Locations and Facilities

__ Helgoland Island (Central dive facility at AWI) Location of AWI CSD on Helgoland. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The Centre for Scientific Diving of the AWI is located at the "Binnenhafen" of Helgoland [...] @ awi.de. _________________________ Sylt (North Sea) The island Sylt in the North Sea (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Sylt is the northernmost island of Germany located in the Wadden Sea of Schleswig-Holstein [...] __________ Offshore diving in the German Bight and North Sea Research Vessel Heincke (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Dive missions in the German Bight and the North Sea are conducted from the research

Team

Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde before he went to the Wadden Sea Station Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in 2004. He did his PhD on the [...] effects between introduced and native organisms. Coralie Broquard Coralie_Broquard.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) I am interested in the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on aquatic organisms' [...] exposed to oyster farming (European project SPARE-SEA). Helen Spence-Jones HSJ.jpeg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) My interest in big-picture evolutionary questions has taken me from the behavioural

AFIN: Antarctic Fast Ice Network

feature below the fast ice: Platelet ice Platelet ice of different shapes. (Photo: Mario Hoppmann/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Platelet ice is a layer of delicate ice crystals that can reach several meters in thickness [...] Network - and our contribution in Atka Bay Overview of all AFIN stations (Graphic: Mario Hoppmann/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Antarctic Fast Ice Network (AFIN) was initiated during the International Polar [...] long-term time series it provides. Atka Bay and its measurement sites (Graphic: Stefanie Arndt/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Measurement variables and principles Manual drillings Time series data of snow, sea

Samoylov

25 February 2020. For this reason, all current and planned projects and collaborations of the Alfred Wegener Institute with government agencies in Russia have been frozen since 2022. If you have any queries [...] annually from spring to autumn. The LENA expeditions were jointly organized by three institutes: the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute

Detlef_Wilde_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

Aerospace engineer Detlef Wilde has been heading the new Polarstern construction project at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven since 2021. [...] Polarstern with „a more than worthy successor“. The new, high-performance research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute will be able to operate year-round in all ice conditions in the Arctic and Antarctic

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Grazers impact on Fe biogeochemistry

The icebreaker Polarstern in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The western Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and the northern part of the Western [...] Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) Duration: 2016-2020 Sebastian Böckmann (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Sebastian Böckmann Lead-PIs: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Prof. Bettina Meyer (AWI)

Announcement_SD_course_2021_AWI_Teraqua_ZMT.pdf

Das Alfred-Wegener-Institut Centre for Scientific Diving, der Ausbildungsbetrieb Teraqua in Kooperation mit dem Hemmenhofener Trainingszentrum für Binnengewässerarchäologie am Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [...] wird zentrenübergreifend mittels Videokonferenz am 30. März 2021 durchgeführt. ● Teilnehmer am Alfred-Wegener-Institut Centre for Scientific Diving werden in zwei 14-tägigen Blockkursen im Juni und im September

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Announcement_SD_course_2021_AWI_Teraqua_ZMT.pdf

Das Alfred-Wegener-Institut Centre for Scientific Diving, der Ausbildungsbetrieb Teraqua in Kooperation mit dem Hemmenhofener Trainingszentrum für Binnengewässerarchäologie am Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [...] wird zentrenübergreifend mittels Videokonferenz am 30. März 2021 durchgeführt. ● Teilnehmer am Alfred-Wegener-Institut Centre for Scientific Diving werden in zwei 14-tägigen Blockkursen im Juni und im September

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Sea Ice Thickness - Mass Balance

sledges across the sea ice of Atka Bay (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Helicopter EM Sensor Helicopter EM sensor measuring sea ice thickness (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) AEM measurement by Polar 5

Air: Meteorology

speed, and atmospheric pressure day by day, at the same time, for decades. Researchers of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut are collecting these weather data with the help of meteorological observatories in the [...] considered to be a WMO climate observation station by virtue of the fact that meteorologists of the Alfred Wegener Institute have been measuring the air temperature in Antarctica on a daily basis for 30 years [...] Gert König-Langlo. To be able to collect reliable temperature data, the meteorologists at the Alfred Wegener Institute used a thermometer of a special kind. It consists of a temperature-sensitive platinum