• Ice streams deform due to tiny ice quakes

    borehole using a fibre-optic cable. The team from ETH Zurich, the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Strasbourg and the Niels Bohr Institute have now published their findings in the journal Science

  • Floods of the Nile in the past can help us for the future

    by the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ, including the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Innsbruck participated, provides insights into this. A sediment core from the Nile Valley

  • Jellyfish may dominate the future Arctic Ocean

    also and especially in the Arctic Ocean, as researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now successfully shown. In computer models, they exposed eight widespread Arctic jellyfish species to rising

  • Six to ten million years ago: Ice-free summers at the North Pole

    Climate History
    An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have managed to open a new window into the climate history

  • What we know about marine heatwaves in the Arctic

    from those in non-polar oceans. A recent study, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, in the journal Communications Earth & Environment , summarizes how these events have developed over recent decades

  • Cyclone clusters in the Arctic reduce sea ice and threaten coastlines

    follow one another. An international research team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now, for the first time, systematically investigated the effects of these accumulating cyclones, using weather

  • About Us

    About us As a Helmholtz centre for polar and marine research the Alfred Wegener institute works above all in the cold and temperate regions of the world. Together with numerous national and international

  • OPUS - Open Portal to Underwater Soundscapes

    : annual - monthly - daily - hourly - 10-min. CC-BY-4.0 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • OBS studies

    Haakon and Polarstern at the Aurora Hydrothermal Ventfield (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Reports & Dates

    Bremerhaven. Our Route Reports Foto_18.09.18__22_33_47.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Here you find the expedition report of the expedition PS132 (NoSoAT2023) Here you find our so called teaching