• The many uses of driftwood: the first large-scale mapping of Arctic coastlines

      large-scale distribution patterns of driftwood. Now, for the first time, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have systematically mapped driftwood deposits along an 11,000 kilometre stretch of

    • AWI researcher Markus Rex receives 2025 NOMIS Award

      most prestigious and generously funded international scientific awards. The scientist from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) received particular recognition

    • 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

    • Helgoland Roads

      shown using a simple index: The mean diatom day. Planktonnetz 1979 Helgoland roads map (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Helgoland Roads DEIMS ID

    • 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

    • Vacuum line

      Vacuum line Sealing of a glass ampulla containing a CO2 sample (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Various freezing and melting operations can be carried out on a vacuum line, so that pure CO 2 can be sealed

    • Contact

      Contact Postal address, fax and e-mail Site map of Helgoland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) AWI Center for Scientific Diving Kurpromenade 201 27498 Helgoland Phone: see staff list Fax: 0471 4831 - 3369

    • Microstructure Mapping

      Example of Microstructure Mapping image (Photo: Ilka Weikusat, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) An essential part of ice core research at the AWI consists of mapping the microstructural parameters (grain size

    • Team

      dynamics and Earth System feedbacks Permafrost coring in the Fish Creek Delta, North Alaska (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly under the influence of natural and ant [...] permafrost carbon pools and their vulnerability to mobilization Alaskan Yedoma cliff (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic landscapes underlain by permafrost are threatened by climate warming and may [...] Degradation of ice-rich permafrost by thermal erosion thermoerosional valley Kurungnakh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Thermo-erosional valleys are widely distributed in ice-rich permafrost deposits of

    • Changes in high-altitude winds over the South Pacific produce long-term effects on the Antarctic

      the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The study was prepared by Dr Frank Lamy, a geoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, together with researchers from Chile