• Guido Grosse

      Prof. Dr Guido Grosse, Head of Permafrost Research Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Permafrost Greenhouse gases Climate change Permafrost is the technical term for permanently frozen soil, which

    • Torsten Kanzow

      Head of the Section Physical Oceanography of Polar Seas at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen. Ocean currents Ocean topography of polar regions Ocean-ice sheet

    • Sensor E-Plus

      of the Department of Bionic Lightweight Construction of the Alfred Wegener Institute and additive manufacturing processes with regard to a pressure-resistant structure. The SIS structure is integrated [...] spectrometer) of the Department of Marine Geochemistry of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Thus this development can be used for the industry after the transfer into the market readiness. In addition,

    • Whale Song Reveals Behavioural Patterns of Antarctic Minke Whales and Humpback Whales in the Weddell Sea

      no biologists on site to watch for the animals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have now used permanently installed underwater microphones

    • Global Warming Reaches Central Greenland

      warmer than during the 20 th century, as researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute just report in the journal Nature . Using a set of ice cores unprecedented in length and quality, they reconstructed

    • Relaunch of the Sea Ice Portal: more intuitive layout and new features

      many other developments. From today, the joint project of the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM, and the University of Bremen is available in a completely new format –

    • Arctic Marine Ecosystems Still Under Pressure

      Experts from Kiel University, the University of Tromsø, and the Alfred Wegener Institute have now analysed scientific publications on the ecological impacts of climate change in Arctic seas released in

    • Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world – including Germany

      up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analysed by the Alfred Wegener Institute. According to the findings, one third of the plastic debris which still bore imprints or labels allowing an analysis

    • Record low sea ice cover in the Antarctic

      Southern Ocean were covered with sea ice. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen analyse the situation for the Sea Ice Portal. January 2023 had already set a new

    • Monica Ionita

      weather and climate be? Dr Monica Ionita, climate scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Extreme weather events Climate research Meteorology Time series analysis Beside the influence on natural systems