• 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

    • Alga of the Year 2016: Ice alga Melosira arctica – winner or loser of climate change?

      the most productive alga in this inhospitable world," says biologist Dr Klaus Valentin of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). He is a member of the Phycology

    • Several metre thick ice cocktail beneath coastal Antarctic sea ice

      Sea ice physics
      Sea ice physicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have developed a new method that allows them for the first time to efficiently determine the distribution and thickness of what

    • Loss of Diversity Near Melting Coastal Glaciers

      of which were recently published by experts from Argentina, Germany and Great Britain and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in a study in the journal Science

    • Formation of the Arctic Basin

      seafloor at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Technology

      CHS Vacuum line AGE GIS PFC MICADAS key features Accelerator unit of the AWI MICADAS (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / T. Gentz) 200kV accelerator Helium stripping, 47% 14 C transmission Permanent ("Green")

    • Mesocosms

      running experiment at the mesocosms facility (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Six mesocosms for winter experiments in the greenhouse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Publications Meunier, C. L. , Schmidt, [...] (AWISOM) Bird's eye view of the expanded AWISOM (AWI Sylt Outdoor Mesocosm Facility). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWI Sylt Outdoor Mesocosms (AWISOM) consists of 24 identical mesocosms, each with

    • "OpenAWI" - Diversity-sensitive Recruiting

      0471 4831-2238 leo.amende@awi.de Sketch "OpenAWI" - Mel mit dem Stift (Foto: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We're a partner of the project TandemPower . Together, we are standing [...] structures, processes, and a culture of diversity at the AWI. Illustration Pablo Stanley (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Core objectives and measures in the project "OpenAWI" Visual Diversity: A central goal

    • ARCGATE

      shows length of observations maintained by six different research institutes. Modified Di (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Arctic boundary has been observed over many years to better understand and monitor [...] series. The transport estimate during 2004-2010 will be quantified under ARCGATE project. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The ARCGATE also aims to address important questions to design future sustained pan-Arctic [...] for the US side of Bering Strait; the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) in Tromsø, Norway and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany for western and eastern Fram Strait, respectively; the

    • Outreach

      the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Dr. Clara Hoppe investigates how Climate Change affects the Phytoplanton in the polar regions. Eine Frage des Lichts (AWI, 24.2.2015) Scientists of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute [...] ns for the future. Inside IPCC: Wie der Weltklimarat den Zustand der Ozeane bewertet (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Press Briefing Global Carbon Budget 2025 with Prof. Dr. Judith Hauck Press Briefing [...] single-celled algae species and an important source of food in the oceans. Dr Clara Hoppe of the Alfred Wegener Institute examines how changed living conditions as a result of climate change affect Arctic