Scientific Publication
Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, experimentally measured the release of iron from the fecal pellets of krill and salps under natural conditions

Sea ice physics
Sea ice physicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have developed a new method that allows them for the first time to efficiently determine the distribution and thickness of what

the most productive alga in this inhospitable world," says biologist Dr Klaus Valentin of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). He is a member of the Phycology

of which were recently published by experts from Argentina, Germany and Great Britain and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in a study in the journal Science

central topic. Prior to this, an international research team headed by Bettina Meyer from the Alfred Wegener Institute presented the sustainable management concept in the scientific journal PNAS , which

Sangcheol Moon of the University of California Berkeley and including Melanie Bergmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute, shows in the journal One Earth that offsetting schemes such as plastic credits are

surface is also playing an increasingly significant role. In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute investigated how - caused by global warming - a 21 km 2 large meltwater lake formed

that is exactly what a team headed up by Prof. Charlotte Havermans and Dr. Ayla Murray from the Alfred Wegener Institute undertook in the winter of 2022. In Kongsfjord, in the west of the archipelago, the

of communicating science in a comprehensible and inspiring manner. For the fifth time now, the Alfred Wegener Institute is organising this extraordinary training programme with a host of partners. This year

opposing temperature behavior the „bipolar seesaw“. However, an international study, in which the Alfred Wegener Institute took part, now shows that in the past glaciers in the north and south retreated at