• The Southern Ocean as never seen before

      Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO v2), an international group of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute recently presented the best and most detailed seafloor map of the Southern Ocean, which

    • Siberian tundra could virtually disappear by mid-millennium

      broad expanses of tundra which are home to a unique mix of flora and fauna. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now prepared a computer simulation of how these woods could spread in the future

    • Taking a Seismic Peek Below the Gargantuan Glacier

      Ice 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

    • The Arctic is facing a decline in sea ice that might equal the negative record of 2012

      Arctic sea ice
      Sea ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), are anticipating that the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean this summer may

    • Researchers simulate the emergence of leads in sea ice

      Sea-ice modelling
      Scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI) and the University of Hamburg have succeeded in realistically simulating the emergence of large channels in the Artic sea ice in

    • How stable is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?

      than today. This is the result of a series of model simulations which the researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have published online in the

    • New satellite technology promises great progress for glacier research

      Satellite Remote Sensing
      Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute are developing with experts from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) a new satellite measurement method for the observation from space

    • Ice algae: The engine of life in the central Arctic Ocean

      greater role for the Arctic food web than previously assumed. In a new study, biologists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research showed that not only animals that live

    • Computing Centre

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    • Education

      you are interested, simply contact our research group directly. Heincke excursion 2022 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact for Students Prof. Dr. Bela H. Buck Prof. Dr. Laurie C. Hofmann