• Statement on Call for Tenders for Polarstern’s Successor

      Polarstern
      Prof Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute: “We were extremely pleased and relieved to pick up on the signals from the political community that the Budget Committee of the

    • 10 Years of Excellence

      of the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography (CofE) at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). This not only honoured the

    • Record highs in the North Sea: Even the German Bight is warmer than ever before

      recorded. In 2023, the North Sea also experienced dramatic record highs, as readings taken by the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Biological Institute Helgoland indicate. As data from the time series “Helgoland

    • Before the ice were the rivers

      Geoscience researchers at the University of Bremen, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and other international participants, have discovered a vast river system in the Antarctic

    • 25 years of the deep-sea observatory AWI-HAUSGARTEN

      For the past 25 years, the Alfred Wegener Institute has operated a long-term observatory in the Arctic deep sea: the HAUSGARTEN. Located between Greenland and Svalbard, it is where researchers investigate

    • How is the dramatic decline in sea ice affecting biodiversity?

      ice-dependent algae and fauna, from krill to Weddell seals. In the new EU project WOBEC, the Alfred Wegener Institute, as the coordinator of a consortium of eleven institutions from Europe and the US,

    • Thawing permafrost: Not a climate tipping element, but nevertheless far-reaching impacts

      scientific data currently available, the image is deceptive, as an international team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has shown in a recently released study. According to their findings, there is no single

    • Permafrost Biogeochemistry

      northern Alaska. For scale: the size of the polygonal pattern is approximately 10 meter. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate warming is inducing drastic changes in Arctic permafrost landscapes, such as

    • Permafrost researcher Hubberten honored for lifetime achievement

      Award
      Today (Datum), former Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) scientist and mineralogist Prof Dr Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 from the International Permafrost

    • Media centre

      Media Centre of the Alfred Wegener Institute Public Media Centre Utilization Under the Creative Commons licence CC-BY 4.0 the AWI provides photos and infographics, which can be used freely if the copyright