• Change of Staff in the Directorate of the Alfred Wegener Institute

      Personalia
      Dr Uwe Nixdorf is the new Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). As resolved by the Board of Governors, on 1 August 2015 he assumed

    • Into the ice – RV Polarstern opens the arctic season by setting course for Spitsbergen

      its home port in Bremerhaven, setting a course for the Arctic. Led by Dr Ilka Peeken from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) a team of 53 researchers from

    • Billions of juvenile fish under the Arctic sea ice

      Polar cod
      Using a new net, marine biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, been able to catch polar cod directly beneath the Arctic sea ice with a trawl, allowing them

    • Polarstern returns from the Arctic after a five-month journey

      Expedition
      On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), entered its homeport in Bremerhaven

    • Sea-ice zone has a major influence on the ecosystem

      contributed to storing the greenhouse gas CO2 during the last glacial period. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) present these new findings in

    • Study on changes of past climate

      comparison with the present interglacial. This is one result of a study by Dr. Frank Lamy from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and colleagues in this week’s

    • acp-15-11399-2015.pdf

      at the coastal Antarctic site Neumayer R. Weller1, K. Schmidt1, K. Teinilä2, and R. Hillamo2 1Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany 2Finnish

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    • Loss of Diversity Near Melting Coastal Glaciers

      of which were recently published by experts from Argentina, Germany and Great Britain and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in a study in the journal Science

    • Warm water is mixing up life in the Arctic

      indicated by data from long-term observations in the Fram Strait, which researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) have now analysed. Their most important finding: even a short-term influx of

    • Turning the spotlight on the Arctic

      Board, the scientific project ICE-ARC and the consortium EU-PolarNet, which is managed by the Alfred Wegener Institute, host an official side event during this year’s UN climate conference. The focus of