Labrador shelf was covered by a permanent but floating ice mass such as today’s ice cover of the Arctic Ocean. We finished our geological sampling work yesterday. Today and tomorrow are dedicated to collecting [...] the retreating ice stream. Instead, we aim at reconstructing the dynamic history of Labrador shelf ocean currents through the past few thousand years with these cores. At the end of the last glacial, when [...] large-scale environmental catastrophe, and it resulted in a significant disturbance of the established ocean current system on the Labrador shelf. On the long sediment cores, we will carry out different types

Physical oceanography of the arctic The decline of the arctic sea ice is one of the signals for the climate change. Find out more Circulation in Southern Ocean In the southern ocean ongoing processes have [...] climate. Find out more Interaction of ocean and shelf ice The mass of loss of ice shields is linked with the floating of the ice flow. Find out more Ocean Optics Ocean optics to identify and measure marine [...] constituents. Find out more Ocean Acoustics Underwater sound plays an important role in the lives of marine mammals Find out more Southern Ocean-Climate Interactions How is the ice-ocean system and its affect

forces to improve the capacities for marine-based research in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. In the project “ARICE- Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium”, they aim at better coordinating the existing polar

Observatory in the Arctic Ocean Philipp Fischer et al. AWI Centre für Scientific Diving Photo: Gregory Tran The AWIPEV underwater observatory: a joint infrastructure of AWI and HEREON in an Arctic fjord system [...] MarTrec talk Philipp Fischer May 2024 "High-speed measurements in the Arctic: How to discriminate effects of marine heat waves and cold spells from „normal fluctuations“ in a polar shallow water ecosystem [...] Photo: Gregory Tran The AWIPEV underwater observatory: a joint infrastructure of AWI and HEREON in an Arctic fjord system (79°N) A year-round operated shallow water observatory in front of the Old Pier in Ny

processes between the atmosphere and the ocean. The observed sea ice changes affect the climate and ecosystem, extending to our latitudes. The decline of Arctic sea ice in area and volume is one of the [...] Observer | 28.07.2020 Sea ice extent in the Arctic reaches historical low in July Find out more > Carbon Brief | 18.11.2019 Inside MOSAiC: How a year-long Arctic expedition is helping climate science Find [...] future, we will focus more on studying the physical snow and ice properties in interaction with the ocean and atmosphere, but also study linkages to the ecosystem. We will continue expanding our measurements

change in the Arctic Ocean for primary productivity, biodiversity and trophic transfer efficiency. Assess the potential of macroalgae for long-term carbon dioxide removal and storage in the ocean. Team Photos [...] Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean using Imaging Flow Cytometry and PDMPO Judith Matz, M.Sc. Thesis title: Investigation of new and regenerated primary production during summer in Arctic Fjords using 13C and [...] Laboratory aims to improve our understanding of the processes that lead to carbon sequestration in the ocean: from primary productivity at the surface to carbon export to the deep sea. Building on our strong

Currents transport plastic debris through the ocean, allowing it to accumulate even in remote areas like the Arctic. Unlike beach debris, the plastics in the ocean cannot be readily removed – and breaks down [...] intense research have shown that garbage can be found throughout the world’s oceans. Even in the most remote parts of the ocean, like the polar regions or the bottom of the deep sea, we can find large amounts [...] element Where does plastic debris end up? A great deal of the debris in and on the ocean ends up on beaches or the ocean floor. Especially deep-sea trenches have essentially become deposition sites for large

MB Melanie Bergmann counts Arctic Ocean plastic, jpg | 363 KB Melanie Bergmann analyses marine litter in, jpg | 3 MB Media Euronews (Video) | 02.06.2023 Cleaning up the oceans: Is it too little, too late [...] on the Arctic | 25.04.2023 Arctic ice algae highly polluted with microplastics, poses food chain threat: study Find out more > Deutsche Welle (Video) | 09.02.2022 Plastic Solutions in the Oceans Find out [...] Presentation on EU Mission Plastic-Free Ocean to European Parliament Intergroup 2020 GESAMP Workgroup on “The Atmospheric Transport of Microplastics to and from the Ocean” 2020 EU Sounding Board on a scientific

Bremen 2019-06-17 - 19 DIE =Dcoast IE =DIIEE =D0 Ice Ocean 9th IICWG-DA, Bremen 2019-06-17 - 199th IICWG-DA, Bremen 2019-06-17 - 19 Ice Ocean Ice Ocean DIE ≫Dcoast IE =DIIEE =D0 Metrics compared: idealized [...] Sea ports to the Far East is ~40% shorther than via Suez ➢ Commercial shipping in the Arctic Ocean is becoming economically viable Three methods for defining edge position metrics 1. Displacement between [...] primary source of information for safe navigation in ice infested waters ● Retreating sea ice in the Arctic gives a potential for commercial ship traffic at high latitudes ● Northern sea route from North Sea

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In the summer months, sea ice from the Arctic drifts through Fram Strait into the Atlantic. Thanks to meltwater, a stable layer forms around the drifting ice atop the more salty seawater [...] team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute has now determined with the aid of the FRAM ocean observation system. Their findings have just been published in the journal Nature Communications.