• A belly full of jelly

      dead-end food source for predatory fish. However, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Thünen Institute has now discovered that fish in Greenland waters do indeed feed on jellyfish.

    • Salt Marshes and Seagrass Meadows

      in the last 30 years. [Translate to English:] Mesokosmen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Esther Horvath) Seagrass meadows are often found in the sea adjacent to or in close proximity to salt marshes. [...] in order to initiate a seagrass recovery here. Seegras (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Tobias Dolch Physical geographer Dr Tobias Dolch, expert on habitat changes in the Wadden Sea Svenja

    • Water Meets Land – Coastal Hydrography and Geology

      and long-term evolution of coastal areas. Oyster reef (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Mathias Wegner) How exactly habitats and sediment structures form is highly dependent on the ocean dynamics in [...] 15 October 2024 at a lecture by Jasper Hofmann. Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI experts Lasse Sander Physical geographer Dr Lasse Sander, expert on the topic of landscape development in the

    • The Wadden Sea Over the Course of Time

      with regard to the Wadden Sea. Wadden Sea Station Sylt (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Lars Grübner) Figure 1 (Graphic: Wiltshire, Amorim et al. 2022) Figure 2 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI

    • Riddle of Varying Warm Water Inflow in the Arctic Now Solved

      rhythm can be thrown off for years at a time. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research finally have an explanation for why: Due to unusual atmospheric

    • WG Long-term Ecology

      and analysed at the marine stations on Helgoland and Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute since 1962 and 1974, respectively ( www.awi.de/en/expedition/stations/translate-to-english-meeresstationen-helgoland-und-sylt [...] ; Figure 1). Figure 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to the research work, it is essential to make the data from the long-term data series 'Sylt Roads'

    • Publications

      Publications Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung et al., 2017: DEPAS (Deutscher Geräte-Pool für amphibische

    • Change of staff in coastal research: AWI Vice Director Prof Karen Wiltshire to helm new climate institute at Trinity College Dublin

      anthropogenic and natural influences – like climate change – at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Five years later, she was appointed Vice Director and Director of the AWI’s Biological Institute Helgoland. After

    • Organisation chart

      Organisation chart of the Alfred Wegener Institute Organisation chart

    • „Wir können Watt - coastal research in time with the tides”

      in Westerland. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the municipality of Sylt and provides an insight into the daily work of the institute’s scientists on