• Drifting with the clouds

    for the rapid warming of the Arctic is at the heart of a recent Alfred Wegener Institute project on Svalbard. The researchers are applying a new perspective and tracking how individual air masses cool

  • AWI Potsdam coordinates new project

    now poised to tackle a range of major challenges in science. The Alfred Wegener Institute is involved in two of the four pilot projects funded by the Helmholtz Association, one in a leading role. Helmholtz

  • Rapid growth of land ice due to summer snowfall

    published in the journal Nature Geoscience , researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have used a newly developed climate-ice model to draw

  • Kick-off for a new polar research project

    and Research is funding the project, which is coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, with 2.7 million euros until the end of 2026.

  • EUCOP II 2005

    Environment Conference Abstracts EUCOP 2 Hans Hubberten (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Weakening of Antarctic bottom water circulation is noticeable in the North Atlantic

    into the depths. An international research team, including the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now discovered that ocean currents have weakened by around twelve per cent due to the Antarctic bottom water

  • 100 excellent international experts trained for global marine science

    countries to become experts in marine science were trained at the Alfred Wegener Institute. This highly effective programme funded by the Nippon Foundation and the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and the Alfred Wegener Institute is successfully completed. This is a perfect occasion to celebrate all candidates and their teachers, and the

  • Common Grounds – Permafrost Sonification

    Grewenig and the Permafrost research group led by Julia Boike at Alfred-Wegener-Institut Potsdam. Common Grounds ATD Documentation Project Information Contact Kerstin Ergenzinger Website http://

  • Online - Seminar on Marine Technology, Research and Experiences in Coastal waters” – MarTREC

    . 08.02.2024, 11:00 Dr. Bernadette Pogoda und Julius Ellrich, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Development of nature conservation measures for the North Sea - [...] No download available. 14.03.2024, 11:00 Alexandre Le Moal, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Study of the European Flat Oyster biological rythms at behaviourial [...] forward due to the public holiday) Prof. Dr. Philipp Fischer, Alfred Wegener Institute, Centre for Scientific Diving. Marie Koch, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, High-speed measurements in the Arctic: How

  • Jellyfish may dominate the future Arctic Ocean

    also and especially in the Arctic Ocean, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now successfully shown. In computer models, they exposed eight widespread Arctic jellyfish species to rising