• Habitat Modeling - AWI OZA

      estimates evaluation of possible impacts of anthropogenic activities habitat_modeling.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Salps fertilise the Southern Ocean more effectively than krill

      Scientific Publication
      Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, experimentally measured the release of iron from the fecal pellets of krill and salps under natural conditions

    • Antarctic hotspot: Fin whales favour the waters around Elephant Island

      the life of the world’s second-largest whale. That makes the findings of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Johann Heinrich von Thünen

    • Flyer_AWI_EmergencyShowerTestDevice_EN.pdf

      Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research BREMERHAVEN, Germany Technology Transfer Office Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven Phone: +49 471/4831-1517 tto@awi.de • • • •

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    • CO2-neutral on the North Sea

      Keel Laying for New Research Ship
      The Alfred Wegener Institute is setting new standards for sustainability in German maritime shipping. On 8 June 2021 the keel for the successor to the research cutter

    • Heincke Expedition searches for Microplastics

      An eleven-member expedition team is currently underway in the North Atlantic with the Alfred Wegener Institute's research vessel Heincke.

    • Proxy Development

      Proxy Development Biomarker-based sea ice recontrsuctions. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The era of instrumental weather measurements spans only a tiny fraction (<150 years) of Earth’s climate history

    • Org_Geochem

      Biomarkerlab (Research Group PALICE) Contact: Dr. Juliane Müller Compounds Fig6: Alkenones (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) F5: Brassicasterol F7: IP25 Technical Datails Rock-Eval pyrolysis analyser for det

    • Silic_Micro

      microscopy using the resin Mountex (refractive index ca. 1.67). Siliceous microfossils (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact person Dr. Oliver Esper Literature Abelmann, A.; Brathauer, U.; Gersonde, R

    • Heat from Below: How the Ocean is Wearing Down the Arctic Sea Ice

      role in the marked decrease in sea-ice growth, especially in winter. Sea-ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), together with researchers from