• New Start-up develops aquafarms for macroalgae

    MACROCARBON SL has just been founded in Las Palmas, on the Canary Islands. It is a spin-off from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Carbonwave. The start-up

  • Unusual cold spell in the stratosphere creates conditions for severe ozone depletion in the Arctic

    weather development in the Arctic leads to ozone depletion. According to the researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, in the past weeks an extreme cold

  • Sea Ice Plays a Pivotal Role in the Arctic Methane Cycle

    on of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere than previously assumed. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) report on the newly discovered

  • Into the ice – RV Polarstern opens the arctic season by setting course for Spitsbergen

    its home port in Bremerhaven, setting a course for the Arctic. Led by Dr Ilka Peeken from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) a team of 53 researchers from

  • Katha Paetz, M.Sc.

    potential carbon dioxide removal candidate in the wild and in aquafarms. katharina.paetz @ awi.de Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1030

  • Tatiana Michelle Torres, J.D./D.C.L./M.Sc.

    Responses of Gracilaria parvispora ORCID: 0000-0003-3601-7421 tatianamichelle.torres @ awi.de Alfred Wegener Institut Am Handelshafen 12 27570 Bremerhaven E-1005

  • UV workstations

    UV workstations UV hood workstations (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) The UV workstations are designed for clean operations providing protection against contamination. They are equipped

  • Publications

    for publications and presentations of ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) of the Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research. ePIC is an open access repository with

  • Oceanic microseisms

    oceanic microseisms research projects. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact An ice-going OBS has emerged in a Polynia (ice-free area). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Prof. Dr. Vera Schlindwein Dr. Mechita

  • Carbon

    Permafrost carbon Sampling a Yedoma cliff, Sobo Sise island, Lena Delta (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic landscapes, especially those underlain by permafrost, are threatened by climate warming and [...] of organic matter into the soil column. Scheme of the permafrost carbon feedback loop (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Today, we know that syngenetic freezing of organic matter over a period of thousands