• AWI Technical Centre: The Shell is Complete

      ongoing pandemic made a live topping-out ceremony impossible, the Alfred Wegener Institute marked the milestone for the new building with a video topping-out speech and greetings from prominent members of [...] which will equip the Rasmus Willumsen House, named in honour of Alfred Wegener’s companion, to serve as a core site for the development of innovative maritime and polar technologies. The building is

    • MELTEX-II

      Birnbaum Dr. Thomas Krumpen Melt ponds on Multi year ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Melt ponds on First-year ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Instrumentation The aircraft Polar 5 was equipped [...] respectively. Flight legs at 200 ft (61 m) (Graphic: W. Cohrs, Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Flight legs at 2000 ft (610 m) (Graphic: W. Cohrs, Alfred-Wegener-Institute)

    • Less Forest, More Species

      most diverse habitats in alpine regions. Yet, as a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute discovered in the Tibetan Plateau, the higher, treeless areas are home to far more species. Their findings, which

    • Habitat Modeling - AWI OZA

      impacts of anthropogenic activities habitat_modeling.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Salps fertilise the Southern Ocean more effectively than krill

      Scientific Publication
      Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, experimentally measured the release of iron from the fecal pellets of krill and salps

    • Antarctic hotspot: Fin whales favour the waters around Elephant Island

      second-largest whale. That makes the findings of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute for Sea Fisheries

    • CO2-neutral on the North Sea

      Keel Laying for New Research Ship
      The Alfred Wegener Institute is setting new standards for sustainability in German maritime shipping. On 8 June 2021 the keel for the successor

    • Heincke Expedition searches for Microplastics

      expedition team is currently underway in the North Atlantic with the Alfred Wegener Institute's research vessel Heincke.

    • Proxy Development

      Development Biomarker-based sea ice recontrsuctions. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The era of instrumental weather measurements spans only a tiny fraction (<150 years) of Earth’s climate history

    • Heat from Below: How the Ocean is Wearing Down the Arctic Sea Ice

      sea-ice growth, especially in winter. Sea-ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), together with researchers from the US and Russia, now