• Before the ice were the rivers

      Geoscience researchers at the University of Bremen, together with colleagues from the Alfred Wegener Institute and other international participants, have discovered a vast river system in the Antarctic

    • Mud binds carbon

      Over the past three years the collaborative research project APOC, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has investigated how climate change and anthropogenic activities and pressure impact the carbon cycle

    • New dataset reveals biological “treasure trove” of Arctic Ocean

      unique species and assessing their extinction risk. The research led by scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of East Anglia is now published in PLOS Biology, futher informations

    • Scholarship holders finish their education

      development
      Today the graduates of the Nippon Foundation-POGO Centre of Excellence hosted by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) say goodbye to the AWI. During the past ten months the scholarship holders from

    • Advancing Global Ocean Monitoring from Space

      A team from the Physical Oceanography section of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), led by Hongyan Xi, contributed to the recently published 9th Copernicus

    • SafeSeaPack

      surrounding food webs? Current Experiments Surface - new (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Surface after 3 months (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The degradation of the packaging material in aquatic e

    • Seismics

      marine seismic data collection. Seismics in west Greenland (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Difficult terrain (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Seismic waves penetrate through the ice sheet or shelf and [...] Snow streamer (Photo: Olaf Eisen, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Subglacial conditions play a key role in the most dynamic parts of the ice sheet: ice streams, outlet glaciers and tidewater glaciers. These fast [...] most spectacular being a 4500m high Alpine saddle, Colle Gnifetti. Gimballed geophone (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Seismic data acquisition (seismics) is a technique to generate and record elastic or

    • "We need to make fundamental changes"

      amount of plastic litter in our oceans. We discussed this initiative with two experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) – Dr Melanie Bergmann and Dr

    • German Association for Marine Technology at the AWI

      "Meet the members"
      The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) welcomed members of the Association for Marine Technology (GMT). The AWI is itself a member of the

    • Arctic sea ice continues to track far below average

      decreased to an area of 4.4 (+/- 0.1) million square kilometres, according to researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the University of Bremen.