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      Head office for polar research Why Bremerhaven? Nowadays the Alfred Wegener Institute is an integral part of the old maritime city Bremerhaven. But none other than Germany's former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt

    • SeaStrains

      Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger Screenshot_2024-07-17_at_09.49.12.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Click here to see the YouTube video. An European biobanking strategy to safeguard [...] biodiversity SeaStrains Publishing Mock Ups - Abb. 1 Unser Favorit: Halbe Seite - Turquoise (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Click here to read the article. Project Information Name SeaStrains Duration 18 months

    • BAQUA

      Assurance The project “ BAllast water test Quality Assurance ” (BAQUA) is carried out at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven) in cooperation with the [...] the implementation of collaborative tests for representative sampling. Tank_BAQUA.gif (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Information Name BAllast water test QUality Assurance (BAQUA) Duration 8 months

    • Depths of the Weddell Sea are warming five times faster than elsewhere

      000 metres. This was the main finding of an article just published by oceanographers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). In the article, they analyse

    • Why do Antarctic krill stocks fluctuate?

      Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) and the Bremerhaven-based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have shown that the competition

    • Deep-sea drilling to shed new light on the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

      Antarctic Expeditions
      Over the next few months, geophysicists and geologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research will gain unprecedented insights into the

    • 42,000-year-old sub-fossil trees allow more accurate analysis of the last reversal of the Earth's magnetic field

      Nowaczyk from the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam and Florian Adolphi from the Alfred Wegener Institute, in a study that now appears in the journal Science .

    • Final Report of the High-Tech Forum 2019–2021

      ions for the future innovation strategy in Germany. Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research is a member of the central committee

    • How larches are conquering Siberia’s high northern reaches

      Arctic
      Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have for the first time reconstructed the historical development of the larch forests in northern

    • Researchers see need for action on forest fire risk

      Dietze, formerly at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ in Potsdam and now at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, now provides new answers to these