• Katja Mintenbeck

    Panel on Climate Change: the highest authority Dr Katja Mintenbeck, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. IPCC Ocean acidification At regular intervals, the International Panel on Climate [...] and accept the IPCC as the highest, neutral authority on the issue of climate assessment. The Alfred Wegener Institute was home to the Technical Support Unit for the IPCC’s Working Group II. Its members

  • Stefan Hain

    Protected Area in the Weddell Sea Dr Stefan Hain, Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Weddell Sea CCAMLR Antarcitca The effects of climate change have long been felt in [...] Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2011 Head of the Office of Environmental Policy at the Alfred Wegener Institute 2021 Collaboration on the orientation paper on biodiversity for the coalition negotiations

  • Team

    Quantitiative interpretation of paleoclimate data Thomas Laepple (Photo: Ergenzinger) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) I enjoy working across disciplines and combining observational data, statistics and [...] forcings by decomposing fields into spherical harmonics. Group_Picture_January_2020.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Cell physiology

    capacity of animals under future environmental scenarios. Gisela sampling an oyster. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) An opened oyster. (Photo: Gisela Lannig) Anette preparing samples for extraction. (Photo: [...] NMR spectroscopy for metabolomics . Fun in the field in Wilmington - North Carolina. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Anette and Christian at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). (Photo: Gisela Lannig)

  • BAQUA

    BAQUA The project “ BAllast water test Quality Assurance ” (BAQUA) is carried out at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven) in cooperation with the German [...] the implementation of collaborative tests for representative sampling. Tank_BAQUA.gif (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Factsheet Project name BAllast water test QUality Assurance (BAQUA) Project

  • Sorted!

    allowing successful and stress-free sorting. Vannamei shrimp from aquaculture (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lead: Mirko Bögner Staff : Janek Neuse Contact: Mail to Mirko or Janek (0)471 4831 [...] “Transfer Campaign” • Design and mode of operation of the tested sorting elements. (Photo: M. Bögner, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) • Size distribution of L. vannamei after 72 h of voluntary size grading

  • Technology Transfer - Offers to the private sector

    technologies and services originate, e.g. from the following R&D fields of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute: Aquaculture The Alfred-Wegener-Institute has various activities in the field of aquaculture . These are [...] Technologies As internationally acknowledged competence centre in polar and marine research, the Alfred-Wegener-Institute is one of the few institutions worldwide that conduct research both in the Arctic and [...] works at least partly autonomously. Environmental Data Fundament of the research work of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute is a multitude of scientific data that are gathered on expeditions or long-term survey

  • "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

  • 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