AWI EXPERT Professor Karen Wiltshire is the Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and Director of the AWI sites on Helgoland and Sylt. The [...] Groningen in the Netherlands. Since 2001, Wiltshire has worked and conducted research at the Alfred Wegener Institute. In 2006, as Director of the Biological Institute Helgoland on Sylt and Helgoland,

the ice is exclusively depicted as a flowing body. But, as a new modelling study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute confirms, this approach neglects the ice’s qualities as a solid body. Accordingly,

Ice Sheet. As part of a major international collaboration, in the year to come experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) plan to use seismic waves to

be reconstructed for the drilling area (graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, James McKay under Creative Commons licence C-BY 4.0“.) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [01 April 2020] An international team of [...] arrows) and their movement (white arrows) under global warming (graphic: Hu Yang/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [24 February 2020] In the course of the past 40 years, the major w [...] unique sediment cores have been taken. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [04 April 2016] An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Where do these tiny pieces of plastic come from? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred Wegener Institute have shown that it takes precise analysis to answer this question.

has grown significantly. A team of experts from 28 countries, including scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has launched the SeaWheat project

AWI EXPERT Bernadette Pogoda is a scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Born in Munich in 1976, from 1997 to 1999 she studied Biology with a focus

the way for more biodiversity in the North Sea Dr Bernadette Pogoda, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, head of the working group Marine conservation: Ecological Restoration and coordinator [...] North Sea to rebound. Just how this can be achieved is a major research focus pursued at the Alfred Wegener Institute. We are developing and testing marine conservation measures that will, above all, be

Northern Hemisphere. An international team of scientists led by climate researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute arrive at this conclusion in a new study released today in the journal npj Climate

the Antarctic, which contains climate data from the past 1.5 million years. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute make up part of the team. Initial drilling is about to begin.