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The Beyond EPICA project begins the fifth and final drilling campaign in Antarctica. AWI researchers are part of the international research team that will drill into the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet – at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level and temperatures around -35°C.
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Beyond EPICA project begins the fifth and final drilling campaign in Antarctica. AWI researchers are part of the international research team that will drill into the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet – at an altitude of 3,200 meters above sea level and temperatures around -35°C.
AWI biologist Simeon Lisovski is currently travelling to the Danger Islands in Antarctica with the Team Malizia sailing crew. There, he will study a colony of over 750,000 Adélie penguins. 🐧🇦🇶
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 PM
AWI biologist Simeon Lisovski is currently travelling to the Danger Islands in Antarctica with the Team Malizia sailing crew. There, he will study a colony of over 750,000 Adélie penguins. 🐧🇦🇶
Looking back on yesterday's wonderful #PolarPrideDay at our AWIPEV station in the Arctic on Spitsbergen. 🐻❄️🏳️🌈
#PolarPride2025
🎥Wenceslas Marie-Sainte
#PolarPride2025
🎥Wenceslas Marie-Sainte
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Looking back on yesterday's wonderful #PolarPrideDay at our AWIPEV station in the Arctic on Spitsbergen. 🐻❄️🏳️🌈
#PolarPride2025
🎥Wenceslas Marie-Sainte
#PolarPride2025
🎥Wenceslas Marie-Sainte
Join today’s sessions at the German Climate Pavilion at COP30 with Josie Antonucci Di Carvalho:
15:30 UTC+1 Nature Based Solutions and Beyond german-climate-pavilion.de?pgm=35&nav=1...
20:45 UTC+1 Science Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity and Climate german-climate-pavilion.de?pgm=35&nav=1...
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COP30 Belem | German Climate Pavilion
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November 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Join today’s sessions at the German Climate Pavilion at COP30 with Josie Antonucci Di Carvalho:
15:30 UTC+1 Nature Based Solutions and Beyond german-climate-pavilion.de?pgm=35&nav=1...
20:45 UTC+1 Science Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity and Climate german-climate-pavilion.de?pgm=35&nav=1...
15:30 UTC+1 Nature Based Solutions and Beyond german-climate-pavilion.de?pgm=35&nav=1...
20:45 UTC+1 Science Policy Interfaces for Biodiversity and Climate german-climate-pavilion.de?pgm=35&nav=1...
AWI scientists around the world took part in today's global climate strike. They included those at the AWIPEV station in the Arctic, expedition participants aboard the Polarstern and employees at Neumayer Station III in Antarctica. 🐻❄️🐧🌡
📸 L.Weis, A.Herbaut, A.Seidenstuecker.
📸 L.Weis, A.Herbaut, A.Seidenstuecker.
November 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
AWI scientists around the world took part in today's global climate strike. They included those at the AWIPEV station in the Arctic, expedition participants aboard the Polarstern and employees at Neumayer Station III in Antarctica. 🐻❄️🐧🌡
📸 L.Weis, A.Herbaut, A.Seidenstuecker.
📸 L.Weis, A.Herbaut, A.Seidenstuecker.
Join today’s Permafrost Day at the ICCI Cryosphere Pavilion at COP30 with #AWI researchers Hugues Lantuit and Fabian Seemann. All sessions stream live on YouTube starting at 19:00 GMT/UTC+1.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/@iccinet/vid...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/@iccinet/vid...
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) is a network of senior policy experts and researchers aiming to spread cryosphere science and preserve the cryosphere's key role in Earth's climate s...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Join today’s Permafrost Day at the ICCI Cryosphere Pavilion at COP30 with #AWI researchers Hugues Lantuit and Fabian Seemann. All sessions stream live on YouTube starting at 19:00 GMT/UTC+1.
Watch here: www.youtube.com/@iccinet/vid...
Watch here: www.youtube.com/@iccinet/vid...
Former AWI director and marine biologist Antje Boetius was awarded a place in the prestigious Order Pour le Mérite for her contributions to ocean research. Boetius led the AWI from 2017 to 2025, after which she became president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. 💐
📷 E. Horvath
📷 E. Horvath
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Former AWI director and marine biologist Antje Boetius was awarded a place in the prestigious Order Pour le Mérite for her contributions to ocean research. Boetius led the AWI from 2017 to 2025, after which she became president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. 💐
📷 E. Horvath
📷 E. Horvath
Our research vessel Polarstern will set sail on a new expedition at the end of the week: an international group of young scientists will immerse themselves in the fascinating world of marine research.
@pogo-ocean.bsky.social
📸 J.Lemburg
@pogo-ocean.bsky.social
📸 J.Lemburg
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Our research vessel Polarstern will set sail on a new expedition at the end of the week: an international group of young scientists will immerse themselves in the fascinating world of marine research.
@pogo-ocean.bsky.social
📸 J.Lemburg
@pogo-ocean.bsky.social
📸 J.Lemburg
Our research vessel Polarstern is back in Bremerhaven after a long journey. ⚓️❤️
During the expedition, researchers took measurements in the seawater north of Greenland. Initial results show that there is a current band that transports warm Atlantic water from the Arctic Ocean southward. 🌊
📸Nicolaus
During the expedition, researchers took measurements in the seawater north of Greenland. Initial results show that there is a current band that transports warm Atlantic water from the Arctic Ocean southward. 🌊
📸Nicolaus
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Our research vessel Polarstern is back in Bremerhaven after a long journey. ⚓️❤️
During the expedition, researchers took measurements in the seawater north of Greenland. Initial results show that there is a current band that transports warm Atlantic water from the Arctic Ocean southward. 🌊
📸Nicolaus
During the expedition, researchers took measurements in the seawater north of Greenland. Initial results show that there is a current band that transports warm Atlantic water from the Arctic Ocean southward. 🌊
📸Nicolaus
AWI climate researcher Markus Rex receives the NOMIS Award 2025. 🏆👏
The award recognizes his leadership of the MOSAiC expedition, in which scientists from 20 countries researched the interaction between ice, ocean, atmosphere, and ecosystem in the Arctic.
Photo: NOMIS Foundation / David Biedert
The award recognizes his leadership of the MOSAiC expedition, in which scientists from 20 countries researched the interaction between ice, ocean, atmosphere, and ecosystem in the Arctic.
Photo: NOMIS Foundation / David Biedert
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
AWI climate researcher Markus Rex receives the NOMIS Award 2025. 🏆👏
The award recognizes his leadership of the MOSAiC expedition, in which scientists from 20 countries researched the interaction between ice, ocean, atmosphere, and ecosystem in the Arctic.
Photo: NOMIS Foundation / David Biedert
The award recognizes his leadership of the MOSAiC expedition, in which scientists from 20 countries researched the interaction between ice, ocean, atmosphere, and ecosystem in the Arctic.
Photo: NOMIS Foundation / David Biedert
New #AWI study shows how sustainable management of #krill in the Southern Ocean can work. The concept for managing krill stocks involves close cooperation with fisheries. #Antarctica #CCAMLR
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Photo: Carsten Pape
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Photo: Carsten Pape
October 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New #AWI study shows how sustainable management of #krill in the Southern Ocean can work. The concept for managing krill stocks involves close cooperation with fisheries. #Antarctica #CCAMLR
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Photo: Carsten Pape
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Photo: Carsten Pape
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A new review study shows the invisible transport pathways for #iron through #hydrothermal plumes.
More on Iron’s Irony here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Iron-sIro...
@icbm-uol.bsky.social #ConstructorUniversity @geomarkiel.bsky.social @awi.de @marumunibremen.bsky.social
More on Iron’s Irony here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Iron-sIro...
@icbm-uol.bsky.social #ConstructorUniversity @geomarkiel.bsky.social @awi.de @marumunibremen.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A new review study shows the invisible transport pathways for #iron through #hydrothermal plumes.
More on Iron’s Irony here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Iron-sIro...
@icbm-uol.bsky.social #ConstructorUniversity @geomarkiel.bsky.social @awi.de @marumunibremen.bsky.social
More on Iron’s Irony here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Iron-sIro...
@icbm-uol.bsky.social #ConstructorUniversity @geomarkiel.bsky.social @awi.de @marumunibremen.bsky.social
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🐧 Is #Antarctica trying to talk to us?
As warming temperatures chip away at the continent’s ice shelves, #WHOI scientists are listening for signs of unstable ice using acoustic data collected by the @awi.de
🔊 Listen in with Oceanus: go.whoi.edu/polarstethoscope
As warming temperatures chip away at the continent’s ice shelves, #WHOI scientists are listening for signs of unstable ice using acoustic data collected by the @awi.de
🔊 Listen in with Oceanus: go.whoi.edu/polarstethoscope
October 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🐧 Is #Antarctica trying to talk to us?
As warming temperatures chip away at the continent’s ice shelves, #WHOI scientists are listening for signs of unstable ice using acoustic data collected by the @awi.de
🔊 Listen in with Oceanus: go.whoi.edu/polarstethoscope
As warming temperatures chip away at the continent’s ice shelves, #WHOI scientists are listening for signs of unstable ice using acoustic data collected by the @awi.de
🔊 Listen in with Oceanus: go.whoi.edu/polarstethoscope
AWI researchers have mapped 19,000 driftwood in Alaska and northwestern Canada for the first time.
The data will help to better understand coastal processes, carbon storage and environmental changes such as storm surges and erosion.
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Photo: Carl Stadie
The data will help to better understand coastal processes, carbon storage and environmental changes such as storm surges and erosion.
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Photo: Carl Stadie
October 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
AWI researchers have mapped 19,000 driftwood in Alaska and northwestern Canada for the first time.
The data will help to better understand coastal processes, carbon storage and environmental changes such as storm surges and erosion.
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Photo: Carl Stadie
The data will help to better understand coastal processes, carbon storage and environmental changes such as storm surges and erosion.
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Photo: Carl Stadie
The heart of the new Polarstern ❤️🚢
Together with our shipyard TKMS, we have reached a milestone in the construction of the new Polarstern: the new propulsion unit for the icebreaker has been finalized and the corresponding contracts have been signed.
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Together with our shipyard TKMS, we have reached a milestone in the construction of the new Polarstern: the new propulsion unit for the icebreaker has been finalized and the corresponding contracts have been signed.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The heart of the new Polarstern ❤️🚢
Together with our shipyard TKMS, we have reached a milestone in the construction of the new Polarstern: the new propulsion unit for the icebreaker has been finalized and the corresponding contracts have been signed.
www.awi.de/en/about-us/...
Together with our shipyard TKMS, we have reached a milestone in the construction of the new Polarstern: the new propulsion unit for the icebreaker has been finalized and the corresponding contracts have been signed.
www.awi.de/en/about-us/...
Can you spot the Polarstern amid the ice floes of the Arctic? 🧊A satellite image shows, that we are just a pixel amidst ice floes (light grey) and open water (dark). Polarstern appears as a bright spot in the image because it reflects electromagnetic radiation more strongly than its surroundings.
September 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Can you spot the Polarstern amid the ice floes of the Arctic? 🧊A satellite image shows, that we are just a pixel amidst ice floes (light grey) and open water (dark). Polarstern appears as a bright spot in the image because it reflects electromagnetic radiation more strongly than its surroundings.
Unique concept for observing Arctic sea ice successfully implemented: AWI scientists were able to study different types of sea ice in parallel during the Polarstern expedition “CONTRASTS.” 🧊
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Photo: Evgenii Salganik
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Photo: Evgenii Salganik
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Unique concept for observing Arctic sea ice successfully implemented: AWI scientists were able to study different types of sea ice in parallel during the Polarstern expedition “CONTRASTS.” 🧊
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Photo: Evgenii Salganik
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Photo: Evgenii Salganik
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Excited to share that senior postdoc Sören Häfker @awi.de just secured one of the highly competitive @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERCStG grants to pioneer work decoding the molecular clockwork driving rhythmicity of krill in the #marine #foodweb! More on BICLOPS here: bit.ly/4lYpBq0
September 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Excited to share that senior postdoc Sören Häfker @awi.de just secured one of the highly competitive @erc.europa.eu @ercgrantees.bsky.social #ERCStG grants to pioneer work decoding the molecular clockwork driving rhythmicity of krill in the #marine #foodweb! More on BICLOPS here: bit.ly/4lYpBq0
Johann Klages gave a plenary talk on Antarctic research at #ICP15 in Bangalore, India. A once-in-a-lifetime honor for groundbreaking insights. AWI colleagues from Marine Geology and Marine Biogeochemistry also presented on their diverse projects.👏
Photos: personal
Photos: personal
September 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Johann Klages gave a plenary talk on Antarctic research at #ICP15 in Bangalore, India. A once-in-a-lifetime honor for groundbreaking insights. AWI colleagues from Marine Geology and Marine Biogeochemistry also presented on their diverse projects.👏
Photos: personal
Photos: personal
Lukas Weis, who is spending the winter at Neumayer Station III in Antarctica, explains in the AtkaXpress blog how he takes the most beautiful photos of the polar night. #AureliaBorealis
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August 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Lukas Weis, who is spending the winter at Neumayer Station III in Antarctica, explains in the AtkaXpress blog how he takes the most beautiful photos of the polar night. #AureliaBorealis
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Hi! I’m ARIEL, an L-band microwave radiometer 📡, and this is my little buddy Sebastian (the pulka 🛷). Together, we traveled across 3 Arctic ice stations ❄️ to uncover the invisible (aka microwave) secrets of ever-changing summer sea ice and its thickness on the @awi.de CONTRASTS #expedition 🧊.
August 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Hi! I’m ARIEL, an L-band microwave radiometer 📡, and this is my little buddy Sebastian (the pulka 🛷). Together, we traveled across 3 Arctic ice stations ❄️ to uncover the invisible (aka microwave) secrets of ever-changing summer sea ice and its thickness on the @awi.de CONTRASTS #expedition 🧊.
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Can the color of melt ponds reveal the sea-ice thickness below? 🧊 And can we measure this from #space? 🛰️ On the @awi.de CONTRASTS #expedition, we’re testing this with a 200+ band hyperspectral camera and co-located ice thickness measurements for a large variety of #Arctic ponds.
August 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Can the color of melt ponds reveal the sea-ice thickness below? 🧊 And can we measure this from #space? 🛰️ On the @awi.de CONTRASTS #expedition, we’re testing this with a 200+ band hyperspectral camera and co-located ice thickness measurements for a large variety of #Arctic ponds.
Our icebreaker Polarstern is currently in the Arctic, where it has met up with our polar aircraft Polar 6 for the second time. The joint measurements enable researchers to place their data in an even broader context.🧊
More information in the Polarstern app:
follow-polarstern.awi.de/blog/21-08-2...
More information in the Polarstern app:
follow-polarstern.awi.de/blog/21-08-2...
August 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Our icebreaker Polarstern is currently in the Arctic, where it has met up with our polar aircraft Polar 6 for the second time. The joint measurements enable researchers to place their data in an even broader context.🧊
More information in the Polarstern app:
follow-polarstern.awi.de/blog/21-08-2...
More information in the Polarstern app:
follow-polarstern.awi.de/blog/21-08-2...
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A very successful Perma-X campaign is ending now and both the Polar-5 and the team left Inuvik. We are looking forward to analyze a mountain of >30 TB of new data collected to better understand how fast #permafrost thaws and subsides, coasts erode, and lakes and vegetation change. @awi.de
August 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A very successful Perma-X campaign is ending now and both the Polar-5 and the team left Inuvik. We are looking forward to analyze a mountain of >30 TB of new data collected to better understand how fast #permafrost thaws and subsides, coasts erode, and lakes and vegetation change. @awi.de
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@scientistscoa.bsky.social invites you to a press conference:
⏰ Tuesday 12/08/25, 15.30 CEST
📍 INC Press Room XXVII, Building E & online
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Media can register to join virtually & submit questions: lnkd.in/eW2Mnanz
💻 Live broadcast: lnkd.in/ed99he3j
⏰ Tuesday 12/08/25, 15.30 CEST
📍 INC Press Room XXVII, Building E & online
Seating will be prioritized for media & delegations.
Media can register to join virtually & submit questions: lnkd.in/eW2Mnanz
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August 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@scientistscoa.bsky.social invites you to a press conference:
⏰ Tuesday 12/08/25, 15.30 CEST
📍 INC Press Room XXVII, Building E & online
Seating will be prioritized for media & delegations.
Media can register to join virtually & submit questions: lnkd.in/eW2Mnanz
💻 Live broadcast: lnkd.in/ed99he3j
⏰ Tuesday 12/08/25, 15.30 CEST
📍 INC Press Room XXVII, Building E & online
Seating will be prioritized for media & delegations.
Media can register to join virtually & submit questions: lnkd.in/eW2Mnanz
💻 Live broadcast: lnkd.in/ed99he3j