Welfare The office of the Animal Welfare Officer is part of the enforcement of the legal regulations on animal welfare at institutions where research is carried out on or with vertebrate animals. The Animal [...] employees on the basis of Section 178 of the German Social Security Code (SGB IX) and provides them with advice and support. It is an elected, voluntary body. The SBV ensures that the employer fulfils the duties [...] Office Under the provisions of the General Equal Treatment Act, employees may complain to the competent authority if, in the context of their employment relationship, they believe they have been unequally

widen our perspective to the study of the Holocene. This geologic epoch represents the current interglacial after the end of the last glacial and the subsequent deglaciation. During the Holocene modern humans [...] continents, and in the cryosphere. The best way to ascertain the extent of past changes is through the inspection of historical time series of direct measurements or documentation of such environmental observations [...] prosperity of human populations. In order to properly address this question, we need quantitative information regarding the amplitude and rapidity of natural variations in the ocean, over the continents

subtropical ocean is expanding the tropics The observed anomaly of sea surface temperature during the last 5 years of the satellite age (2015-2019) in relation to the first 5 years of the satellite age (1982-1986) [...] [11 July 2018] The melting of glaciers on one side of the globe can trigger disintegration of glaciers on the other side of the globe, as has been presented in a recent paper by a team of AWI scientists [...] . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714754115 . 2017 New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic Scientists

and cold spells and the overall abundance of Gadus morhua in the Kongsfjorden system? the 2017 cohort • However, we found a significant effect of heat waves on the average growth of Gadus morhua in extreme [...] underwater sensor carrier system profiling between the ground (12m) and the surface. The A year-round operated shallow water observatory in front of the Old Pier in Ny Ålesund inaugurated in 2012. A FerryBox [...] maintenance of the Kongsfjorden Underwater Observatory Installation of setups and experiments What is measured? Daily routine measurements (incl. vertical profiles) • Continuous measurements of the main hy

support of the construction company HC Hagemann Hamburg, Germany) to study the effects of artificial breakwaters on the shallow water fish and macro-invertebrate community. Since summer 2012, the MarGate [...] from everywhere of the world to control and manage even complex sensor units fully remotely. As basic hydrographical parameters from the area, the AWI operates multiple sensor systems for the main abiotic [...] RESTORE - Restoration of the stocks of the European oyster (Ostrea edulis) in the German North Sea. 2017 - ongoing ( NIOZ & AWI & Jericho NEXT / COSYNA ) ReMoBiB - Real time Monitoring of Bivalve Behavior.

climate change and climate protection. Against the background of possible tipping elements in the next world climate report of the IPCC, the work of the PermaRisk project was also reported here: www [...] d Prediction for the Usability of IceRoads" in Fairbanks (USA). The aim of the workshop was to establish contacts with potential future users, to inform about the current state of the possibilities and [...] March The second workshop of the PermaRisk project organized by Moritz Langer and hosted by the Geography Department of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Main objectives of the workshop were the impacts

under the ERA-Net.RUS funding scheme, with partners from the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN) and the Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences [...] partner universities. The scientific team with the PhD students in its centre aims to advance the understanding of the variability of the Arctic Ocean and the cryosphere on time scales of decades to millennia [...] 2017 funded by the Helmholtz Association over a period of three years. The project comprises eight Helmholtz Research Centres and aims to improve the representation of the components of the Earth system

facilitate the use of the Manual in the context of the GHS had been completed, the Committee considered that the reference to the "Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods" in the title of the Manual [...] is then cut off. The fusehead is then fixed onto the terminals of the firing plug by means of the brass contacts such that the tip of the fusehead is 13 mm above the surface of the firing plug. A 13 mm [...] length of thin wire tightly round the sheathing and rubber tubing. The leads are then fixed onto the terminals of the firing plug such that the tip of the fusehead is 13 mm above the surface of the firing

vocalisations, speeding up the analysis of passive acoustic data in order to address ecological questions. I am interested in understanding the effects of the physical environment and the ecosystem productivity [...] to investigate the influence of the three soundscape components (biophony, geophony, and anthrophony) on the acoustic environment. Further I will study the spatio-temporal patterns of the marine mammal [...] acoustic monitoring of ambient noise in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean Svenja Zakrzewski (2010), Bachelor Hochschule Bremerhaven The PALAOA-S experiment: vocal behaviour of Antarctic pinnipeds

and starboard of the ship. Depeding on the diving depth of the system and the speed of the ship, the winch can pay out up to 2500 m of cable with 60 m/min spooling speed. The winch is of the type "Mermac [...] stitut) The profile measurement distance or horizontal resolution of the topAWI system mainly depends on the measurement speed of the sensors and the shape of the undulation profile. Since the measuring [...] use of standard sensors and is only limited by the system properties of the "Triaxus" sensor carrier itself. The sensors can be mounted in free areas inside of the sensor carrier, as well as onto the extra