br>As of 1 January 2021, Lower Saxony is part of the federal and state financing for the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). The inclusion of the Helmholtz Institute

research: climate change and species invasion Dr Christian Buschbaum, marine ecologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Coastal research Wadden Sea Invasive species Around the globe, coasts and their communities

address this, here at the HIFMB, a cooperation between the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute, we use ‘planktotrons’: large water tanks that allow us to investigate the changes in the

Sea ice: a habitat for specialists Dr Ilka Peeken, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Biodiversity Polar regions Plastic Sea Ice Climate change is especially putting the polar regions under

chain reaction Dr Thomas Krumpen, sea ice physicist and expert for satellite analyses at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice Application of satellite data Arctic Ocean IceBird For the past several years

Nowaczyk from the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam and Florian Adolphi from the Alfred Wegener Institute, in a study that now appears in the journal Science .

24.0000A1 topAWI Triaxus system with the two hyperspectral instruments triaxus.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) topAWI Triaxus system with the two hyperspectral instruments AC-s (Wetlabs/Seabirds; lower

the glaciers. Using innovative new calculations, a team of climate researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now managed to explain this discrepancy. The study, which was recently published in

(Coordination); Martin Lohse (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine); Karsten Wurr (Alfred Wegener Institute); Anne Hilgendorff (Helmholtz Zentrum München); Barbara Janssens (German Cancer Research

(Coordination); Martin Lohse (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine); Karsten Wurr (Alfred Wegener Institute); Anne Hilgendorff (Helmholtz Zentrum München); Barbara Janssens (German Cancer Research