The diverse sides of science Marine biologist Prof. Dr Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Professor at the University of Bremen and Group leader of the Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea

July 2024 by Andreas Waser or on 20 August 2024 by Sabine Horn. Dunkeles Wattenmeer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Dario Fiorentino) AWI experts Christian Buschbaum Marine ecologist Dr Christian Buschbaum

biogeochemical cycles and thus sustain our ecosystems. A. Murat Eren, a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz Institute for Functional

locations. In the citizen science project “Microplastic Detectives”, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with citizens, have now collected samples from beaches along the entire German

by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from below. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have however now determined that the temperature of the water flowing into the glacier

Simeon Lisovski*, Christine Wesche*, Jacqueline Hilbert**, Fritz Hertel**, Rita Fabris** * - Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) ** - German Environment Agency (UBA)

farms and get an idea of how they can be integrated into ecosystems in various ways. The Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Center Hereon and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

Every other year the climate sciences division of the Alfred Wegener Institute invites a distinguished scientist in climate sciences for a lecture on emerging fields of research and for scientific exchange [...] he was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. Peter Dueben (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Our upcoming lecture is scheduled for September 3rd, 2024, featuring Peter Dueben from

comes in. A first general meeting of the researchers including several scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute took place at the University of Bremen from September 4 to 6, 2024.

accept the IPCC as the highest, neutral authority on the issue of climate assessment. The Alfred Wegener Institute is currently home to the Technical Support Unit for the IPCC’s Working Group II. Its members