Ceilometer Backscatter Profiles Ceilometer CL51 (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) In October 2010 the Ceilometer CL51 ( VAISALA , Finnland) was mounted on the monkey deck of Polarstern. It is able to measure

polar ocean View from Rpthera Point, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In vast areas of the ocean, particularly in the Southern Ocean, marine primary production

Oamaru, New Zealand (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Diatom samples from all over the world (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Friedel Hinz regards a sample (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Antarctic diatom F [...] Fragilariopsis (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Antarctic diatom asteromphalus (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Antarctic diatom Chaetoceros bulbosum (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) A historic collection [...] supporting today’s research Diatom book in the archive of the Friedrich-Hustedt-Centre (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) As this shows: the Friedrich Hustedt Diatom Study Centre collection is by no means gathering

analytical tools . Contact: Christian Völkner Christian Völkner. Photo: G. Nehrke (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Sitemap Research Laboratory Expeditions Projects Cooperations

. Unstructured Finite Element mesh of the Greenland ice sheet. (Graphic: Thomas Kleiner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

PowerPoint Presentation Ocean and climate change Dr. Rebecca Rolph Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Germany • How the ocean regulates climate • Changes in the ocean • What

the science mission of the research project PermaRisk of the Humboldt University and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Stories about the land and the people of the

AWI EXPERT Angelika Humbert is a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and a Professor of Ice Modelling at the University of Bremen’s Faculty of [...] Excellence CliSAP, where she established the Glaciology Research Group. She has been at the Alfred Wegener Institute, where she currently leads a group focusing on ice sheet modelling and remote sensing,

studying Biology and Geology at the University of Marburg. He then spent three years at the Alfred Wegener Institute, where from 1986 to 1989, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the molluscan fauna

t Christian Buschbaum is a marine ecologist and, since 2010, has been a scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research’s Wadden Sea Station on Sylt, where he