deposits and glacial unconformities (modified from Gohl et al., Marine Geology, 2013). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat

A lf re d- W eg en er -I ns ti tu t Olaf Eisen has been performing research since 2014 at the Alfred Wegener Instiute and the University of Bremen as a professor for glaciology. Since 1996 he has been working

d W eg en er In st it ut e Antje Boetius is a polar and deep-sea researcher, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and Professor of Geomicrobiology at

The ice and climate history of Antarctica Dr Johann Philipp Klages, sedimentologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sediment cores Climate history Ice sheets Antarctica The climate of our Earth has changed

Retreat of the ice sheets Dr Ingo Sasgen, glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Ice sheets Glaciers Sea-level rise With the aid of satellites, we can now very precisely determine how much ice the

the thinning of sea-ice? Prof. Dr Christian Haas, Head of the Sea Ice Physics Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the Institute for Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen

To address this, here at the HIFMB, a cooperation between the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute, we use ‘planktotrons’: large water tanks that allow us to investigate the changes

yesterday and today! Apl. Prof. Dr Bernhard Diekmann, Head of the Potsdam Research Unit of the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor of Quaternary Geology at the University of Potsdam. Climate Change History

research: climate change and species invasion Dr Christian Buschbaum, marine ecologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Coastal research Wadden Sea Invasive species Around the globe, coasts and their c

Photo of an ice-resiliant Argo float surfacing the Antarctic Ocean in December 2008. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)