• How the seafloor of the Antarctic Ocean is changing – and the climate is following suit

      will they do so in the future? A team of international experts, led by geophysicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), has now shed new light on nine

    • Whale Song Reveals Behavioural Patterns of Antarctic Minke Whales and Humpback Whales in the Weddell Sea

      winter, there were virtually no biologists on site to watch for the animals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have now used permanently installed

    • Gigantic ocean heat reservoirs respond to rise in global CO2 and changes in the Atlantic conveyor belt

      change is altering the circulation patterns of the AMOC. In a recent study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute found that this change has led to asynchronous poleward shifts of the Atlantic subtropical

    • ICOP 2016

      a Future Earth". Konferenz Abstracts Konferenzbericht Group picture participants ICOP (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ICOP2016 Best of the conference video International Scientific Committee Hans-Wolfgang

    • Weddell-seal

      and Satellite telemetry Weddellrobbe mit Kameralogger. (Foto: Horst Bornemann (AWI)) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The observation of seals with bio-logging and remote sensing technologies elucidates

    • Sample processing

      Sample processing AWI MICADAS sample processing workflow (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / T. Gentz) In the 14 C laboratory at the AWI, samples from various materials can be analyzed by accelerator mass

    • Project Structure

      to decision makers in order to optimize mitigation strategies. Grafik Cedric Meunier (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Dr. Cedric Meunier

    • Ecophysiology of pelagic key species

      Ecophysiology of pelagic key species Antarctic krill (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The Polar Regions have a substantial influence on global climate and are among the fastest warming regions worldwide

    • Samoylov

      25 February 2020. For this reason, all current and planned projects and collaborations of the Alfred Wegener Institute with government agencies in Russia have been frozen since 2022. If you have any queries [...] annually from spring to autumn. The LENA expeditions were jointly organized by three institutes: the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

    • Detlef_Wilde_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

      Aerospace engineer Detlef Wilde has been heading the new Polarstern construction project at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven since 2021. [...] Polarstern with „a more than worthy successor“. The new, high-performance research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute will be able to operate year-round in all ice conditions in the Arctic and Antarctic

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