representatives of the federal and state environmental authorities on the subject of munitions in the sea and the results of the research projects. His special interest is the transfer of knowledge from [...] Geography at the University of Bremen. Bet- ween 2005 and 2009 he was PhD student at Jacobs University and AWI and thought about the question: How can offshore windfarms be co-used for the cultivation of blue [...] munition in the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak. The aim of his research is to develop methods to detect health effects that organisms may suffer when they come into contact with or are exposed to the toxic compounds

focusing on the work of 10 AWI researchers including Frank . 2016-03-04 In an article in the New Scientist about the vanishing of large lakes Guido is one of the interview partners. 2016-02-08 On the radio (98 [...] University of Hamburg on the subject of " How dangerous is the thawing of the permafrost? " 2015-05-06 Science journalist Gerald Dietz from Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung reports on the latest results of AWI [...] soils and the release of greenhouse gases. 2015-04-10 On the occasion of the journey of the Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka to AWIPEV station on Spitsbergen for getting an overview of climate change

to the North Sea brown shrimp and is considered a staple for the penguins, seals and whales of the Southern Ocean. As such, its role in the waters of the Antarctic is just as central as that of the polar [...] else in the world, in the waters of the Arctic and Antarctic there are algae that float freely in the water as phytoplankton, but as long as the water is covered by a layer of ice, they lack the light they [...] supply the creatures of the deep sea with food. (Diagram: ArcCoML) Surviving in the twilight But regardless of whether or not the disappearing ice will mean new challenges for the polar cod, the most central

little about the life of the world’s second-largest whale. That makes the findings of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Johann [...] Antarctic Peninsula
During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in the Southern Hemisphere survived, and even today, marine [...] where in the peak month of May, so many fin whale vocalizations can be heard that the individual calls merge into a veritable chorous of sound, as the research team now reports in the journal Royal Society

exchange of shelf water with the open ocean play a key role for global ocean circulation. The aim of REDOCCA is to study the impact of changes in the atmospheric conditions on the ocean circulation in the Weddell [...] con­sor­ti­um of eight Ca­na­di­an part­ner uni­ver­si­ties. The sci­en­ti­fic team with the PhD stu­dents in its cent­re aims to ad­van­ce the un­der­stan­ding of the va­ria­bi­li­ty of the Arc­tic Oce­an [...] efficient. The aim of the project is to deliver an innovative, HPC based workflow platform. It will consist of the software stack and an additional set of services that enable the integration of HPC simulations

and paleo-current models of the continental rise and shelf of the Pacific margin of West Antarctica The results call for an urgent case of scientific drilling, in particular in the Amundsen Sea Embayment [...] reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat since the onset of Southern Hemisphere glaciation improves our understanding of ice sheet growth and melting processes and [...] that exceed those of any other Antarctic outlet glacier outside the Antarctic Peninsula. The incursion of warm Circum-Polar Deep-Water into the deeply incised glacial troughs of the shelves has been recognized

buried peat layer at Swanson river at a depth of 80 cm. Future analyses in the laboratory will show the age and potentially the reason for the formation and burial of this peat layer. Claire and Miriam were [...] Kenai and the Division of Natural Resources of Alaska for two additional field sites on the Kenai river mouth and at the Swanson river mouth (approx. 30 km North of Kenai). With these two additional transects [...] cover the fresh- to saltwater transition in the soil and vege- tation, since the transects from last week did not show any large gradient in a first analysis of the soil water. As a result, the new field

acoustic recording unit like the ones used by the PAM recorders in HAFOS. This takes advantage of the recorder now sitting just under the icy surface of the ice shelf, accessible by the Neumayer overwintering [...] Strait, respectively. See the maps to the right for of the recording sites occupied so far. Please note that not all sites are equipped with recorders at all time. Maps of the Arctic and Antarctic with [...] Tracking of Antarctic marine mammals) The aim of the PASATA project was to use time-synchronized passive acoustic recorders to localize vocalizing marine mammals in the Atka Bay area. Alongside the passive

subtropical ocean is expanding the tropics The observed anomaly of sea surface temperature during the last 5 years of the satellite age (2015-2019) in relation to the first 5 years of the satellite age (1982-1986) [...] [11 July 2018] The melting of glaciers on one side of the globe can trigger disintegration of glaciers on the other side of the globe, as has been presented in a recent paper by a team of AWI scientists [...] . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714754115 . 2017 New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic Scientists

hiatusses in the South Atlantic since the middle Miocene. The opening of Drake Passage in early Oligocene times and the closure of the CAS at ~6 Ma, i.e., tectonic processes, have been identified as the key triggers [...] emplacement of the plateau influence the climatic, oceanic environments, and Earth’s biota? What can we deduce about water mass changes during early stages of the plateau’s evolution? Did emplacement of the Agulhas [...] important driver of Cretaceous-Paleogene/Neogene climate changes in the Southern Ocean but the opening of gateways and subsequent migration of continents also has had a profound effect on the regional climate