Potentials for Open Ocean Aquaculture in the North Sea Region Within the scope of the diploma thesis "Potentials for Open Ocean Aquaculture in the North Sea Region" maps of the German Bight have been created [...] Lower-Saxony (Fig.1) and one the Schleswig-Holstein part of the North Sea (Fig.2). The maps cover commercial mussel beds in the Wadden Sea, an oyster farm, land-based recirculation systems as well as present [...] created. These maps show the current mariculture sites in the German part of the southern North Sea. In order to create those maps the geographic information system ArcGIS has been used. ArcGIS software

and oysters ( Crassostrea gigas, Ostrea edulis ) several types of cultivation can be used in the North Sea region. Predominately, longline constructions are proposed for the cultivation of bivalves, by which

researchers are also experts on the North Sea. Accordingly, the AWI has established some time ago the North Sea Office, which acts as an intermediary between research on North Sea topics on the one hand and the [...] environmental protection organisations on the other side, thus transferring theory into practice. “As North Sea Office we are regularly invited to evening talks, or to events at schools,” relates Gutow, adding [...] the more important to inform young people about alternatives to simply tossing out their litter.” North Sea Office Publications that gain notice BMBF-Pressekonferenz zum JPI Oceans Call Microplasics (Photo:

also travelled to the Sargasso Sea, east of Cuba in the Atlantic. In terms of litter, are there differences between the North Sea and Sargasso Sea? Absolutely. The North Sea is subject to heavy traffic from [...] and habitats. In the following interview, he shares insights into his expeditions to the North Sea and Sargasso Sea, where he investigated how marine litter is spreading. Plastic litter in the ocean is [...] wrappers. In the North Sea, we found roughly 30 to 35 pieces of litter per square kilometre, though the results of individual counts varied considerably. In contrast, the Sargasso Sea is home to one of

for Coastal and Arctic Seas: The aim of the project is the establishment of a long-term observation network of automated sensors on buoys, gliders etc. Focus area is the North Sea, but a prototype of the [...] :SAHFOS runs the Continuous Plankton Recorder surveys, that initially concentrated on the North Sea and North Atlantic (in operation since the 1930s) but CPRs are now deployed in many regions of the world [...] n here. HOTS : Hawai Ocean Time series: Time series operated at the open ocean site ALOHA in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/hot_jgofs.html I IACS : International

many shallow and sandy coastal waters around the globe – in the South China Sea, the USA, and the Wadden Sea, part of the North Sea. Though seagrass beds aren’t as well known as other coastal ecosystems like [...] of the seagrass in Schleswig-Holstein is an encouraging one. “When it comes to the Wadden Sea and the North Sea, for many years the focus has mostly been on their problems,” says Karsten Reise. But it also [...] Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea The seagrass is back For several decades, Schleswig-Holstein’s Wadden Sea produced very little seagrass, a plant that is especially important for juvenile fish and migratory

Sylt-Rømø Bight, Northern Wadden Sea C.de la Vega, S. Horn, D. Baird, D. Hines, S. Borrett, R. Asmus, H. Asmus 13:30-13:45 Are grey seals exerting a top-down control in the Baltic Sea? D. Costalago 13:45-14:00 [...] Please contact Dr. Ulrike Schückel or Dr. Sabine Horn to sign up for the workshop. Location Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung. Costs [...] Stellenbosch, South Africa) Torsten Berg (MariLim, Germany) Prof. Dr. Stuart Borrett (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) Prof. Dr. Victor de Jonge (University of Hull, The Netherlands) Prof. Dr

(Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Contact Prof. Dr Ilka Weikusat The 79° North Glacier is one of two fast flowing glaciers of the NEGIS (North East Greenland Ice Stream), one of Greenland's biggest ice streams [...] with the ocean. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Flight campaign: research aircraft Polar 6 at 79° North Glacier (Photo: Tobias Binder) Greenland’s largest ice stream The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) [...] will ultimately be able to better model the ice stream’s flow behaviour and more accurately predict sea-level rises. But that’s a long way down the road.” (Sina Löschke) Microstructures of ice (Photo: Ilka

is the case in many other time series around the world. This facilitates a unique insight in the North Sea ecosystem but also means a lot of work on the ships as well as in our laboratories, where the different

Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) is a drilling project aiming to retrieve a deep ice core in North-East Greenland. The drilling site is on a dynamically active location, where the surface flow velocities [...] previous deep ice core sites. It is located at the onset of the largest ice stream in Greenland (NEGIS - North-East Greenland ice stream). Ice streams are not very well represented in large scale ice sheet models [...] if not prescribed by inversion methods based on observed surface velocities. Their contribution to sea level projections is thus not very well constrained and a source of uncertainty. Three regimes can