• Facility Bhv

    DML as well as data of the control standard IA-RO63. It can be seen that the SD of the DML house standard is higher, but it is still within the specification of the analysis system. The transparent background [...] addition, the δ 15 N values of the organic matter also provide information on the efficiency of the biological pump if terrigenous input can be excluded. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of organisms, on the other [...] archives. On the other hand, we determine the δ 18 O values in ice and water samples from the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as the δ 13 C values of dissolved inorganic carbon in the water of the polar oceans

  • Kemper_Master_Thesis_website.pdf

    topographic features of the study site such as the slightly more elevated region in the center of the study area reveal lower FDD. Furthermore, the exposed hillsides of5 the Brooks Range or the coastal zone are [...] pared to the neighboring ones. The Saganavirktok River does not show different FDD than the adjacent areas, despite of the valleys in the foothills of the Brooks Range. In Figure 7 the TDD for the same year [...] important for the performance of the SEB-scheme is the determination of the melt period. Figure 14 displays the melt period metrics for the sample year 2012. It displays the high spatial variation of snowmelt

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  • Chronicle

    and study the local influences of the sea, the ice and the atmosphere on the Weddell Sea and global processes. August - October 2008 – RV Polarstern is the first research vessel in the world to circumnavigate [...] care is still fit for the trip to the ice. Birthday spends the research icebreaker in the vastness of Antarctica. The public can visit the ship in June, before it traveled the southern hemisphere for a year [...] During the Polarstern’s 29th Antarctic expedition, the researchers on board investigate the status of the Antarctic ecosystem after the polar winter, as well as the causes of differences in the development

  • Expeditions

    possible due to the harsh water current at the wreck site another attempt was conducted at HE607 with the help of a ROV of the ICBM. During HE607 it is planned to visit the again the wreck site of the submarine [...] Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven The aims of the cruise HE635 are cross disciplinary investigations of munition dumping sites in the southern German Bight and the test of new underwater crawler for munition monitoring [...] (e.g., patterns of coastal runoff) and chemistry to reveal terrestrial and marine sources of nutrients, OM, freshwater, and the distribution of greenhouse gases of the PCES. The effect of local flux patterns

  • Projects

    assessment of the flowering of these species and the associated risk of mussel poisoning in Chinese and German coastal waters. The focus is on the current status of the biodiversity of the genus Azadinium [...] Objective The One Blue project analyses concentrations, degradation and impacts of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the oceans through case studies in the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Mediterranean [...] Research objective The goal of CONMAR is to provide information on the distribution and condition of munitions in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea and to generate an understanding of the release and dispersal

  • SoNoAT_2019_CourseContent.pdf

    AABW and AAIW north, the increase in NADW as we move north in the SW Atlantic and its reduction in the Eastern Basin of the Atlantic, and the appearance of MOW in the later part of the transect. Figure 5: [...] for the polar components of the climate system. Since 2009 he is the head of the Climate-Initiative REKLIM (Regional Climate Change) of the Helmholtz Association (HGF), in which nine centres of the HGF [...] leaving the ship, this will take the form of a short report detailing the pre-planning and execution on station of the CTD cast, the results they found and an interpretation of their findings in the context

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  • Publications

    Appreciation of 50 Years of the Study of Oceans and Lakes. Bangor 18-22 March 2002 Talk - Hamm, C. (2002): Geometry and Material Properties of the Silicified Cell Walls of Planktonic Algae: The Technical [...] Design of Radial Framework Structures: The Case of Asterolampra. In: Block, P., Boller, G., DeWolf, C., Pauli, J., & Kaufmann, W. Eds.: Proceedings of the IASS 2024 Symposium; Redefining the Art of Structural [...] Decouple Ocean Carbon and Silicon Cycles in the Iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 110 (51). 20633-20638 Paper -

  • 6_7_cruise_report_PS95.pdf

    from the shallow region of the English Channel to the Bay of Biscay, the region around the Ampère Seamount, the Cape Verde Islands and further stations in the South Atlantic up to Cape Town. The participants [...] gradually. In the morning of 10 November Polarstern entered the harbour of Las Palmas. The cruise leg PS95.2 started in the afternoon of the same day with the departure from Las Palmas towards the Cape Verde [...] lectures of the work carried out in the previous six days on the evening before and a teaching/learning period on the morning of the transfer where the outgoing groups taught the incoming students. The themes

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  • Cruise_reportPS102.pdf

    deployment of Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) to measure the thermal structure of the upper 1.8 km of the water column. XBT probes were ‘fired’ during the second leg of the cruise when the vessel was [...] mixing at the surface decreases the oxygenation of the lower water masses. Additionally, it decreases the formation of central water, which is subducted from the thermocline. In the case of SACW, the formation [...] deoxygenation of the water mass. This can greatly impact the ventilation of the surrounding water body and the formation rate of the water mass itself. Consequences are the expansion and formation of oxygen minimum

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  • Permafrost

    effects on the landscape, as the large ice masses melt, causing parts of the surface to collapse. The considerable diversity to be found in permafrost makes it particularly difficult to keep track of the various [...] found at the Zugspitze. Given its smaller overall land mass, there is less permafrost in the Southern Hemisphere. Although the Antarctic offers the constant low temperatures needed, the amount of land where [...] where the majority of biological and biochemical activity takes place, it is also referred to as the “active layer”, which, as the thawing layer, is not considered to be part of the permafrost. The layer