Retreat of the ice sheets Dr Ingo Sasgen, glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Ice sheets Glaciers Sea-level rise With the aid of satellites, we can now very precisely determine how much ice the

On September 26 th , 2019, Marcel Nicolaus, marine physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), placed an ice buoy on a floe during the passage of the

Pa ul s / A lf re d W eg en er In st it ut e Hugues Lantuit is a permafrost researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Professor for Polar Coastal

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) POSER POSER Antarctic krill (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Po pulation S hift and E cosystem R esponse – Krill vs. Salps (POSER) The western Atlantic

Cooperation at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Science management International cooperation The polar regions are a key driving force for the Earth's climate and oceans. With the Alfred Wegener Institute's research

cover letter and a short CV. Sampling of a frozen fragment of a sediment core for old DNA (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching

lf re d- W eg en er -I ns ti tu t Peter Köhler is a physicist in the Glaciology section at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven (AWI). He is an expert

terrigenous sediment records in China and the North Pacific/Bering Sea. Universität Potsdam and Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung. S. Vyse (in prep.): Sediment-geochemical

maintained by AWI Ocean Acoustics Group as part of the HAFOS long term observatory. CC-BY 4.0 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Schematic of a HAFOS deep sea mooring. Mooring elements, top to bottom: floatation

Protected Area in the Weddell Sea Dr Stefan Hain, Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Weddell Sea CCAMLR Antarcitca The effects of climate change have long been felt in [...] Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2011 Head of the Office of Environmental Policy at the Alfred Wegener Institute 2021 Collaboration on the orientation paper on biodiversity for the coalition negotiations