Ocean receives freshwater by run-off from Asia north of the Himalaya. Large rivers carry freshwater from this enormous catchment area into the Eurasian shelf seas. Ocean waters with salinities below the average [...] balance of the Arctic Ocean. Such waters flow in from the Nordic Seas. An interchange of waters between the Arctic and the Nordic seas results in in seasaw fluctuations in fresh water content between the [...] Current and sea ice flux through Fram Strait. Inflow of saline water from the South is equivalent to a fresh water export. Fresh water from the Arctic strengthens the stratification in the Nordic Seas and the

phytoplankton data collected in the Antarctic, particularly for the Weddell Sea and adjacent areas such as the Scotia and Lazarev Seas Summary of Polarstern stations in the Antarctic where zooplankton was sampled [...] Potter Cove Potter Cove (Co-ordinates: 62°14´S, 58°40´W' ) is located on King George Island north of the antarctic peninsula one of the fastest warming areas on earth. The time series at and around Potter [...] gov/copepod/time-series/de-30401/ ). Principal investigators: Doris Abele: Hydrography, biology, ecology, sea ice. Irene Schloss: Hydrography, biology potter_cove_Anders_Torstensson.jpg (Photo: Alfred-Wegener

for Coastal and Arctic Seas: The aim of the project is the establishment of a long-term observation network of automated sensors on buoys, gliders etc. Focus area is the North Sea, but a prototype of the [...] :SAHFOS runs the Continuous Plankton Recorder surveys, that initially concentrated on the North Sea and North Atlantic (in operation since the 1930s) but CPRs are now deployed in many regions of the world [...] n here. HOTS : Hawai Ocean Time series: Time series operated at the open ocean site ALOHA in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/hot_jgofs.html I IACS : International

Sylt-Rømø Bight, Northern Wadden Sea C.de la Vega, S. Horn, D. Baird, D. Hines, S. Borrett, R. Asmus, H. Asmus 13:30-13:45 Are grey seals exerting a top-down control in the Baltic Sea? D. Costalago 13:45-14:00 [...] Please contact Dr. Ulrike Schückel or Dr. Sabine Horn to sign up for the workshop. Location Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung. Costs [...] Stellenbosch, South Africa) Torsten Berg (MariLim, Germany) Prof. Dr. Stuart Borrett (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) Prof. Dr. Victor de Jonge (University of Hull, The Netherlands) Prof. Dr

is the case in many other time series around the world. This facilitates a unique insight in the North Sea ecosystem but also means a lot of work on the ships as well as in our laboratories, where the different

Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) is a drilling project aiming to retrieve a deep ice core in North-East Greenland. The drilling site is on a dynamically active location, where the surface flow velocities [...] previous deep ice core sites. It is located at the onset of the largest ice stream in Greenland (NEGIS - North-East Greenland ice stream). Ice streams are not very well represented in large scale ice sheet models [...] if not prescribed by inversion methods based on observed surface velocities. Their contribution to sea level projections is thus not very well constrained and a source of uncertainty. Three regimes can

In connection with current plans for a massive expansion of wind farms in offshore areas of the North Sea, the idea emerged to combine these with the installation of extensive mariculture for bivalves and [...] interaction between physical offshore processes and man-made structures in areas of the German North Sea territory where mariculture has potential, the conditions for possible combination of mariculture [...] ment force experiments that algae were capable of resisting the high-energy environment of the North Sea. The concentration of mussel larvae in the water column decreased offshore and resulted in a low

Potentials for Open Ocean Aquaculture in the North Sea Region Within the scope of the diploma thesis "Potentials for Open Ocean Aquaculture in the North Sea Region" maps of the German Bight have been created [...] Lower-Saxony (Fig.1) and one the Schleswig-Holstein part of the North Sea (Fig.2). The maps cover commercial mussel beds in the Wadden Sea, an oyster farm, land-based recirculation systems as well as present [...] created. These maps show the current mariculture sites in the German part of the southern North Sea. In order to create those maps the geographic information system ArcGIS has been used. ArcGIS software

framework for implementing multiple land use within the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea taking as an example the potential combination of projected offshore wind farms and offshore mariculture [...] (Mytilus edulis) and kelp (Laminaria saccharina), show promising results for mariculture in the German North Sea (see " Offshore Aquaculture Project " and " Roter Sand "). Due to the provision of fixed infrastructure [...] growing marine organisms in the open sea, but also to counterbalance the continuing scarce seed mussel supply, which influences the mussel fishery sector in the Wadden Sea. That way, the ocean areas designated

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 [...] analysis conducted by the AWI showed that farmed or wild mussels from the intertidal areas in the Wadden Sea suffer under high infestations of macro parasites such as copepods (see Fig. 3), trematods (see Fig