• ShrimpWiz: More animal welfare in indoor shrimp farming through AI

    has been farmed in a welfare-compliant way. In the ShrimpWiz project, a consortium led by the Alfred Wegener Institute in cooperation with the company Oceanloop is investigating how indoor shrimp farming

  • Ancient plant DNA reveals the possible origin of the carbon in the ocean

    fkreislauf ist jedoch noch immer nicht klar, woher dieser Kohlenstoff stammt. Forschende des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts haben mit neuartigen Methoden Sedimentkerne aus dem Pazifik untersucht und können anhand

  • Kohnen

    Automatic Weather Station Kohnen AWS Kohnen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In December 2021 an automatic weather station was installed at Kohnen station. The station is intended to replace the station [...] weather station Kohnen is currently out of operation. Yearly overview of AWS Kohnen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • ProRMAS

    the Horizon Europe program by the European Union Das Team in einem der Gewächshäuser (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Partners Funding ProRMAS project is carried out under the Green ERA-Hub, a Coordination

  • Radiation

    browser cannot display iframes Cleaning radiation instruments (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Solar tracker (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Radiation Measurements since 1982 Sometimes albedo measurements

  • Potsdam

    Main building Telegrafenberg Gebäude A45 14473 Potsdam www.awi.de/potsdam Overview The Alfred Wegener Institute's research centre in Potsdam: Here the focus lies on geoscientific studies in periglacial

  • Samoylov

    25 February 2020. For this reason, all current and planned projects and collaborations of the Alfred Wegener Institute with government agencies in Russia have been frozen since 2022. If you have any queries [...] annually from spring to autumn. The LENA expeditions were jointly organized by three institutes: the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

  • LTO Samoylov

    25 February 2020. For this reason, all current and planned projects and collaborations of the Alfred Wegener Institute with government agencies in Russia have been frozen since 2022. If you have any queries

  • Q and A

    pic_SoNoAT19.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Am I eligible? The target beneficiaries are 25 future ocean experts. The programme will focus on training postgraduate students (Masters or PhD) in ma

  • IceBird

    airborne surveys to collect measurements of sea ice thickness in the Arctic conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Airborne surveys provide insight into composition [...] Download Aircraft Polar 5 with an EM-Bird under its belly on its way to the surveying area. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Much of AWI’s research is conducted in the inaccessible, ice-covered regions of the [...] and Polar 6 research aircraft includes an EM-Bird, a laser scanner, and a snow radar. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The EM-Bird The purpose-built EM-Bird is a towed sensor that measures the combined