• German-Tunisian project to preserve the coastline

      Djerba are the focus of a week-long workshop taking place at the Alfred Wegener Institute on Helgoland from 14 November. As part of the "Oceanographic and Ecological Data for Nature-based coastal protection

    • Helgoland Roads

      mean diatom day. Planktonnetz 1979 Helgoland roads map (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Helgoland Roads DEIMS ID

    • Helgoland Transects

      transect (Photo: Inga Kirstein) graphic data longterm (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Automated data collection

      MS Helgoland Hamburg - Helgoland ferrybox transect map (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Salinity Ferrybox Helgoland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Ferrybox Temperature (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Ferrybox Chlorophyll (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Research to continue on Arctic amplification and its global impacts

      which also includes the Universities of Bremen and Cologne, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS

    • As student assistant

      , logistics or in the computer centre – in many sections at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) you may have the possibility to work as a student assistant (HiWi) for a limited period of time. Depending

    • Research vessel Polarstern sets course for the East Antarctic

      and will have a geoscientific focus, with researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute involved in both expeditions. The change of personnel and ship supply will take place in Hobart at the beginning

    • Filchner

      Filchner Location of AWS Filchner (Graphic: Google Earth) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWS Filchner is out of operation since December 2023. End of Dezember 2015 an automatic weather station was [...] the AWS as backup. Installing AWS Filchner 2015-12-28 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Yearly overview of AWS Filchner data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The transmitted data show that the AWS

    • Boundary layer processes

      heights amount here to about 60 m (blue) and 500 m (red) (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is the layer which is influenced by processes generated at the surface and [...] with drifting floes and small ridges at the floe edges. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The interaction of the lower atmosphere with sea ice and ocean is strongly influenced by processes caused by the [...] of kilometers. Illustration of processes over leads (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Leads play an important role for air ice interaction processes since the large differences between their surface

    • UN Ocean Treaty

      experts Stefan Hain Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute Find out more Helmut Hillebrand Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity Find out