Halvfarryggen

    Yearly overview of AWS Halvfarryggen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Daily overview AWS Halvfarryggen data (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] Automatic Weather Station Halvfarryggen AWS_Halvfarryggen.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In January 2019 an automatic weather station was installed on Halvfarryggen (71.17489°S, 6.80027°W), 690m

    Virtual research lab for MOSAiC data

    expedition. In order to rapidly make user-friendly access to this information possible, the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with the DKRZ Hamburg and the DLR Jena, will develop a series of analytical tools

    Atmospheric research in Germany will be significantly expanded

    Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig, and the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute is also involved. ACTRIS will provide data on the short-lived constituents of the atmosphere

    Counteracting climate change: Research consortium sea4soCiety investigates ways to naturally increase carbon storage in coastal ecosystems

    scientists from nine northern German universities and research institutes, including the Alfred Wegener Institute. Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the consortium

    West Antarctic Ice Sheet

    deposits and glacial unconformities (modified from Gohl et al., Marine Geology, 2013). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat

    Outstanding Dissertation on Climate Change

    Award
    Dr. Jan Nitzbon, scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) was awarded the 2020 Wladimir Köppen Prize for his doctoral thesis, which represents

    Concentrated knowledge on permafrost soils

    report, and a 40-member panel of experts has reviewed the contributions. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam contribute with a factsheet

    Bettina Meyer

    Dr Bettina Meyer, head of the working group Ecophysiology of pelagic key species at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor at the University Oldenburg. Antarctic Krill Polar pelagic key species Endogenous

    Ingo Sasgen

    Retreat of the ice sheets Dr Ingo Sasgen, glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Ice sheets Glaciers Sea-level rise With the aid of satellites, we can now very precisely determine how much ice the

    Back Again: First deployed buoy from the MOSAiC expedition

    On September 26 th , 2019, Marcel Nicolaus, marine physicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), placed an ice buoy on a floe during the passage of the