Greenland and meas- ure the sea ice that drifts from the northern coast of the country and leaves the Arctic Ocean through the Fram Strait in the course of the summer. Lastly, there are the numerous helicopter [...] gravitational field. The strength of the field depends on the mass of the plan­ et. But, unlike a billiard ball, the mass of the Earth is not equally distributed in its interior. And on the planet’s surface [...] CLIMATE MODELLING Always the right scale 32 HYDROACOUSTICS The Music of the Ocean 36 OCEANOGRAPHY The Pulse of Heat in the North Atlantic 42 OCEANOGRAPHY Where is the giant iceberg from the Larsen C Ice Shelf

research topics or explore the conflict of interests of different Arctic stakeholders. Lesson Plan Permafrost in the Arctic Living in the wild North The Permafrost Risk The Ocean Race Summit Dr. Rebecca [...] and thematic perspectives. Different questions discuss the situation in the High North: What characterizes the Arctic environment? What changed in the Arctic over the last decades? What is permafrost? How [...] Outreach Lesson Plan "Permafrost in the Arctic" The lesson plan “Permafrost in the Arctic” explores the subject of degrading permafrost and its effects on men and environment from different spatial and

Sargassum. The following presentation and interpretation of the results matches the order of the questionnaire. The small number of participants does not allow for representative insights about the local community [...] good, the other half of the group assessed the quality as bad or rather bad. Yet, the vast majority agreed that the quality of the coastal environment is not improving over time, indicating that the participants [...] worried about the future development of the coastal environment. Most of the participants indicated that they use the coastal environment for recreational activities and described the coast and the sea as

iceberg hit the underwater cable so that the communication to the underwater part of the observatory started to become critical. With the help of the AWIPEV station personal, the REMOS part of the underwater [...] overhaul of the underwater part of the installation, including the replacement of the concrete fundament. The April dive-expedition 2018 to Svalbard was therefore dedicated almost exclusively to the renewal [...] hammered into the sediment. Then, the divers filled the steel frame with additional 72 concrete plates each of it with a weight if 18,4 kg so that the desired final weight of the entire construction of 1.8 tons

things off the ground, for example the strengthening of the rights of indigenous communities and the close interlocking of biodiversity conservation and climate protection. The preservation of biodiversity [...] times faster than the rest of the world: the soils are beginning to thaw and release the stored carbon as greenhouse gases such as CO 2 and CH 4 . "The available data models agree that the permafrost region [...] strongly do the current and ongoing climate changes affect the snow and ice regions of our planet? The latest State of the Cryosphere Report 2024, published on 12 November, provides insights and warns of vastly

and paleo-current models of the continental rise and shelf of the Pacific margin of West Antarctica The results call for an urgent case of scientific drilling, in particular in the Amundsen Sea Embayment [...] reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat since the onset of Southern Hemisphere glaciation improves our understanding of ice sheet growth and melting processes and [...] that exceed those of any other Antarctic outlet glacier outside the Antarctic Peninsula. The incursion of warm Circum-Polar Deep-Water into the deeply incised glacial troughs of the shelves has been recognized

to make the most of the situation? For us, the whole affair was a major advantage, because the two crates of equipment that flew with us to Santiago de Chile somehow got lost on the way to the Falklands [...] wanted to investigate the size structure of the krill in a swarm, and asked the captain to fish more in the upper or lower margin of the swarm, it would be virtually impossible, since the ship’s goal is always [...] disguise An interview about lost luggage, the coronavirus pandemic and krill’s internal clock Bettina Meyer is head of the Working Group “Ecophysiology of Pelagic Key Species” at the Alfred Wegener Institute

conducted at the Potsdam division of AWI, and the group is ranked as the first in Europe and as one of the best in the world. The achievements of this research group are outstanding. The boundary-layer [...] 2011, the review panel met with the extended Directorate of the AWI for a briefing about the organisation and the goals of the AWI centre review and PACES mid-term evaluation. During these talks, the review [...] to provide the review panel with a comprehensive overview of the research at the AWI. The posters summarized the missions, methods and results of each of the twenty scientific sections and the Junior Research

representatives of the federal and state environmental authorities on the subject of munitions in the sea and the results of the research projects. His special interest is the transfer of knowledge from [...] Geography at the University of Bremen. Bet- ween 2005 and 2009 he was PhD student at Jacobs University and AWI and thought about the question: How can offshore windfarms be co-used for the cultivation of blue [...] munition in the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak. The aim of his research is to develop methods to detect health effects that organisms may suffer when they come into contact with or are exposed to the toxic compounds

buried peat layer at Swanson river at a depth of 80 cm. Future analyses in the laboratory will show the age and potentially the reason for the formation and burial of this peat layer. Claire and Miriam were [...] Kenai and the Division of Natural Resources of Alaska for two additional field sites on the Kenai river mouth and at the Swanson river mouth (approx. 30 km North of Kenai). With these two additional transects [...] cover the fresh- to saltwater transition in the soil and vege- tation, since the transects from last week did not show any large gradient in a first analysis of the soil water. As a result, the new field