here – e.g. in the continual warming of the shelf seas, heat waves, and oxygen-deficient zones. Karen Wiltshire studiesthe North Sea and the Arctic shelf seas to determine how climate change and increased [...] Helgoland und AWI Sylt and professor at the University of Kiel. Coastal research Coastal ecology Shelf Sea System Ecology Prof Karen Wiltshire is the Vice Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz [...] oysters & co. also hatch and grow, lending the coastal waters far greater biodiversity than the open sea. At the same time, no other ocean region is as intensively used. In many places, coastal protection

Helmholtz research programme. Karen Wiltshire’s research focuses on e.g. the ecosystems of the North Sea and Wadden Sea, and the permafrost coasts of Siberia. Furthermore, she coordinates Helgoland & Sylt Roads [...] the AWI sites on Helgoland and Sylt. The coastal and climate researcher is also a professor of shelf-sea system ecology and teaches at Kiel University. Born in Ireland in 1962, Wiltshire completed her master’s

discovery of the Weddell Sea in 1823, there has been no commercial fishing in this area due to the difficult, virtually impassable sea ice conditions. This makes the Weddell Sea one of the last pristine [...] A Marine Protected Area in the Weddell Sea Dr Stefan Hain, Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Weddell Sea CCAMLR Antarcitca The effects of climate change have long been [...] Antarctic. In contrast to the North Pole, however, in the South Pole region there are still areas that have shown few or no changes and are worth protecting (like the Weddell Sea). These areas could, for the

between both methods. 2016 - 2019 North Sea Pilot Pilot study in collaboration with BioConsult Holstein. Deployment of an IcLIsten Recorder in the German North Sea, southwest of the Doggerbank from October [...] System) A HAFOS deep-sea mooring consists of a long rope, up to several thousand meters, extending from the sea floor, where it is attached to an anchor weight, to some 200m below the sea surface, where it [...] to deep-sea mooring of the oceanographic Hybrid Antarctic Float Observatory (HAFOS) and the Frontiers in Arctic Marine Science (FRAM) observatory, which are distributed across the Weddell Sea and Fram

and environmental variability inferred from terrigenous sediment records in China and the North Pacific/Bering Sea. Universität Potsdam and Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meere

North Sea
How does the North Sea bind, cycle and store carbon dioxide (CO2) in form of particulate organic matter on the seafloor, and how are human activities and climate change affecting this ecosystem

most important ones were the Laurentide Ice Sheet (North America), the Svalbard-Barents Sea Ice Sheet (on Svalbard and on the subaerially exposed Barents Sea) as well as the East Siberia-Chukchi Ice Sheet [...] sheets reached far into the Arctic Ocean, and signs of glacial overprint can be found as far north as at the North Pole. Many studies have shown that the onset of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation started [...] interest due to their sensitive response to global warming. Melting ice sheets would cause a significant sea-level rise which, in turn, would severely threaten low-lying coastal areas. In order to better understand

Wadden Sea Station Sylt
The AWI’s new experimental facility on Sylt makes it possible to simulate the effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems.

20-150 cylindrical North Sea / Helgoland Coscinodiscus granii F/2 15 50 40-200 cylindrical North Sea / Helgoland Coscinodiscus wailesii (2x) F/2 15 50 250-500 cylindrical North Sea / Helgoland Thalassiosira [...] 15 50 40-250 elliptic / cylinder - chains North Sea / Helgoland Achnanthes taeniata F/2 15 50 60 elliptic / cylinder - connected to ribbon-like bands North Sea / Helgoland Mediopyxis helysia F/2 15 50 85-125 [...] elliptic / cylinder - chains North Sea / Helgoland Skeletonema costatum F/2 15 100 5 cylindrical - chains Eucampia groenlandica K + Si 4 10 40 cylindrical - chains Arctic / Beaufort Sea Helicotheca sp. K + Si

Claudia Wekerle Snapshots of relative vorticity (upper) in the Beaufort Sea and (bottom) north of Severnaya Zemlya (SZ) and Laptev Sea (LS). (Graphic: Qiang Wang, Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ESM Advanced Earth [...] warming and sea level rise. Alexey Androsov | Sergey Danilov | Jens Schröter SSIP Seamless Sea Ice Prediction The BMBF Young Investigator Group SSIP (2017—2022) works towards advancing sea-ice prediction [...] es because the changes taking place in the Arctic due to climate change — the retreat of sea ice, warming seas and a warming atmosphere — have the potential to influence weather and climate in the mid