• Long-Term Observations in the Southern Ocean

      floats while drifting in open waters (wiggled segments) and under ice (linear segments). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Along their tracks they collect profiles of temperature and salinity between 2000m [...] trajectory of a single float. Note the near-surface warming event in austral summer 2016/17 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Mapping the temperature and salinity profiles of many floats to specific surfaces (e [...] entire time period from objective mapping of float data. (From Reeve et al., 2016) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) More advanced analysis techniques even allow quantities estimates the transports associated

    • Mesocosms

      running experiment at the mesocosms facility (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Six mesocosms for winter experiments in the greenhouse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Publications Meunier, C. L. , Schmidt, [...] (AWISOM) Bird's eye view of the expanded AWISOM (AWI Sylt Outdoor Mesocosm Facility). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWI Sylt Outdoor Mesocosms (AWISOM) consists of 24 identical mesocosms, each with

    • "OpenAWI" - Diversity-sensitive Recruiting

      0471 4831-2238 leo.amende@awi.de Sketch "OpenAWI" - Mel mit dem Stift (Foto: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We're a partner of the project TandemPower . Together, we are standing [...] structures, processes, and a culture of diversity at the AWI. Illustration Pablo Stanley (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Core objectives and measures in the project "OpenAWI" Visual Diversity: A central goal

    • ARCGATE

      shows length of observations maintained by six different research institutes. Modified Di (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Arctic boundary has been observed over many years to better understand and monitor [...] series. The transport estimate during 2004-2010 will be quantified under ARCGATE project. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The ARCGATE also aims to address important questions to design future sustained pan-Arctic [...] for the US side of Bering Strait; the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) in Tromsø, Norway and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany for western and eastern Fram Strait, respectively; the

    • The role of jellyfish as a food source in the Arctic winter

      regions, like jellyfish, arriving in the Arctic. Using DNA metabarcoding, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now been able to prove for the first time that these jellyfish serve as food for

    • Working together to systematically improve our understanding of marine ecosystems

      Japan's Tohoku University and the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC. The Alfred Wegener Institute is part of the new institute.

    • New AWI Study on Legacy Industrial Contamination in the Arctic Permafrost

      more easily spread throughout ecosystems. A team led by Moritz Langer and Guido Grosse from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Potsdam investigated the potential scale of this problem. According to their

    • Permafrost contains more nitrogen than previously assumed

      in permafrost, we still know comparatively little about nitrogen. A team of experts led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now determined the size of the nitrogen reservoir and calculated how much of it

    • Thawing Permafrost is Shaping the Global Climate

      of experts led by Benjamin Abbott from Brigham Young University, USA and Jens Strauss from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam summarise the current state of knowledge on these questions. In addition

    • Salps fertilise the Southern Ocean more effectively than krill

      Scientific Publication
      Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, experimentally measured the release of iron from the fecal pellets of krill and salps under natural conditions