• Graduate School POLMAR

      POLMAR PhD Program Welcome to POLMAR! The graduate school POLMAR offers all PhD students at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) a structured qualification program to complement their individual research work [...] Coordination: Dr. Claudia Sprengel Dr. Claudia Hanfland POLMAR Assistance: Christine Hieber Address Alfred-Wegener-Institut AWI Campus Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven Opening hours To ensure the safety of

    • Higher CO2 absorption in the Southern Ocean

      of East Anglia (UEA) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute, has found that the Southern Ocean around Antarctica absorbs more carbon dioxide (CO

    • Projects

      (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Correlation of multidecadal temperature variations in Brussels with temperature variations in the rest of the world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] .pdf Illustration of the concept of “Boreal forest bi‐stability and glacial legacy“. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lake & Sea ice algae Lake & Sea-ice algae The seasonal extent and properties of Arctic [...] to investigate taxonomic and functional ice algae composition in the ocean and lakes. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) High-resolution reconstruction of regional climate changes in Antarctica High-resolution

    • DNA shearing

      DNA shearing Covaris M220 Focused-ultrasonicator™ (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Covaris instrument is a focused-ultrasonicator which shears DNA into smaller sized fragments to prepare genomic DNA

    • DNA quantity & quality

      Next-Generation sequencing. PCR cycler (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Istitut, Levent Vorpahl) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 4200_TapeStation.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • DNA isolation & library prep

      DNA isolation & library prep Fast-Prep®-24 Instrument (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) The FastPrep-24™ Instrument is a high-speed homogenizer for the lysis of sediment or plant samples

    • Coastal Waters Under Pressure

      habitats that are so vital for humans could suffer as a result, warns a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. To better understand these critical de

    • Research

      and functional shifts in future climate scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic

    • Asymmetric development of the polar ice sheets changed ice age cycles

      Pleistocene, around 2 million years before today: the so-called mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT). The Alfred Wegener Institute was involved in the study, which was published in the journal Science .

    • 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