Various observatories gather data over long timeframes. Field research under extreme conditions is just as much a part of the Institute’s day-to-day work as are analyses using cutting-edge laboratory equipment and high-performance supercomputers. They research the atmosphere, ice, oceans and coasts, explore the deep seas, glaciers and permafrost soils, or analyse data from climate archives like sediment and ice core samples. Experts from the bio-, geo- and climate sciences work closely together. Above all, the goal to understand the driving forces and the fluctuations in climate processes has increasingly become the major focus of research.Įxcellent Research – With an overall staff of more than 1,000 people, and a wide range of natural science disciplines, the Alfred Wegener Institute explores nearly all components of the Earth System. However, it also conducts research in the North Sea and adjacent coastal regions in Germany. The institute coordinates German polar research and is one of the very few scientific institutions in the world that are equally active in the Arctic and Antarctic. The organisation works together with numerous national and international partners, and is actively involved in unravelling the complex processes at work in the World’s “Earth System”.
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