To address this, here at the HIFMB, a cooperation between the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute, we use ‘planktotrons’: large water tanks that allow us to investigate the changes

Sea ice: a habitat for specialists Dr Ilka Peeken, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Biodiversity Polar regions Plastic Sea Ice Climate change is especially putting the polar regions under

chain reaction Dr Thomas Krumpen, sea ice physicist and expert for satellite analyses at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice Application of satellite data Arctic Ocean IceBird For the past several years

Nowaczyk from the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam and Florian Adolphi from the Alfred Wegener Institute, in a study that now appears in the journal Science .

1364/OE.24.0000A1 topAWI Triaxus system with the two hyperspectral instruments triaxus.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) topAWI Triaxus system with the two hyperspectral instruments AC-s (Wetlabs/Seabirds;

of the glaciers. Using innovative new calculations, a team of climate researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now managed to explain this discrepancy. The study, which was recently published

North Atlantic, like those expected to arise in the future. A group of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have just released their findings in the journal Communications Earth & Environment

>Every year, ten international scholarship holders from all corners of the globe come to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s two island-based sites. The POGO-Nippon Foundation Centre of Excellence trains them

Dr Gesine Mollenhauer, geochemist and scientific head of MICADAS 14C dating laboratory at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen. Radiocarbon dating Paleoceanography Sediment

director of today's GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and long-time director of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, celebrates his 80th