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.

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

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

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