• Iron limitation and cycling

      ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean ecosystem exerts a disproportional control on the global carbon [...] sampling in the Drake Passage and along the South Shetland Islands. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This project aims to study how microbial processes are driving and interconnecting

    • Whale Song Reveals Behavioural Patterns of Antarctic Minke Whales and Humpback Whales in the Weddell Sea

      winter, there were virtually no biologists on site to watch for the animals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have now used permanently installed

    • Forecasting low flow conditions for the Elbe and Rhine:

      avoided if modern forecasting methods had been used. That is the conclusion researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) reached after testing their recently

    • How the seafloor of the Antarctic Ocean is changing – and the climate is following suit

      will they do so in the future? A team of international experts, led by geophysicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), has now shed new light on nine

    • A sensational discovery: Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica

      Climate History
      An international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have now provided a new and unprecedented

    • Gigantic ocean heat reservoirs respond to rise in global CO2 and changes in the Atlantic conveyor belt

      change is altering the circulation patterns of the AMOC. In a recent study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute found that this change has led to asynchronous poleward shifts of the Atlantic subtropical

    • BremHLR

      ) is a cooperation of the University Bremen (UB), the Constructor University Bremen (CU), the Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven (AWI), the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven, and the Hochschule

    • The Technology Transfer Office

      Offers to the Private Sector Team of the TTO Deep Sea Robor "Tramper" during testing (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Weddell-seal

      Weddell-seal - Bio-logging and Satellite telemetry Weddell seal with camera logger (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The observation of seals with bio-logging and remote sensing technologies elucidates

    • ICOP 2016

      a Future Earth". Konferenz Abstracts Konferenzbericht Group picture participants ICOP (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ICOP2016 Best of the conference video International Scientific Committee Hans-Wolfgang