• Torsten Kanzow

    Climate Sciences Division and Head of the Section Physical Oceanography of Polar Seas at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University of Bremen. Ocean currents Ocean topography of polar

  • Sensor E-Plus

    of a bionic structure optimization of the Department of Bionic Lightweight Construction of the Alfred Wegener Institute and additive manufacturing processes with regard to a pressure-resistant structure [...] sophisticated sensor (underwater mass spectrometer) of the Department of Marine Geochemistry of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Thus this development can be used for the industry after the transfer into the market

  • Whale Song Reveals Behavioural Patterns of Antarctic Minke Whales and Humpback Whales in the Weddell Sea

    winter, there were virtually no biologists on site to watch for the animals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have now used permanently installed

  • Global Warming Reaches Central Greenland

    and the region is now 1.5 °C warmer than during the 20 th century, as researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute just report in the journal Nature . Using a set of ice cores unprecedented in length

  • Relaunch of the Sea Ice Portal: more intuitive layout and new features

    essential information on this and many other developments. From today, the joint project of the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM, and the University of Bremen is available

  • Arctic Marine Ecosystems Still Under Pressure

    coasts of Greenland and Svalbard. Experts from Kiel University, the University of Tromsø, and the Alfred Wegener Institute have now analysed scientific publications on the ecological impacts of climate change

  • Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world – including Germany

    plastic debris that had washed up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analysed by the Alfred Wegener Institute. According to the findings, one third of the plastic debris which still bore imprints

  • Record low sea ice cover in the Antarctic

    million square kilometres of the Southern Ocean were covered with sea ice. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen analyse the situation for the Sea Ice Portal. January

  • Monica Ionita

    How extreme will our weather and climate be? Dr Monica Ionita, climate scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Extreme weather events Climate research Meteorology Time series analysis Beside the influence

  • Infrared Based Whale Detection - AWI OZA

    Sea). Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 22.3: V-shaped blow of a baleen whale in the Southern Ocean. Note the tilted horizon caused by the ship's roll. Alfred-Wege [...] titut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 23.6 A minke whale blows through a hole it maintains in the solid sea ice during austral winter. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 24.3 The ice [...] blows (next image). Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: ?) ANT 24.3 A whale blowing at around 1km distance in a lead in the sea ice of the ice covered Southern Ocean. Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY