• How do clouds form in Antarctica? The first flight-based aerosol measurements in 20 years

      process has not been sufficiently researched to date. Engaging in the SANAT flight campaign, the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

    • The Southern Ocean’s low-salinity water locked away CO2 for decades, but ...

      ability has seen no significant decline in recent decades. In a recent study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have discovered what may be causing this. Low-salinity water in the upper ocean has

    • Domino Effect in the Amazon Region

      Geosciences Department, the Institute for Environmental Physics of the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, have investigated how a change in Atlantic circulation would impact the Amazon Rain

    • Bremen Senate Medal for Art and Science awarded to Prof. Antje Boetius

      In recognition of her services to science, to the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and to Bremen as a location for science, Prof. Antje Boetius has been awarded the

    • Five years developing a pan-Arctic environmental observation system

      has been conducted within the Arctic PASSION EU project, coordinated by Michael Karcher of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). At the final symposium in Potsdam

    • A significant amount of dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean comes from land

      organic carbon which is flowing into the central Arctic ocean. In a new study, scientists led by Alfred-Wegener-Institute quantified how much terrestrial organic matter accumulates in the central Arctic Ocean

    • Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts

      expedition team has been exploring the northwestern Weddell Sea in the Antarctic on board the Alfred Wegener Institute's icebreaker Polarstern since 8 February 2026. In this key region for global ocean

    • Sharing knowledge, shaping the future: New impulses for arctic research

      knowledge. The Arctic Dialogue is organised every six months by the German Arctic Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). This latest dialog event was

    • Lecture Series "Friday Seminar"

      Lecture Series "Friday Seminar" Contact: Martin Losch , Valentina Volkova Location: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Building G 301, Seminarroom "Arctic", Klußmannstr

    • PermaRisk

      Background Impacts of permafrost degradation (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Almost a quarter of the land surface of the northern hemisphere of the earth is characterized by permanently frozen soils [...] ecology and infrastructure are therefore critically important. The project Study sites (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The PermaRisk project aims to provide novel tools for the simulation of erosion and [...] crucial questions we will extend and improve the permafrost model CryoGrid3 developed by the Alfred Wegener Institute in cooperation with the University of Oslo. To ensure realistic model development,