• Bremen Senate Medal for Art and Science awarded to Prof. Antje Boetius

    In recognition of her services to science, to the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and to Bremen as a location for science, Prof. Antje Boetius has been awarded the

  • Climate Modelling

    atmosphere model Simulated atmospheric river event in mid-November 2019 during MOSAiC (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The ICON model ( Zängl et al., 2015 ) is set up in limited area mode (LAM) over the [...] M atmosphere-ice-ocean model Simulated September sea-ice extent from HIRHAM-NAOSIM (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) HIRHAM-NAOSIM is a coupled regional climate model for the Arctic ( Dorn et al., 2019

  • Seismics

    marine seismic data collection. Seismics in west Greenland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Difficult terrain (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Seismic waves penetrate through the ice sheet or shelf and [...] Snow streamer (Photo: Olaf Eisen, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Subglacial conditions play a key role in the most dynamic parts of the ice sheet: ice streams, outlet glaciers and tidewater glaciers. These fast [...] most spectacular being a 4500m high Alpine saddle, Colle Gnifetti. Gimballed geophone (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Seismic data acquisition (seismics) is a technique to generate and record elastic or

  • Unique communities directly under the Arctic ice

    the sea ice is a highly dynamic habitat for a variety of organisms. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated what these organisms are and how they are affected by the melting

  • Long-term observations in the Arctic Ocean

    (red), cold/fresh polar water paths (blue), regions of AWI focus in orange and green. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Arctic is an environment where global climate change is strongly manifested. The

  • Out of university

    Out of university into AWI... Paths to and from AWI (Graphic: Nele Göckemeyer) The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is connected to numerous colleges and universities in many ways. Opportunities therefore [...] observational oceanography, since 2008. Starting in 2013, the NF-POGO CofE has been hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute. Become an international ocean expert - details here...

  • Fram Strait

    Current showing the warm Atlantic Water flowing northward (von Appen, unpublished, 2017). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [Translate to English:] Figure 2: Temperature in 2500m depth across Fram Strait showing [...] the warming of the two deep water masses (updated from von Appen et al, DSR 2015). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Technology and Logistics

    Photo of an ice-resiliant Argo float surfacing the Antarctic Ocean in December 2008. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Hans-Otto Pörtner

    change affecting marine life? Prof. Dr Hans-Otto Pörtner, physiologist and marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, former Co-Chair of the IPCC Working Group II (WG II) and member of the German Advisory

  • ZAF

    Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Test with salads and herbs in a plant shelf (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A shrimp (L. vannamei) from an animal welfare experiment (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Weg [...] Heiner Mueller-Elsner) Aquarium shelf (Photo: Heiner Mueller-Elsner) Aquaculture research at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven (Photo: Heiner Mueller-Elsner) System 1 36 circular flow tanks, 600