much length during the past several decades, it has grown thinner and thinner. A team from the Alfred Wegener Institute can now tell us why. By applying a computer-based model, they were able to show that

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and with participation of scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now studied the quantity of heat stored on land, showing the distribution of land

for research, to supply the overwintering crews of Neumayer Station III that is operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). With its return, the EDEN ISS project comes to an end, leaving behind a wealth

cause of this paradox has been tracked using million-year-old bee pollen by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Cologne, and international partner institutions. The results suggest

Celsius, which has never been satisfactorily explained. In the journal Science, a team led by the Alfred Wegener Institute puts forward a possible explanation for the rise in global mean temperature: our planet

Material Research Microscopy laboratory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In addition to their variety of shapes, diatoms are characterized by an extremely interesting and complex shell structure. The shells

Recent Radiosounding Latest Radiosounding from Neumayer-Station (Linear and Skew-T) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Launching a Balloon at Neumayer (German language)

AGE: Automated Graphitization Equippment Automated Graphitization (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / J.Hefter) Graphite targets are customarily required for radiocarbon measurements. For this purpose, CO

Head office for polar research Why Bremerhaven? Nowadays the Alfred Wegener Institute is an integral part of the old maritime city Bremerhaven. But none other than Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt

ecological year (FÖJ) Henning Ullrich Alumni Alumni Retreat Glaciology, October 2024 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) PhD students Faramarz Bagherzadeh Charlotte Carter Enes Ergün Lea-Sophie Höyns Florian