• Counteracting climate change: Research consortium sea4soCiety investigates ways to naturally increase carbon storage in coastal ecosystems

      of 40 scientists from nine northern German universities and research institutes, including the Alfred Wegener Institute. Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the consortium

    • Warm water is mixing up life in the Arctic

      indicated by data from long-term observations in the Fram Strait, which researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have now analysed. Their most important finding: even a short-term influx of

    • Are particle emissions from offshore wind farms harmful for blue mussels?

      sizeable quantities of particle emissions into the environment. A team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated the effects of these particle on blue mussels – a species also

    • More than 1.2 million years old ice core drilled

      It is a historic milestone for climate research: an international research team involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has successfully drilled a 2,800 metre-long ice core , reaching the bedrock beneath

    • Ancient plant DNA reveals the possible origin of the carbon in the ocean

      fkreislauf ist jedoch noch immer nicht klar, woher dieser Kohlenstoff stammt. Forschende des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts haben mit neuartigen Methoden Sedimentkerne aus dem Pazifik untersucht und können anhand

    • AWI’s underwater robot Tramper successfully recovered

      Good news from the Arctic
      On 27 August 2017, deep-sea researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recovered the underwater robot Tramper, which

    • Open Technologies

      and AUV's). Further Information: Flyer (pdf) [Translate to English:] Handtool_AWI.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Handtool to safely unplug connectors <link file:17972 _blank download> Further Information:

    • Arctic (AWIPEV)

      Air Soundings Radiation Ozone Lidar Ny-Alesund Radiation Measurements and Observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) At the AWIPEV Atmosphere Observatory in Ny-Alesund, atmospheric key parameters for

    • ARCGATE

      shows length of observations maintained by six different research institutes. Modified Di (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Arctic boundary has been observed over many years to better understand and monitor [...] series. The transport estimate during 2004-2010 will be quantified under ARCGATE project. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The ARCGATE also aims to address important questions to design future sustained pan-Arctic [...] for the US side of Bering Strait; the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) in Tromsø, Norway and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany for western and eastern Fram Strait, respectively; the

    • Team

      dynamics and Earth System feedbacks Permafrost coring in the Fish Creek Delta, North Alaska (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly under the influence of natural and ant [...] permafrost carbon pools and their vulnerability to mobilization Alaskan Yedoma cliff (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic landscapes underlain by permafrost are threatened by climate warming and may [...] Degradation of ice-rich permafrost by thermal erosion thermoerosional valley Kurungnakh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Thermo-erosional valleys are widely distributed in ice-rich permafrost deposits of