• Katja Mintenbeck

      Panel on Climate Change: the highest authority Dr Katja Mintenbeck, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. IPCC Ocean acidification At regular intervals, the International Panel on Climate [...] and accept the IPCC as the highest, neutral authority on the issue of climate assessment. The Alfred Wegener Institute was home to the Technical Support Unit for the IPCC’s Working Group II. Its members

    • Stefan Hain

      Protected Area in the Weddell Sea Dr Stefan Hain, Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Weddell Sea CCAMLR Antarcitca The effects of climate change have long been felt in [...] Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) since 2011 Head of the Office of Environmental Policy at the Alfred Wegener Institute 2021 Collaboration on the orientation paper on biodiversity for the coalition negotiations

    • SeaStrains

      Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger Screenshot_2024-07-17_at_09.49.12.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Click here to see the YouTube video. An European biobanking strategy to safeguard [...] biodiversity SeaStrains Publishing Mock Ups - Abb. 1 Unser Favorit: Halbe Seite - Turquoise (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Click here to read the article. Project Information Name SeaStrains Duration 18 months

    • BAQUA

      Assurance The project “ BAllast water test Quality Assurance ” (BAQUA) is carried out at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven) in cooperation with the [...] the implementation of collaborative tests for representative sampling. Tank_BAQUA.gif (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name BAllast water test QUality Assurance (BAQUA) Duration 8 months

    • Team

      Quantitiative interpretation of paleoclimate data Thomas Laepple (Photo: Ergenzinger) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) I enjoy working across disciplines and combining observational data, statistics and [...] forcings by decomposing fields into spherical harmonics. Group_Picture_January_2020.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Depths of the Weddell Sea are warming five times faster than elsewhere

      000 metres. This was the main finding of an article just published by oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). In the article, they analyse

    • Why do Antarctic krill stocks fluctuate?

      Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) and the Bremerhaven-based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have shown that the competition

    • Deep-sea drilling to shed new light on the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

      Antarctic Expeditions
      Over the next few months, geophysicists and geologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research will gain unprecedented insights into the

    • 42,000-year-old sub-fossil trees allow more accurate analysis of the last reversal of the Earth's magnetic field

      Nowaczyk from the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam and Florian Adolphi from the Alfred Wegener Institute, in a study that now appears in the journal Science .

    • Final Report of the High-Tech Forum 2019–2021

      ions for the future innovation strategy in Germany. Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research is a member of the central committee