AWI Helgoland’s student laboratory “OPENSEA” celebrates its 5-year anniversary

    collect and analyse samples from the mudflats. The children were supported by a small team from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    past ICRSS Conferences

    currently being carried out in the circumpolar regions of the world. ICRSS-2006 group shot (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 10th ICRSS 2008 (Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada) The 10 th International Circumpolar Remote [...] being carried out in the circumpolar regions and elsewhere. ICRSS-2008 conference photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 11th ICRSS 2010 (Cambridge, United Kingdom) The 11th International Circumpolar Remote [...] of work currently being carried out in the circumpolar regions. ICRSS-2010 group photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 12th ICRSS 2012 (Levi, Finland) The theme of the 12 th CRSS symposium, May 14-18 2012

    A sensational discovery: Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica

    Climate History
    An international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have now provided a new and unprecedented

    World Press Photo Award for AWI Photographer

    the MOSAiC ice camp – with this image Esther Horvath, a photographer and photo editor at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), won the World Press Photo Award

    Changes in high-altitude winds over the South Pacific produce long-term effects on the Antarctic

    the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The study was prepared by Dr Frank Lamy, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, together with researchers from Chile

    Job Offers

    contact Dr. Meunier via email to learn about research opportunities. Noctiluca scintillans (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    Flyer_Flatfish_sorting_digital.pdf

    Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research BREMERHAVEN, Germany Technology Transfer Office Am Handelshafen 12 DE-27570 Bremerhaven Phone: +49 471/4831-1143 tto@awi.de www.awi

    File type: application/pdf
    Referenced at:

    The seafloor of Fram Strait is a sink for microplastic from the Arctic and North Atlantic Ocean

    Marine Pollution
    Working in the Arctic Fram Strait, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have found microplastic throughout the water column

    Simulated deep-sea mining affects ecosystem functions at the seafloor

    Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology together with colleagues at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, and other institutes now describe

    Benthos in the Antarctic Weddell Sea in decline

    Antarctic sea-ice cover have had profound impacts on life on the ocean floor. As biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute report in the latest issue of the journal Nature Communications, between 1988 and 2014