Safely Navigating on the Ice

make journeys like this much safer in future. The two Potsdam-based researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), took the first prize in the prestigious

Far fewer lakes below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than previously believed

Antarctic
In the course of an extensive Antarctic expedition, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research recently investigated several lakes beneath

All-in-one: New microbe degrades oil to gas

archaea. Scientists from Joint Re­search Group for Deep-Sea Eco­logy and Tech­no­logy of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Max Planck Institute for

Veritable powerhouses – even without DNA

genetic material, in addition to that found in the nucleus. Uwe John and colleagues at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now identified the first-ever exception to this rule in a single-celled parasite.

The federal government’s new Arctic policy guidelines

also concern Germany. In the following, Dr Volker Rachold, head of the Arctic Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), explains why the federal government

International Summer School: Offshore wind farms, an innovative and sustainable option for multi-use concepts?

farms and get an idea of how they can be integrated into ecosystems in various ways. The Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Center Hereon and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

YESSS – Kick-off for a year-long research marathon in the Arctic

polar research project YESSS (Year-round EcoSystem Study on Svalbard). Coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), YESSS is intended to yield new insights

New sym­bi­osis discovered

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account

Ice flow on Greenland is probably “only” 2,000 years old

sea and thus also influences global sea levels. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now used a new evaluation method for airborne radar measurements to determine the age

Traces of Ice Age hunters discovered in the Baltic Sea

structure has been discovered in the Baltic Sea region, the group, with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute, now reports in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences