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

NEWS 1. Workshop, Ushuaia, October 2017 EN

at 1st DYNAMO Workshop in October 2017 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar in the harbour of Ushuaia (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Neuseeland Muschel Aquakultur

unlock the potential of this new aquaculture frontier. OOA_NZ_Image_Homepage_AWI.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Project Fact Sheet Project name Novel farming systems enabling multiple shellfish species [...] Contact Prof. Dr. Bela H. Buck Links Cawthron Institut NZ-ProjectBi-Stable_klein.mp4 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

SeaKey

of Seaweeds of the German North Sea Coast [Translate to English:] Concept of SeaKey (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Enable identification of seaweeds for variable stakeholders and students on the basis [...] development. Financiation: 2018 – 2021: Earth System Knowledge Platform ( www.eskp.de ); Alfred-Wegener Institute; since 2021: Landesamt für Umwelt, Flintbek, Kiel, Germany ( www.schleswig-holstein

Upper Air Soundings

radiosonde from the heliport (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Meridional-height section of temperature during ANT-XXI based on upper air soundings (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

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