• Ecophysiology of pelagic key species

    Ecophysiology of pelagic key species Antarctic krill (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) The Polar Regions have a substantial influence on global climate and are among the fastest warming regions worldwide

  • Sample processing

    Sample processing AWI MICADAS sample processing workflow (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / T. Gentz) In the 14 C laboratory at the AWI, samples from various materials can be analyzed by accelerator mass

  • Project Structure

    to decision makers in order to optimize mitigation strategies. Grafik Cedric Meunier (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Dr. Cedric Meunier

  • Diversity: Specific support at AWI

    Family Office The Family Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) offers a variety of options to support employees with family responsibilities, particularly regarding childcare and caregiving for [...] Equal Opportunities Officer The Women's Representative and Equal Opportunities Officer at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) plays a central role in promoting gender equality and advocates for the interests [...] for Severely Disabled Employees The Representative Body for Severely Disabled Employees at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) provides comprehensive support for employees with disabilities. Its tasks and

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • A3m-transform

    through air-mass transformations Aims of our young investigator group A3m-transform icon (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) We want to understand why Arctic climate (temperature and precipitation) change is

  • Little researched current impacting on winter sea ice in the Arctic

    water back out of the Barents Sea on the sea ice of the Barents Sea. A research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute has now discovered - using model simulations - that this return flow from the Barents

  • PANGAEA

    (DOI). PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science is a joint facility of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Centre for Marine Env