wind farms and get an idea of how they can be integrated into ecosystems in various ways. The Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Center Hereon and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

threatened by global warming: warm water from the Atlantic is melting it from below. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute have however now determined that the temperature of the water flowing into the glacier

few locations. In the citizen science project “Microplastic Detectives”, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, together with citizens, have now collected samples from beaches along the entire German

maintain biogeochemical cycles and thus sustain our ecosystems. A. Murat Eren, a researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Helmholtz Institute for

16 July 2024 by Andreas Waser or on 20 August 2024 by Sabine Horn. Dunkeles Wattenmeer (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Dario Fiorentino) AWI experts Christian Buschbaum Marine ecologist Dr Christian Buschbaum

An overview of the international cooperation activities of the Alfred Wegener Institute (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) The Alfred Wegener Institute deploys scientists to institutions, on research vessels [...] Cooperations and networks National cooperation Established in 1980, the Alfred Wegener Institute is anchored in a global research network by numerous national and international cooperative relationships [...] than 100 cooperation agreements with universities, research institutions and other partners. The Alfred Wegener Institute is also a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres , one of the

vessel. Dr. Christian Salewski, archivist at the archives for German polar research based at the Alfred Wegener Institute, has compiled this and other milestones of the over 30-year history of Polarstern. [...] polar researchers, safely returning them to a now unified Germany. Georg Forster Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Operations 1990-1999 1990 - The ship picks up the crew of the GDR research station [...] the southern hemisphere for a year and half. 2012 - 30th anniversary of RV Polarstern (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Operations 2011-2015 03.10.2011 – RV Polarstern returns from the “Trans-Arctic Survey

the Antarctic in the summer season 1994/1995. He was the first German artist to travel to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s previous Neumayer Station on board the research icebreaker Polarstern. The laboratories [...] his second trek to the Antarctic, this time to launch his art project “Library in the Ice”. The Alfred Wegener Institute supplied the insulated cargo container that would house the library and transported

and trends of surface-ocean processes and their bio-physical coupling. Remote Sensing (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Modelling To predict upcoming changes in global ocean circulation, ocean productivity [...] eddy transport in Fram Strait. Modelling with data from the Fram-Strait and the Arctic (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

plenty of reasons for the experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute to take a closer look at the consequences of acidification. Fish swarm (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How long have we known about the [...] Columbia University, USA, first coined the term “ocean acidification”. Bleached Acropora (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) How bad has the acidification become? The amount of carbonic acid in the ocean varies