Locations and Facilities

__ Helgoland Island (Central dive facility at AWI) Location of AWI CSD on Helgoland. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The Centre for Scientific Diving of the AWI is located at the "Binnenhafen" of Helgoland [...] @ awi.de. _________________________ Sylt (North Sea) The island Sylt in the North Sea (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Sylt is the northernmost island of Germany located in the Wadden Sea of Schleswig-Holstein [...] __________ Offshore diving in the German Bight and North Sea Research Vessel Heincke (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Dive missions in the German Bight and the North Sea are conducted from the research

Beyond iron: vitamins, zinc and cobalt

affect the biological pump in this important carbon export region. Dr. Florian Koch (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact: Dr. Florian Koch

Research

biogeochemical models. The EcoTrace Group is funded by the Helmholtz Association and hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute within the Marine Biogeosciences section and at the Bremen Marine Ecology Centre for

as Teacher

SEASIDE. We look forward to welcoming you to the AWI! Sampling during Summer School 2017 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact Bremerhaven Helgoland Antje Wichels

Underwater node Spitsbergen

(Photo: Markus Brand) Fig. 3) AWIPEV Underwater Observatory - - profiling unit RemOs1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWIPEV-COSYNA Svalbard Underwater Observatory was initiated in 2012 by installing

Grazers impact on Fe biogeochemistry

The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The western Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and the northern part of the Western [...] Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) Duration: 2016-2020 Sebastian Böckmann (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Sebastian Böckmann Lead-PIs: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Prof. Bettina Meyer (AWI)

Iron limitation and cycling

ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean ecosystem exerts a disproportional control on the global carbon [...] sampling in the Drake Passage and along the South Shetland Islands. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This project aims to study how microbial processes are driving and interconnecting

Fe-Mn Limitation

Southern Ocean phytoplankton ecology? The diatom Chaetoceros debilis. Photo: F. Pausch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Primary production by phytoplankton is governed by several factors such as light and [...] under a changing climate. Contact: Franziska Pausch Franziska Pausch. Photo: F. Pausch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Phytoplankton community dynamics

station. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) CO2 incubation experiments with Ryder ay phytoplankton. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Sampling of seawater containing [...] British research station Rothera on the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate models indicate that the Southern Ocean is particularly prone to climate change [...] containing Ryder Bay phytoplankton. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn

Inorganics in organics

polar ocean View from Rpthera Point, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In vast areas of the ocean, particularly in the Southern Ocean, marine primary production