Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Fachbereich Geowissenschaften
Address
Am Alten Hafen 26
27568 Bremerhaven
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
27568 Bremerhaven
Projects
Priority Programmes
Completed projects
MIneral dust variability in the Southern Ocean (MISO)
(Applicants
Mikolajewicz, Uwe
;
Wegner, Anna
)
Paleoenvironmental reconstructions from Chilean lake, fjord, and marine sediments and paleoclimate modelling with special emphasis on variations of the westerly wind belt during the Holocene (HoloParc)
(Applicants
Arz, Helge W.
;
Lamy, Frank
;
Prange, Matthias
)
Wissenschaftliche Auswertung und Analyse von Navigations- und HYDROSWEEP-Messungen der METEOR-Expeditionen M 4/1 und M 6/4 und die Untersuchung der Wasserschallbestimmung bei HYDROSWEEP
(Applicant
Schenke, Hans Werner
)
Wissenschaftliche Auswertung und Analyse von Navigations- und HYDROSWEEP-Messungen der METEOR-Expeditionen M 4/1 und M 6/4 und die Untersuchung der Wasserschallbestimmung bei HYDROSWEEP
(Applicant
Schenke, Hans Werner
)
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Orbital and millennial-scale upper ocean dynamics in the Pacific Southern Ocean since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
(Applicants
Arz, Helge W.
;
Lamy, Frank
)
Transfer of anthropogenic lead (Pb) to Antarctic waters and the Pb-inventory of the Southern Ocean water column
(Applicants
Gutjahr, Marcus
;
Lippold, Jörg
)
Completed projects
Climate Cycles and Events in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean: Causes and Consequences
(Applicants
Brumsack, Hans-Jürgen
;
Fischer, Reinhard X.
;
Matthiessen, Jens
)
Development of Late Miocene Delta 13C stratigraphy and assessment of changes in global ice volume and deep-water circulation (6-12 Ma, Site 1237; Leg 202)
(Applicant
Sturm, Arne
)
Die pleistozänen Porzellanite von ODP-Leg 177: Silikatdiagenese in antarktischen Tiefseesedimenten
(Applicant
Bohrmann, Gerhard
)
Exploration of microbial biodiversity in polar glacial ice cores
(Applicant
Töbe, Kerstin
)
Glacial ice-sheet dynamics and retreat deduced from southeastern Weddell Sea sediment (LAMINAE)
(Applicants
Kuhn, Gerhard
;
Weber, Michael E.
)
Glacial terrestrial climate in the southern high latitudes: The potential of the PASADO core from southern Patagonia
(Applicants
Mollenhauer, Gesine
;
Schefuß, Enno
)
Interaction between mass changes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and solid Earth in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica
(Applicant
Scheinert, Mirko
)
Investigating and revealing the nature and origin of electromagnetic reflections in polar ice by combination of numerical forward modeling techniques, ice core measurements, and radar field surveys
(Applicant
Wilhelms, Frank
)
Modelling of the dynamics of Fimbulisen, Antarctica
(Applicant
Humbert, Angelika
)
Neogene Paleoenvironmental changes in the McMurdo Sound region: High resolution chemical and sedimentological analysis of Miocene (~17 Ma) to Pleistocene sediments from ANDRILL Site SMS
(Applicants
von Eynatten, Hilmar
;
Kuhn, Gerhard
)
On mechanisms of calving from Antarctic ice shelves
(Applicant
Müller, Ralf
)
Pleistocene Sediments around South Georgia: archives for Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics and climate-induced signals in Sub-Antarctica (Past-ACC)
(Applicants
Bohrmann, Gerhard
;
von Dobeneck, Tilo
)
Rapid Paleoenvironmental Changes in the McMurdo Sound Region Recorded in Sediments: High-Resolution XRF-Scanning, ICP-MS analysis and physical-properties logging at ANDRILL Site MIS (IPY)
(Applicants
von Eynatten, Hilmar
;
Kuhn, Gerhard
)
Sedimentologische Untersuchungen an Kernen von ODP-Site 958 im südlichen Kanaren-Becken
(Applicant
Michels, Klaus
)
Sedimentzusammensetzung im südöstlichen Atlantik als Archiv quartärer Klimaschwankungen: Sedimentphysikalische und sedimentologische Parameter zeitlich hochauflösender Sedimentkerne, ODP-Leg 177
(Applicant
Kuhn, Gerhard
)
solidFIDEMO – a firn densification model for volumetric mass balances
(Applicants
Humbert, Angelika
;
Müller, Ralf
)
Southern Patagonian climate during the last 55,000 years: insights from lipid biomarkers and their isotopes (PASADO Lipids)
(Applicants
Mollenhauer, Gesine
;
Schefuß, Enno
)
The exhumation of northern Victoria Land and consequences on the uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains
(Applicants
Lisker, Frank
;
Läufer, Andreas
;
Spiegel, Cornelia
)
The Gravity Field in Antarctica: Geodetic Modelling and Geophysical Inversion (AntGrav)
(Applicants
Pail, Roland
;
Scheinert, Mirko
)
The ventilation and circulation of the southern Indian Ocean on glacial / interglacial timescales
(Applicant
Ronge, Thomas
)
Research Grants
Completed projects
From Soil to Ocean: Transfer of terrigenous organic carbon from permafrost soils to the Arctic Ocean
(Applicant
Mollenhauer, Gesine
)
Pleistocene Intermediate- and Deep-Water Circulation in the SW Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean
(Applicant
Tiedemann, Ralf
)
Suborbital climate variability in the Southern Ocean (SUBCLIMATE): Comparision and potential forcing using high-resolution sediment physical, geochemical, and micropaleotological
(Applicants
Kuhn, Gerhard
;
Ricken, Werner
)
Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)
Current projects
EXC 2077: The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Uncharted Interface
(Spokespersons
Dubilier, Nicole
;
Hinrichs, Kai-Uwe
;
Pälike, Ph.D., Heiko
;
Schulz, Michael
)