global efforts to maintain ocean 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
W.-J. von Appen, 2016: Transient tracer distributions in the Fram Strait in 2012 and inferred anthropogenic carbon content and transport, Ocean Science, 12, 319–333; dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-12-319-2016
warming by absorbing most of the excess heat in the climate system and a large fraction of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. However, over the past years the Southern Ocean has experienced drastic
natural Holocene polar climate variability is a key to determine the range of plausible future anthropogenic climate change. My Ph.D. project aims at improving our understanding of the climate signal and
Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly under the influence of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. My research focuses on the dynamics of disturbances, their landscape-scale impacts
and methane for centuries. As such, it may not be possible to quickly solve the problem that anthropogenic climate change has created, especially when irreversible changes take place in the permafrost
, Kaiser, T., Bengtson Nash, S., Ebinghaus, R., Küster, A. (2026) Antarctica InSync Theme 5: Anthropogenic signatures in Antarctica: the race against pollution and other pressures [White paper]. The Scientific
marine life from the impacts of climate change; however, they can offer refuges where further anthropogenic influences on the ecosystem are reduced or entirely eliminated, helping the species in question
climate conference. Learn more. AWI at the COP Twin crisis: Climate change and loss of biodiversity Anthropogenic climate change and the loss of biodiversity are often seen as two separate crises. However, neither