• Keeping an eye on the regions when it comes to climate change

    analysis of climate traces from the past. A team led by the physicist Thomas Laepple from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam and the climatologist Kira Rehfeld from the University of Tübingen has therefore

  • Clancy

    the digestibility of the feed. The prototype of the trap has been in Belgium since 2019 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lead: Oliver Hauck Media: Björn Suckow Contac t: Mail to Oliver or Björn (0)471 4831

  • Invasive Chinese mitten crabs: New project launched to preserve native ecosystems

    highlighted the lack of internationally coordinated strategies to combat invasive species. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and Dresden University of Technology (TUD), together with partners from Belgium

  • German-Tunisian project to preserve the coastline

    beaches on the Tunisian island of 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

  • Helgoland Roads

    shown using a simple index: The mean diatom day. Planktonnetz 1979 Helgoland roads map (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Helgoland Roads DEIMS ID

  • Helgoland Transects

    larger biogeographical context. map transect (Photo: Inga Kirstein) graphic data longterm (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Automated data collection

    (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Salinity Ferrybox Helgoland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Ferrybox Temperature (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Ferrybox Chlorophyll (Photo: Alfred-Weg

  • Research to continue on Arctic amplification and its global impacts

    January 2024, the research network, 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

  • As student assistant

    many others? Whether in research, 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

  • Research vessel Polarstern sets course for the East Antarctic

    will be led by Kiel University 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