• Breaching 2 °C warming could lead to significant melting of the Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf

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

    • Warm Atlantic water is melting Greenland’s largest floating ice tongue

      much length during the past 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

    • Sediment core shows climate changes in the Patagonian ice sheet

      the Southern Hemisphere apart 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

    • Working together to systematically improve our understanding of marine ecosystems

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

    • [Translate to English:] Kohnen 2023-4

      temperature measurements across the plateau of Antarctica. Installing borehole electronics (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

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

      research team from the Helmholtz 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

    • DynAMo Engl

      the Beagle Channel? In the southernmost part of South America! (Map done with ESRI) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) - Beagle Channel is 240 km long and about 5 km wide at its narrowest point - The border

    • CoastCarb Engl

      CoastCarb Collaboration of Work Packages (WP) Planned exchange in CoastCarb Partner institutes Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, DE) Carl von Ossietzky University

    • WP1 ENG

      community. About the WP Leaders Kerstin Jerosch and Andrea Piñones Kerstin Jerosch is a scientist at Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, department Functional Ecology)

    • WP4 engl

      a 2-year research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, she connected to a broad in