The scientific diving programme at the University of Plymouth The scientific diving programme at the University of Plymouth Dr Keiron Fraser Associate Professor Marine Conservation Instrumentation HSE [...] Campaign for Nature – a partnership with the Wyss Foundation to try to protect half of the planet by 2050, use 2030 as a milestone towards this and have 30 % of the land and sea protected and properly managed [...] in the end of 2020 where National Governments have the opportunity to sign up to this commitment and we need the public voice to be pressuring politicians to commit. If you want to know more about how

landmass, sending up to 150 times the flow of all the world’s rivers clockwise around the frozen continent. It connects all the other oceans, and is thought to play a key role in regulating natural climate swings [...] Southern Ocean
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the planet’s most powerful and arguably most important. It is the only one to flow clear around the globe without getting diverted by any landmass [...] swings that have repeatedly swept the earth for millions of years. But much is still not known about how it works, including how it might now respond to human-induced climate change.

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

rising and the Wadden Sea ecosystems are changing rapidly (Figure 1). At the Wadden Sea station of Sylt we have one of the most detailed and species rich marine time series in the world. The so-called Sylt [...] years, much of the work on the LTER has focused on key species and their role in habitat stability and species function. The demise of and introduction of species especially in the context of resilience [...] and taxonomical biodiversity of the North Sea, as well as the computation of flows of energy and nutrients through the system also via models. We aim to integrate the different data sets using modelling

UN Decade of Ocean Science Spotlight on the Ocean It’s a world full of riddles: though the ocean shapes the face of our ‘blue planet’, covering 70 percent of its surface, we still know far too little about [...] safety. In the context of the Decade, all of this knowhow is to be made available worldwide. And last but not least, the goal is to raise awareness for the economic, social and cultural value of the ocean; [...] network that investigates open research questions and develops solutions for the preservation and sustainable use of the ocean. Its motto: “The science we need for the ocean we want”. After all, intact ocean

gallery gives an insight to the research work and the living conditions on Muostakh, reaching from the arrival, the sampling of ice wedges, the measuring of the island, to the use of driftwood and a special [...] Coastal erosion The Atlantis of the Arctic The clock is ticking for Muostakh Island: another 100, 140, maybe even 200 years, then the small isle off the coast of Siberia will disappear from the map. Then, where [...] where today 15-metre-tall bluffs of ice-rich, frozen ground still defy the currents of the Lena River and the waves of the Laptev Sea, there will be nothing left. The cause: coastal erosion. Every year

roughly the size of Sweden, conceals a bay in the far southern reaches of the Weddell Sea – a region in which the average air temperature was a frosty 11.4 degrees below zero in the summer of 2016. From [...] And the list of superlatives goes on: the coldest water masses in the world circulate below the ice shelf. With a temperature of minus 2.5 degrees Celsius, they only remain liquid because of the high [...] heat from the ocean could pose a threat to the largest ‘ice brake‘ in the Antarctic. In the past, climate researchers weren’t very worried about the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. The massive sheet of ice, which

The bloom of blooms 10. November 2022 One of our aims during Island Impact is to investigate the impact of iron inputs on productivity in the Southern Ocean: Helped by the long-term records in satellite [...] quick examination of the community composition suggests that a mixture including the colony forming “Phaeocystis antarctica” and all the diatom species know to form blooms in the Southern Ocean, are happily [...] biomass) of over 370 mg per square meters. These values are significantly higher than previous measurements for this area as well as those found in the most productive areas of the world’s oceans. A quick

above all, the climatic shift has opened the door for the commercial exploitation of the Arctic. Thanks to changes in the global climate, the polar reaches will be more heavily frequented in the future. With [...] weather stations in the populated regions of the Earth has been significantly expanded since the early 20th century, the polar regions – which are in complete darkness six months of the year and where operating [...] capacities for the polar regions, in 2013 the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) launched a long-term project to improve forecasting (the Polar Prediction Project). In the context of the project, in

often described as the planet’s ‘green lungs’ because they produce tremendous amounts of oxygen. However, an even greater volume of the oxygen we breathe originates in the ocean. The algal communities living [...] Plankton: The foundation of life in the sea Biologist Prof. Dr Helmut Hillebrand, Professor at the University of Oldenburg and Director at HIFMB Oldenburg. HIFMB Biodiversity Ecological stability Ecosystem [...] there produce at least half of the gas that is vital for breathing and as such essential for human life. But climate change is altering the algal world in our seas: as a result of increasing water temperatures