Arctic sea ice: a chain reaction Dr Thomas Krumpen, sea ice physicist and expert for satellite analyses at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice Application of satellite data Arctic Ocean IceBird For the [...] reference data set on the development of Arctic sea-ice cover worldwide. Those surveys indicate that the thickness of sea ice leaving the Arctic Ocean towards the North Atlantic has steadily decreased since 2001 [...] involved in the formation and disappearance of sea ice. With that goal in mind, we at AWI are exploring the thickness and surface conditions of Arctic sea ice. We measure both properties in several key

research projects concerning the ecology and composition of communities living on the floor of the North Sea and Southern Ocean, conducted by the Comparative Ecosystem Research Section of the Alfred Wegener [...] children and adolescents. Between 2000 and 2015 she participated in several expeditions to the North Sea, as well as the Antarctic and Arctic, most of which were ship-based. In 2014 and 2015 she worked [...] Bremerhaven. In 2008, Mintenbeck completed her doctorate on food web interactions in Antarctic shelf-sea communities, with a particular focus on the structure of the webs and the importance of specific fish

weather in Brandenburg also fluctuates due to long-range atmospheric effects from the Arctic. The north polar seas, coasts and permafrost regions contain unique habitats for people, animals and plants and offer [...] place where very few people notice environmental changes. The polar and sub-polar regions around the North Pole represent an early warning system for global climate change. Hardly any other region in the world

or are exposed to the toxic compounds leaking out of the munition. Today he is focusing on the North Sea area and the shipwrecks that still had ammunition on board when they sank. The collected results [...] Freiburg (1993 - 1996). In 1997 he did a long-term internship in Patagonia, coun- ting right wales, sea lions and penguins and decided to become a marine biologist. Therefore he did his Master in Marine [...] environmental agency staff, that has been researching the fate of World War II dumped warfare agents at sea and putting this long-forgotten topic back on the scientific agenda. Since then, Matthias Brenner has

using the North Sea and Baltic Sea in sustainable ways What impact will the exclusion of bottom trawling have on marine protected areas in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea and Baltic [...] Baltic Sea? Two pilot missions in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, which started in March, are examining this key question as part of the research mission “Protection and Sustainable Use of Marine Areas” of

course for Helgoland. The research team of the "North Sea Wrecks" project collected samples around the wreck of the warship SMS MAINZ off the North Sea island. They will be used to investigate the extent [...] Research Project North Sea Wrecks
Stormy weather and strict hygiene regulations put the science crew to the test. After a delay of almost two days due to weather conditions and several days of scheduled

hydrography of the North Atlantic, in particular by analyzing the impact of oceanic resolution in key regions, such as the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current regions, the Labrador Sea, and the Denmark [...] Goessling | Özgür Gürses | Thomas Rackow | Dmitry Sidorenko SPP 1889 Regional Sea Level Change and Society Understanding regional sea level change and its impacts on societies requires new forms of integrated [...] research between natural and social sciences. The Priority Program (SPP-1889) "Regional Sea Level Change and Society (SeaLevel)" , funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,

yedoma erosion study: "Speedily eroding North Slope river bluff offers window into ice age past" 2015-11-07 On Arctic Dispatch News there is another article about a North Slope tundra fire, a study Guido c [...] PNN reports on the 15th ICRSS conference in Potsdam which is organized by Guido Grosse: Thaw at the North Pole (in German only) 2018-09-06 Ingmar, Guido and other colleagues are authors of a guest post "How [...] co-author a joint-paper in Global Change Biology on the expansion of beaver habitat into the tundra in north-western Alaska . This paper was captured by several media including local to national newspapers,

study sites (Alaska North Slope, Western Alaska, Central Yakutia, Kolyma Lowland) in the northern permafrost zone from 1999 to 2014. Regional patterns of lake area change on the Alaska North Slope (−0.69%) [...] two thermokarst-affected yedoma landscapes – on Sobo-Sise Island and on Bykovsky Peninsula in the north of eastern Siberia. Soil cores up to 3 m depth were collected along geomorphic gradients and analysed [...] permafrost region. Link to journal Yedoma Ice Complex of the Buor Khaya Peninsula (southern Laptev Sea) Minimum, mean (red), and maximum ground temperatures based on almost 3 years continuous measurements

Physical Oceanography of the Polar Seas Division. He is also a tenured Professor at the University of Bremen, where he teaches on Physical Oceanography of the Polar Seas. Most recently, Kanzow has been [...] Southampton (UK) he was involved in monitoring meridional overturning circulation in the subtropical North Atlantic – the main ocean mechanism transporting heat polewards – as part of the prestigious UK-US [...] ocean circulation and ocean warming on glacial calving on the coast of Greenland and on the ocean-sea ice system in the Arctic Ocean. In the past six years he has led five major research expeditions along