course for Helgoland. The research team of the "NorthSeaWrecks" project collected samples around the wreck of the warship SMS MAINZ off the NorthSea island. They will be used to investigate the extent [...] Research Project NorthSeaWrecks Stormy weather and strict hygiene regulations put the science crew to the test. After a delay of almost two days due to weather conditions and several days of scheduled
using the NorthSea and Baltic Sea in sustainable ways What impact will the exclusion of bottom trawling have on marine protected areas in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the NorthSea and Baltic [...] Baltic Sea? Two pilot missions in the NorthSea and Baltic Sea, which started in March, are examining this key question as part of the research mission “Protection and Sustainable Use of Marine Areas” of
humans, whose diversity and ecology they can fundamentally change. For example, the German NorthSea and Baltic Sea coasts are now characterized by non-indigenous marine organisms. Their occurrence and rate [...] marine areas. In cooperation with the Schleswig-Holstein State Office for the Environment, the AWI NorthSea Office has compiled an overview of all known introduced species in German marine areas: “Neobiota
visualising and describing macroalgae present in the western and eastern Wadden Sea, and around the island Helgoland. The app, called SeaKey, currently provides details for the identification of 68 brown algae
Keel Laying for New Research Ship The Alfred Wegener Institute is setting new standards for sustainability in German maritime shipping. On 8 June 2021 the keel for the successor to the research cut
Wadden Sea National Park the participating researchers will use e.g. empirical and model-assisted analyses to discover how minute plastic particles (microplastics) make their way from land to sea, which [...] Microplastics Around the globe, the pollution of rivers, lakes and seas with plastic litter is on the rise. A new project jointly coordinated by the University of Bayreuth and the Alfred Wegener Institute
Oldenburg and Potsdam, Germany have confirmed the existence of a new cryptic amphipod species in the NorthSea. For the first time for the description of a new species, they used a level of mitogenomic information