moved them to take on this Herculean task? We spoke with expedition head Markus Rex from the Alfred Wegener Institute. Mr Rex, why are you and other researchers willing to become trapped in the ice of the [...] es and less ice than Nansen did. Polarstern navigiert in der Nacht durch das Eis (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) What will the different phases of the expedition look like? In the Central Arctic there’s [...] determining of sea ice thickness (center) and the snow thickness (Yellow box, right) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) How large is the ice floe that you’ll anchor on? In short: we’ll be on the lookout for

AWI-Hausgarten
20 years ago, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) laid the “foundation stone” for a unique long-term observatory in the

Climate Modelling
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute now, for the first time, feed the results from their global models directly into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change database

Coordination & Support Action KEPLER by the European Commission. 17-19. Juni 2019 hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute at Haus der Wissenschaft , Bremen, Germany Objective : This workshop builds on a series

Alfred Wegener Institute guidelines for the environmentally correct behaviour of expedition participants in the Antarctic Date: September 2019 I. Environmental Protection The comprehensive protection of [...] consulted. Prior to the start of the expedition, the environmental protection officer at the Alfred Wegener Institute should be consulted.

kilometres of the Arctic Ocean are covered by sea ice any more, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen. This is only the second time that the annual minimum has

Dietze, formerly at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ in Potsdam and now at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, now provides new answers to these questions

Ceremony
A great honour for Prof Antje Boetius: the deep-sea researcher and Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research was selected for the “LeibnizRingHannover

[AdP] am Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung [AWI] Aufgrund von § 2 Abs. 1 und 7 des Gesetzes über die Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts „Alfred-Wegener-lnstitut Helm [...] AdP wird von der Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts „Alfred-Wegener-lnstitut Helmholtz- Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung" (Alfred-Wegener-lnstitut -AWI) mit Sitz in Bre- merhaven betrieben und ist [...] tand des Archivguts eine Benutzung nicht zulässt, wenn Archivalien aus dienstlichen Gründen oder wegen gleichzeitiger anderweitiger Be- nutzung nicht verfügbar sind oder wenn der Benutzungszweck anderweitig

recognition of her outstanding scientific contributions, Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, was recently awarded the “2019 Erna Hamburger