• FRAM Ocean Observing System

    Boetius, A. (2013): FRAM - FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring: Permanent Observations in a Gateway to the Arctic Ocean. OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE. doi:10.1109/OCEANS Bergen.2013.6608008 Publications featuring [...] FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring Our ability to understand the complex interactions of biological, chemical, physical, and geological processes in the ocean and on land is still limited by the lack [...] interdisciplinary observation infrastructures. The main purpose of the planned open-ocean infrastructure FRAM (FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring) is permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the

  • Research

    environmental changes in a the transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling deep-sea biodiversity, the Alfred Wegener Institute [...] knowledge about biodiversity in the deep sea has started to increase and today we know that the deep ocean on planet Earth hosts an enormous diverse deep-seabed life. Biodiversity in the deep sea depends among [...] strong seasonal forcing, the accelerating rate of recent climate change challenges the resilience of Arctic life. The entire system is likely to be severely affected by changing ice and water conditions, varying

  • Comprehensive assessment of the changing Central Arctic Ocean

    l research team is now bringing back from a Polarstern expedition to the Central Arctic. After a four-month-long Arctic season, the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research icebreaker is expected to arrive

  • Angelika Humbert

    now flowing more rapidly: this means that they transport more ice from the land’s interior to the ocean, which in turn causes the sea level to rise. Furthermore, the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet is [...] century? Find out more > TRT World Now (Video) | 14.09.2020 Climate Crisis: Ice breaks away from Arctic's largest remaining shelf Find out more > Dialogue & Lectures Lecture | 04.03.2022 The Complex Life [...] Ice Sheets TEDx Talks Talk | 06.03.2017 How the Greenland Ice Sheet is loosing mass forced by the ocean Summit on Climate Change Policy advice

  • Lars Kaleschke

    the thickness of the Arctic sea ice is steadily declining and meltwater pools are increasingly forming in summer, covering large areas of the Arctic sea ice, both the ice and the ocean below absorb more solar [...] between the ocean and atmosphere sea ice modulates the flow of energy, kinetic force, salt, moisture and trace gases between the two components. Though our knowledge of the sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic [...] data are needed in order to validate our computer models and depict the realities of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic as precisely as possible using computers. If we succeed in this detail work, we’ll

  • Christian Haas

    2020 On thin ice: The Arctic and earth's climate Find out more > DW | 05.05.2020 Polarstern sets records on Arctic climate mission Find out more > Above & Beyond, Canada's Arctic Journal | 31.12.2013 On [...] Institute for Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen. Sea Ice MOSAiC The sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is a major component of the global climate system, and changes in its thickness and [...] depends not only on thermodynamic factors like heat in the air and water, or radiation; winds and ocean currents also play an important role by constantly moving and deforming the ice, leading to the creation

  • Palaeogenetics Lab

    samples. Our focus study areas are Arctic terrestrial systems (Russia, Alaska, Canada) and coastal–marine polar ecosystems (North Pacific & Atlantic, Southern Oceans). We apply metabarcoding (target-specific

  • Publications

    youtube.com/channel/UCxseMj2r9jMDq-LjKzUOIVg/featured Arctic Ocean MSM93 expedition contribution to newsletter of German Science Foundation Transregio Arctic Amplification: www.ac3-tr.de/download/ne [...] kugel-klimaforschung-mit-markus-rex/tausendstel-millimeter-gross-aber-echte-giganten/85718382 Arctic Ocean MSM93 expedition highlighted in the German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” 6 Nov 2020: https :// [...] Symposium 2022 in Bonn within the German radio programme Deutschlandfunk about her presentation on "Novel ocean color information from Sentinel-5P’s high spectral resolution" in the broadcast "Forschung aktuell"

  • Cooperation Partners

    DFG PHYSYN , DFG TR 172 Arctic Amplification (AC 3 ) project C03 "Feedback of ocean colour and atmospheric composition to AC 3 ", ESA S5POC ) GEOMAR-Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research (Geomar), Kiel,

  • Invited Talks

    space in the Arctic Ocean and next steps towards its comprehensive monitoring. European Polar Science Week 2020. Virtual Internagtional Conference. 30 Oct 2020 2019 Bracher A. (2019) The Ocean as Seen by [...] (2015) Hyperspectral ocean color imagery and applications to studies of phytoplankton ecology. In Breakout session "Hyperspectral science and applications for shelf and open ocean processes" of IOCS 2015 [...] Splinter Session 10 “Phytoplankton Community Structure from Ocean Colour: Methods, Validation, Intercomparisons and Applications”, International Ocean Color Science (IOCS) Meeting, Darmstadt, 8 May 2013 Bracher