that 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

the history of German polar and marine research, with a special focus on the history of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute. The AdP is a cooperative member of the International Council on Archives (ICA), the [...] Archives Working Group. Head Archivist AWI-Archivst and -Historian Dr. Christian Salewski (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Christian Salewski, Dipl.-Arch. Am Alten Hafen 26 27568 Bremerhaven E-Mail: ar

Leistungen des Grönlandforschers und Entdeckers der Kontinentaldrift Alfred Wegener. 1. Aufl. Gotha: Perthes (Edition Petermann). 1.2. Alfred Wegener Institute Fleischmann, Klaus (2005): Zu den Kältepolen der Erde [...] Centre (Circumpolar Studies 6). Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung; Ausstellung (1994): 125 Jahre deutsche Polarforschung. 2. Aufl. Bremerhaven: Alfred-Wegner-Inst. für Polar- und Me [...] g. 1865-1875 = The period of founding of the german polar research : 1865-1875. Bremerhaven: Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (Berichte zur Polarforschung, 114). Available online

the thinning of sea-ice? Prof. Dr Christian Haas, Head of the Sea Ice Physics Section at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the Institute for Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen

Sea-ice observation: It’s all in the details Dr Lars Kaleschke, sea-ice physicists at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice Remote Sensing Sea ice observation systems Sea ice plays an important role in

Glaciologist Prof. Dr Angelika Humbert, head of the working group on ice sheet modelling at the Alfred Wegener Institute and professor at the University of Bremen. Ice sheets Glaciers Ice shrinkage Sea-level

Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre

from a Polarstern expedition to the Central Arctic. After a four-month-long Arctic season, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker is expected to arrive back in Bremerhaven with the morning high

for publications and presentations of ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) of the Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research. ePIC is an open access repository with

the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling deep-sea biodiversity, the Alfred Wegener Institute established the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) site HAUSGARTEN , representing