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  • List of Publications

    light on the parasite communities and diet of the deep‐sea shark Deania profundorum (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) (Squaliform: Centrophoridae) from the Avilés Canyon (southern Bay of Biscay). Journal of Fish Biology [...] perspective of multi-use sites in the open ocean: Evaluating the potential of IMTA. In Seminar at the University of Maine. Orono - Maine (USA). Buck, B. H., & Krause, G. (2013). Short Expertise on the Potential [...] Evaluation of a Health Management System for Offshore Cultivation of Blue Mussels (Mytilus edulis). In "Aquaculture for Human Wellbeing - The Asian Perspective". The Annual Meeting of the World Aquaculture

  • Publications

    Appreciation of 50 Years of the Study of Oceans and Lakes. Bangor 18-22 March 2002 Talk - Hamm, C. (2002): Geometry and Material Properties of the Silicified Cell Walls of Planktonic Algae: The Technical [...] Design of Radial Framework Structures: The Case of Asterolampra. In: Block, P., Boller, G., DeWolf, C., Pauli, J., & Kaufmann, W. Eds.: Proceedings of the IASS 2024 Symposium; Redefining the Art of Structural [...] Decouple Ocean Carbon and Silicon Cycles in the Iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 110 (51). 20633-20638 Paper -

  • Projects

    in the Pacific Southern Ocean since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the Earth system, both for the uptake of anthropogenic carbon and for the exchange of heat [...] inspired the concept of the Arcwatch expeditions. The SNAC-cluster now aims at providing a synoptic view of the changing CAO. The “PaRaThA” project is based on the time-integrated information from the natural [...] sedimentation rate and the spatial distribution of the controlling environmental parameters in order to: to quantify the content of organic carbon (OC) in the sediments of the Baltic Sea, assess their OC a

  • Polarstern longterm cruise planning

    scientific attention in the past. Today, the water column structure of the SO largely prevents pronounced melting of the EAIS. This state may change if the position and strength of the Antarctic Circumpolar [...] focuses on recording the history of the position of the ACC and major SO fronts, the status of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation today and in the past, as well as a range of additional hydrographic [...] series of 3D-distributions in the water column of the Arctic Ocean. The selected stations are based on locations and variables that have been observed in the past. The quasi-synoptic survey of the CAO and

  • Facility Bhv

    DML as well as data of the control standard IA-RO63. It can be seen that the SD of the DML house standard is higher, but it is still within the specification of the analysis system. The transparent background [...] addition, the δ 15 N values of the organic matter also provide information on the efficiency of the biological pump if terrigenous input can be excluded. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of organisms, on the other [...] archives. On the other hand, we determine the δ 18 O values in ice and water samples from the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as the δ 13 C values of dissolved inorganic carbon in the water of the polar oceans

  • Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern

    in the world. The Polarstern operates an average of 305 days a year, typically cruising in the Antarctic from November to March and pursuing research in the Arctic during the summer months. In the process [...] Research ice breaker Polarstern An Icon of German Polar Research The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Commissioned [...] allow the researchers to take measurements and gather data outside of the area influenced by the ship. For example, the helicopters are used for observing whales and deploying equipment like the EM-Bird

  • Members

    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

  • Proxy Development

    intricate shells of calcium carbonate – corals, algae, and shellfish record the conditions of the water in which they live as they grow. The chemistry of these structures carries information about the environment [...] example is the isotopic composition of boron, which reflects the pH of ancient seawater – a measure of ocean acidity that is closely linked to atmospheric CO₂ levels. These are just two of the signals we [...] conditions, we need to understand the physiological environment in which the shell forms: how calcium and other ions reach the site of calcification, how the organism regulates the chemistry at that site for

  • Outreach

    Dr. Björn Rost, one of the lead authors of the IPCC chapter on oceans and coastal ecosystems, discusses the impacts of climate change on marine life in a video for “Science for the Living Room”, and explains [...] Change prepares new report The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is working on the publication of the latest assessment report; Prof. Dr. Björn Rost is part of the author team for multiple [...] survial of the population as a whole, as scientists from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute claim in a recent study. Das Meer als Forschungsobjekt (Nordsee Zeitung, 6.7.2016) On the occasion of the opening of the

  • Stable Isotope Facility

    heads the ISOLAB Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam, where some of the world's most important temperature reconstructions of climate history have been carried out: for example, the analysis of the [...] temperature curve of the Antarctic going back some 200,000 years. A data set that has advanced our knowledge of the interactions between the climate in the southern hemisphere and that in the northern hemisphere [...] statements about the isotope composition and the temperature of the water in which these algae once lived," says Hanno Meyer proudly. The ISOLAB Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam is one of only eight