[Translate to English:] Kottas-Kohnen Traverse 2023

convoy (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Skidoo set up for measuring and placing new bamboos (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enjoying the view of the Kottas mountains (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Taking

Food Web Analysis - From sample to model

Model - 2017 edition Summer school in network analyses, edition 2016 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) header (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Aim of the course Introduction into food web analysis using the [...] communicated by explaining and exercising simple modelling. Venue Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung Target audience Advanced students,

AWI researchers measure a record concentration of microplastic in arctic sea ice

Microplastic
Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have recently found higher amounts of microplastic in arctic sea ice than ever before. However

Ten scholarship holders in oceanography honoured

all have been engaged in a training programme addressing all oceanographic disciplines at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). To close this important chapter

Cracks herald the calving of a large iceberg from Petermann Glacier

reaches of Greenland indicate the pending loss of another large iceberg. As glaciologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) report in a new study, the glacier’s

Introduced Alga Now Transforming the Wadden Sea

transforming the Wadden Sea ecosystem. Coastal scientist Prof Emeritus Karsten Reise from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) discovered the alga off the shores

Good news: European sea bass absorb virtually no microplastic in their muscle tissue

Aquaculture/Nutrition
In a new laboratory study, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated how many microplastic particles would be

Irreversible ocean warming threatens the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

second-largest ice shelf in the Antarctic to shrink dramatically. Climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recently made this prediction

Riddle of Varying Warm Water Inflow in the Arctic Now Solved

the Norwegian coast. But this rhythm can be thrown off for years at a time. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research finally have an explanation for why:

Call for tender procedure for the construction of a successor to the icebreaker Polarstern has been cancelled.

Polarstern II, for legal reasons. In times of unresolved climate issues, the research mission of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) can only be fulfilled in the