• There are large accumulations of plastics in the ocean, even outside so-called garbage patch

      Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), has found large quantities of plastic waste and microplastics in a remote marine protected area in the

    • Analytical Techniques

      size and transparency are also measured. Flow cytometer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) CASY The CASY® technology is based on the electrical detection of cells passing through a measuring pore. Cells [...] is present in organically bound form. CN DOC Analyser (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Rebecca Schüler) Fluorometric analysis Protein Quantification in solid sample material (FP) Quantitative [...] dyeing reagent before being measured. AP_FP_Analyse.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Rebecca Schüler) High-speed camera Because of their scale and speed, small zooplankton (<500µm) behavior cannot

    • Enormous Ice Loss from Greenland Glacier

      N Glacier is losing. According to measurements conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute, the thickness of the glacier has decreased by more than 160 metres since 1998. Warm ocean water flowing under

    • Evolution of the most powerful ocean current on Earth

      Antarctica’s ice sheets. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have now used sediments taken from the South Pacific to reconstruct the

    • Polarstern II: German Bundestag greenlights the construction of new icebreaker

      Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has enabled the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) to coordinate construction of a modern, high-performance

    • Tiny plastic particles are found everywhere

      . This is one finding of a recent study by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Basel.

    • No two worms are alike

      a team led by Sören Häfker and Kristin Tessmar-Raible from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Vienna report on a surprising discovery

    • Drifting with the clouds

      for the rapid warming of the Arctic is at the heart of a recent Alfred Wegener Institute project on Svalbard. The researchers are applying a new perspective and tracking how individual air masses cool

    • AWI Potsdam coordinates new project

      now poised to tackle a range of major challenges in science. The Alfred Wegener Institute is involved in two of the four pilot projects funded by the Helmholtz Association, one in a leading role. Helmholtz

    • Rapid growth of land ice due to summer snowfall

      published in the journal Nature Geoscience , researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have used a newly developed climate-ice model to draw