• Maarten Boersma

      Healthy Oceans Prof. Dr Maarten Boersma, Deputy Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Head of the Marine Station Helgoland and the section Coastal Ecology. Zooplankton Coastal research Coastal seas

    • OPP COST-Action

      indicators for marine and coastal management. P1020581.JPG (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Events Oceans Past VII 22th to 26th October 2018 Tracing human interactions with marine ecosystems through deep

    • Team

      Christina Hörterer, Dr Lena Rölfer and Dr Gesche Krause (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Kerstin Rolfes) Alumni Nike Fuchs Claudia König Ann-Kathrin Happe Jan Scheve Annette Breckwoldt Contact Dr Gesche

    • Carbon to Value Challenge

      654227e0d42f1c750a8b457a Phase II: Macrocarbon Macrocarbon Overview (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) MacroCarbon, an AWI spin-off, is a Gran Canaria-based company developing a supply chain for the large-scale

    • Arctic Pulse

      track for the two research legs of the BeauPAIR cruise. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The REVISIT airborne campaign The REVISIT campaign (Repeated surveys of EnVIronmental Sites In Transition) provides [...] understand these transformations and their cascading impacts, the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), together with the German Research Centre for Geoscience (GFZ) and international partners, will conduct the [...] a wide range of satellite missions. REVISIT campaign (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • 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

    • VIDA

      very goals of lightweight engineering. Recent research at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) has shown that bio-inspired honeycomb and lattice structures can significantly alter vibration characteristics

    • As PhD student

      part of the major concerns of promoting young scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). About 180 postgraduates from more than 30 different countries are currently part of our institute's staff

    • Co-Use

      Example of multi-use of offshore wind turbine foundations (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name Co-Use Duration 24 months Funding national Partners 3 Stakeholders Research, Industry (

    • Elodea

      : Senator Waterweed often forms dense mats underwater (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In the summer of 2025, Elodea spp. was harvested to make parts of Lake Werdersee usable for water sports again.