• Climate Sciences

    systems across the Arctic and Antarctic, using research vessels, such as the icebreaker Polarstern , observatories, aircrafts, and satellites to capture the evolving dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere, sea [...] climate is shaped by intricate physical and biogeochemical processes in the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ocean. Understanding these processes – especially in the rapidly changing polar regions where the changes

  • AWI Sustainability Guideline

    for employees, politics and society. As a major research centre, the AWI maintains stations in the Arctic and Antarctic, research vessels and polar aircraft. This is associated with a comparatively high [...] societal options for action. With our research on changes in the atmosphere, the cryosphere, the ocean and the coast, corresponding feedback mechanisms as well as the consequences of climate change for [...] habitats and species and the overall significance of the UN goals for sustainable development for oceans and polar regions and to keeping these issues present in the public consciousness. A particular challenge

  • Research program

    support the development of strategies for adaptation and mitigation. Topic 2: Oceans and Cryosphere in Climate How do oceans and the cryosphere drive climate change, and how can we better predict future [...] profound changes, with significant impacts on humanity. Central to these changes are the polar regions, oceans, and coastal and shelf seas, which play crucial roles in regulating the Earth's climate and supporting [...] ty and have a critical influence on both regional and global climate by affecting sea-ice cover, ocean circulation, atmospheric conditions and finally coastal areas. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)

  • Prof. Dr. Kimberley Peters

    kimberley.peters@hifmb.de
    +49(471)4831-2515
    Im Technologiepark 5, 26129 Oldenburg

  • Dr. Clara Hoppe

    Clara.Hoppe@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-2096
    Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Sofia Kuzmina

    sofia.kuzmina@awi.de
    Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Dr. Michael Fritz

    Michael.Fritz@awi.de
    +49(331)58174-5405
    Telegrafenberg A45.2, 14473 Potsdam

  • Conferences and Seminars

    ON GRAN CANARIA pg.31 Jan Jacob One Ocean Science Congress 2025 June 3-6, 2025 Nice, France Event Link Poster Judith Matz 56th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics May 26-30, 2025 Liège, Belgium [...] 14-18th, 2024 Brest, France Event Link Influence of light and silicic acid on the productivity of the arctic phytoplankton community. Attended; co-chaired session “Paleo including the evolution of silicifiers”; [...] 16-20, 2024 Bremen, Germany Event Link Influence of light and silicic acid on the productivity of the arctic phytoplankton community. pg.45 Antonia Thielecke Summer school day on Artificial Intelligence and

  • SO-Clim

    the vast exchange of water between the deep ocean and the sea surface that is unprecedented in the global ocean elsewhere. Over past decades, the Southern Ocean has substantially slowed global surface warming [...] which are central to ocean circulation, carbon and heat fluxes. … Find out more Low-salinity water in the Southern Ocean kept CO₂ locked… Low-salinity water in the Southern Ocean kept CO₂ locked away for [...] Postdoc My aim is to better understand the ocean carbon sink and its changes, with a special focus on the Southern Ocean. I study how the physics of the ocean impact the return pathways of CO 2 to the surface

  • Seafloor spreading

    speed of several millimetres to centimetres per year (plate tectonics). So-called mid-oceanic ridges run through the oceans. In these zones magma rises from the Earth’s interior to the surface, cools down there [...] magma again. A region in which new seafloor continuously forms is, for instance, Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic. This is a submarine mountain range whose northern foothills extend from the northeast tip of Greenland