• Introduced Alga Now Transforming the Wadden Sea

      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

    • Back to the Roots of Antarctic Research

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

    • Watching the Arctic Thaw in Fast-forward

      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

    • GamFood

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

    • New Information Material on a Proposal for a Marine Protected Area in the Antarctic Weddell Sea

      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

    • Safely Navigating on the Ice

      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

    • Further Publications

      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

    • Climate Research in the Southern Ocean

      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

    • The Arctic Ocean was covered by a shelf ice and filled with freshwater

      Nature, is the result of long-term research by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the MARUM. With a detailed analysis of the composition of marine deposits, the scientists could demonstrate

    • We left for a while!

      would like to thank all members of the Logistic Department of the Alfred Wegener Institute, because without their unconditional support this expedition would not have been possible.