Gloabal Change than other oceans. Sea ice strongly decraeses, temperatures rise at least twice as much, acidification and, the influence of warmer water from the North Atlantic is increasing ('Altantification') [...] relatively high proportion of biomass was being observed, the proportion of biomass in central Arctic, sea ice covered waters is relatively low. Team work P lankton E cology and B iogeochemistry in a C hanging

biotopes in Germany’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the North Sea. Contact partner: Dr Jan Beermann Long-term monitoring of macroalgae and seagrass in the Wadden Sea Seagrass meadows are highly productive coastal [...] Research projects Distribution of benthic communities in the North Sea The EU’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) obligates member states to monitor the status and development of biotic communities [...] long-term development of seagrass stocks. While the seagrass meadows in the north of the Schleswig-Holstein area of the Wadden Sea have grown considerably since 1994, unfortunately no such recovery can be

s of Survey Areas BS - Beaufort Sea BaS - Barents Sea CAO - Central Arctic Ocean CS - Chukchi Sea FS - Fram Strait GS - Greenland Sea LaS - Laptev Sea LiS - Lincoln Sea IceBird Impressions IceBird-Impressions [...] information of the sea ice surface topography. This information is used to estimate the roughness of the sea ice surface as well as freeboard, a crucial parameter for remote sensing of sea ice thickness. Snow [...] preparing for a survey flight over sea ice (image: S. Hendricks, AWI) Objectives The AWI IceBird program is a series of airborne surveys to collect measurements of sea ice thickness in the Arctic conducted

The AWI North Sea Office The AWI North Sea Office provides scientific content for the political community, environmental organisations and the general public. The North Sea is a unique habitat and significant [...] The North Sea is one of the most heavily used seas in the world. Shipping, fishing and other anthropogenic activities have substantial effects on natural ecosystems, while also influencing the North Sea’s [...] offices. For the past several years, the AWI has been monitoring and investigating changes in the North Sea at its facilities in Bremerhaven, Helgoland and Sylt. Offering extensive expertise gained through

station ‘Samoylov Island’ is located in the Lena Delta in north-east Siberia (Russian Arctic). The delta stretches over 150 kilometers into the Laptev Sea and is one of Russia's largest nature reserves. This

can be carried out in this project Useless bycatch or a valuable raw material? Starfish from the North Sea (Photo: Picasa) Lead: Enno Fricke Contact: Mail to Enno (0)471 4831 2731 Duration: 1.10.24 bis 30

demonstrate for the first time. This allows the flow of the ice streams and the associated change in sea level to be estimated more precisely. The quakes are responsible for the fact that ice streams also [...] viscous honey as previously considered. The underlying seismic data from inside the NEGIS ice stream in north-east Greenland was recorded by researchers in a 2,665-metre-deep borehole using a fibre-optic cable

known as sand shrimp or brown shrimp, is a popular, high-priced and regional product of the German north sea coasts. The current fishing methods are causing considerable damage to the seabed and destroying [...] Contact: Mail to Isabela , Mirko or Kai Duration: 3.2024 – 3.2025 Funding: AWI-Innovationsfond A young North Sea shrimp from the mudflats (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Not a typical mudflat dweller

Although today the Arctic is a hotspot of climate change, data sampling is still sparse due to the large sea ice cover. Yet both the historical and the modern observational data are important for long-term climate [...] database contains almost 290.000 quality checked oceanographic profiles for the Arctic Mediterranean north of 65°N in the time period 1980-2015. It thus represents a unique tool to study long-term changes

rotating gyres of the Ross and Weddell Seas. Heat losses to the atmosphere, interactions with the adjacent ice shelves, and salt enrichment by brine ejected from freezing sea ice result in very dense water masses [...] mean wind field. The deep water masses upwelling in the Antarctic Divergence, sucked in from their North Atlantic source regions, are partly driven northward near the surface towards the northern flank of [...] masses which run down the continental slope towards the deep sea floor. The newly formed and well ventilated bottom water underrides, steered by bottom topography, the ACC to fill the deep basins of the