the sea and thus also influences global sea levels. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now used a new evaluation method for airborne radar measurements to determine the

Trough in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, reports a modelling study lead by researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute and published in Communications Earth & Environment . This warmer water could lead

much length during the past several decades, it has grown thinner and thinner. A team from the Alfred Wegener Institute can now tell us why. By applying a computer-based model, they were able to show that

the Southern Hemisphere apart from the Antarctic in the Earth's history. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now used a sediment core to demonstrate the climate sensitivity of this ice sheet

Japan's Tohoku University and the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology JAMSTEC. The Alfred Wegener Institute is part of the new institute.

temperature measurements across the plateau of Antarctica. Installing borehole electronics (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

research team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), has found large quantities of plastic waste and microplastics in a remote marine

the Beagle Channel? In the southernmost part of South America! (Map done with ESRI) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) - Beagle Channel is 240 km long and about 5 km wide at its narrowest point - The border

CoastCarb Collaboration of Work Packages (WP) Planned exchange in CoastCarb Partner institutes Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, DE) Carl von Ossietzky University

community. About the WP Leaders Kerstin Jerosch and Andrea Piñones Kerstin Jerosch is a scientist at Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, department Functional Ecology)