• New Tsunami scenarios for Indonesian Early Warning System

      Chile a few days ago show how important a precise early warning system is. Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute support Indonesians to create new tsunami scenarios for the northeast of the archipelago

    • DNA shearing

      DNA shearing Covaris M220 Focused-ultrasonicator™ (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The Covaris instrument is a focused-ultrasonicator which shears DNA into smaller sized fragments to prepare genomic DNA

    • Antje Boetius receives the Leibniz Ring

      Ceremony
      A great honour for Prof Antje Boetius: the deep-sea researcher and Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research was selected for the “LeibnizRingHannover

    • Tiny plastic particles are found everywhere

      higher than previously assumed. This is one finding of a recent study by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Basel.

    • Infrared Based Whale Detection - AWI OZA

      Sea). Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 22.3: V-shaped blow of a baleen whale in the Southern Ocean. Note the tilted horizon caused by the ship's roll. Alfred-Wege [...] titut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 23.6 A minke whale blows through a hole it maintains in the solid sea ice during austral winter. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ANT 24.3 The ice [...] blows (next image). Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY 4.0) (Photo: ?) ANT 24.3 A whale blowing at around 1km distance in a lead in the sea ice of the ice covered Southern Ocean. Alfred-Wegener-Institut (CC-BY

    • Six German-Russian research groups receive three-year funding

      (RSF) have selected six further Joint Research Groups, including one with participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute.

    • Permafrost researcher Hubberten honored for lifetime achievement

      Award
      Today (Datum), former Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) scientist and mineralogist Prof Dr Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten received the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 from the International Permafrost

    • New AI project on permafrost launches

      An international group of experts with the participation of the Alfred Wegener Institute receives a grant of $5 million from Google.org for the development of an AI system that can be used to study the

    • The search for the Endurance

      Endurance, which sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915. The researchers on board include experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI).

    • 25 years of the Arctic Station in Svalbard

      ago, the German Arctic Station in Svalbard was officially opened by the former directors of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Prof. Gotthilf Hempel and Dr