northeast coast of Greenland. A set of calibration squares for the radiation sensors were performed at the beginning of the flight. Figure 3. Opening up of the flaw lead north of Station Nord between 16th July [...] acquired by the mooring IPS framforum.com/2023/02/28/sustainable- development-of-the-arctic-ocean/. The R/V KPH was servicing the mooring and completing a sea ice station at the time of our flight [...] applied to the profiles. Summary of activities between August 8th and 16th Unfortunately, poor weather (low clouds and fog) in the block prevented further surveys out of STN during the final week of the campaign

studies in biology at the University of Bremen and then returned to the AWI and especially to the labs. Here, the supervision of our microalgal stock culture collection, the realization of lab experiments on [...] content are also part of the spectrum of my tasks in the group, besides the preparation of expeditions and ordering logistics. "What will happen tomorrow?" is an important question for me, not just regarding [...] faster than the global average. The influx of warm Atlantic water and the rapid melting of glaciers, releasing sediments and freshwater, make Svalbard a unique place to study the effects of climate change

early stages of the infection) show signs of the disease, but still can transmit the virus. The precautions and measures to be taken in areas with no signs of HPAI and without previous reports of HPAI outbreaks [...] Depending on the assessment of the information / report provided, the HPAI Task Force will give you advice on the continuation of your fieldwork. The HPAI Task Force might also ask you to continue with the observations [...] testing of these samples require prior approval and advice by the HPAI Task Force. To prevent the spread of the virus and reduce the risk of transmissions and infections, no sick or dead birds and marine mammals

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

Marine Protected Area The Weddell Sea lies in the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic, to the east of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is one of the few remaining marine regions in the world that are largely untouched [...] Protected Areas? With an area of 2.2 million square kilometres, the Weddell Sea MPA ( area west of the Prime Meridian ) would be the largest MPA in the world. The declared goal of the United Nations is to protect [...] exploration of the southern continent and its waters for all time. To define more precisely how the living resources of Antarctic waters could be used, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine

into the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland. Why are they important? Because information on the past composition of the atmosphere is stored in the ice. Over the decades, layer after layer of snow [...] content, the staff can determine when there were past volcanic eruptions. Another question is how the temperature developed in e.g. the Antarctic hundreds of thousands of years ago. In this regard, the water’s [...] and head of the ice-core drilling group in Bremerhaven. Since they can’t simply turn back the clock, the scientists rely on laborious measuring methods to test the ice cores. These rods of glacier ice

g. in the opal skeleton of diatoms). The special thing about this is that the geochemical fingerprint of both substances differs depending on the environmental conditions that prevailed when the diatoms [...] example, the air temperature that prevailed at the time of formation," says AWI climate researcher Dr Hanno Meyer. He heads the ISOLAB Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam, where some of the world's most [...] Temperature data of the last 200,000 years The EPICA DML ice core had a length of 2.892 metres. In order to find out what temperature data is stored in the various ice layers of the core, the scientists took

And the eyes of muskoxen work like a combination of snow goggles and night vision gear. Yet the future of all these survivors is uncertain; over the past few decades, the living conditions in the Arctic [...] comes to surviving in the Arctic, it’s a whole new ball game. Arctic sea ice at sunrise (Photo: Stefan Hendricks) The Arctic Ocean Unlike at the southern tip of the planet, in the High North there is no [...] which form on the ice in the summer and freeze over in the autumn. In many regions of the Arctic, the melting sea ice will likely result in higher productivity among the ice algae in the short term. Yet

According to § 40 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act, the release of alien species in the wild requires the approval of the responsible authority. In the so-called mussel judgment of the Schleswig-Holstein [...] and after the release of a species. • Guidelines for the translocation of species within the framework of conservation measures, published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN/SSC [...] in the past, or may influence the success of reintroduction in the future. Accordingly, field trials were carried out in the sublittoral of the German Bight to in vestigate the growth and health of European

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