Welfare The office of the Animal Welfare Officer is part of the enforcement of the legal regulations on animal welfare at institutions where research is carried out on or with vertebrate animals. The Animal [...] employees on the basis of Section 178 of the German Social Security Code (SGB IX) and provides them with advice and support. It is an elected, voluntary body. The SBV ensures that the employer fulfils the duties [...] Office Under the provisions of the General Equal Treatment Act, employees may complain to the competent authority if, in the context of their employment relationship, they believe they have been unequally

g. in the opal skeleton of diatoms). The special thing about this is that the geochemical fingerprint of both substances differs depending on the environmental conditions that prevailed when the diatoms [...] example, the air temperature that prevailed at the time of formation," says AWI climate researcher Dr Hanno Meyer. He heads the ISOLAB Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam, where some of the world's most [...] Temperature data of the last 200,000 years The EPICA DML ice core had a length of 2.892 metres. In order to find out what temperature data is stored in the various ice layers of the core, the scientists took

sampling of the Kerguelen Plateau in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. The Kerguelen Plateau rises up 2000 m above the surrounding seafloor and hence forms an obstacle for the flow of the Antarctic [...] region in the southern Indian Ocean the complex topography of the Kerguelen Plateau, one of the world’s largest Large Igneous Provinces, has a strong influence on pathways of water masses within the Antarctic [...] information on the Cretaceous and Tertiary development of the AABW and its influence on the path of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This in turn will allow conclusions on the development of the East Antarctic

world, including in the Caribbean and the Central and Eastern Pacific. She was the lead scientist on the „Jewels of the Gulf“ expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. In recognition of her scientific achievements [...] ng of the processes that shape marine life, with the goal of maintaining the diversity and productivity of marine ecosystems. Iliana Baums has led more than 30 expeditions to coral reefs around the world [...] status by the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) in 2024. The Eco Magazine also recognised her as one of the fifteen best coral reef researchers of 2020. In the same year, she received the Faculty Scholars

Appreciation of 50 Years of the Study of Oceans and Lakes. Bangor 18-22 March 2002 Talk - Hamm, C. (2002): Geometry and Material Properties of the Silicified Cell Walls of Planktonic Algae: The Technical [...] Design of Radial Framework Structures: The Case of Asterolampra. In: Block, P., Boller, G., DeWolf, C., Pauli, J., & Kaufmann, W. Eds.: Proceedings of the IASS 2024 Symposium; Redefining the Art of Structural [...] Decouple Ocean Carbon and Silicon Cycles in the Iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 110 (51). 20633-20638 Paper -

scientific attention in the past. Today, the water column structure of the SO largely prevents pronounced melting of the EAIS. This state may change if the position and strength of the Antarctic Circumpolar [...] focuses on recording the history of the position of the ACC and major SO fronts, the status of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation today and in the past, as well as a range of additional hydrographic [...] series of 3D-distributions in the water column of the Arctic Ocean. The selected stations are based on locations and variables that have been observed in the past. The quasi-synoptic survey of the CAO and

in the Pacific Southern Ocean since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the Earth system, both for the uptake of anthropogenic carbon and for the exchange of heat [...] inspired the concept of the Arcwatch expeditions. The SNAC-cluster now aims at providing a synoptic view of the changing CAO. The “PaRaThA” project is based on the time-integrated information from the natural [...] sedimentation rate and the spatial distribution of the controlling environmental parameters in order to: to quantify the content of organic carbon (OC) in the sediments of the Baltic Sea, assess their OC a

DML as well as data of the control standard IA-RO63. It can be seen that the SD of the DML house standard is higher, but it is still within the specification of the analysis system. The transparent background [...] addition, the δ 15 N values of the organic matter also provide information on the efficiency of the biological pump if terrigenous input can be excluded. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of organisms, on the other [...] archives. On the other hand, we determine the δ 18 O values in ice and water samples from the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as the δ 13 C values of dissolved inorganic carbon in the water of the polar oceans

vocalisations, speeding up the analysis of passive acoustic data in order to address ecological questions. I am interested in understanding the effects of the physical environment and the ecosystem productivity [...] to investigate the influence of the three soundscape components (biophony, geophony, and anthrophony) on the acoustic environment. Further I will study the spatio-temporal patterns of the marine mammal [...] acoustic monitoring of ambient noise in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean Svenja Zakrzewski (2010), Bachelor Hochschule Bremerhaven The PALAOA-S experiment: vocal behaviour of Antarctic pinnipeds

Acoustic metrics to assess humpback whale song unit structure from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 149, 4649-4658. DOI: doi.org/10.1121/10.0005315 [...] IC (2018). On the reliability of acoustic annotations and automatic detections of Antarctic blue whale calls under different acoustic conditions. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144( [...] (2012). Strategic Assessment of the Risk Posed to Marine Mammals by the Use of Air Guns in the Antarctic: Concepts, Methods, Results, and Controversies. In: The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, edited