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

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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

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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

Sulfur promotes carbon storage in the Black Sea

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

Climate Change makes Arctic Ozone Loss Worse

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

Antarctic Circumpolar Current Flows More Rapidly in Warm Phases

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

Hausgarten Expedition ends

expedition to the Fram Strait between Greenland and Spitsbergen. In the so-called Hausgarten of the Alfred Wegener Institute there, the approximately 50 scientific expedition participants continued their more

EU Provides 15 Million Euros of Funding for Arctic Project

Programme to fund the Arctic PASSION project for the period 2021 to 2025. Under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, a consortium of 35 partners will promote the integration of international environmental