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Making the Arctic accessible for excellent science

maritime industry. The European Commission funds the project, which is coordinated by the German Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), with 6 million Euros. The project

Kidnapping in the Antarctic animal world?

amphipod’s legs they are unable to feed. Biologists working with Dr Charlotte Havermans at the Alfred Wegener Institute have investigated this phenomenon as part of a cooperation project with the University

A significant amount of dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean comes from land

organic carbon which is flowing into the central Arctic ocean. In a new study, scientists led by Alfred-Wegener-Institute quantified how much terrestrial organic matter accumulates in the central Arctic Ocean

The Southern Ocean’s low-salinity water locked away CO2 for decades, but ...

ability has seen no significant decline in recent decades. In a recent study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have discovered what may be causing this. Low-salinity water in the upper ocean has

Five years developing a pan-Arctic environmental observation system

has been conducted within the Arctic PASSION EU project, coordinated by Michael Karcher of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). At the final symposium in Potsdam

Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

expedition team has been exploring the northwestern Weddell Sea in the Antarctic on board the Alfred Wegener Institute's icebreaker Polarstern since 8 February 2026. In this key region for global ocean

Innovative approaches to dealing with marine natural hazards

Bremen, comes in. A first general meeting of the researchers including several scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute took place at the University of Bremen from September 4 to 6, 2024.

Atmospheric blocking slows ocean-driven melting of Greenland’s largest glacier tongue

threatened by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from below. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have however now determined that the temperature of the water flowing into the glacier

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

Wadden Sea, in connection with 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

A belly full of jelly

assumed that jellyfish were a 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

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