ions for the future innovation strategy in Germany. Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research is a member of the central committee

deglaciation Coastal wetland in the Fish Creek river delta at the Alaska Arctic Coastal Plain (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This project studies how emissions of the greenhouse gas methane change in response

Canada. 1. November 2013 Guido Grosse starts the ERC Starting Grant project PETA-CARB at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam. Team Results News Remote Sensing

thermokarst and yedoma upland deposits on Sobo-Sise Island and Bykovsky Peninsula. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Matthias Fuchs, Guido Grosse, Jens Strauss, Frank Günther , Mikhail Grigoriev, Georgy [...] Permafrost Regions Schematic workflow from satellite image to lake change statistics (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ingmar Nitze, Guido Grosse, Benjamin M. Jones, Christopher D. Arp, Mathias Ulrich, [...] based on almost 3 years continuous measurements (from 11 May 2012 to 27 April 2015) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lutz Schirrmeister, Georg Schwamborn, Pier Paul Overduin, Jens Strauss , Margret C

Beringia at the LGM with the ice sheet extent and the sea level ~135 m lower than today (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) My current research topic are Arctic coastal wetlands in Alaska. I work on assessing

2015, and Istomina et al., 2015). The campaign MELTEX-I was a joint project conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IPA) at

Birnbaum Dr. Thomas Krumpen Melt ponds on Multi year ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Melt ponds on First-year ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Instrumentation The aircraft Polar 5 was equipped with [...] respectively. Flight legs at 200 ft (61 m) (Graphic: W. Cohrs, Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Flight legs at 2000 ft (610 m) (Graphic: W. Cohrs, Alfred-Wegener-Institute)

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Back-to-back successes: The Communications and Media Relations department of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recently won the prize for the best

in Longyerbyen (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Low altitude flight of Polar 5 with dragged EM Bird to determine the sea ice thickness during PAMARCMIP 2011 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Schematic of [...] of sea-ice thickness surveys with an EM-Bird using a Basler BT-67 research aircraft (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut)

2015, and Istomina et al., 2015). The campaign MELTEX-I was a joint project conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IPA) at