• Centre of Excellence

    The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Marine and Polar Research (AWI), is delighted to announce the start of the last cohort of

  • Intensive Subtropical Ocean Warming is Only the Beginning

    slightly cooler, over the past 40 years. A team of experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has now succeeded in confirming that this phenomenon is only

  • Underestimated Heat Storage

    Research (UFZ) and with participation of scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now studied the quantity of heat stored on land, showing the distribution of land heat among the continental

  • World Oceans Day

    time (16:00 CEST). Prof. Dr Hans-Otto Pörtner, biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Co-Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will give the keynote

  • 20 Years AWIPEV: the French – German Arctic Research Base

    research celebrates its 20th anniversary. In 2003, the German Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the French Polar Research Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) merged their stations Koldewey and Rabot

  • Artificial Intelligence for Ethical and Sustainable Shrimp Farming

    of shrimp farming, is the outcome of a consortium combining the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Oceanloop and Sander Holding. Over the past two years, the

  • How polluted is the Elbe River?

    campaign, researchers from several Helmholtz Centres, including the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), want to take a closer look at how environmental chemicals

  • New AI project on permafrost launches

    An international group of experts with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute receives a grant of $5 million from Google.org for the development of an AI system that can be used to study the

  • Ice core drilling on Greenland reaches bedrock

    Institute, University of Copenhagen, and many researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have participated in the drilling over the past seven years.

  • Climate change threatens Arctic polar cod stocks

    . An international study team, including researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now evaluated the most important scientific work on Arctic cod of the past decades. The conclusion: Above