• Arctic (AWIPEV)

    Air Soundings Radiation Ozone Lidar Ny-Alesund Radiation Measurements and Observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) At the AWIPEV Atmosphere Observatory in Ny-Alesund, atmospheric key parameters for

  • Natasha Bryan, M.Sc.

    Natasha Bryan, M.Sc. PhD Candidate Natasha Bryan (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dissertation Title: Polar Flow: Investigating polar phytoplankton's functional biodiversity using Imaging Flow Cytometry [...] Basin of the Arctic Ocean using Imaging Flow Cytometry and PDMPO natasha.bryan @ awi.de ORCiD Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1015 Overview of Doctoral project Phytoplankton

  • Food Web

    the core groups studied in the Food Webs WG Foodweb Logo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Team Team_Foodweb.JPG (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Head PD Dr Cédric Meunier Prof. Dr. Maarten Boersma Dr.

  • Nicole Biebow

    Cooperation at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Science management International cooperation The polar regions are a key driving force for the Earth's climate and oceans. With the Alfred Wegener Institute's research

  • Training Capacity Exchange

    NF-POGO CofE had been hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany's foremost polar and marine research institution. The 10th and final cohort at the Alfred Wegener Institute began in May 2023 and will

  • Fram Strait

    Current showing the warm Atlantic Water flowing northward (von Appen, unpublished, 2017). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [Translate to English:] Figure 2: Temperature in 2500m depth across Fram Strait showing [...] the warming of the two deep water masses (updated from von Appen et al, DSR 2015). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Remote Sensing

    Remote Sensing Map of Arctic sea ice thickness (April 2015) obtained from CryoSat-2 data (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact: Dr. Stefan Hendricks The inaccessibility and sheer size of sea ice covered [...] based on measuring the height of ice floes above the sea surface with radar altimeters (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut)

  • ZAF

    Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Test with salads and herbs in a plant shelf (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A shrimp (L. vannamei) from an animal welfare experiment (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Weg [...] Heiner Mueller-Elsner) Aquarium shelf (Photo: Heiner Mueller-Elsner) Aquaculture research at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven (Photo: Heiner Mueller-Elsner) System 1 36 circular flow tanks, 600

  • Polar 5 + 6

    Research aircraft Polar 5 and Polar 6 Much of the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research is conducted in the inaccessible, ice-covered regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, making research aircraft indispensable [...] and operate at temperatures down to -54 degrees Celsius. The polar 6 research aircraft of the Alfred Wegener Institute flies over the Arctic Ocean during an IceBird sea ice thickness campagne. (Photo: Esther [...] Steinhage Contact and planning process View out of the window during a survey flight (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • PermaRisk

    Background Impacts of permafrost degradation (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Almost a quarter of the land surface of the northern hemisphere of the earth is characterized by permanently frozen soils [...] ecology and infrastructure are therefore critically important. The project Study sites (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The PermaRisk project aims to provide novel tools for the simulation of erosion and [...] crucial questions we will extend and improve the permafrost model CryoGrid3 developed by the Alfred Wegener Institute in cooperation with the University of Oslo. To ensure realistic model development,