1924 would evolve into a modern, fully equipped research station that has been part of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1998. Today, the AWI Wadden Sea Station on Sylt is pursuing answers to what is likely

future changes in the Earth's hydroclimate might affect it. A research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has now for the first time analyzed around 50,000 years of hydroclimate in the mid-latitudes

polar research project YESSS (Year-round EcoSystem Study on Svalbard). Coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), YESSS is intended to yield new insights

Project structure graphical_abstract_Landscape.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) As a result of human activities, coastal marine coastal systems are subjected to simultaneous changes in environmental

Lecture Series "Friday Seminar" Contact: Martin Losch , Valentina Volkova Location: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Building G 301, Seminarroom "Arctic", Klußmannstr

problems to solutions Dr Mar Fernández-Méndez, marine biogeochemist and algal ecologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and leader of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group SiDe-EFFECT. Aquaculture Macroalgae

take place in the Rathauspark in Westerland. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the municipality of Sylt and provides an insight into the daily work of the

Members Björn Rost (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Björn Rost - Being small and yet so mighty, phytoplankton are the true rulers over ecosystems, elemental cycles and climate. I, therefore, felt very [...] mechanisms that cells apply to maintain homeostasis in changing environments. Clara Hoppe (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Clara Hoppe - In the past two decades, a lot of research on phytoplankton responses to [...] in the ocean and how these might be affected by climate change. Laura Wischnewski (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Laura Wischnewski - During my apprenticeship and work as a chemical laboratory assistant

Organisation chart of the Alfred Wegener Institute Organisation chart

Sea, in connection with anthropogenic and natural influences – like climate change – at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Five years later, she was appointed Vice Director and Director of the AWI’s Biological