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

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

to the archive holdings. In addition, you receive information about the origin of the archival records, about the work of the submitting agency and about its history. However, this procedure of the archive [...] Polarforschung - AdP) About the Archive The AdP was founded in 2011 on the basis of the Bremen Archive Act and has since worked as the memory of the AWI and German polar and marine research. The archive appraises [...] use the archive? The use of the AdP is free of charge. However, charges are levied for the production of copies of any kind, which are laid down in a scale of fees (available only in German). The archive

learning more about the ecosystem of the deep and how it reacts to human activities at the surface is indispensable. Antarctic sponge ground (Photo: Luisa Federwisch) The landscapes of the deep sea The deep sea [...] in 150 years of deep-sea research we have only managed to take a closer look at a small fraction of this ecosystem; in fact, we know more about the dark side of the moon than we do about the ocean depths [...] considers all waters beyond the reach of light from the surface to be part of the deep sea. This lightless deep sea encompasses ca. 88 percent of the global oceans and begins at a depth of 200 metres. Consequently

insights into the carbon storage potential in the German oceans in the future. In the third part, the status of climate change effects in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea, as well as the impact of climate [...] marine ecosystems, and the seafloor is referred to as Blue carbon. This study presents the results of a literature review on published data related to the Blue carbon potential of different ecosystems and [...] biotopes along the German coasts and within the German EEZ as well as on climate change impacts on these. The focus lies on salt marshes and seagrass beds, as well as the possible potential of macroalgae,

climate change and climate protection. Against the background of possible tipping elements in the next world climate report of the IPCC, the work of the PermaRisk project was also reported here: www [...] d Prediction for the Usability of IceRoads" in Fairbanks (USA). The aim of the workshop was to establish contacts with potential future users, to inform about the current state of the possibilities and [...] March The second workshop of the PermaRisk project organized by Moritz Langer and hosted by the Geography Department of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Main objectives of the workshop were the impacts

research topics or explore the conflict of interests of different Arctic stakeholders. Lesson Plan Permafrost in the Arctic Living in the wild North The Permafrost Risk The Ocean Race Summit Dr. Rebecca [...] and thematic perspectives. Different questions discuss the situation in the High North: What characterizes the Arctic environment? What changed in the Arctic over the last decades? What is permafrost? How [...] Outreach Lesson Plan "Permafrost in the Arctic" The lesson plan “Permafrost in the Arctic” explores the subject of degrading permafrost and its effects on men and environment from different spatial and

assessment of the flowering of these species and the associated risk of mussel poisoning in Chinese and German coastal waters. The focus is on the current status of the biodiversity of the genus Azadinium [...] Objective The One Blue project analyses concentrations, degradation and impacts of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the oceans through case studies in the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Mediterranean [...] Research objective The goal of CONMAR is to provide information on the distribution and condition of munitions in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea and to generate an understanding of the release and dispersal