• Great potential for comprehensive monitoring of the water masses in the ocean

      is a very big question, which is concerning scientists around the world. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now published, together with international colleagues, the usage of a new optical

    • More and stronger marine heatwaves in the Arctic – with severe consequences

      es, with abrupt temperature changes occurring at unprecedented rates. A new study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows how marine heatwaves will also become much more intense and frequent in the Arctic

    • Marked decrease in Arctic pressure ridges

      ecosystem. In a recently released study in the journal Nature Climate Change , experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute report on this trend and analyse observational data from three decades of aerial surveys

    • ShrimpWiz: More animal welfare in indoor shrimp farming through AI

      has been farmed in a welfare-compliant way. In the ShrimpWiz project, a consortium led by the Alfred Wegener Institute in cooperation with the company Oceanloop is investigating how indoor shrimp farming

    • Investigating unexplored ocean currents to the north of Greenland

      and northeast of Greenland, a research team led by physical oceanographer Torsten Kanzow of the Alfred Wegener Institute were able to collect unique data on ocean circulation in the area. A chain of six moorings

    • Glacial ice – a nutrient carrier

      micronutrient without which phytoplankton cannot grow. Pursuing a unique approach, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now, for the first time, demonstrated experimentally that Antarctic phytoplankton

    • Major Knowledge Gaps in Understanding the Ocean Carbon Sink

      Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in its latest report to which Prof Judith Hauck from the Alfred Wegener Institute contributed.

    • Hydrothermal ventfields

      differ in the presumed location of faults and heat sources. Hydrothermal ventfields (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • UV workstations

      UV workstations UV hood workstations (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) The UV workstations are designed for clean operations providing protection against contamination. They are equipped

    • SeaKey

      of Seaweeds of the German North Sea Coast [Translate to English:] Concept of SeaKey (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enable identification of seaweeds for variable stakeholders and students on the basis [...] development. Financiation: 2018 – 2021: Earth System Knowledge Platform ( www.eskp.de ); Alfred-Wegener Institute; since 2021: Landesamt für Umwelt, Flintbek, Kiel, Germany ( www.schleswig-holstein