, periglacial, and lacustrine archives of bipolar

    • Earth System Complexity

      System Complexity Gletscher in Island, © Kristina Brenner (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Earth System Complexity group at AWI is focused on understanding interactions between large-scale components

    • Atlantic waters and anthropogenic underwater noise in the world’s largest fjord system

      A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is now researching on board of the science and outreach sailing yacht Malizia Explorer how incoming Atlantic