calculated 253 Gt per year. Ingo Sasgen and Veit Helm from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research as well as Kevin Fleming from the GFZ German Research Centre for

of these rapid thaw processes. Under the leadership of the Alfred Wegener Institute, researchers from Germany, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, and Sweden plan to build a new dataset that will

, from krill to Weddell seals. In the new EU project WOBEC, the Alfred Wegener Institute, as the coordinator of a consortium of eleven institutions from Europe and the US, will establish the basis for

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 that the intensity of the

, these can be distorted by the data gap. Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now developed an AI-supported model that can correct these biases and thus contribute to a better understanding

ocean has hardly been quantified to date. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen have now been able to answer this

their impacts on the global climate and biodiversity. Led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, researchers from a total of 27 global partner institutions from around the world will work in interdisciplinary

the Marine Algal Ecology and Applications working group at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), has been appointed as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Seventh

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

Graphitization Equippment Automated Graphitization (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / J.Hefter) Graphite targets are customarily required for radiocarbon measurements. For this purpose, CO 2 , which