Press release

Southern Ocean
A unique series of measurements taken over several years in the Antarctic Ocean provide new findings about the daily vertical migration of zooplankton communities: scientists of the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Hamburg and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven [...] mammal in the world, the blue whale.

Underwater acoustics
Four different types of killer whales live in the Southern Ocean. They are known to differ in feeding ecology and appearance. However, little is known about the distribution and behaviour of these different killer whale ecotypes. To answer these questions, scientists monitor the whales’ [...] underwater sound recorders. However, so far nobody knew, which calls the different ecotypes are using.

offshore conditions. Conducting a diver supported long-term study on the effects of artificial constructions for coastal protection measures (tetrapods) on the biota under real conditions. The area is about [...] managed by its registered user (= sensor owner) from everywhere of the world to control and manage even complex sensor units fully remotely. As basic hydrographical parameters from the area, the AWI [...] ReMoBiB - Real time Monitoring of Bivalve Behavior. Download a short presentation of the project. 2016 - ongoing ( MARUM /Intercoast & AWI) CONCRETE - The ecology of

Southern Ocean
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the planet’s most powerful and arguably most important. It is the only one to flow clear around the globe without getting diverted by any landmass, sending up to 150 times the flow of all the world’s rivers clockwise around the frozen [...] of years. But much is still not known about how it works, including how it might now respond to human-induced climate change.

you will have the opportunity to meet the scientific dive team in BAH Building B, to ask questions about all aspects of scientific diving and to learn [...] research but also for teaching. On open day you can learn more about what this important job entails. In a touch pool you can also get to know some of the species typical for the Helgoland rocky shore [...] communities using classical approaches will be linked to the presentation of current research themes and the state of the art technologies used to study the microbial ecology around Helgoland.

Looking beyond Iron: Dynamics of vitamins, zinc and cobalt and their effect on phytoplankton community composition in a changing Southern Ocean In large areas of the worlds oceans iron (Fe) limits primary production thus affecting the global carbon cycle. One such area is the Southern Ocean (SO). In [...] and vitamins will better elucidate the cycling of these micronutrients in the SO. In order to gain a better understanding of the physiological responses of phytoplankton

Plankton: The foundation of life in the sea Biologist Prof. Dr Helmut Hillebrand, Professor at the University of Oldenburg and Director at HIFMB [...] human life. But climate change is altering the algal world in our seas: as a result of increasing water temperatures, cold-loving species are migrating towards the Poles, to the [...] predictions concerning the complex interactions in plankton communities and to learn more about the fate of these algal communities that are vital for our

of April. 2017-02-24 Frank gives an interview with the BBC about rapidly thawing permafrost close to the settlement of Batagay in Yakutia [...] 2016/2017: Seas and Oceans, the Nordsee-Zeitung is focusing on the work of 10 AWI researchers including Frank . 2016-03-04 In an article in the New Scientist about [...] 3sat published a film about monitoring of permafrost on the occasion of the start of the ESA GlobPermafrost-Projekt. 2016-01-26 The dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Antarctic Peninsula
During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in the Southern Hemisphere survived, and even today, marine biologists know little about the life of the world’s second-largest whale. That makes the findings of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz [...] . In view of this, the marine biologists call for protective measures for this important habitat so as not to jeopardise the apparent recovery of