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

Microbes use carbon from ancient rocks

is an additional source of fossil greenhouse gases. This is the result of a study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, which has now been published in the journal Nature Geosciences .

Centre of Excellence

The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Marine and Polar Research (AWI), is delighted to announce the start of the last cohort of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence at AWI, a comprehensive oc

Intensive Subtropical Ocean Warming is Only the Beginning

warmed at all, or even grown slightly cooler, over the past 40 years. A team of experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has now succeeded in confirming

Underestimated Heat Storage

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and with participation of scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now studied the quantity of heat stored on land, showing the distribution of land

World Oceans Day

in New York from 10:00 local time (16:00 CEST). Prof. Dr Hans-Otto Pörtner, biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Co-Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

20 Years AWIPEV: the French – German Arctic Research Base

cooperation in international polar research celebrates its 20th anniversary. In 2003, the German Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the French Polar Research Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) merged their

Mak-Pak Scale-Up

technology on our side will be the base for the success of this project. Ulva lactuca (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut | Laurie C. Hofmann) Projekt Fact Sheet Project name Mak-Pak Scale-Up Project duration

Artificial Intelligence for Ethical and Sustainable Shrimp Farming

and performance in the context of shrimp farming, is the outcome of a consortium combining the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Oceanloop and Sander Holding

Laurie_Hofmann_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

EXPERT Ph ot o: L or ea l B re m en Professor Laurie C. Hofmann is a marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven. She is also a

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