• Teaching and Education

    cover letter and a short CV. Sampling of a frozen fragment of a sediment core for old DNA (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching

  • Peter_Köhler_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    lf re d- W eg en er -I ns ti tu t Peter Köhler is a physicist in the Glaciology section at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven (AWI). He is an expert

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  • Theses

    terrigenous sediment records in China and the North Pacific/Bering Sea. Universität Potsdam and Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung. S. Vyse (in prep.): Sediment-geochemical

  • Passive Acoustic Monitoring - AWI OZA

    maintained by AWI Ocean Acoustics Group as part of the HAFOS long term observatory. CC-BY 4.0 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Schematic of a HAFOS deep sea mooring. Mooring elements, top to bottom: floatation

  • Stefan Hain

    Protected Area in the Weddell Sea Dr Stefan Hain, Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Weddell Sea CCAMLR Antarcitca The effects of climate change have long been felt in [...] Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2011 Head of the Office of Environmental Policy at the Alfred Wegener Institute 2021 Collaboration on the orientation paper on biodiversity for the coalition negotiations

  • Congratulations!

    The eighth cohort of the NF-POGO Centre of Excellence in Observational Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute successfully completed their training on October 26, 2021.

  • Expert service to accompany the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow

    the far-reaching effects of climate change can already be seen and felt. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute are in attendance, will take part in the various COP26 events, and will share their

  • Site

    Head office for polar research Why Bremerhaven? Nowadays the Alfred Wegener Institute is an integral part of the old maritime city Bremerhaven. But none other than Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt

  • 2021 CO2 emissions at nearly 2019 level

    globe, and how much was absorbed by natural sinks. Dr Judith Hauck, a climate researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, is also part of the team. The project has just released its preliminary report in

  • Viscous AND elastic: Glaciers are more “solid” than previously assumed

    the ice is exclusively depicted as a flowing body. But, as a new modelling study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute confirms, this approach neglects the ice’s qualities as a solid body. Accordingly,