• How is the dramatic decline in sea ice affecting biodiversity?

    ice-dependent algae and fauna, from krill to Weddell seals. In the new EU project WOBEC, the Alfred Wegener Institute, as the coordinator of a consortium of eleven institutions from Europe and the US,

  • Siberian larch forests are still linked to the ice age

    cause of this paradox has been tracked using million-year-old bee pollen by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Cologne, and international partner institutions. The results suggest

  • Using AI to close a data gap in the Arctic

    predictions for the future. However, these can be distorted by the data gap. Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now developed an AI-supported model that can correct these biases and thus contribute

  • Antonia Thielecke, M.Sc.

    to climate-driven changes in basic environmental parameters. antonia.thielecke @ awi.de ORCiD Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1015 Overview of Doctoral Project I study shifts

  • Radiosondes

    Recent Radiosounding Latest Radiosounding from Neumayer-Station (Linear and Skew-T) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Launching a Balloon at Neumayer (German language)

  • Material Research

    Material Research Microscopy laboratory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to their variety of shapes, diatoms are characterized by an extremely interesting and complex shell structure. The shells

  • Site

    Head office for polar research Why Bremerhaven? Nowadays the Alfred Wegener Institute is an integral part of the old maritime city Bremerhaven. But none other than Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt

  • AGE

    AGE: Automated Graphitization Equippment Automated Graphitization (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / J.Hefter) Graphite targets are customarily required for radiocarbon measurements. For this purpose, CO

  • Team

    dynamics and Earth System feedbacks Permafrost coring in the Fish Creek Delta, North Alaska (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly under the influence of natural and ant [...] permafrost carbon pools and their vulnerability to mobilization Alaskan Yedoma cliff (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic landscapes underlain by permafrost are threatened by climate warming and may [...] Degradation of ice-rich permafrost by thermal erosion thermoerosional valley Kurungnakh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Thermo-erosional valleys are widely distributed in ice-rich permafrost deposits of

  • Cell physiology

    capacity of animals under future environmental scenarios. Gisela sampling an oyster. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) An opened oyster. (Photo: Gisela Lannig) Anette preparing samples for extraction. (Photo: [...] NMR spectroscopy for metabolomics . Fun in the field in Wilmington - North Carolina. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Anette and Christian at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). (Photo: Gisela Lannig)