• After more than 100 years: The Endurance has been found!

      after the start, the team was able to locate the previously lost wreck. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute were also on board.

    • Climate change and its consequences on foreign policy

      between Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Markus Rex, MOSAiC expedition leader and scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

    • Rising temperatures lead to unexpectedly rapid carbon release from soils

      from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen and from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven that was now published

    • Infrastructure, Services, and Support

      intelligence / machine learning applications. The Systems Branch of the Computing and Data Centre of Alfred Wegener Institute is in charge of all infrastructures and services that are required to fulfill these [...] the address helpdesk(at)awi.de. The service portal is only available to AWI employees. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Storage & Server The Storage & Server group maintains the bare metal for storage and [...] 000 CPUs und 1.5 PB of parallel storage (in cooperation with the IT Computing group). (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Core IT Services The Core IT Services group provides basic services for the day-to-day

    • PDZ Europa Scientific 20-20 Mass Spectrometer

      for isotope analysis. Sample preparation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Ceramic tube furnace (Carbolite GmbH) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) For measuring stable oxygen [...] e oxygen– Rapid Communicatons in Mass Spectrometry 24: 2655–2664. Laser fluorination (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Dehydrated samples are then combusted under BrF5 atmosphere by means [...] opal to O2 and SiF4 (this process is called laser fluorination). PDZ Europa 2020 IRMS (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Levent Vorpahl) Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: <link en science geosciences

    • JASPER 2010

      Rothera Airstrip (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Polar 5 at Rothera. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Twin-Otter (BAS) viewed from Polar 5 near Rothera. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) View from Polar [...] Polar 5. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Nygard, T., Vihma, T., Birnbaum, G. , Hartmann, J. , Lachlan-Cope, T., Ladkin, R., Lüpkes, C. and Weiss, A. (2016), Validation of eight atmospheric reanalyses in the

    • MIDO

      linary Ice-based Distributed Observatory (MIDO) Illustration of a buoy observatory (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The properties of the atmosphere, sea-ice and the polar oceans, and feedbacks between [...] +49(471)4831-2403 Benjamin.Rabe @ awi.de Deployment of an ocean profilers in the sea-ice (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

    • 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)

    • 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)