• Samoylov

      25 February 2020. For this reason, all current and planned projects and collaborations of the Alfred Wegener Institute with government agencies in Russia have been frozen since 2022. If you have any queries [...] annually from spring to autumn. The LENA expeditions were jointly organized by three institutes: the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

    • Grazers impact on Fe biogeochemistry

      The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The western Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and the northern part of the Western [...] Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) Duration: 2016-2020 Sebastian Böckmann (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Sebastian Böckmann Lead-PIs: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Prof. Bettina Meyer (AWI)

    • Sea Ice Thickness - Mass Balance

      sledges across the sea ice of Atka Bay (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Helicopter EM Sensor Helicopter EM sensor measuring sea ice thickness (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) AEM measurement by Polar 5

    • Diversity: Specific support at AWI

      Family Office The Family Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) offers a variety of options to support employees with family responsibilities, particularly regarding childcare and caregiving for [...] Equal Opportunities Officer The Women's Representative and Equal Opportunities Officer at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) plays a central role in promoting gender equality and advocates for the interests [...] for Severely Disabled Employees The Representative Body for Severely Disabled Employees at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) provides comprehensive support for employees with disabilities. Its tasks and

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Carbon SaFaRi - Google award

      Carbon SaFaRi - Google award St.Vincent 2023 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In order to claim the active removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through algae cultivation in the form of CO2 ce

    • 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