ice Platelet ice of different shapes. (Photo: Mario Hoppmann/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Platelet ice is a layer of delicate ice crystals that can reach several meters in thickness beneath the sea ice. [...] Atka Bay Overview of all AFIN stations (Graphic: Mario Hoppmann/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Antarctic Fast Ice Network (AFIN) was initiated during the International Polar Year (IPY) to develop an [...] points across the bay since 2010. (Graphic: Stefanie Arndt/Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Monthly manual drillings to determine the thickness of snow, fast ice, and platelet ice at six fixed measurement

Warnemünde before he went to the Wadden Sea Station Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in 2004. He did his PhD on the analysis of morphodynamics [...] native organisms. Coralie Broquard Coralie_Broquard.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) I am interested in the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on aquatic organisms' physiology. I initially focused [...] European project SPARE-SEA). Helen Spence-Jones HSJ.jpeg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) My interest in big-picture evolutionary questions has taken me from the behavioural ecology of meerkats in the

deposits on Sobo-Sise Island and Bykovsky Peninsula. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Matthias Fuchs, Guido Grosse, Jens Strauss, Frank Günther , Mikhail Grigoriev, Georgy M. Maximov, Gustaf Hugelius [...] workflow from satellite image to lake change statistics (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ingmar Nitze, Guido Grosse, Benjamin M. Jones, Christopher D. Arp, Mathias Ulrich, Alexander Fedorov, Alexandra [...] location of the drill site, marked with back star (c) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Stapel, J. G., L. Schirrmeister, P. P. Overduin, S. Wetterich, J. Strauss , B. Horsfield, and K. Mangelsdorf

heights amount here to about 60 m (blue) and 500 m (red) (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) The atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is the layer which is influenced by processes generated at the surface and [...] with drifting floes and small ridges at the floe edges. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The interaction of the lower atmosphere with sea ice and ocean is strongly influenced by processes caused by the [...] of kilometers. Illustration of processes over leads (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Leads play an important role for air ice interaction processes since the large differences between their surface

for the new HIGHSEA class 24: Friday 14.02.2025, 5 pm At the Alfred Wegener Institute, Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven, main entrance. Information evening CvO GyO: Wednesday 19.02.2025, 6 pm : [...] Bremerhaven region (HIGHSEA profile) must be submitted to the Alfred Wegener Institute. We also need a copy of your last report card on this day. The application form and certificate can be handed in [...] here . Written test: 24.02.2025 at 2 am. You will come to the Alfred Wegener Institute on your own for a written test. We do not invite you to this test, you simply come to us if you have registered

archivist at the archives for German polar research based at the Alfred Wegener Institute, has compiled this and other milestones of the over 30-year history of Polarstern. We document extracts from the [...] marks (over 96 million euros). Contruction of Polarstern (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Construction of Polarstern II Data June 1979 – The invitation to tender for construction of the polar research [...] in the pack ice. Polarstern in the waters off Greenland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Operations 1982-1989 9 December 1982 – RV Polarstern is taken over by Federal Research Minister Heinz Riesenhuber

the TTE in North America and Siberia. Dr. Stefan Kruse (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Stefan Kruse Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems Research Foci Staff Labs and Methods Teaching and Education

(Antarctica) Weddell seal with satellite transmitter (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Southern Ocean (SO) represents ~10% of the world’s oceans but hosts about 50% of the world’s stocks of seals

Macroalgae in the rocky intertidal zone of Heligoland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Funded by the Schleswig-Holstein state agency for the environment, we are investigating in collaboration with

Spitsbergen: Hotspot of climate change in the Arctic. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)