Judith Hauck

ocean as a carbon dioxide reservoir Dr Judith Hauck, deputy head of Marine Biogeosciences at the Alfred Wegener Institute and head of Helmholtz Young Investigator Group Marine Carbon and Ecosystem Feedbacks

Ingo Sasgen

Retreat of the ice sheets Dr Ingo Sasgen, glaciologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Ice sheets Glaciers Sea-level rise With the aid of satellites, we can now very precisely determine how much ice the

Permafrost Resources

important facts and information about permafrost are summarized on these four pages. Julia Boike, Alfred Wegener Institute, Permafrost, Arctic Circle 2015 Presentation This presentation was held at the Arctic

ICRSS

szwieback @ alaska.edu Guido Grosse , International Chair Alfred Wegener Institute guido.grosse @ awi.de Sebastian Laboor , Web Master Alfred Wegener Institute sebastian.laboor @ awi.de Call for Papers and [...] com with any additional comments or concerns. Location Information Campus UAF Campus (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lodging Fairbanks is the hub of Interior Alaska. There are several lodging options

Reports & Dates

conducted on 12 November 2025 in 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

Project Structure

to decision makers in order to optimize mitigation strategies. Grafik Cedric Meunier (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Dr. Cedric Meunier

AWI’s underwater robot Tramper successfully recovered

Good news from the Arctic
On 27 August 2017, deep-sea researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recovered the underwater robot Tramper, which

Outreach

the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Dr. Clara Hoppe investigates how Climate Change affects the Phytoplanton in the polar regions. Eine Frage des Lichts (AWI, 24.2.2015) Scientists of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute [...] single-celled algae species and an important source of food in the oceans. Dr Clara Hoppe of the Alfred Wegener Institute examines how changed living conditions as a result of climate change affect Arctic [...] conspecifics, securing a longer survial of the population as a whole, as scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute claim in a recent study. Das Meer als Forschungsobjekt (Nordsee Zeitung, 6.7.2016)

Peta-Carb

The Challenge Yedoma cliff (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost deposits are estimated to freeze-lock as much carbon in the atmosphere, allowing a potentially significant climate warming [...] current Earth System Models so far. Project Objectives and Results Landsat true color image (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Data on the spatial distribution of soil carbon pools and their vulnerability to rapid [...] additionally supported by the Helmholtz Association with special funds for successful ERC grants. The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, in particular the Periglacial Research

Lidar

to the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam via Internet, where physicist Dr. Christoph Ritter analyzes it in detail. Lidar hatch: The laser beam leaves the observatory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] and are detected by photo multiplier tubes (PMT) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The control software records the data (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] AWIPEV observatory towards the clear sky. This beam belongs to a LIDAR system, runned by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Potsdam for more than 25 years. With this instrument scientists investigate the