• MELTEX-II

    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)

  • Technology

    for operation. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Deployment of the DEPAS OBS. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) DEPAS OBS after emerging at the sea surface. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Number of instruments [...] Technology A description of the DEPAS instruments can be found in this publication: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung et al., 2017: DEPAS (Deutscher Geräte-Pool

  • Picarro L2120i Cavity RingDown Spectrometer

    L2120i Cavity RingDown-Spectrometer Picarro L2120i with vaporizer (photo: Alfred Wegener Institute, Levent Vorpahl) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Picarro L2140i Cavity RingDown-Spectrometer [...] with PAL HTC-xt Autosampler and A0211 Vaporizer for H and O isotopes (in water samples). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Picarro L2130i Cavity RingDown-Spectrometer 1 Picarro L2130i Cavity [...] with A0101 Autosampler and A0211 Vaporizer for H and O isotopes (in water samples). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: <link en science geosciences

  • Phytoplankton community dynamics

    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

  • 100 excellent international experts trained for global marine science

    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

  • Opening ceremony for the AWI Technical Centre “Rasmus Willumsen House”

    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.

  • Events

    Events in the Research Division Alfred Wegener Lecture Every two years, the Climate Science Reseach Division of the Alfred Wegener Institute invites to the “Alfred Wegener Lecture in Climate Science”. The [...] Friday Seminar The lecture series “Friday Seminar” comprises scientific lectures by guests of the Alfred Wegener Institute as well as by AWI employees. The aim of this event is to benefit from each other s [...] participate online. A new lecture can be registered at any time on AWI-Nextcloud . Location: Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar- and Marine Research Building G, Klußmannstr. 3, 27570

  • NEWS Workshop May 2019 at AWI EN

    2019 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Visit of the ICBM Spiekeroog platform in May 2019 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Alejandro Vitale visiting the AWI Workshop (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • DNA quantity & quality

    Next-Generation sequencing. PCR cycler (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Istitut, Levent Vorpahl) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) 4200_TapeStation.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

  • FlockoPro

    AWI (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Litopenaeus vannamei are kept in the system. (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Concentrated sample from the biofloc tank (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] Internships and final theses can be carried out in this project. Shrimps from a BioFlocsystem (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Lead: Monika Weiß , Mirko Bögner Phd : Janek Neuse Contact: Mail to Monika , Mirko