• New Method Makes It Possible to Measure Arctic Sea-ice Thickness, Even in Summer

      surface make it difficult to apply. An international team of researchers including experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now developed a method that, for the first time, makes it possible to identify

    • In East Siberia, Extreme Wildfires are on the Rise

      wildfires in the region, a team of researchers led by Ramesh Glückler and Elisabeth Dietze from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now investigated the connections between wildfire activity and forest structures

    • Drought risk in the Northern Hemisphere rises with intensified warming

      Northern Hemisphere. An international team of scientists led by climate researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute arrive at this conclusion in a new study released today in the journal npj Climate

    • Monitoring and Predicting Marine Biological Hazards

      masse, posing a biological 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

    • Sulfur promotes carbon storage in the Black Sea

      y high volume of organic carbon. A team of researchers led by Dr Gonzalo Gomez-Saez from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Dr Jutta Niggemann from the

    • In times of great famine, microalgae digest themselves

      Microbiology
      In a recent study, scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have determined the molecular mechanisms which microalgae apply in order

    • Intensification and poleward shift of oceanic boundary currents

      l warming results in fundamental changes to important ocean currents. As scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute show in a new study, wind-driven subtropical boundary currents in the northern and

    • New Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity

      pool and expand the research excellence in this field of the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven.

    • Project Structure

      Project structure graphical_abstract_Landscape.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) As a result of human activities, coastal marine coastal systems are subjected to simultaneous changes in environmental

    • CHS

      CHS: Carbonate-Handling-System CHS - Carbonate handling system (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / G. Mollenhauer) The CHS converts carbonate samples to CO 2 . It consists of an autosampler with a double