regions (Greenland Sea). (Photo: Gereon Budéus, AWI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Basic demands were - deep profiles (typically 4000 m) - many profiles (typically 360, i.e. 1 profile each day for

ecosystem. Coastal scientist Prof Emeritus Karsten Reise from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) discovered the alga off the shores of Sylt last summer, and

Antarctica
This year, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as

analysing an annual record of satellite images, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now confirmed these findings: thermokarst lakes in Alaska are draining one by one because warmer and wetter

Polarstern expedition ANT XXVII-2. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Southern Ocean phytoplankton are major drivers of global carbon cycling accounting for 20% of the global annual [...] mechanisms. Our team EcoTrace group Picture: C. Völkner (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scarlett Trimborn (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Head of the group: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Team: Jenna Balaguer

2 Years; Funded by the AWI-Innovation Fund Gamfood.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

a Marine Protected Area in the Weddell Sea, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have also updated the fact sheet and short video about this proposal. The two publications illustrate why the

much safer in future. The two Potsdam-based researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), took the first prize in the prestigious European “Copernicus

Modern Fortran for the Earth System Sciences Mehr in Kürze (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Chirila, D., and G. Lohmann, 2015: Introduction to Modern Fortran for Earth System Sciences . 2015, XXII, 250 [...] Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC) Mehr in Kürze (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Schulz, M., A. Paul (eds.): Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC) . Series: [...] Multi-Disciplinary Helmholtz Research School Mehr in Kürze (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lohmann, G., K. Grosfeld, D. Wolf-Gladrow, V. Unitan, J. Notholt, and A. Wegener (Eds.), 2013: Earth System Science

Polarstern Expedition
The Alfred Wegener Institute has risen to the challenge of undertaking an expedition to the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic under pandemic conditions