Sensing Map of Arctic sea ice thickness (April 2015) obtained from CryoSat-2 data (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact: Dr. Stefan Hendricks The inaccessibility and sheer size of sea ice covered regions [...] on measuring the height of ice floes above the sea surface with radar altimeters (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut)

base data sets for habitat studies. Larsen A, B, and C ice shelves, Weddell Sea (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact Dr. Boris Dorschel Prof. Dr. Wilfried Jokat Cooperation partners Geology, AWI

campaign performed by the Leipzig Institute for Meteorology (LIM), University of Leipzig and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI) at Kohnen Station , Antarctica (75°00’ S, 00°04’ E, 2892 m a.s.l.) in austral summer

c-axes measurements with the automated fabric analyser (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Crystal orientations (also called fabrics or lattice orientations ) represent an important subject of microstructure

Sustainability in Agriculture" (EIP Agri) Microalga Arthrospira platensis (Photo: J. Henjes, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

membrande destillation prototype (Foto: IUV/Kurtz) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Pike perch (Photo: glammeier+john) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

been published on Inuktitut - the language of the Inuit. Michael Fritz is a scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam, responsible for the German version and one of the authors of "ES TAUT!" (

Institute (AARI), Sankt Petersburg University of Hamburg, Institute of Soil Science (UHH) Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven and Potsdam Melnikov [...] RAS), Yakutsk German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH Moscow) group picture (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Symposium Program: PDF The anniversary was also celebrated with a festschrift summarizing [...] Grosse , A. Morgenstern , E. Pfeiffer , V. Rachold; L. Schirrmeister (editors) , Deutschland, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 205 p., ISBN: 978-3-88808-716-5 . epic

region over Fram Strait during ACLOUD. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar 6 after touch-down in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact Dr. Christof Lüpkes [...] 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 research [...] 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 particles

Partners: IBEN GmbH Supported by Funding from the State of Bremen MP_in_Feed.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dicentrachus_labrax_2_MB_2016.jpg (Photo: Picasa)