>Every year, ten international scholarship holders from all corners of the globe come to the Alfred Wegener Institute’s two island-based sites. The POGO-Nippon Foundation Centre of Excellence trains them

Antarctica is one oft he fastest warming regions on Earth. An international team which involved the Alfred-Wegener-Institut researched which impacts the warming has. The new study is published in the current

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 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

contact Dr. Meunier via email to learn about research opportunities. Noctiluca scintillans (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

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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

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

Anna Naberhaus, B.Sc. Masters student Anna Naberhaus (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Title of Masters thesis: Characterisation of the Arctic Phytoplankton community at the Chlorophyll maximum at the

Special courses Training for Surface Supplied Diving at Helgoland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Additional courses on special topics like „ Surface Supplied Scientific Diving “ and „ Nitrox “ are organized

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