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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

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

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

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

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

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

y high volume of organic carbon. A team of researchers led by Dr Gonzalo Gomez-Saez from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Dr Jutta Niggemann from the

Arctic stratosphere. As an evaluation of meteorological data and model-based simulations by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) now indicates, ozone depletion

transport of heat, salt and nutrients in the ocean. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now evaluated sediment samples from the Drake Passage. Their findings: during the