• 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.

    • 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

    • How the climate influenced the Antarctic Ocean - and may do so again

      Verhalten. Um dem Verständnis der Strömung einen Schritt näher zu kommen, haben Forschende des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts und des Leibniz-Instituts für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde aus einem Sedimentdatensatz

    • How waves stir up the Arctic Ocean - new Emmy Noether Group at the AWI

      energetics and mixing and their interdependence with sea ice in changing climate conditions) at the Alfred Wegener Institute want to investigate how these waves work in the Arctic, how they are related to sea

    • The ocean carbon sink is ailing

      the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, led by ETH Zurich with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

    • 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