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

In pursuit of the oldest ice and the newest data Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) regularly brave temperatures down to 20 degrees below zero, embarking on journeys that take them to

to interested scientists around the globe. Aurora Borealis at the Neumayer Station III (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How long is your way to work? 1,5 kilometers. The entrance to the observatory Into

speed, and atmospheric pressure day by day, at the same time, for decades. Researchers of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut are collecting these weather data with the help of meteorological observatories in the [...] considered to be a WMO climate observation station by virtue of the fact that meteorologists of the Alfred Wegener Institute have been measuring the air temperature in Antarctica on a daily basis for 30 years [...] Gert König-Langlo. To be able to collect reliable temperature data, the meteorologists at the Alfred Wegener Institute used a thermometer of a special kind. It consists of a temperature-sensitive platinum

plenty of reasons for the experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute to take a closer look at the consequences of acidification. Fish swarm (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How long have we known about the [...] Columbia University, USA, first coined the term “ocean acidification”. Bleached Acropora (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How bad has the acidification become? The amount of carbonic acid in the ocean varies

and trends of surface-ocean processes and their bio-physical coupling. Remote Sensing (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Modelling To predict upcoming changes in global ocean circulation, ocean productivity [...] eddy transport in Fram Strait. Modelling with data from the Fram-Strait and the Arctic (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

institutions from 20 countries are involved in the expedition. The mission is spearheaded by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Read more about the expedition [...] unique species and assessing their extinction risk. The research led by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of East Anglia is now published in PLOS Biology, futher informations

the Antarctic in the summer season 1994/1995. He was the first German artist to travel to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s previous Neumayer Station on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. The laboratories [...] his second trek to the Antarctic, this time to launch his art project “Library in the Ice”. The Alfred Wegener Institute supplied the insulated cargo container that would house the library and transported

vessel. Dr. Christian Salewski, archivist at the archives for German polar research based at the Alfred Wegener Institute, has compiled this and other milestones of the over 30-year history of Polarstern. [...] polar researchers, safely returning them to a now unified Germany. Georg Forster Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Operations 1990-1999 1990 - The ship picks up the crew of the GDR research station [...] the southern hemisphere for a year and half. 2012 - 30th anniversary of RV Polarstern (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Operations 2011-2015 03.10.2011 – RV Polarstern returns from the “Trans-Arctic Survey

An overview of the international cooperation activities of the Alfred Wegener Institute (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) The Alfred Wegener Institute deploys scientists to institutions, on research vessels [...] Cooperations and networks National cooperation Established in 1980, the Alfred Wegener Institute is anchored in a global research network by numerous national and international cooperative relationships [...] than 100 cooperation agreements with universities, research institutions and other partners. The Alfred Wegener Institute is also a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres , one of the