SEAPUMP

SeaPump is a Helmholtz Young Investigators Group from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research . The group is a bridging group between the Helmholtz Society, University of Bremen, and [...] web interactions with the biological pump . Gruppenleiter: Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen Instituten: Alfred Wegener Institute Marum University of Bremen Kontakt: +49 (0) 421 218 65787

NEWS BMBF Chile Day ENG

Kate Maleike (Deutschlandfunk) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Panel discussion with Doris Abele (microphone) on German-Chilean cooperation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) This year's winners of the ideas [...] ideas competition to host a scientific workshop in Chile (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

ECOTRACE

feedback mechanisms. Our team EcoTrace group Picture: C. Völkner (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scarlett Trimborn (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Head of the group: Dr. Scarlett Trimborn Team: Jenna Balaguer [...] Polarstern expedition ANT XXVII-2. Picture: S. Trimborn (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Southern Ocean phytoplankton are major drivers of global carbon cycling accounting for 20% of the global annual

Snow on Sea Ice

satellite altimeters. Contact: Dr. Stefanie Arndt Magna probe survey on Antarctic sea ice (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) We perform snow thickness measurements during Polarstern expeditions by using a “magna [...] thickness measurements in the vicinity of the research vessel. Snow buoy, deployed on sea ice (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) We deploy snow buoys in the Arctic and Antarctic. They are equipped with echo sounders [...] can be accessed via the Meereisportal. Snow pit on sea ice, revealing different layers (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) In order to characterize different snow layers, snow pits are prepared during Polarstern

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.

Infograph: A warming Arctic

AWIPEV research station (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Causes of the warming Infograph: A warming Arctic - How has the winter temperature changed? (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Keep researching How [...] temperature is rising as well Infograph: How much is the surface temperature rising? (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Aerosols & Clouds

(Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) An automatic weather station deployed in Antarctica. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) AWIPEV engineer Wilfried Ruhe when adjusting the lidar laser. (Photo: Alfred-Wegene [...] Spitsbergen (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Measuring site with 10m mast and BSRN radiation instruments at Neumayer Station, Antarctica. (Photo: Holger Schmithüsen (Alfred-Wegener-Institut)) Atmosphere

Palaeogenetics Lab

Go Imaging System (BioRad) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Dr. Kathleen Stoof-Leichsenring (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific Head Prof. Dr. Ulrike Herzschuh Scienti [...] 2020 (Photo: K Stoof-Leichsenring) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Sampling room. Palaeogenetics lab 2020 (Photo: K Stoof-Leichsenring) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Technology The laboratories are

MICADAS

the MICADAS radiocarbon laboratory at Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Germany Technology Sample processing Contacts: AWI MICADAS laboratory (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Gesine Mollenhauer Torben Gentz