• Research

    and functional shifts in future climate scenarios. FRAM operations beneath the ice (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/FRAM/Sabine Lüdeling) FRAM - Our Work group is also involved in the context of the Arctic

  • From the Beginning to the Present

    research ship suited for the mudflats: the catamaran Mya. In 1998, the BAH was integrated into the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. In 2008, the institute building was

  • Pre-Quaternary

    The latter is enabled by dedicated model development work that led to the establishment of the Alfred Wegener Institute Earth System Model that extends the simulation of the Earth System from the classical

  • Archive for German Polar Research

    the history of German polar and marine research, with a special focus on the history of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute. The AdP is a cooperative member of the International Council on Archives (ICA), the [...] Archives Working Group. Head Archivist AWI-Archivst and -Historian Dr. Christian Salewski (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Christian Salewski, Dipl.-Arch. Am Alten Hafen 26 27568 Bremerhaven E-Mail: ar

  • Projects

    the Helmholtz Association, in which the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) pooled and applied their expertise

  • MeerWissen Project ORIENTATE

    the island and which extended to a depth of more than 30m. ORIENTATE is a cooperation of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung and the University of Sfax in Tunisia

  • MonitorShrimp (Kopie 1)

    Sander Elektroapparatebau GmbH and Förde Garnelen GmbH & Co. KG. The project is coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Funded by the Federal Agency

  • Energy and Waterfluxes

    conditions at Arctic field sites (in Siberia, Svalbard and Canada) Our research is based at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Potsdam in cooperation

  • The Wadden Sea Ecosystem

    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

  • MarGate

    experimental area and test facility off Helgoland MarGate experimental area off Helgoland. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The project MarGate was initiated in 2009 by the AWI Centre for Scientific Diving at