Marine Litter Plastic fibers overgrown by marine animals (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Apart from climate change the marine environment is considerably modified by the world-wide input of plastic waste

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decades of the 21st century. The establishment of multidisciplinary ocean observatories by the Alfred Wegener Institute will help to provide the means to accomplish this goal. Ecological time-series work

Arctic research, data analysis, remote sensing and numerical weather prediction. Alfred Wegener Institute Alfred Wegener Institute Section Atmospheric Physics Principal Investigator: Dr. Ralf Jaiser Post [...] Artic and mid-latitudes is thus essential. Partner SynopSys is a collaborative project involving Alfred Wegener Institute, University of Bremen and Deutscher Wetterdienst. The collaboration enables a unique [...] Dr. Mark Weber , Dr. Alexey Rozanov PhD student: Falco Monsees German Weather Service (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Department Research and Development Principal Investigator: Alexander Cress Post Doc:

Förderer des Alfred‐Wegener‐Instituts Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar‐ und Meeresforschung e.V. § 1 Name und Sitz Der Verein führt den Namen: Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Alfred‐Wegener‐Instituts He [...] und Aufgaben des Vereins Zweck des Vereins ist die Förderung von Wissenschaft und Forschung des Alfred‐Wegener‐Instituts Helmholtz‐Zentrum für Polar‐ und Meeresforschung (AWI). Der Vereinszweck wird insbesondere [...] die Förderung des Erfahrungsaustausches zwischen ehemaligen und gegenwärtigen Mitarbeitern des Alfred‐Wegener‐Instituts. § 3 Gemeinnützigkeit 1. Der Verein verfolgt ausschließlich und unmittelbar gemeinnützige

research team led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), which also included members from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), has now developed a method for

Antarctic sea-ice cover have had profound impacts on life on the ocean floor. As biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute report in the latest issue of the journal Nature Communications, between 1988 and 2014

critical to feeding over a billion people in Asia. An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is now conducting the first-ever

“Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice” (BE-OI) with 2.2 million Euros, which is coordinated by the German Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

ever greater pace, releasing additional greenhouse gases. A large EU project, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), is now exploring the consequences