• Performance report

    foam and the Optimare/Sea-Bird Electronics CTD-logger on top before deployment in 2007. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Automated Elevator System by NGK, Japan, consists of a sophisticated combination [...] mooring Fig. 2: The CTD-logger is initially fixed to the winch frame utilizing corrosion (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The mooring which contains the NGK Automated Elevator System and the Optimare/Sea-Bird [...] interval (duration 30 min every 12 h). Pressure is in dbar against CTD-logger record number (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The NGK system came back on deck in an as-new optical condition, and so did the Op

  • FISP

    with the locations of the instrumented bore holes, operated by the British Antarctic Survey, the Alfred Wegener Institute, and the University of Bergen. Arrows indicated the current pass of warm waters of

  • Detaillierte Beschreibung

    winter convective events in the polar regions (Greenland Sea). (Photo: Gereon Budéus, AWI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Basic demands were - deep profiles (typically 4000 m) - many profiles (typically 360

  • ACENMAP

    Express, 19(10), 9783–9800, 2011. Prof. Dr. Astrid Bracher Dr. Mariana Soppa picture.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Brenner Silva

  • Arctic phytoplankton

    spectrophotometry,” Opt. Express 25 (24), 1079-1095 (2017). Yangyang Liu Yangyang_Fig1.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 1. Comparison between Chl-a data obtained from underway AC-S flow-through system

  • Introduced Alga Now Transforming the Wadden Sea

    transforming the Wadden Sea ecosystem. Coastal scientist Prof Emeritus Karsten Reise from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) discovered the alga off the shores

  • Back to the Roots of Antarctic Research

    Antarctica
    This year, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as usual – materials and fuel to the Antarctic

  • Watching the Arctic Thaw in Fast-forward

    thawing on an alarming scale. By analysing an annual record of satellite images, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now confirmed these findings: thermokarst lakes in Alaska are draining one by

  • ECOTRACE

    feedback mechanisms. Our team EcoTrace group Picture: C. Völkner (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scarlett Trimborn (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Head of the group: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Team: Jenna Balaguer [...] Polarstern expedition ANT XXVII-2. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Southern Ocean phytoplankton are major drivers of global carbon cycling accounting for 20% of the global annual

  • SEAPUMP

    SeaPump is a Helmholtz Young Investigators Group from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research . The group is a bridging group between the Helmholtz Society, University of Bremen, and [...] web interactions with the biological pump . Gruppenleiter: Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen Instituten: Alfred Wegener Institute Marum University of Bremen Kontakt: +49 (0) 421 218 65787