• German-Tunisian project to preserve the coastline

      beaches on the Tunisian island of Djerba are the focus of a week-long workshop taking place at the Alfred Wegener Institute on Helgoland from 14 November. As part of the "Oceanographic and Ecological Data for

    • Helgoland Roads

      shown using a simple index: The mean diatom day. Planktonnetz 1979 Helgoland roads map (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Helgoland Roads DEIMS ID

    • Helgoland Transects

      larger biogeographical context. map transect (Photo: Inga Kirstein) graphic data longterm (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Automated data collection

      (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Salinity Ferrybox Helgoland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Ferrybox Temperature (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Graph Ferrybox Chlorophyll (Photo: Alfred-Weg

    • 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

    • As student assistant

      many others? Whether in research, logistics or in the computer centre – in many sections at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) you may have the possibility to work as a student assistant (HiWi) for a limited

    • Research vessel Polarstern sets course for the East Antarctic

      will be led by Kiel University and will have a geoscientific focus, with researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute involved in both expeditions. The change of personnel and ship supply will take place

    • Filchner

      AWS Filchner 2015-12-28 (Photo: Tore Hattermann) Yearly overview of AWS Filchner data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The transmitted data show that the AWS Filchner is situated in a rather calm region

    • Boundary layer processes

      during summer. Boundary layer heights amount here to about 60 m (blue) and 500 m (red) (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is the layer which is influenced by processes [...] (Fram Strait, near Svalbard) with drifting floes and small ridges at the floe edges. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The interaction of the lower atmosphere with sea ice and ocean is strongly influenced [...] outbreaks with strong roll convection Terra Modis Image of 17 April 2014 (13:15 GMT) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The interaction between atmospheric processes in polar and mid-latitude regions is

    • UN Ocean Treaty

      in the coming years. Our BBNJ experts Stefan Hain Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute Find out more Helmut Hillebrand Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional