Antarctica, reports a modelling study lead by researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute and published in Communications Earth & Environment . This warmer water could lead to a significantly increased

several decades, it has grown thinner and thinner. A team from the Alfred Wegener Institute can now tell us why. By applying a computer-based model, they were able to show that warm water from the Atlantic

from the Antarctic in the Earth's history. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now used a sediment core to demonstrate the climate sensitivity of this ice sheet over the last 140,000 years

Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC. The Alfred Wegener Institute is part of the new institute.

plateau of Antarctica. Installing borehole electronics (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

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

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

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

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

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