• Behind the Science

    leader Prof. Dr. Gerrit Lohmann (Photo: Kerstin Rolfes) Gerrit Lohmann is a professor at the Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany) and represents the field of "Physics of the Climate System" at the University

  • International Staff and Guests

    Welcome to AWI Will you join us at the Alfred Wegener Institute, with an employment contract, as a scholarship holder, or as a guest scientist? We look forward to seeing you, and we want you to feel c

  • Sea-level rise

    sheets as a risk factor Aerial photo of the Piedmont glacier in Northeast Greenland. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ice sheets as a risk factor With an area of 1.7 million square kilometres and measuring

  • Permafrost Resources

    important facts and information about permafrost are summarized on these four pages. Julia Boike, Alfred Wegener Institute, Permafrost, Arctic Circle 2015 Presentation This presentation was held at the Arctic

  • Permafrost Change

    (Presentation & lab tour) Team f.l.t.r.: Loeka Jongejans, Dr. Josefine Lenz, Maren Jenrich (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Josefine Lenz Loeka Jongejans Maren Jenrich

  • Expeditions

    back crossing several regions of the North Sea before returning to port. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI), the Senckenberg Institute [...] Participants from the Section Ecological Chemistry: Boris Koch ArcWatch (Graphic: Sabine Lüdeling, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Island Impact Extensive open water phytoplankton blooms occur along the flow of the [...] 2/phycob-an-international-oceanographic-expedition-into-the-western-black-sea-coordinated-by-the-alfred-wegner-institut-helmholtz-zentrum-fur-polar-und-meeresforschung-awi/ EurofleetsPlus Project (Photo:

  • UN Ocean Treaty

    in the coming years. Our BBNJ experts Stefan Hain Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute Find out more Helmut Hillebrand Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional

  • Marine plastic debris

    their natural habitats – often with harmful consequences. Deadly traps: marine debris (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The debris is everywhere The debris found in our seas is a diverse mix composed of

  • Teaching and Education

    at the right place! Together with the bbz Chemie Berlin and the OSZ Lise-Meitner Berlin , the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam offers a three-and-a-half-year apprenticeship as a chemical laboratory assistant

  • SOS-iClimate

    joint research group , group members benefit from affiliation with both the LMU Munich and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) . The motivating questions of our work packages