• 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.

    • Alfred Wegener Institute Now Also Represented in Lower Saxony

      Lower Saxony is part of the federal and state financing for the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). The inclusion of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional

    • Christian Buschbaum

      species invasion Dr Christian Buschbaum, marine ecologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Coastal research Wadden Sea Invasive species Around the globe, coasts and their communities are currently changing

    • Helmut Hillebrand

      HIFMB, a cooperation between the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute, we use ‘planktotrons’: large water tanks that allow us to investigate the changes in the algal community, or

    • Ilka Peeken

      habitat for specialists Dr Ilka Peeken, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Biodiversity Polar regions Plastic Sea Ice Climate change is especially putting the polar regions under pressure

    • Thomas Krumpen

      , sea ice physicist and expert for satellite analyses at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice Application of satellite data Arctic Ocean IceBird For the past several years, the sea ice in the Arctic

    • 42,000-year-old sub-fossil trees allow more accurate analysis of the last reversal of the Earth's magnetic field

      Centre for Geosciences Potsdam and Florian Adolphi from the Alfred Wegener Institute, in a study that now appears in the journal Science .

    • Biooptical-instruments

      system with the two hyperspectral instruments triaxus.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) topAWI Triaxus system with the two hyperspectral instruments AC-s (Wetlabs/Seabirds; lower part) and downwelling

    • ‘Missing Ice Problem’ Finally Solved

      new calculations, a team of climate researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now managed to explain this discrepancy. The study, which was recently published in the journal Nature