• Stable Isotope Facility

      them down. One of the modern laser-optical analysers (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Health and safety instructions at the ISOLAB - Stable Isotope Laboratory Potsdam (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut [...] isotopes, 48 water samples are measured one after the other (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) When scientists talk about climate archives, they don't have a real book or a library in mind. Instead, they mean [...] part of the apparatus (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

    • Intensification of Arctic Ocean eddy activity under global warming

      Ocean Eddies
      In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated the long-term changes in the Arctic Ocean eddy

    • Less Ice, Fewer Calling Seals

      For several years, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings, just released

    • Short-lived Ice Streams

      the Greenland ice sheet, that a team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute have just presented in the journal Nature Geoscience.

    • The gypsum gravity chute: A phytoplankton-elevator to the ocean floor

      quantities of carbon to the ocean’s depths. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recently observed this phenomenon for the first time in the Arctic. As a result of this massive algal transport,

    • AWI Project Awarded as Top Research

      Russian-German Cooperation
      The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and its three Russian partners received an award in the

    • North pole soon to be ice free in summer

      21 research institutes from around the world including the Alfred Wegener Institute, coordinated by Dirk Notz from the University of Hamburg, Germany.

    • The new Polarstern features a high-tech heart

      of the components are genuine market innovations with which the Alfred Wegener Institute and TKMS are setting new standards in research navigation.

    • AWI receives audit berufundfamilie for the fifth time

      work and family life is a high priority at all locations of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. This is also proven by the repeated awarding of the berufundfamilie

    • ‘Astro-Alex’ visits the AWI

      Alexander Gerst recently paid a visit to his alma mater, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Before an audience of ca. 200 members of staff, he gave an