• Passive Acoustic Monitoring - AWI OZA

    Maps of the Arctic and Antarctic with underwater sound recording sites occupied by the AWI Ocean Acoustics group since 2006. PALAOA (PerenniAL Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean) Between 2006 [...] in the Antarctic Ocean, or “whale” in Hawaiian. attached, since 2008, to deep-sea mooring of the oceanographic Hybrid Antarctic Float Observatory (HAFOS) and the Frontiers in Arctic Marine Science (FRAM) [...] seals, fish and invertebrates between Spitsbergen and Greenland. Further moorings in the adjacent Arctic Ocean extend this array slightly to the North. MAP of FRAM moorings hosting PAM recorders an AZFPs.

  • Cooperation Partners

    DFG PHYSYN , DFG TR 172 Arctic Amplification (AC 3 ) project C03 "Feedback of ocean colour and atmospheric composition to AC 3 ", ESA S5POC ) GEOMAR-Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research (Geomar), Kiel,

  • Mobile benthic Systems

    within one year due to the self-discharge of the battery in -1.75°C bottom waters of the deep Arctic Ocean. TRAMPER can be deployed with pin-point accuracy by means of a video-controlled cabled launching [...] crawler for long-term benthic oxygen flux studies in remote deep sea ecosystems , OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2016.776121.

  • Mobile pelagic Systems

    research with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Payload structure and arctic operations. OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE, doi:10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608043. Wulff, T., Lehmenhecker, S., Hoge, U. (2010) [...] On their way through the ocean they carry different instruments to measure several parameters from the temperature of the water to the amount of light penetrating the ocean. At the end of a mission the [...] I 115: 253-264. Wulff, U., Wulff, T. (2015). Correcting Navigation Data of Shallow-Diving AUV in Arctic. Sea Technology 56(3): 27-30. Wulff, T., Lehmenhecker, S., Bauerfeind, E., Hoge, U., Shurn, K., Klages

  • Publications

    ultraslow mid-ocean ridge?, doi: 10.1002/grl.50329 Schlindwein et al., 2014: Seismicity of the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge system, doi: 10.1016/j.polar.2014.10.001 Schlindwein and Schmid, 2016: Mid-ocean-ridge seismicity [...] Corela et al., 2023: The effect of deep ocean currents on ocean- bottom seismometers records, doi: 10.5194/nhess-23-1433-2023 Czuba et al., 2011: Continent-ocean-transition across a trans-tensional margin [...] , 2016: Thickness of the oceanic crust, the lithosphere, and the mantle transition zone in the vicinity of the Tristan da Cunha hot spot estimated from ocean-bottom and ocean-island seismometer receiver

  • IceBird

    airborne survey in the Arctic , AWI, press release Time surveys and neckties at Dinner , New York Times The Tech Ice Hunters Use to Track the Arctic Melt , Wall Street Journal Measuring Arctic Ice Melt from the [...] erived radar freeboard of Arctic sea ice. Geophysical Research Letters , 50, e2022GL100696. doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100696 Shi, H. et al . (2023), Estimation of Arctic Winter Snow Depth, Sea Ice [...] Mamnun, N. , Liu, X. and Nerger, L. (2023): Improving Arctic sea-ice thickness estimates with the assimilation of CryoSat-2 summer observations , Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2 . doi: 10.34133/olar.0025

  • Karen Wiltshire

    Wiltshire, Scientists for Future Find out more > Allinfo | 27.06.2019 Climate research in the ocean: Wild ocean and warm water Find out more > Dialogue & Lectures Policy advice Waddensea Strategy for Climate [...] lstein Scientific advisor Ocean Future G7 Scientific Advisor (2015-2018) Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Plankton Change Group member (since 2017) World Ocean Assessment Report United Nations [...] at the centre of the action. Coastal waters and its tidal interfaces are the cradle of life in the ocean: microalgae and seagrasses not only find ample nutrients to form underwater meadows and forests. In

  • PEBCAO

    biogeochemical and planktonic parameters due to fast temperature increase and acidification of the Arctic Ocean. Team Dr. Eva-Maria Nöthig (coordinator, phytoplankton ecology & particle flux) Prof. Dr. Astrid

  • Seafloor spreading

    speed of several millimetres to centimetres per year (plate tectonics). So-called mid-oceanic ridges run through the oceans. In these zones magma rises from the Earth’s interior to the surface, cools down there [...] magma again. A region in which new seafloor continuously forms is, for instance, Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic. This is a submarine mountain range whose northern foothills extend from the northeast tip of Greenland

  • Polar Biological Oceanography

    ecology with the global climate through plankton productivity and particle sedimentation to the deep ocean, a process known as the Biological Pump, and the diversity and ecophysiology of key polar organisms [...] biology and ecology We explore the biology of polar plankton, its role in the ecology of the Polar Oceans as well as its efficiency in stimulating the biological pump which is, in fact, mitigating the greenhouse [...] Research groups: Ecophysiology of pelagic key specie s Phytoplankton ecology & particle flux in the Arctic Arktic zooplankton Marine Chronobiology Biodiversity Image analysis as well as molecular measurement