• Polarstern reaches North Pole

      ArcWatch Expedition
      Five weeks after setting sail from Tromsø, Norway, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research vessel Polarstern makes a stop at the northernmost point on Earth. Here, too, the international

    • New study simulates greatly reduced permafrost

      projections are unable to dynamically reflect permafrost. A new study involving experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute has for the first time applied an extensive ensemble of 17 climate models to quantify

    • Due to sea-ice retreat, zooplankton could remain in the deep longer

      organisms rise and fall within the water column. As an international team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now shown, in the future this could lead to more frequent food shortages for the

    • Study sheds new light on threat to cold-water corals

      to date, experiments have exclusively focused on mature cold-water corals. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recently explored the effects

    • Climate change threatens Arctic polar cod stocks

      the self-sufficiency of the Inuit. An international study team, including researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, has now evaluated the most important scientific work on Arctic cod of the past decades

    • Submarine Permafrost

      Profile submarine permafrost (Foto: Volker Rachold /AWI) (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) What is submarine permafrost? Subsea permafrost in the Arctic is generally relict terrestrial permafrost, inundated

    • Ice core drilling on Greenland reaches bedrock

      Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and many researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have participated in the drilling over the past seven years.

    • Pathogenes

      interest. PACES: Topic 2 WP2 Group leader: Dr. Gunnar Gerdts Dr. Antje Wichels MALDI TOF (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Microplastics

      (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) FlowCam (Fluid Imaging) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) sediment separator (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) FTIR spectrometer (Bruker Tensor) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] (µFTIR; Bruker Hyperion) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Raman microscopes (785 nm laser; rap-ID) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Nano-FTIR (neaspec) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Spring Algal Blooms

      Nina Heinzmann) Group leader: Dr. Gunnar Gerdts Dr. Antje Wichels Sampling Campaign 2018 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Phagen (Photo: Georg Krohne)