tiny microplastic particles per kilogram. Further information Alles zum Thema marine debris AWI Themenseite "marine debris" als RSS abonnieren [...] Marine Litter “The Litter is a Whole New Dimension” AWI biologist Lars Gutow shares insights into his expeditions to the North Sea and Sargasso Sea, where he investigated how marine litter is spreading [...] al authorities and political decision-makers Free download: book about marine litter AWI scientists published a book about marine litter. You can download it free of charge. Compact knowledge 10 Questions

Institute have now reported this in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Debris in the Arctic Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world – including Germany “Citizen Science” [...] front. An expedition report News Microbes use carbon from ancient rocks Microbial communities in marine sediments are able to use ancient material as a carbon source. Although they prefer fresh organic [...] of five years, citizens who went on sailing cruises to the Arctic surveyed and collected plastic debris that had washed up on the shores of Svalbard. This has now been analysed by the AWI. Alles zum Thema

What are the risks of marine plastic? Deadly traps: marine debris (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Given how diverse marine plastic is, it can also have a variety of effects on marine life. Larger pieces [...] microplastics come from? Question 9: What are the economic impacts of marine litter? Question 10: How can we prevent the spread of marine litter? [...] which sea turtles can get tangled in and ultimately drown. Experts are currently discussing whether marine litter still “only” kills individual animals, or if it might even endanger entire populations. A

influence of the Earth’s orbital parameters on major ice rafting. Analyses of coarse-grained ice-rafted debris and planktonic foraminifers revealed a strong reaction to the precession signal. Since 130,000 yr [...] of surface seawater. Both situations result in a southward penetration of polar water. Thus, the marine record of dropstones documents ice rafting not only during Weichselian stades but also during cold [...] Team Sediments in the North Atlantic ocean contain a series of layers that are rich in ice-rafted debris and unusually poor in foraminifera1. Here we present evidence that the most recent six of these ‘Heinrich

from? Question 8: What are the risks of marine plastic? Question 9: What are the economic impacts of marine litter? Question 10: How can we prevent the spread of marine litter? [...] and 60 pieces of plastic drift in an area of one square kilometre; most of it is small pieces of debris ranging from one to two centimetres in length. At first blush, that may not seem like that much garbage

extent to which marine surface litter facilitates dispersal of marine animals. It certainly represents a whole new dimension. There has always been flotsam like algae, wood or pumice that marine animals have [...] understand marine litter, we still have a great deal to learn. Contact Dr Lars Gutow AWI marine biologist Dr Lars Gutow (Photo: Sina Löschke) Discover more Using Expertise to Combat Marine Litter Litter [...] survival strategies and metabolism of marine organisms like isopods for many years. Recently, his focus has increasingly been on the question of how plastic litter impacts marine organisms and habitats. In the

images from our archive, and investigated marine litter during my expeditions.” The findings are clear: between 2002 and 2011 the amount of litter and debris lying on the ocean floor in one square kilometre [...] which tells us the trawlers are now following the Atlantic cod farther north.” OFOS photo of marine debris found at the bottom of the ocean in proximity of the AWI deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN in the [...] expeditions, she will check back to see how the sponges and other marine life are reacting to the plastic. We already know that marine litter is found in larger denizens of the Arctic such as Greenland

Approach to Studying Biodiversity in the "Plastisphere" Microbiome P lastic Marine Debris (PMD) is a major source of marine pollution and potential source of invasive alien species (including pathogens [...] Title: Marine image informatics - New computational tools for the analysis of marine image collections Abstract: Combining state-of-the art digital imaging technology with different kinds of marine exploration [...] sea-ice on Arctic marine single-cell eukaroyte community composition, or of ocean warming in Eastern Fram Strait since the year 2000. In the future, the observation strategy for Arctic marine microbes will