Automatic Weather Stations

Berger AWS Søråsen AWS Filchner AWS Halvfarryggen AWS Kohnen AWS test site at Neumayer_III (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) At AWI, modifyed AWS-systems based on stations from Campell Scientific are in use. [...] get saved locally inside the AWS. In parallel, they get transmitted hourly via IRIDIUM to the Alfred Wegener Institute. The most recent data get forwarded into the Globale Telekommunikation System (GTS)

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.

Anna Naberhaus, B.Sc.

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

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

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).

Natasha Bryan, M.Sc.

Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean using Imaging Flow Cytometry and PDMPO natasha.bryan @ awi.de Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1015