• Awards

    IOP Trusted Reviewer Award 2025 Peter Köhler auf der Kottastraverse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific reviews of manuscripts can also be rated with stars. Five stars earn you a prize, the IOP [...] geo.thws.de/studienbereich/preisverleihungen/ Data Champions 2025 Data Champions 2025 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Accessible Science: Thanks to a team from the AWI Glaciology group it is now possible [...] line-like feature. Student Prize University of Bremen 2022 Steven Franke (Photo: Steven Franke, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In 2022 Dr. Steven Franke was awarded the Student Prize of the Friends of the University

  • JASPER 2010

    Rothera Airstrip (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar 5 at Rothera. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Twin-Otter (BAS) viewed from Polar 5 near Rothera. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) View from Polar [...] Polar 5. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Nygard, T., Vihma, T., Birnbaum, G. , Hartmann, J. , Lachlan-Cope, T., Ladkin, R., Lüpkes, C. and Weiss, A. (2016), Validation of eight atmospheric reanalyses in the

  • PDZ Europa Scientific 20-20 Mass Spectrometer

    for isotope analysis. Sample preparation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Ceramic tube furnace (Carbolite GmbH) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) For measuring stable oxygen [...] e oxygen– Rapid Communicatons in Mass Spectrometry 24: 2655–2664. Laser fluorination (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Dehydrated samples are then combusted under BrF5 atmosphere by means [...] opal to O2 and SiF4 (this process is called laser fluorination). PDZ Europa 2020 IRMS (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: <link en science geosciences

  • Infrastructure, Services, and Support

    intelligence / machine learning applications. The Systems Branch of the Computing and Data Centre of Alfred Wegener Institute is in charge of all infrastructures and services that are required to fulfill these [...] the address helpdesk(at)awi.de. The service portal is only available to AWI employees. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Storage & Server The Storage & Server group maintains the bare metal for storage and [...] 000 CPUs und 1.5 PB of parallel storage (in cooperation with the IT Computing group). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Core IT Services The Core IT Services group provides basic services for the day-to-day

  • Proxy Laboratory

    predictions about the future of our climate has to first know how it developed in the past. At the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Proxy-Lab, researchers from the Marine Biogeosciences Section are delving hundreds [...] following info-graphic. Close-up of the femtosecond laser in the AWI Proxy Laboratory (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Discover more AWI Proxy Lab: Cutting-edge technology AWI section Marine Biogeosciences [...] nces Dr. Albert Benthien Infograph Workflow in the AWI Proxy Laboratory (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Video Traces of the Past: Research in the AWI Proxy Laboratory In the depths of the ocean the

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns of different German universities and [...] momentum in and below clouds. ACLOUD employed two research aircraft, Polar 5 & 6, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute. During about 20 research flights with each aircraft properties of cloud and aerosol [...] Leipzig, Germany IGM Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Collogne, Germany AWI Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven and Potsdam, Germany TROPOS

  • SIDESTREAM

    out how these skills can be used technically and ecologically in European aquaculture. At the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, marine amphipods, which are able to synthesize valuable through [...] bioeconomy in Europe. Concept (Photo: Sintef Ocean) Makink animal meal from gammarides (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project lead: Hilke Alberts-Hubatsch Staff: Sinem Zeytin-Schüning , Meeno Mathes Contact:

  • WG Long-term Ecology

    Wadden Sea have been collected and analysed at the marine stations on Helgoland and Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1962 and 1974, respectively ( www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/tran [...] -nordsee-auch-die-deutsche-bucht-ist-so-warm-wie-noch-nie.html ; Figure 1). Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to the research work, it is essential to make the data from the long-term

  • Accessibility

    Accessibility Statement The Alfred Wegener Institute is committed to making its website accessible. This accessibility statement applies to www.awi.de. Compliance status This website is partially compliantiv [...] 09.2021 and updated on 08.02.2021. The technical review of accessibility was carried out by: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Feedback and contact information: We

  • Ice-Tethered Profiler

    Ice-Tethered Profiler Working principle of an Ice-Tethered Profiler (Rick Krishfield, WHOI) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ice-Tethered Profilers (ITPs) are autonomous, freely drifting measurement platforms [...] from the IBCAO Atlas and is shown in blue shading (in meters from the water surface). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)