• Asymmetric development of the polar ice sheets changed ice age cycles

      Pleistocene, around 2 million years before today: the so-called mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT). The Alfred Wegener Institute was involved in the study, which was published in the journal Science .

    • A belly full of jelly

      assumed that jellyfish were a dead-end food source for predatory fish. However, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Thünen Institute has now discovered that fish in Greenland waters

    • Salt Marshes and Seagrass Meadows

      salt marsh area of around 15% in the last 30 years. [Translate to English:] Mesokosmen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Esther Horvath) Seagrass meadows are often found in the sea adjacent to or in close [...] nutrient discharges would be needed in order to initiate a seagrass recovery here. Seegras (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Tobias Dolch Physical geographer Dr Tobias Dolch, expert on habitat changes

    • Water Meets Land – Coastal Hydrography and Geology

      understanding of the Holocene formation and long-term evolution of coastal areas. Oyster reef (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Mathias Wegner) How exactly habitats and sediment structures form is highly dependent [...] lectures on Sylt - for example on 15 October 2024 at a lecture by Jasper Hofmann. Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Lasse Sander Physical geographer Dr Lasse Sander, expert on the topic of

    • The Wadden Sea Over the Course of Time

      Wadden Sea. Wadden Sea Station Sylt (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Lars Grübner) Figure 1 (Graphic: Wiltshire, Amorim et al. 2022) Figure 2 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Victor Odongo En

    • Riddle of Varying Warm Water Inflow in the Arctic Now Solved

      the Norwegian coast. But this rhythm can be thrown off for years at a time. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research finally have an explanation for why:

    • WG Long-term Ecology

      Wadden Sea have been collected and analysed at the marine stations on Helgoland and Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1962 and 1974, respectively ( www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/tran [...] -nordsee-auch-die-deutsche-bucht-ist-so-warm-wie-noch-nie.html ; Figure 1). Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to the research work, it is essential to make the data from the long-term

    • Change of staff in coastal research: AWI Vice Director Prof Karen Wiltshire to helm new climate institute at Trinity College Dublin

      Wadden Sea, in connection with anthropogenic and natural influences – like climate change – at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Five years later, she was appointed Vice Director and Director of the AWI’s Biological

    • „Wir können Watt - coastal research in time with the tides”

      will take place in the Rathauspark in Westerland. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the municipality of Sylt and provides an insight into the daily work of the

    • Project Structure

      Project structure graphical_abstract_Landscape.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) As a result of human activities, coastal marine coastal systems are subjected to simultaneous changes in environmental