from the Filchner Ice Shelf FISP - The Filchner Ice Shelf Project Oceanographic research at the 79° North Glacier, Greenland To make sure we don’t damage the equipment used in the cavern, the next step is [...] doesn’t “run dry” when the main borehole (image 4) breaks through the ice shelf, it has to be made below sea level. Thanks to this method, we have a practically unlimited supply of drilling water, which we later

phytoplankton data collected in the Antarctic, particularly for the Weddell Sea and adjacent areas such as the Scotia and Lazarev Seas Summary of Polarstern stations in the Antarctic where zooplankton was sampled [...] Potter Cove Potter Cove (Co-ordinates: 62°14´S, 58°40´W' ) is located on King George Island north of the antarctic peninsula one of the fastest warming areas on earth. The time series at and around Potter [...] gov/copepod/time-series/de-30401/ ). Principal investigators: Doris Abele: Hydrography, biology, ecology, sea ice. Irene Schloss: Hydrography, biology potter_cove_Anders_Torstensson.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener

the processes in the sea more precisely, a special ocean model has been developed at the AWI over the past few years - FESOM. Among other things it simulates ocean currents and sea ice. AWI researchers [...] It is feared that the Antarctic glaciers will slip faster into the sea when the ice shelf disappears. This could accelerate the sea level rise. In addition to the coupled climate model consisting of ECHAM [...] also operate the NAOSIM model which focusses on the ocean and sea ice. This model is fed with a lot of knowledge about the physics of sea ice, taking into account the thickness and the concentration of

weather forecasts for the polar regions, especially for the Arctic. On the one hand with the melting of sea ice, the Arctic will be of interest as a shipping route, and on the other hand the conditions in the [...] also influence the weather and climate in the mid-latitudes - for example, in Central Europe and North America. One problem is that there are far too few measurements from the Arctic. With the international [...] measurement campaigns that include ship expeditions, aircraft campaigns, and measuring sites on the sea ice. The main goal is to find out which observations are particularly important for ice and weather

Institute are investigating these seemingly simple organisms – and comparing what they see in the North Sea with their findings in the polar regions. The narrow, yellow-brown seaweed blade that Dr. Inka Bartsch [...] now expanding into several-metre-deeper waters, effectively enlarging their habitat. However, the North Sea has also grown warmer: by an average of 1.7 degrees Celsius from 1962 to the present. This change [...] Kyrill, it took three years to recover. According to Bartsch, “If we start seeing storms over the North Sea more often due to climate change, some species might not have enough time to bounce back.” This

Discover more Macroalgae: Taking a stroll Infographic: Invasive Species Climate Change and the North Sea AWI North Sea Office [...] more aquaculture farming space will be required. In Germany, aquaculture near the coast of the North Sea is not possible for two reasons: For one, the mudflat is a National Park and therefore protected [...] order to breed them in an environmentally friendly and economical way in the offshore region of the North Sea. “Our research so far indicates that algae and mussels bred offshore usually grow well – and most

In connection with current plans for a massive expansion of wind farms in offshore areas of the North Sea, the idea emerged to combine these with the installation of extensive mariculture for bivalves and [...] interaction between physical offshore processes and man-made structures in areas of the German North Sea territory where mariculture has potential, the conditions for possible combination of mariculture [...] ment force experiments that algae were capable of resisting the high-energy environment of the North Sea. The concentration of mussel larvae in the water column decreased offshore and resulted in a low

framework for implementing multiple land use within the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea taking as an example the potential combination of projected offshore wind farms and offshore mariculture [...] (Mytilus edulis) and kelp (Laminaria saccharina), show promising results for mariculture in the German North Sea (see " Offshore Aquaculture Project " and " Roter Sand "). Due to the provision of fixed infrastructure [...] growing marine organisms in the open sea, but also to counterbalance the continuing scarce seed mussel supply, which influences the mussel fishery sector in the Wadden Sea. That way, the ocean areas designated

investigations conducted by the AWI showed that the basic biotic conditions in many parts of the German North Sea are given for the cultivation of various candidates under offshore conditions, such as seaweeds [...] analysis conducted by the AWI showed that farmed or wild mussels from the intertidal areas in the Wadden Sea suffer under high infestations of macro parasites such as copepods (see Fig. 3), trematods (see Fig

candidates, which can be cultivated under such hydrodynamic and environmental conditions within the North Sea and hold large potentials on the German market. Within the group of bivalves, especially the blue