• Awards

      in May 2026. link IOP Trusted Reviewer Award 2025 Peter Köhler auf der Kottastraverse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific reviews of manuscripts can also be rated with stars. Five stars earn you [...] geo.thws.de/studienbereich/preisverleihungen/ Data Champions 2025 Data Champions 2025 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Accessible Science: Thanks to a team from the AWI Glaciology group it is now possible [...] line-like feature. Student Prize University of Bremen 2022 Steven Franke (Photo: Steven Franke, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In 2022 Dr. Steven Franke was awarded the Student Prize of the Friends of the University

    • Ice Ocean Dynamics

      (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3b (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3c (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 1: Surface circulation of the Arctic Ocean (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] which mark the Atlantic origin waters (Karcher et al, 2012) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig. 3d (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Figure 3: Concentration of 129 Iodine [10 7 at/l] at 240m depth [...] sea ice) freshwater content (integrated in the area in blue on the map) (Graphic: T. Kovacz, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Arctic Ocean receives freshwater by run-off from Asia north of the Himalaya. Large

    • Scientific Diver

      (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We are happy to announce the 2026 European Scientific Diving Course "Certified Research Diver / European Scientific Diver" (Geprüfter Forschungstaucher). The Alfred Wegener [...] Diver“ at Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. 2014 Course Scientific Diving at AWI (Photo: Michael Schmid) In summer 2014, the Biological Station Helgoland (Alfred-Wege [...] Course "Certified Research Diver / European Scientific Diver" (Geprüfter Forschungstaucher). The Alfred Wegener Institute Centre for Scientific Diving (CSD) in cooperation with the Laboratoire d'Océanographie

    • Evolution of the most powerful ocean current on Earth

      atmosphere, and the stability of 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

    • Rapid growth of land ice due to summer snowfall

      into the LGM. In a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience , researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have used a newly developed

    • Research to continue on Arctic amplification and its global impacts

      January 2024, the research network, which also includes the Universities of Bremen and Cologne, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Leibniz Institute for

    • The Arctic's past provides a glimpse into the future

      Research Prof Dr Stijn De Schepper from Norway, and climate modeler Prof Dr Gerrit Lohmann from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Bremen.

    • How trace elements affect marine CO2 sinks

      Ocean can have significant effects on the global climate. In this regard, a new study from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the University of Bremen reveals an interesting connection: When phytoplankton

    • The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can’t be approached as two separate things

      separate catastrophes. An international team of researchers led by Hans-Otto Pörtner from the Alfred Wegener Institute calls for adopting a new perspective. In their review study just released in the journal

    • How much climate change is in the weather?

      “Boris” led to chaos and flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. An analysis conducted by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows that in a world without the current level of global warming Boris would have