years The project is funded by the AUF Bremen. Aquarium shelf (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / H. Müller-Elsner) (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

Amy Forster preparing diatom slides (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The extraction of microfossil remains like diatom valves or chironomid head capsules requires a chemical preparation of sediment samples [...] keys. Chironomid head capsule of the genus Paralauterborniella sp. (Photo: Larisa Nazarova, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching

trained at the Alfred Wegener Institute. This highly effective programme funded by the Nippon Foundation and the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and the Alfred Wegener Institute is

Centre on the new Climate Campus in Bremerhaven. In future, the Technical Centre is where the Alfred Wegener Institute will develop, test and prepare new equipment for use on expeditions. The project received [...] Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal State of Bremen. In honour of Alfred Wegener’s last companion, the building was named after the Greenlander Rasmus Willumsen.

Insights into the platform ICA_Clip_I_am_your_Trainer_Tanya (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ICA_Clip_Communication (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact To register for the course, please send an email [...] Inside Culture Academy The Alfred Wegener Institute welcomes you and wants you to have a good start in your new job and in Germany. With this in mind, we have some offers that may help you settle in and

shrimp from the mudflats (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Not a typical mudflat dweller - researcher stuck in the mud (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The brown shrimp Crangon cragnon [...] cragnon is a typical inhabitant of the mudflats. (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) A research traveller (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Birnbaum Dr. Thomas Krumpen Melt ponds on Multi year ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Melt ponds on First-year ice (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Instrumentation The aircraft Polar 5 was equipped with [...] respectively. Flight legs at 200 ft (61 m) (Graphic: W. Cohrs, Alfred-Wegener-Institute) Flight legs at 2000 ft (610 m) (Graphic: W. Cohrs, Alfred-Wegener-Institute)

station. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) CO2 incubation experiments with Ryder ay phytoplankton. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Sampling of seawater containing [...] British research station Rothera on the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Climate models indicate that the Southern Ocean is particularly prone to climate change [...] containing Ryder Bay phytoplankton. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn

currently being carried out in the circumpolar regions of the world. ICRSS-2006 group shot (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 10th ICRSS 2008 (Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada) The 10 th International Circumpolar Remote [...] being carried out in the circumpolar regions and elsewhere. ICRSS-2008 conference photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 11th ICRSS 2010 (Cambridge, United Kingdom) The 11th International Circumpolar Remote [...] of work currently being carried out in the circumpolar regions. ICRSS-2010 group photo (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 12th ICRSS 2012 (Levi, Finland) The theme of the 12 th CRSS symposium, May 14-18 2012

meteorological observatory. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Outstanding logistics: the research aircraft Polar 5 during an expedition in the Arctic. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Stefan Hendricks) Cu [...] Ocean. The polar regions and oceans are central drivers of climate-related processes. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Oceans cover seventy percent of the Earth’s surface. Characterised by their fascinating [...] climate. As an internationally respected centre of expertise on polar and marine research, the Alfred Wegener Institute is one of the very few scientific institutions in the world that are equally active