• Less Ice, Fewer Calling Seals

      For several years, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings, just released in the journal

    • New AWI Study on Legacy Industrial Contamination in the Arctic Permafrost

      more easily spread throughout ecosystems. A team led by Moritz Langer and Guido Grosse from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Potsdam investigated the potential scale of this problem. According to their

    • Microbes use carbon from ancient rocks

      is an additional source of fossil greenhouse gases. This is the result of a study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, which has now been published in the journal Nature Geosciences .

    • Centre of Excellence

      The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Marine and Polar Research (AWI), is delighted to announce the start of the last cohort of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence at AWI, a comprehensive oc

    • Intensive Subtropical Ocean Warming is Only the Beginning

      warmed at all, or even grown slightly cooler, over the past 40 years. A team of experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has now succeeded in confirming

    • Underestimated Heat Storage

      Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and with participation of scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now studied the quantity of heat stored on land, showing the distribution of land

    • World Oceans Day

      in New York from 10:00 local time (16:00 CEST). Prof. Dr Hans-Otto Pörtner, biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Co-Chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

    • 20 Years AWIPEV: the French – German Arctic Research Base

      cooperation in international polar research celebrates its 20th anniversary. In 2003, the German Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the French Polar Research Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) merged their

    • Refraction seismology

      the moving seismic source along the profile. The OBS on deck is ready for operation. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact Dr. Karsten Gohl Dr. Mechita Schmidt-Aursch Dr. Wolfram Geissler

    • Mak-Pak Scale-Up

      technology on our side will be the base for the success of this project. Ulva lactuca (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut | Laurie C. Hofmann) Projekt Fact Sheet Project name Mak-Pak Scale-Up Project duration