• Loss of Diversity Near Melting Coastal Glaciers

    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 Advances. The scientists

  • Formation of the Arctic Basin

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

  • Technology

    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") magnet - low energy

  • Awards

    Reviewer Award 2025 Peter Köhler auf der Kottastraverse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific reviews of manuscripts can also be rated with stars. Five stars earn you a prize, the IOP Trusted [...] University of Bremen 2022 Steven Franke (Photo: Steven Franke, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In 2022 Dr. Steven Franke was awarded the Student Prize of the Friends of the University of Bremen for his PhD [...] .” Link Descartes Prize 2008 EPICA Team (Photo: Sepp Kipfstuhl, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The research prize is awarded to teams of researchers who have “achieved outstanding scientific or technological

  • ARCGATE

    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 the exchanges between the [...] 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 observation lines [...] ; 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 Institute of Marine Research

  • Mesocosms

    expanded AWISOM (AWI Sylt Outdoor Mesocosm Facility). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The AWI Sylt Outdoor Mesocosms (AWISOM) consists of 24 identical mesocosms, each with 1800 l sea water volume and [...] monitoring a 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.

  • Outreach

    : 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 on the Global Carbon Budget [...] ', but it indeed produces half of the global oxygen. For 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, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have discovered in a recent study that Ocean Acidification can

  • Long-Term Observations in the Southern Ocean

    (wiggled segments) and under ice (linear segments). (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Along their tracks they collect profiles of temperature and salinity between 2000m depth and the sea surface, [...] mapping of float data. (From Reeve et al., 2016) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) More advanced analysis techniques even allow quantities estimates the transports associated with this circulation [...] recordings from 66° S. Graph taken from Menze et al., 2016 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contacts Dr. Olaf Boebel +49(471)4831-1879 Olaf.Boebel @ awi.de Prof. Dr. Mario Hoppema +49(471)4831-1884

  • Research vessel Polarstern sets course for the East Antarctic

    and will have a geoscientific focus, with researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute involved in both expeditions. The change of personnel and ship supply will take place in Hobart at the beginning

  • Monitoring and Predicting Marine Biological Hazards

    hazard. The new joint project PrimePrevention, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has set itself the goal of developing new tools to help make society more aware of these hazards and prevent or