• SIDESTREAM

    out how these skills can be used technically and ecologically in European aquaculture. At the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, marine amphipods, which are able to synthesize valuable through [...] bioeconomy in Europe. Concept (Photo: Sintef Ocean) Makink animal meal from gammarides (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project lead: Hilke Alberts-Hubatsch Staff: Sinem Zeytin-Schüning , Meeno Mathes Contact:

  • WG Long-term Ecology

    Wadden Sea have been collected and analysed at the marine stations on Helgoland and Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1962 and 1974, respectively ( www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/tran [...] -nordsee-auch-die-deutsche-bucht-ist-so-warm-wie-noch-nie.html ; Figure 1). Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to the research work, it is essential to make the data from the long-term

  • Proxy Laboratory

    predictions about the future of our climate has to first know how it developed in the past. At the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Proxy-Lab, researchers from the Marine Biogeosciences Section are delving hundreds [...] following info-graphic. Close-up of the femtosecond laser in the AWI Proxy Laboratory (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Discover more AWI Proxy Lab: Cutting-edge technology AWI section Marine Biogeosciences [...] nces Dr. Albert Benthien Infograph Workflow in the AWI Proxy Laboratory (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Video Traces of the Past: Research in the AWI Proxy Laboratory In the depths of the ocean the

  • JASPER 2010

    Rothera Airstrip (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar 5 at Rothera. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Twin-Otter (BAS) viewed from Polar 5 near Rothera. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) View from Polar [...] Polar 5. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Nygard, T., Vihma, T., Birnbaum, G. , Hartmann, J. , Lachlan-Cope, T., Ladkin, R., Lüpkes, C. and Weiss, A. (2016), Validation of eight atmospheric reanalyses in the

  • Infrastructure, Services, and Support

    intelligence / machine learning applications. The Systems Branch of the Computing and Data Centre of Alfred Wegener Institute is in charge of all infrastructures and services that are required to fulfill these [...] the address helpdesk(at)awi.de. The service portal is only available to AWI employees. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Storage & Server The Storage & Server group maintains the bare metal for storage and [...] 000 CPUs und 1.5 PB of parallel storage (in cooperation with the IT Computing group). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Core IT Services The Core IT Services group provides basic services for the day-to-day

  • Technology Transfer - Offers to the private sector

    technologies and services originate, e.g. from the following R&D fields of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute: Aquaculture The Alfred-Wegener-Institute has various activities in the field of aquaculture . These are [...] Technologies As internationally acknowledged competence centre in polar and marine research, the Alfred-Wegener-Institute is one of the few institutions worldwide that conduct research both in the Arctic and [...] works at least partly autonomously. Environmental Data Fundament of the research work of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute is a multitude of scientific data that are gathered on expeditions or long-term survey

  • Food web models in politics and management

    need for an entire ecosystem approach to prevent crises ENA Wirkshop 2017 - Participants (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Aim of the workshop The course aims to increase the understanding of food web model [...] Schückel or Dr. Sabine Horn to sign up for the workshop. Location Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung. Costs The course is on a volunteer [...] Scharler (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa) Monday: 25.09.2017 09:00-09:15 Welcome at the Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Wadden Sea Station Sylt K.H. Wiltshire

  • Ice flow on Greenland is probably “only” 2,000 years old

    the sea and thus also influences global sea levels. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now used a new evaluation method for airborne radar measurements to determine the

  • Traces of Ice Age hunters discovered in the Baltic Sea

    structure has been discovered in the Baltic Sea region, the group, with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute, now reports in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

  • German-Tunisian project to preserve the coastline

    beaches on the Tunisian island of Djerba are the focus of a week-long workshop taking place at the Alfred Wegener Institute on Helgoland from 14 November. As part of the "Oceanographic and Ecological Data for