the result of a study carried out by an international research team in cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which will be published in the journal

StratoClim
Today the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University Bremen officially open their Palau

expedition on board the research vessel Sonne (So 242-2), researchers and engineers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) successfully used the autonomous AWI robot, Tramper, for the first time on a deep-sea

Marine Litter
On the current Polarstern expedition, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have deployed a multicopter with a high-resolution camera to quantify marine litter floating on the sea

vulnerable to climate change than previously assumed. A research team in cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute has detected large amounts of meltwater on the Roi Baudouin shelf ice. This is due to strong

Board, the scientific project ICE-ARC and the consortium EU-PolarNet, which is managed by the Alfred Wegener Institute, host an official side event during this year’s UN climate conference. The focus of the

with the present interglacial. This is one result of a study by Dr. Frank Lamy from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and colleagues in this week’s “P

scientists under the Head of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The map, called Bedmap3, covers more than six decades of survey data collected by aeroplanes

Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. 2014 Course Scientific Diving at AWI (Photo: Michael Schmid) In summer 2014, the Biological Station Helgoland (Alfred-Wegener-Institute [...] "Certified Research Diver / European Scientific Diver" (Geprüfter Forschungstaucher). The Alfred Wegener Institute Centre for Scientific Diving (CSD) in cooperation with the Laboratoire d'Océanographie [...] "Certified Research Diver / European Scientific Diver" (Geprüfter Forschungstaucher). The Alfred Wegener Institute Centre for Scientific Diving (CSD) in cooperation with the Laboratoire d'Océanographie

and Earth System feedbacks Permafrost coring in the Fish Creek Delta, North Alaska (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly under the influence of natural and anthropogenic [...] permafrost carbon pools and their vulnerability to mobilization Alaskan Yedoma cliff (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic landscapes underlain by permafrost are threatened by climate warming and may degrade [...] Degradation of ice-rich permafrost by thermal erosion thermoerosional valley Kurungnakh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Thermo-erosional valleys are widely distributed in ice-rich permafrost deposits of arctic