• Research

    OLAMUR Offshore Low-Trophic Aquaculture in Multi-use Scenario Realisation in North and Baltic Seas Find out more Mak-Pak Scale-Up Mak-Pak Scale-Up stands for "Industry-compatible process optimisation for [...] Development of a growth monitoring system for marine invertebrates on test bodies Find out more SafeSeaPack The effect of macroalgae packaging on aquatic ecosystems. Find out more NOVAFOODIES Innovative [...] Assessment Life Cycle Assessment of land-based seaweed cultivation for packaging material. Find out more SeaStrains Culture collections are maintained to protect macroalgal diversity Find out more

  • Offshore Site Selection

    sustainable and multifunctional use of marine areas in heavily used oceans on the example of the North Sea Objectives: The project aims to create a multi-use road map as a tool for the future use of marine [...] multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)-system. Model organisms are fish (turbot Scophthalmus maximus , sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax ) as fed aquaculture candidates, bivalves (mussels Mytilus edulis , oysters

  • Candidate species

    stops to prevent barotrauma of the fish. The sea bass can tolerate temperatures in the North Sea, but the average temperature of 10 ° C in the North Sea is below its optimum temperature range for growth [...] kelp is farmed using an extensive fixed off-bottom longline technique in the Baltic Sea as well as in tanks in the North Sea. Dulse Dulse, Palmaria palmata , is an edible red algae (Rhodophyta) from the upper [...] upper subtidal of the rocky coasts of the Atlantic from Greenland to Portugal and the North Sea. It is traditionally eaten dried in France, Ireland, Iceland and Canada, and is a source of minerals, vitamins

  • Offshore aquaculture

    and aims to ascertain the economic feasibility of an offshore marine aquaculture structure in the North Sea. As in the same area more than 3000 wind-generators are already installed or still in the planning

  • Helgoland

    Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research study biotic communities in the North Sea. The rocky mudflat and the 35 square kilometer large submarine cliff landscape are home to the richest [...] Helgoline (from Hamburg and Cuxhaven) Adler Eils (from Büsum) Adler-Schiffe (from Sylt and other North Frisian Islands) Contact Dr. Claudia Hofmann (Site Manager) info-helgoland @ awi.de Postal address

  • Bremerhaven

    focus of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven is polar research and the exploration of the sea. Scientists of different disciplines work together multidisciplinary to investigate the climate, biosystems [...] (“Leherheide Ost”), 507 (“Spaden”), 508 (‘Leherheide’), 509 (“Imsum”) and the Moonliner ML heading north. Further information can be found here: AWI Guest House Bremerhaven Contact General questions via

  • Polarstern longterm cruise planning

    transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling Arctic deep-sea biodiversity. • Permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the [...] The Weddell Sea features a rich and diverse ecosystem, complex sea-ice dynamics and intense ocean circulation. The physical and biogeochemical processes that prevail in the central Weddell Sea and the water [...] transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling Arctic deep-sea biodiversity. • Permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the

  • Dr. Jennifer Dannheim

    Jennifer.Dannheim@awi.de
    +49 471 4831-1734
    Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Junior Groups

    Investigators Group “Southern Ocean & Antarctic Sea ice Evolution (SO-ASE)” is looking into the unexpected changes that have been seen in Antarctic sea ice over the last few decades and the need to reduce [...] Ecosystem – is to assess the consequences of the decline in silicic acid concentration in the inflow of North Atlantic water into the Eurasian Arctic for the Arctic marine ecosystem using an ecosystem biology [...] climate change Link to project webpage ARJEL To better understand the role of jellyfish in Arctic seas, the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ARJEL (ARctic JELlifish) will combine the latest technologies

  • Young Investigator Groups

    Investigators Group “Southern Ocean & Antarctic Sea ice Evolution (SO-ASE)” is looking into the unexpected changes that have been seen in Antarctic sea ice over the last few decades and the need to reduce [...] Ecosystem – is to assess the consequences of the decline in silicic acid concentration in the inflow of North Atlantic water into the Eurasian Arctic for the Arctic marine ecosystem using an ecosystem biology [...] climate change Link to project webpage ARJEL To better understand the role of jellyfish in Arctic seas, the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ARJEL (ARctic JELlifish) will combine the latest technologies