• Ocean Optics

      significantly to a better understanding for the attribution of anthropogenic and natural sources of climate change to the marine ecosystem and biogeochemical cycles. Our outreach activities can be found

    • The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can’t be approached as two separate things

      Anthropogenic climate change has, together with the intensive use and destruction of natural ecosystems through agriculture, fishing and

    • Arctic Ocean: Greater Future acidification in summer

      our planet’s oceans have absorbed more than a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As a result, their acidity has increased by nearly 30 percent their acidity has increased

    • Climate targets for 2030: Avenues to a sustainable reduction in CO2 emissions

      of 2015, Germany and the global community agreed to limit anthropogenic global warming to less than 2°C. But that goal can only be reached if both national and international agreements are adhered to

    • The Future of Ocean Eddy Activity in a Warming World

      Wegener Institute scientists investigated what long-term impact anthropogenic climate change will have on ocean eddies and their far-reaching effects. Using climate model simulations, the study shows how

    • Change of staff in coastal research: AWI Vice Director Prof Karen Wiltshire to helm new climate institute at Trinity College Dublin

      North Sea, particularly in the Wadden Sea, in connection with anthropogenic and natural influences – like climate change – at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Five years later, she was appointed Vice Director

    • Underwater Soundscapes - AWI OZA

      Ambient sound is composed of natural abiotic and biotic and anthropogenic sounds. Natural abiotic ('geophonic') sounds include sound produced by wind, waves and ice movement, biotic ('biophonic') sounds [...] other environmental and ecological factors? How do natural and anthropogenic sounds contribute to the overall acoustic environment of an area? Which role does the character and quality of (local) acoustic

    • Pathogenes

      important economic region - also subject to numerous direct anthropogenic influences like tourism, fishery operations, shipping traffic, pollution & eutrophication from various sources, and recently, [...] our focus on microbes these two aspects, climate change and anthropogenic pressure are under investigation in this topic. Vibrio are consistent members of the marine microbial rare biosphere and exhibit

    • How the ocean affects climate on land

      over the last 8000 years. The consequence: In addition to anthropogenic warming additional changes in regional climates are expected due to natural variability.

    • Identifying age measurements distorted by fossil fuel emissions

      of the carbon isotope 14C in the atmosphere accelerated by anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and the associated distortion of the radiocarbon age of materials can be precisely identified - by