• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • STABLE

    Spring Time Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment (STABLE) STABLE was as a joint project of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, of the University of Hamburg (ZMAW), [...] tracks of the research aircraft of AWI during STABLE between 28 Feb and 28 March 2013 (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut Amelie Tetzlaff) The general goal of STABLE was to obtain in-situ data of processes

  • Stations

    Research locations of the Alfred Wegener Institute AWI Helgoland Kurpromenade 201 27498 Helgoland 0 47 25 / 819 0 Helgoland AWI Sylt Hafenstraße 43 25992 List Neumayer-Station III Ekström-Schelfeis, Atka-Bucht [...] .awi.de/neumayer AWIPEV www.awi.de/awipev Kohnen-Station www.awi.de/kohnen The Alfred Wegener institute maintains different infrastructures to support research in remote areas. The research