• UN Plastics Treaty

    in the oceans. She has published the reference book 'Marine Anthropogenic Litter' and runs the online portal LITTERBASE to make research data on plastic pollution and scientific findings accessible to

  • Scientific Projects

    with a strong interest in the effects of climate change, local anthropogenic impacts and natural challenges on the shallow water macro-zoobenthos and fish communities. We use a broad range of field methods

  • New species in the Wadden Sea

    along as stowaways on the oysters’ shells. In addition, anthropogenic climate change and the resultant rising temperatures in the North Sea are making it easier for these newcomers, which often hail

  • SOS-iClimate

    deep waters into the surface layer and the downward mixing of anthropogenic CO 2 . Yet, despite the increasing stratification over recent decades, the Southern Ocean continued to take up CO 2 from the

  • Mission Statement

    better understanding of the causes and effects of natural and anthropogenic changes, like climate change. Together with the Helmholtz Association’s Earth and Environment Research Field, in pursuit of the

  • Members

    for future net primary production, and time of emergence of anthropogenically induced trends in dissolved organic matter in Earth system model simulations. I am currently developing a benchmarking scheme

  • Marine Chronobiology

    organisms is still unclear, but important to understand, as anthropogenic activities can unknowingly disrupt critical environmental stimuli that set these rhythms. Microbial influences on developmental

  • Chemistry & Ozone

    changes in the atmospheric circulation and in the emission of anthropogenic substances that affect the abundance of ozone in the atmosphere have direct effects on the global climate system. A detailed

  • Projects

    integrity and health in an era of climate change and emerging anthropogenic threats . OceanSOS integrates cutting-edge marine and climate sciences with socio-economic assessments to address emerging

  • Projects

    of the Southern Ocean experiencing rapid warming caused by anthropogenic driven climate change, it is of fundamental interest to understand the involvement of endogenous timing mechanisms into life