same process in other regions leads to many minor earthquakes, according to geophysicists of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

greater role for the Arctic food web than previously assumed. In a new study, biologists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research showed that not only animals that live

is a very big question, which is concerning scientists around the world. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute have now published, together with international colleagues, the usage of a new optical

pool and expand the research excellence in this field of the University of Oldenburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven.

Satellite Remote Sensing
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute are developing with experts from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) a new satellite measurement method for the observation from space

Aquaculture research
Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Technologie-Transfer-Zentrum Bremerhaven have taken a major step forward in their search for an alternative to fishmeal, an expensive

rums Geesthacht (HZG). Gemeinsam mit Forschern des Thünen-Instituts für Seefischerei und des Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) haben sie jetzt vor der Küste Helgolands ein Unterwasser-Observatorium zu Wasser [...] Unternehmen entwickelt hat. Das neue Unterwasser-Kamerasystem ortet selbst fragilste Arten auf zwei Wegen: optisch und akustisch. „Es sendet Schall aus, die Rückstreuung lässt die Ortung zu. Die Kamera zeigt

vulnerable to climate change than previously assumed. A research team in cooperation with the Alfred Wegener Institute has detected large amounts of meltwater on the Roi Baudouin shelf ice. This is due

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than today. This is the result of a series of model simulations which the researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have published online in the