• Teaching and Education

    of a frozen fragment of a sediment core for old DNA (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching and Education Projects

  • Job Offer

    bewerbungsmanagement @ awi.de . Have you applied already? Login At the Alfred Wegener Institute, we are deeply committed to fostering diversity and ensuring equal opportunities — not as a formality, but because

  • [Translate to English:] Kohnen 2023-4

    plateau of Antarctica. Installing borehole electronics (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Spring Algal Blooms

    Gunnar Gerdts Dr. Antje Wichels Sampling Campaign 2018 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Phagen (Photo: Georg Krohne)

  • Core Repository

    Submit your sample request to curator @ awi.de repository at Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Am Alten Hafen 26 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany CRP-3 Core Core

  • Greenland East

    developments. Our working area offshore Northeast Greenland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact Dr. Boris Dorschel Dr. Catalina Gebhardt Cooperation partners UI Tromsø, Norway GEUS, Denmark

  • Silic_Micro

    (refractive index ca. 1.67). Siliceous microfossils (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Contact person Dr. Oliver Esper Literature Abelmann, A.; Brathauer, U.; Gersonde, R.; Sieger, R.; Zielinski, U.

  • Tara Polar Station

    Station in Lorient, France, in April 2025 (Photo: Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact: Marcel Nicolaus Associated AWI science partners: Physical oceanography: Benjamin Rabe Atmospheric physics [...] in the wet lab of Tara Polar Station (Photo: Marcel Nicolaus, Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • Climate Office

    The Climate Office for Polar Regions and Sea Level Rise at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is part of the regional Helmholtz climate offices network [...] Victor, IPEV) and organised annually by the Climate Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research by Dr Renate Treffeisen on the AWI side and Prof. Dr Jan Borm on

  • C-14 lab

    polar climate archives Thanks to a new high-tech tool, the Alfred Wegener Institute can finally unlock many polar climate archives for the first time. At its C-14 dating laboratory, AWI researchers [...] requires high-precision analytical work – a challenge that the Alfred Wegener Institute’s C-14 lab has now overcome. To do so, the scientists use a method called radiocarbon dating, also known as the