Chile a few days ago show how important a precise early warning system is. Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute support Indonesians to create new tsunami scenarios for the northeast of the archipelago

Ceremony
A great honour for Prof Antje Boetius: the deep-sea researcher and Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research was selected for the “LeibnizRingHannover

higher than previously assumed. This is one finding of a recent study by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Basel.

(RSF) have selected six further Joint Research Groups, including one with participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

Award
Today (Datum), former Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) scientist and mineralogist Prof Dr Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 from the International Permafrost

An international group of experts with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute receives a grant of $5 million from Google.org for the development of an AI system that can be used to study the

Endurance, which sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915. The researchers on board include experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI).

ago, the German Arctic Station in Svalbard was officially opened by the former directors of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Prof. Gotthilf Hempel and Dr

European Oyster
The Alfred Wegener Institute’s project to “establish the sustainable production of seed oysters for a long-term reintroduction programme (PROCEED)” has now been named an official project

most detailed and extensive examinations of a massive Antarctic glacier ever undertaken. The Alfred Wegener Institute directly participated in an expedition during which researchers explored the structure