• ThermoFisher Delta-V-Advantage Mass Spectrometer

      ( d 13 C- und d 15 N). Flash EA 2000 Autosampler (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ThermoFisher Delta V Mass Spectrometer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Polar Terrestrial Environmental

    • Tranquil-Fish

      Images from the fish transport test run (Photo: S. Zeytin-Schüning, Alfred Wegener Institute) (Photo: S. Zeytin-Schüning, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The fish transporter is being prepared for the experiment

    • Polar Day and Polar Night

      Solar altitude, daily maximum and minimum at Neumayer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Day and night at Neumayer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Civil Twilight: The sun is less that 6° below the horizon

    • Fe-Mn Limitation

      Southern Ocean phytoplankton ecology? The diatom Chaetoceros debilis. Photo: F. Pausch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Primary production by phytoplankton is governed by several factors such as light and [...] under a changing climate. Contact: Franziska Pausch Franziska Pausch. Photo: F. Pausch (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Extension of the Library at AWI Sylt

      all, being surrounded by knowledge,” explains Prof. Dr Karen Wiltshire, Deputy Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), in her speech at the opening

    • Taking aim at tiny threats

      the results. An international team led by Dr Sebastian Primpke and Dr Michaela Meyns from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has now presented possible solutions

    • How the Arctic Ocean Became Saline

      salt water pour in from the Atlantic. With the help of a climate model, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have demonstrated how this process took place, allowing us for the first time to understand

    • Greenhouse reaches the Antarctic

      just 400 metres from the German Neumayer Station III in the Antarctic. It will be run by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), which is working on the EDEN ISS project together with DLR.

    • How is climate change affecting fauna in the Arctic?

      embark on a joint expedition headed for Svalbard. On board the research vessel Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) all of these disciplines are

    • Colonisation in Slow Motion

      diversity until much later. These are the findings of a unique 18-year study by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), which has now been published