• WG Long-term Ecology

      Wadden Sea have been collected and analysed at the marine stations on Helgoland and Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1962 and 1974, respectively ( www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/tran [...] -nordsee-auch-die-deutsche-bucht-ist-so-warm-wie-noch-nie.html ; Figure 1). Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to the research work, it is essential to make the data from the long-term

    • Riddle of Varying Warm Water Inflow in the Arctic Now Solved

      the Norwegian coast. But this rhythm can be thrown off for years at a time. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research finally have an explanation for why:

    • The Wadden Sea Over the Course of Time

      Wadden Sea. Wadden Sea Station Sylt (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Lars Grübner) Figure 1 (Graphic: Wiltshire, Amorim et al. 2022) Figure 2 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Victor Odongo En

    • Water Meets Land – Coastal Hydrography and Geology

      understanding of the Holocene formation and long-term evolution of coastal areas. Oyster reef (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Mathias Wegner) How exactly habitats and sediment structures form is highly dependent [...] lectures on Sylt - for example on 15 October 2024 at a lecture by Jasper Hofmann. Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Lasse Sander Physical geographer Dr Lasse Sander, expert on the topic of

    • Salt Marshes and Seagrass Meadows

      salt marsh area of around 15% in the last 30 years. [Translate to English:] Mesokosmen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Esther Horvath) Seagrass meadows are often found in the sea adjacent to or in close [...] nutrient discharges would be needed in order to initiate a seagrass recovery here. Seegras (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Tobias Dolch Physical geographer Dr Tobias Dolch, expert on habitat changes

    • A belly full of jelly

      assumed that jellyfish were a dead-end food source for predatory fish. However, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Thünen Institute has now discovered that fish in Greenland waters

    • Team

      Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde before he went to the Wadden Sea Station Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in 2004. He did his PhD on the [...] effects between introduced and native organisms. Coralie Broquard Coralie_Broquard.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) I am interested in the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on aquatic organisms' [...] exposed to oyster farming (European project SPARE-SEA). Helen Spence-Jones HSJ.jpeg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) My interest in big-picture evolutionary questions has taken me from the behavioural

    • WG Community & Evolutionary Ecology

      Evol Biol 27, 2297-2307. Microbial symbiont: the host as a habitat Microbiome_Graph.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Higher organisms are not only part of ecosystems - they also represent an ecosystem

    • Asymmetric development of the polar ice sheets changed ice age cycles

      Pleistocene, around 2 million years before today: the so-called mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT). The Alfred Wegener Institute was involved in the study, which was published in the journal Science .

    • Research

      and functional shifts in future climate scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic