• Bottom-trawling fisheries reduce carbon storage

    Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon. The study is part of the collaborative project APOC. Partners are the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for

  • Domino Effect in the Amazon Region

    Geosciences Department, the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, have investigated how a change in Atlantic circulation would impact the Amazon Rain

  • How much climate change is in the weather?

    “Boris” led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. An analysis conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows that in a world without the current level of global warming Boris would have

  • Open Technologies

    and AUV's). Further Information: Flyer (pdf) [Translate to English:] Handtool_AWI.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Handtool to safely unplug connectors <link file:17972 _blank download> Further Information:

  • 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

  • Technology Transfer - From Research to commercial Application

    companies Want to know more? please do not hesitate to contact us: contact Tailcone of an AUV (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Quicklinks Technology transfer - Offers to the private sector The Technology Transfer

  • First amber find on the Antarctic continent

    conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg have just released a paper in the journal Antarctic

  • MICADAS

    the MICADAS radiocarbon laboratory at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany Technology Sample processing Contacts: AWI MICADAS laboratory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Gesine Mollenhauer Torben Gentz

  • Turning point in global fossil CO2 emissions has not yet been reached

    emissions worldwide. This is the conclusion of the Global Carbon Project, which researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute / the University of Bremen and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich)

  • Sea-level rise

    sheets as a risk factor Aerial photo of the Piedmont glacier in Northeast Greenland. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ice sheets as a risk factor With an area of 1.7 million square kilometres and measuring