• Maarten Boersma becomes Acting Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute

      From 1 May 2025, Prof. Dr. Maarten Boersma will step up as Acting Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute. As a biologist, he has been conducting research, predominantly at the Helgoland and Sylt stations

    • Bela Buck

      marine resources Prof. Dr. Bela H. Buck, head of the research group "Marine Aquaculture" at the Alfred Wegener Institute and professor at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences. Aquaculture Marine

    • Behind the Science

      point of view. Project leader Prof. Dr. Gerrit Lohmann (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Gerrit Lohmann is a professor at the Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany) and represents the field of "Physics of the [...] climate modelling, data interpretation and scientific discoveries. Students ©Leon Focks (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Leon Focks is studying chemistry in the master's program at the University of Münster [...] parliament at the University of Münster for the Green Party since 2019. ©Paule Hainz (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Paule Hainz studies environmental sciences, also known as Geoecology, at Technische

    • Polar sounds: Remixing the sounds of the Arctic and Antarctic seas

      Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are collaborating with one of

    • Knowledge transfer

      Program on Biological Diversity. Ecosystem services of a biogenic reef of Ostrea edulis. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Team: Project Lead: Dr. Bernadette Pogoda Projekt Coordinator: M.Sc. Corina Peter Website

    • Pioneering research reveals Arctic matter pathways poised for major shifts amidst climate change

      Arctic biogeochemistry and ecosystems, while the fresh water itself alters ocean circulation. The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar an Marine Research (AWI) was part of the international

    • MIDO

      linary Ice-based Distributed Observatory (MIDO) Illustration of a buoy observatory (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The properties of the atmosphere, sea-ice and the polar oceans, and feedbacks between [...] +49(471)4831-2403 Benjamin.Rabe @ awi.de Deployment of an ocean profilers in the sea-ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • CTD Instrument and Water Sampler

      (Foto: Agnieszka Beszczynska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3: The CTD is picked up by the ship's crane (Foto: Agnieszka Beszczynska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 4: The CTD is about to [...] is being deployed from the research vessel Polarstern. (Photo: Agnieszka Beszczynska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The CTD is an oceanographic instrument used to determine electrical conductivity, [...] to be lowered into the water. (Foto: Agnieszka Beszczynska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Precision Salinometer System

      Precision Salinometer System [Translate to English:] Measurement principle (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Precision Salinometer calculates the salinity of a water sample from the measurement of the [...] Tippenhauer sandra.tippenhauer @ awi.de [Translate to English:] Precision salinometer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • How the climate influenced the Antarctic Ocean - and may do so again

      Verhalten. Um dem Verständnis der Strömung einen Schritt näher zu kommen, haben Forschende des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts und des Leibniz-Instituts für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde aus einem Sedimentdatensatz