• From the very small to the big picture: A new era in microbiology

      thus sustain our ecosystems. A. Murat Eren, a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity

    • Citizen scientists help discover microplastics along the entire German coastline

      science project “Microplastic Detectives”, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with citizens, have now collected samples from beaches along the entire German coast to be analyzed for

    • Ice streams deform due to tiny ice quakes

      borehole using a fibre-optic cable. The team from ETH Zurich, the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Strasbourg and the Niels Bohr Institute have now published their findings in the journal Science

    • Floods of the Nile in the past can help us for the future

      by the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, including the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Innsbruck participated, provides insights into this. A sediment core from the Nile Valley

    • Jellyfish may dominate the future Arctic Ocean

      also and especially in the Arctic Ocean, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now successfully shown. In computer models, they exposed eight widespread Arctic jellyfish species to rising

    • Six to ten million years ago: Ice-free summers at the North Pole

      Climate History
      An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have managed to open a new window into the climate history

    • What we know about marine heatwaves in the Arctic

      from those in non-polar oceans. A recent study, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, in the journal Communications Earth & Environment , summarizes how these events have developed over recent decades

    • Cyclone clusters in the Arctic reduce sea ice and threaten coastlines

      follow one another. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now, for the first time, systematically investigated the effects of these accumulating cyclones, using weather

    • Reports & Dates

      Bremerhaven. Our Route Reports Foto_18.09.18__22_33_47.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Here you find the expedition report of the expedition PS132 (NoSoAT2023) Here you find our so called teaching

    • SeaClancy

      Migrating mitten crabs at the weser weir (Photo: B. Suckow, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lead: Paul Helmert Contact: Mail Paul (0)471 4831 2204 Duration: 1.26 – 12.27 Funding: Deutsche Bundesstiftung [...] are suitable places to stop the mitten crabs (Photo: O. Hauck, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Funding