• Record highs in the North Sea: Even the German Bight is warmer than ever before

      recorded. In 2023, the North Sea also experienced dramatic record highs, as readings taken by the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Biological Institute Helgoland indicate. As data from the time series “Helgoland

    • Research vessel Polarstern expected in Bremerhaven

      a good six months of Antarctic expeditions. In the austral summer, the research vessel of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), penetrated into the southern

    • Great potential for comprehensive monitoring of the water masses in the ocean

      is a very big question, which is concerning scientists around the world. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now published, together with international colleagues, the usage of a new optical

    • Hydrothermal ventfields

      differ in the presumed location of faults and heat sources. Hydrothermal ventfields (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • UV workstations

      UV workstations UV hood workstations (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) The UV workstations are designed for clean operations providing protection against contamination. They are equipped

    • 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

    • Triaxus

      Typical sensor configuration (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Specialty of CTD data CTD Sensors: starboard and port side of the "Triaxus" sensor carrier (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The specialty of the [...] vertical "Undulation" mode Undulation mode (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Triaxus data example based on PS113 024_02 "equator crossing" (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) With the setting "Undulation" in the [...] Triaxus Towed System "topAWI" Triaxus towing body on deck of RV Polarstern. (Photo: Jan Gerken, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The topAWI Triaxus (towed ocean profiler of the AWI) is a towed system manufactured

    • AWI Potsdam coordinates new project

      of AI foundation models is now poised to tackle a range of major challenges in science. The Alfred Wegener Institute is involved in two of the four pilot projects funded by the Helmholtz Association,

    • Between Arctic Land and Sea

      Permfrost
      The European funded Horizon 2020 “NUNATARYUK”-project, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has carried out a comprehensive six-year investigation into the rapidly changing permafrost regions

    • Research vessel Polarstern visits Australia for the first time

      that are new territory even for the Polarstern: Between two expeditions to East Antarctica, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research icebreaker reached Hobart in Tasmania on 30 January 2024 and will remain