expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten of the Alfred Wegener Institute there, the approximately 50 scientific expedition participants continued their more

the report, and a 40-member panel of experts has reviewed the contributions. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam contribute with a

mountain forests are among the 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

zooplankton communities: scientists of the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven observed changes during the year and between years. The Antarctic z

same process in other regions leads to many minor earthquakes, according to geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

contributed to storing the greenhouse gas CO2 during the last glacial period. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) present these new findings in

the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Dr. Clara Hoppe investigates how Climate Change affects the Phytoplanton in the polar regions. Eine Frage des Lichts (AWI, 24.2.2015) Scientists of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute [...] single-celled algae species and an important source of food in the oceans. Dr Clara Hoppe of the Alfred Wegener Institute examines how changed living conditions as a result of climate change affect Arctic [...] conspecifics, securing a longer survial of the population as a whole, as scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute claim in a recent study. Das Meer als Forschungsobjekt (Nordsee Zeitung, 6.7.2016)

floats while drifting in open waters (wiggled segments) and under ice (linear segments). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Along their tracks they collect profiles of temperature and salinity between 2000m [...] trajectory of a single float. Note the near-surface warming event in austral summer 2016/17 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Mapping the temperature and salinity profiles of many floats to specific surfaces (e [...] entire time period from objective mapping of float data. (From Reeve et al., 2016) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) More advanced analysis techniques even allow quantities estimates the transports associated

Under the auspices of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), which is based at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, they are about to submit a report that sets out the path for a jointly

Biodiversity
Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam, Germany have confirmed the existence of a new cryptic amphipod species in the North Sea. For the