• Atmospheric research in Germany will be significantly expanded

      Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig, and the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute is also involved. ACTRIS will provide data on the short-lived constituents of the atmosphere from the ground to

    • Counteracting climate change: Research consortium sea4soCiety investigates ways to naturally increase carbon storage in coastal ecosystems

      northern German universities and research institutes, including the Alfred Wegener Institute. Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the consortium with 5.3 million euros as

    • West Antarctic Ice Sheet

      (modified from Gohl et al., Marine Geology, 2013). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat since the onset of Southern

    • Outstanding Dissertation on Climate Change

      Award
      Dr. Jan Nitzbon, scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) was awarded the 2020 Wladimir Köppen Prize for his doctoral

    • Concentrated knowledge on permafrost soils

      panel of experts has reviewed the contributions. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam contribute with a factsheet on permafrost soils

    • Back Again: First deployed buoy from the MOSAiC expedition

      September 26 th , 2019, Marcel Nicolaus, marine physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), placed an ice buoy on a floe during the passage of the

    • Projects

      Education and Research (BMBF) POSER POSER Antarctic krill (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Po pulation S hift and E cosystem R esponse – Krill vs. Salps (POSER) The western Atlantic sector of the Southern

    • Nicole Biebow

      , head of the staff unit for International Cooperation at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Science management International cooperation The polar regions are a key driving force for the Earth's climate and oceans. With the Alfred Wegener Institute's research in the Arctic and Antarctic, we contribute to the understanding of the global climate system. Nevertheless

    • Theses

      China and the North Pacific/Bering Sea. Universität Potsdam and Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung. S. Vyse (in prep.): Sediment-geochemical feedbacks to climate

    • Passive Acoustic Monitoring - AWI OZA

      as part of the HAFOS long term observatory. CC-BY 4.0 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Schematic of a HAFOS deep sea mooring. Mooring elements, top to bottom: floatation at 200m depth, Aural acoustic