• SeaStrains

    (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A European biobanking strategy to safeguard macroalgal biodiversity SeaStrains Publishing Mock Ups - Abb. 1 Unser Favorit: Halbe Seite - Turquoise (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Model development

    the Larix Vegetation Simulator (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Simulated treeline migration into treeless tundra with the model LAVESI (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Individual-based modelling of

  • Food Web

    the core groups studied in the Food Webs WG Foodweb Logo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Team Team_Foodweb.JPG (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Head PD Dr Cédric Meunier Prof. Dr. Maarten Boersma Lennard

  • Remote Sensing

    Remote 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 [...] based on measuring the height of ice floes above the sea surface with radar altimeters (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut)

  • PermaRisk

    Background Impacts of permafrost degradation (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Almost a quarter of the land surface of the northern hemisphere of the earth is characterized by permanently frozen soils [...] ecology and infrastructure are therefore critically important. The project Study sites (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The PermaRisk project aims to provide novel tools for the simulation of erosion and [...] crucial questions we will extend and improve the permafrost model CryoGrid3 developed by the Alfred Wegener Institute in cooperation with the University of Oslo. To ensure realistic model development,

  • From River Weser to the North Sea

    litter is on the rise. A new project jointly coordinated by the University of Bayreuth and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is the first to approach the

  • Falling sea level caused volcanos to overflow

    international research team led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research has now discovered that a falling sea

  • Arctic Survivalists

    productivity and biodiversity. This was the main finding presented in a study by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, which they jointly release with their Canadian colleagues advanced online in the journal

  • How Arctic lakes are accelerating climate change

    microbes now can produce methane. An international research team, including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now determined that the rapid thaw under lakes has been neglected in models so

  • First conference for research software in Germany with AWI participation

    in Germany took place on the subject of research software. The Potsdam Research Centre of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) organized the conference together