mysteries gives life an unprecedented meaning" (Alfred Wegener) Our location... In the middle of the North Sea, 60 km offshore is the island of Heligoland, a very popular site for marine research for more than

northern foothills extend from the northeast tip of Greenland to Laptev Sea in Siberia. At this point the Eurasian and the North American plate drift apart by a few millimetres every year. Using the research

Publication: Ecological reef restoration: consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters , January 2025 Award : The RESTORE and PROCEED projects were selected [...] Publication: Setting the stones to restore and monitor European flat oyster reefs in the German North Sea, April 2023 Publication: Potential of calcein staining as growth monitoring marker in Ostrea edulis

oyster: in the early 20 th century, intensive fishing had seriously depleted oyster stocks in the North Sea. To gain a better understanding of the endangered species’ living conditions and explore options [...] From the Beginning to the Present The Wadden Sea Station on Sylt – Germany’s northernmost research facility – can look back on a 100-year history and a long tradition as part of the Biological Institute [...] location for his studies. Today, Hagmeier is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of Wadden Sea research in Germany. Breeding hall, 1934 (Photo: Archiv Biologische Anstalt Helgoland) In 1924, the

Gloabal Change than other oceans. Sea ice strongly decraeses, temperatures rise at least twice as much, acidification and, the influence of warmer water from the North Atlantic is increasing ('Altantification') [...] relatively high proportion of biomass was being observed, the proportion of biomass in central Arctic, sea ice covered waters is relatively low. Team work P lankton E cology and B iogeochemistry in a C hanging

framework for implementing multiple land use within the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea taking as an example the potential combination of projected offshore wind farms and offshore mariculture [...] (Mytilus edulis) and kelp (Laminaria saccharina), show promising results for mariculture in the German North Sea (see " Offshore Aquaculture Project " and " Roter Sand "). Due to the provision of fixed infrastructure [...] growing marine organisms in the open sea, but also to counterbalance the continuing scarce seed mussel supply, which influences the mussel fishery sector in the Wadden Sea. That way, the ocean areas designated

mixing, and sea ice melt are connected and will develop a physics-based representation of these connections for consistent climate modeling. Lettie Roach , since 2024. SouthernOcean and Antarctic Sea ice Evolution [...] Evolution (SO-ASE) focuses on understanding the drivers of sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice changes from the satellite era to a warmer world. SO-ASE aims to unravel the fundamental physics of i [...] ice pack volume) aims to study the response of snow cover on Antarctic sea ice to changing atmospheric conditions and its impact on sea ice mass balance. Through observations and model development, this research

ty on the High Seas Introductory report on High Seas Biodiversity Treaty 'Areas beyond national jurisdiction', 'high seas' or 'areas?': What is the difference? Under the Law of the Sea Convention, the [...] what, where, and how on the high seas. Topic navigation 'Areas beyond national jurisdiction', 'high seas' or 'areas?': What is the difference? Establishment of new high seas protected areas The limits of [...] insights. Antarctic sea ice, Weddell Sea (Photo: Mario Hoppmann) The contents and limits of the agreement As an implementing agreement to the International Convention on the Law of the Sea, the new agreement

Melbourne. After his studies he had worked for the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde before he went to the Wadden Sea Station Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar [...] joined the AWI Wadden Sea Station to work on the sources and transmission pathways of antibiotic resistance genes in environments exposed to oyster farming (European project SPARE-SEA). Helen Spence-Jones [...] European oyster larvae from the restoration project in Borkum reef ground into other areas of the North Sea as part of the CREATE project, alongside other AWI / HIFMB scientists and colleagues from Thünen

for the polar regions Sea Ice Motion and Deformation Envisat ASAR image of different sea ice types (© ESA / Envisat, 2006) (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Drift and deformation of sea ice Polynias Terra [...] topic is called “ZackSAR”. Here, radar remote sensing data are evaluated for Zackenberg valley in north east Greenland. In 2013 and 2014, expeditions took place in the area. During field work, the environmental