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      ANT-XXXI/3). The ProIron team onboard Polarstern in February 2016. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean ecosystem exerts a disproportional control on the global carbon [...] sampling in the Drake Passage and along the South Shetland Islands. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This project aims to study how microbial processes are driving and interconnecting

    • [Translate to English:] Kottas-Kohnen Traverse 2023

      convoy (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Skidoo set up for measuring and placing new bamboos (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enjoying the view of the Kottas mountains (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Taking

    • Food Web Analysis - From sample to model

      Model - 2017 edition Summer school in network analyses, edition 2016 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) header (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Aim of the course Introduction into food web analysis using the [...] communicated by explaining and exercising simple modelling. Venue Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Target audience Advanced students,

    • Major wind-driven ocean currents are shifting toward the poles

      wind-driven current systems in the ocean have steadily shifted toward the poles. Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), came to this conclusion after

    • How polluted is the Elbe River?

      . In a joint measurement campaign, researchers from several Helmholtz Centres, including the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), want to take a closer look at

    • Micro- and nanoplastic from the atmosphere is polluting the ocean

      Reviews Earth and Environment , an international team of researchers – including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, and the GEOMAR Helmholtz

    • Antarctic hotspot: Fin whales favour the waters around Elephant Island

      the life of the world’s second-largest whale. That makes the findings of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Johann Heinrich von Thünen

    • Media centre

      Media Centre of the Alfred Wegener Institute Public Media Centre Utilization Under the Creative Commons licence CC-BY 4.0 the AWI provides photos and infographics, which can be used freely if the copyright

    • Pioneering research reveals Arctic matter pathways poised for major shifts amidst climate change

      Arctic biogeochemistry and ecosystems, while the fresh water itself alters ocean circulation. The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar an Marine Research (AWI) was part of the international

    • GamFood

      tsch | Jan Beermann Duration: 2 Years; Funded by the AWI-Innovation Fund Gamfood.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)