threatened 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

wind 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 [...] 2021, 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

Bremen, 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.

and 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

in 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

how 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

the 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

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