• Droughts in Germany could become more extreme

      expected to arise in the future. A group of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have just released their findings in the journal Communications Earth & Environment .

    • “Face-to-face” Teaching at Last

      scholarship holders from all corners of the globe come to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s two island-based sites. The POGO-Nippon Foundation Centre of Excellence trains them to become oceanography

    • Gesine Mollenhauer

      and scientific head of MICADAS 14C dating laboratory at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen. Radiocarbon dating Paleoceanography Sediment transport Permafrost The

    • Happy Birthday, Jörn Thiede!

      Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and long-time director of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, celebrates his 80th birthday today. Due to Corona

    • Final Report of the High-Tech Forum 2019–2021

      strategy in Germany. Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research is a member of the central committee that advises the Federal

    • P2C2 Arctic Coastal Wetlands

      Fish Creek river delta at the Alaska Arctic Coastal Plain (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This project studies how emissions of the greenhouse gas methane change in response to flooding by seawater,

    • Matthias Fuchs

      sheet extent and the sea level ~135 m lower than today (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) My current research topic are Arctic coastal wetlands in Alaska. I work on assessing the extent of these wetlands

    • AWI Communications and Media Relations Department Wins the idw Prize for Science Communication

      successes: The Communications and Media Relations department of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recently won the prize for the best scientific press release

    • Aircraft based observations

      Meltex I Meltex II Polar 5 with EM Bird in Longyerbyen (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Low altitude flight of Polar 5 with dragged EM Bird to determine the sea ice thickness during PAMARCMIP 2011 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Schematic of sea-ice thickness surveys with an EM-Bird using a Basler BT-67 research aircraft (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut)

    • MELTEX-I

      2015). The campaign MELTEX-I was a joint project conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IPA) at the University of Mainz, and