• Health at the Workplace

      touches on various areas of working 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

    • 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 frequently

    • The global “plastic flood” reaches the Arctic

      escape the global threat of plastic 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

    • German Environmental Satellite EnMAP Successfully Launched

      unparalleled information on the 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

    • No glacial fertilization effect in the Antarctic Ocean

      carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? 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

    • Bernhard Diekmann

      yesterday and today! Apl. Prof. 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

    • 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

    • Focus on Antarctica

      questions relating to Antarctica and 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

    • ACLOUD/AFLUX

      aircraft operation illustration 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 [...] momentum in and below clouds. ACLOUD 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 [...] Leipzig, Germany IGM Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Collogne, Germany AWI Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven and Potsdam, Germany TROPOS

    • Siberian tundra could virtually disappear by mid-millennium

      broad expanses of tundra which are home to a unique mix of flora and fauna. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now prepared a computer simulation of how these woods could spread in the future