• Intensification of Arctic Ocean eddy activity under global warming

      Ocean Eddies
      In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated the long-term changes in the Arctic Ocean eddy activity

    • New findings on pockmarks in the North Sea

      and liquids, vertebrates may be the key to explaining pockmarks. Dr. Jasper Hoffmann from the Alfred Wegener institute, Helmholtz centre for polar and marine research (AWI), was part of this project. The

    • Monitoring and Predicting Marine Biological Hazards

      masse, posing a biological hazard. The new joint project PrimePrevention, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has set itself the goal of developing new tools to help make society more aware of

    • Research vessel Polarstern visits Australia for the first time

      that are new territory even for the Polarstern: Between two expeditions to East Antarctica, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research icebreaker reached Hobart in Tasmania on 30 January 2024 and will remain

    • Marine heatwaves may amplify beyond expected trends

      was recently published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • [Translate to English:] Methoden

      of motion on unstructured meshes. The model is developed and supported by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). See also FESOM on youtube .

    • Proxy Development

      foraminifera under controlled conditions (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute/ Delphine Dissard) Fig. 4: Nano-SIMS-picture of a benthic foraminifer (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute/ Gernot Nehrke) Contact: Dr. Gernot [...] during growth that can be measured by geochemical analyses . Fig. 2: Sampling of diatoms (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute/ Bärbel Hönisch) Foraminifera (unicellular organisms secreting a carbonate shell) are

    • Traces of Ice Age hunters discovered in the Baltic Sea

      structure has been discovered in the Baltic Sea region, the group, with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute, now reports in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    • Low contamination of Antarctic krill with microplastics

      widespread shrimp species. In the journal Science of the Total Environment , the team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute warns against false positive results if extraction steps are omitted during sample

    • The role of jellyfish as a food source in the Arctic winter

      regions, like jellyfish, arriving in the Arctic. Using DNA metabarcoding, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now been able to prove for the first time that these jellyfish serve as food for