far-reaching effects of climate change can already be seen and felt. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute are in attendance, will take part in the various COP26 events, and will share their own

Head office for polar research Why Bremerhaven? Nowadays the Alfred Wegener Institute is an integral part of the old maritime city Bremerhaven. But none other than Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt

and how much was absorbed by natural sinks. Dr Judith Hauck, a climate researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, is also part of the team. The project has just released its preliminary report in the

AWI EXPERT Professor Karen Wiltshire is the Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and Director of the AWI sites on Helgoland and Sylt. The [...] Groningen in the Netherlands. Since 2001, Wiltshire has worked and conducted research at the Alfred Wegener Institute. In 2006, as Director of the Biological Institute Helgoland on Sylt and Helgoland, she

the ice is exclusively depicted as a flowing body. But, as a new modelling study led by the Alfred Wegener Institute confirms, this approach neglects the ice’s qualities as a solid body. Accordingly, using

Sheet. As part of a major international collaboration, in the year to come experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) plan to use seismic waves to take

reconstructed for the drilling area (graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, James McKay under Creative Commons licence C-BY 4.0“.) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [01 April 2020] An international team of r [...] and their movement (white arrows) under global warming (graphic: Hu Yang/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [24 February 2020] In the course of the past 40 years, the major wind-driven [...] unique sediment cores have been taken. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [04 April 2016] An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Announcement_SD_course_2022_final Das Alfred-Wegener-Institut Centre for Scientific Diving, der Ausbildungsbetrieb Teraqua in Kooperation mit dem Hemmenhofener Trainingszentrum für Binnengewässerarchäologie [...] rgreifend mittels Videokonferenz am 15. Dezember 2021 durchgeführt wird. • Teilnehmer am Alfred-Wegener-Institut Centre for Scientific Diving werden in zwei 14-tägigen Blockkursen im April (Ort und genauer

these tiny pieces of plastic come from? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred Wegener Institute have shown that it takes precise analysis to answer this question.

has grown significantly. A team of experts from 28 countries, including scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) has launched the SeaWheat project