• Climate change and its consequences on foreign policy

    between Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Markus Rex, MOSAiC expedition leader and scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

  • Rising temperatures lead to unexpectedly rapid carbon release from soils

    from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen and from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven that was now published

  • Visit in Bremerhaven before expedition starts

    of the transit cruise of the so-called Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) visited the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar dnd Marine Research (AWI) last Saturday. The guests su

  • Research Minister Wanka visits the University of Oldenburg

    Biodiversity. The new institute will bundle and expand the research excellene in this field of the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Oldenburg. AWI Director Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte attended as well

  • We left for a while!

    of the whole COSMUS team I would like to thank all members of the Logistic Department of the Alfred Wegener Institute, because without their unconditional support this expedition would not have been possible

  • Back to the Roots of Antarctic Research

    Antarctica
    This year, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Neumayer Station III will be exclusively supplied by sea. The research vessel Polarstern will transport– as usual – materials and fuel to the Antarctic

  • Hans-Otto Pörtner now a member of the European Academy of Sciences

    Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II and Head of the Integrative Ecophysiology Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, has been selected as

  • Antje Boetius as keynote speaker

    choosing not to invest in climate protection!” – so claimed Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), at the New Year’s Reception

  • Before the ice were the rivers

    Geoscience researchers at the University of Bremen, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and other international participants, have discovered a vast river system in the Antarctic

  • Mud binds carbon

    Over the past three years the collaborative research project APOC, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has investigated how climate change and anthropogenic activities and pressure impact the carbon cycle