vessel. Dr. Christian Salewski, archivist at the archives for German polar research based at the Alfred Wegener Institute, has compiled this and other milestones of the over 30-year history of Polarstern. [...] polar researchers, safely returning them to a now unified Germany. Georg Forster Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Operations 1990-1999 1990 - The ship picks up the crew of the GDR research station [...] the southern hemisphere for a year and half. 2012 - 30th anniversary of RV Polarstern (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Operations 2011-2015 03.10.2011 – RV Polarstern returns from the “Trans-Arctic Survey

An overview of the international cooperation activities of the Alfred Wegener Institute (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) The Alfred Wegener Institute deploys scientists to institutions, on research vessels [...] Cooperations and networks National cooperation Established in 1980, the Alfred Wegener Institute is anchored in a global research network by numerous national and international cooperative relationships [...] than 100 cooperation agreements with universities, research institutions and other partners. The Alfred Wegener Institute is also a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres , one of the

16 July 2024 by Andreas Waser or on 20 August 2024 by Sabine Horn. Dunkeles Wattenmeer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Dario Fiorentino) AWI experts Christian Buschbaum Marine ecologist Dr Christian Buschbaum

maintain biogeochemical cycles and thus sustain our ecosystems. A. Murat Eren, a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz Institute for

few locations. In the citizen science project “Microplastic Detectives”, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with citizens, have now collected samples from beaches along the entire German

threatened by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from below. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have however now determined that the temperature of the water flowing into the glacier

Simeon Lisovski*, Christine Wesche*, Jacqueline Hilbert**, Fritz Hertel**, Rita Fabris** * - Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) ** - German Environment Agency

wind farms and get an idea of how they can be integrated into ecosystems in various ways. The Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Center Hereon and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

Every other year the climate sciences division of the Alfred Wegener Institute invites a distinguished scientist in climate sciences for a lecture on emerging fields of research and for scientific exchange [...] 2021, he was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. Peter Dueben (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Our upcoming lecture is scheduled for September 3rd, 2024, featuring Peter Dueben from

Bremen, comes in. A first general meeting of the researchers including several scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute took place at the University of Bremen from September 4 to 6, 2024.