• CHARTER

      CHARTER (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Funding period: 1.8.2020 - 31.7.2024 CHARTER is an ambitious effort to advance adaptive capacity of Arctic [...] EU research programme Horizon 2020 . Contact Dr. Heidrun Matthes Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Sciences Climate Sciences | Atmospheric Physics Telegrafenberg A45 Room 203

    • Health at the Workplace

      life,” says Christoph Ruholl, Head of Human Resources at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). “That’s why it’s important to approach the matter holistically

    • A warming Arctic produces weather extremes in our latitudes

      Climate modeling
      Atmospheric researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have now developed a climate model that can accurately depict

    • The global “plastic flood” reaches the Arctic

      pollution. An international review study just released by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows, the flood of plastic has reached all spheres of the Arctic: large quantities of plastic - transported by

    • German Environmental Satellite EnMAP Successfully Launched

      current state of the planet’s vegetation, soils and waters. The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) will also use this data for future analyses of climatic and

    • No glacial fertilization effect in the Antarctic Ocean

      ? An international research team with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute used deep-sea sediment cores from the Scotia Sea to investigate whether this hypothetical greenhouse gas sink had

    • Bernhard Diekmann

      Dr Bernhard Diekmann, Head of the Potsdam Research Unit of the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor of Quaternary Geology at the University of Potsdam. Climate Change History of the Earth Polar Regions

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

      international team of researchers – including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research

    • Focus on Antarctica

      further developments on the coldest continent on our planet. The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) presents the exhibition "Experience Antarctica" at ATCM.

    • ACLOUD/AFLUX

      the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD and AFLUX are 2 joint aircraft campaigns of different German universities and research institutes (listed [...] employed two research aircraft, Polar 5 & 6, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute. During about 20 research flights with each aircraft properties of cloud and aerosol particles, trace gas [...] Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Collogne, Germany AWI Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven and Potsdam, Germany TROPOS Leibniz Institute for