Research aircraft Polar 5 and Polar 6 Much of the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research is conducted in the inaccessible, ice-covered regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, making research aircraft indispensable [...] and operate at temperatures down to -54 degrees Celsius. The polar 6 research aircraft of the Alfred Wegener Institute flies over the Arctic Ocean during an IceBird sea ice thickness campagne. (Photo: Esther

of a bionic structure optimization of the Department of Bionic Lightweight Construction of the Alfred Wegener Institute and additive manufacturing processes with regard to a pressure-resistant structure [...] sophisticated sensor (underwater mass spectrometer) of the Department of Marine Geochemistry of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Thus this development can be used for the industry after the transfer into the market

POLMAR PhD Program Welcome to POLMAR! The graduate school POLMAR offers all PhD students at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) a structured qualification program to complement their individual research work [...] Coordination: Dr. Claudia Sprengel Dr. Claudia Hanfland POLMAR Assistance: Christine Hieber Address Alfred-Wegener-Institut AWI Campus Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven Opening hours To ensure the safety of

and 3 show the distribution of deployed buoys since 2012. Map 2 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Map 3 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

and technological level, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has enabled the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) to coordinate construction of

Beringia at the LGM with the ice sheet extent and the sea level ~135 m lower than today (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) My current research topic are Arctic coastal wetlands in Alaska. I work on assessing

Wohlrab, Sylke Senior Scientist Woll, Matthias Engineer Section Meeting Bad Bederkesa 2024 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

estimates evaluation of possible impacts of anthropogenic activities habitat_modeling.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

both Germany); Funding :Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( BMBF ) ReCal.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Mikroalgen.png (Photo: H. Mueller Elsner)

illustration of permafrost thaw and climate change during the Long Night of Sciences (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Currently we see glaciers melting and observe how sea ice is decreasing. But what happens