• Selected finished projects

    Ocean Aquaculture in the North Sea Region" maps of the German Bight have been created. These maps show the current mariculture sites in the German part of the southern North Sea. In order to… Find out more [...] investigations conducted by the AWI showed that the basic biotic conditions in many parts of the German North Sea are given for the cultivation of various candidates under offshore conditions, such as seaweeds [...] of planned offshore-windfarms with commercial marine aquaculture (open ocean aquaculture) in the North Sea area. [learn more about Feasibility Study I] … Find out more River Jade The Bay of Jade near the

  • Stefan Hain

    discovery of the Weddell Sea in 1823, there has been no commercial fishing in this area due to the difficult, virtually impassable sea ice conditions. This makes the Weddell Sea one of the last pristine [...] A Marine Protected Area in the Weddell Sea Dr Stefan Hain, Head of the Environmental Policy Unit at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Weddell Sea CCAMLR Antarcitca The effects of climate change have long been [...] Antarctic. In contrast to the North Pole, however, in the South Pole region there are still areas that have shown few or no changes and are worth protecting (like the Weddell Sea). These areas could, for the

  • Eyewitnesses to Arctic Change

    and physics of sea ice as well as the effects of sea ice retreat on the entire ocean system from the surface to the deep sea. Eleven years ago, Antje Boetius was part of the largest ever sea ice minumum in [...] set off from Tromsø, Norway, towards the North Pole. For two months, a good fifty scientific expedition participants will explore the Arctic in transition as sea ice extent reaches its annual minimum in [...] in the Arctic and its consequences for life in the deep sea. Now she is returning with her team to compare the state of the Arctic today - also with the data from the MOSAiC expedition 2019/20.

  • Research Vessel Heincke

    fleet. At sea for more than 250 days a year, the ship provides accommodation and work facilities for up to twelve scientists. The Heincke generally operates in the North Sea and in the North Atlantic. [...] Friedrich Heincke came from Mecklenburg. As a zoologist he examined the fish fauna in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. He had studied his field in Rostock and Leipzig. An assistant's place in the zoological [...] the exploration of the sea. He co-founded the international organisation for exploration of the sea and remained a constant delegate. In 1929 Heincke died on the German high-sea island Helgoland in whose

  • Week 6: From East Svalbard towards the deep Arctic Ocean

    we started in the marginal sea ice zone east of Svalbard, and then set course north into the central Arctic Ocean.The marginal sea ice zone was mostly covered with decaying sea ice and some larger ice-free

  • More Ships

    white wooden motorboat Aade built in 1974 is on the move exclusively in the waters all around the North Sea island Helgoland. It runs out every single day to take samples for the Helgoland Roads long time [...] module. The Aade is the biggest "Börteboot" of Helgoland – the wooden boats are typical for the North Sea island. They bring passengers of ferries and holiday ships to the island and they are used also [...] PS (one engine) Range Day tours Max. speed 9 knots Operation area Around Helgoland Crew 2-3 Days on Sea per year (2013) Day tours at stations plans Shipyard Bootswerft H.Hatecke Freiburg/Elbe, Germany Scientists

  • Arctic Species in Climate Change

    comes to food, salinity and water depth, which has allowed it to migrate farther north from the North Sea and the North Atlantic, where it finds favourable living conditions e.g. off the coast of Svalbard [...] to these biotic communities when the sea ice disappears? What problems will sea-ice retreat mean for polar bears? What will rising temperatures and the dwindling sea ice mean for fish like the polar cod [...] there will be limits to how far north the fishing fleets can expand their activities: although the high seas of the Arctic will become more and more accessible as the sea ice dwindles, on 25 June 2021 an

  • „Wir können Watt - coastal research in time with the tides”

    on their doorstep and exploring the question of how climate change is altering the Wadden Sea and the North Sea in the long term.

  • Scientific articles

    Sell, SEA Pineda-Metz, M Wegner, S Brand, LNS Shama, J Wollschläger, TH Badewien, S Laakmann, & KH Wiltshire. Connectivity and larval drift across Marine Protected Areas in the German Bight, North Sea, Part [...] Connectivity and larval drift across marine protected areas in the German bight, North Sea: Necessity of stepping stones. Journal of Sea Research, 204 , 102563. doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2025.102563 . 2024 [...] oyster ( Ostrea edulis ) in the German North Sea (RESTORE preliminary investigation). BfN-Schriften 684. BfN, Germany. doi.org/10.19217/skr684 . 2023. SEA Pineda‐Metz, B Colsoul, M Niewöhner, T

  • COSYNA

    titute operates two shallow-water cabled underwater observatories ( UWO ’s) in the Southern North Sea North off Helgoland ( Helgoland-UWO - 54° 11.700'N / 7° 52.600'E – Fig. 1) and in the Arctic Ocean [...] real-time data (NRT-Data) of the main hydrographical variables of the two AWI research sites “Southern North Sea” and “Kongsfjord”. Provide underwater power and data connection for short-term or long-term project