• Permafrost contains more nitrogen than previously assumed

    comparatively little about nitrogen. A team of experts led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now determined the size of the nitrogen reservoir and calculated how much of it could be released as climate

  • Antje Boetius and Markus Rex accept Arctic Circle Prize

    Arctic Circle Prize
    The Alfred Wegener Institute and the MOSAiC research expedition were awarded the Arctic Circle Prize on Saturday, 15 October 2022 in Reykjavik

  • New dataset reveals biological “treasure trove” of Arctic Ocean

    their extinction risk. The research led by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of East Anglia is now published in PLOS Biology, futher informations can be found in this UAE's

  • Measuring Methane in the Baltic

    Skagerak. Ellen Damm, Samuel Sellmaier and Volkmar Assmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute were on board to determine how much of the methane released was still in the waters of the Baltic.

  • Climate and fisheries take a toll on Antarctic krill

    Science dedicates an editorial by Bettina Meyer, biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, and her colleague So Kawaguchi from the Australian Antarctic Division to this topic in the current issue.

  • Peter Köhler

    Carbon dioxide and climate Dr Peter Köhler, physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Climate sensitivity Carbon cycle CO 2 Negative emissions 14 C The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) in the

  • The history of our continents

    documentary series “Terra X”. Prof. Antje Boetius, director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, gives an overview of Australia and Oceania.

  • Full Speed Ahead for Climate-friendly Coastal Research

    of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger christened the Alfred Wegener Institute’s new research vessel Uthörn at the Fassmer shipyards in Berne. The new ship, measuring 35 metres long and with

  • How the ocean affects climate on land

    the scientific journal Nature Geoscience . Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam used thousands of pollen records to create for the first time a map of the strength of regional

  • Antje Boetius once again appointed Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute

    researcher and deep-sea biologist Antje Boetius will head the Alfred Wegener Institute, which she has coordinated since November 2017, for another five years. In her first term as Director, she has