• 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

    • Citizen scientists help discover microplastics along the entire German coastline

      few locations. In the citizen science project “Microplastic Detectives”, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with citizens, have now collected samples from beaches along the entire German

    • From the very small to the big picture: A new era in microbiology

      maintain biogeochemical cycles and thus sustain our ecosystems. A. Murat Eren, a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz Institute for

    • The Wadden Sea Ecosystem

      16 July 2024 by Andreas Waser or on 20 August 2024 by Sabine Horn. Dunkeles Wattenmeer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Dario Fiorentino) AWI experts Christian Buschbaum Marine ecologist Dr Christian Buschbaum

    • Chronicle

      vessel. Dr. Christian Salewski, archivist at the archives for German polar research based at the Alfred Wegener Institute, has compiled this and other milestones of the over 30-year history of Polarstern. [...] costs amounted to 188 million marks (over 96 million euros). Contruction of Polarstern (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Construction of Polarstern II Data June 1979 – The invitation to tender for construction [...] British research ship trapped in the pack ice. Polarstern in the waters off Greenland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Operations 1982-1989 9 December 1982 – RV Polarstern is taken over by Federal Research

    • Library in the Ice

      the Antarctic in the summer season 1994/1995. He was the first German artist to travel to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s previous Neumayer Station on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. The laboratories [...] his second trek to the Antarctic, this time to launch his art project “Library in the Ice”. The Alfred Wegener Institute supplied the insulated cargo container that would house the library and transported

    • FRAM Data Integration

      and trends of surface-ocean processes and their bio-physical coupling. Remote Sensing (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Modelling To predict upcoming changes in global ocean circulation, ocean productivity [...] eddy transport in Fram Strait. Modelling with data from the Fram-Strait and the Arctic (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Water: COSYNA

      04725 / 819-3344 E-Mail COSYNA App Unterwasserknoten im observierenden System Cosyna (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • On land: Geophysics

      to interested scientists around the globe. Aurora Borealis at the Neumayer Station III (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How long is your way to work? 1,5 kilometers. The entrance to the observatory Into

    • Ice Core Laboratories

      Antarctic and Greenland. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Particularly challenging: Finding the right gloves for working at 20 degrees below zero. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Each ice core is cut into [...] scanning macroscope). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWI glaciologists Sepp Kipfstuhl and Mark Curran discuss how to proceed further in the AWI ice lab. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Razor-sharp saws [...] precisely cut the ice cores. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A glimpse inside: In terms of its setup, the lab is reminiscent of a typical workshop. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Utmost concentration: An