hydrography of the North Atlantic, in particular by analyzing the impact of oceanic resolution in key regions, such as the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current regions, the Labrador Sea, and the Denmark [...] Goessling | Özgür Gürses | Thomas Rackow | Dmitry Sidorenko SPP 1889 Regional Sea Level Change and Society Understanding regional sea level change and its impacts on societies requires new forms of integrated [...] research between natural and social sciences. The Priority Program (SPP-1889) "Regional Sea Level Change and Society (SeaLevel)" , funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,

of Greenland Sea only (Fram Strait). The western, sea ice-dominated, part of Fram Strait proved to have short, late (middle May) and time varying phytoplankton blooms. At the marginal sea ice zone of the [...] production values increased in the north-eastern open ocean area of the Greenland Sea, on about 120 mgC/m2 per day for the thirteen years of observations. The Greenland Sea primary production estimates we [...] production of the Greenland Sea and the carbon stored in sediments. Related publications: Cherkasheva, A. (2014) Greenland Sea primary production with respect to changes in sea ice cover . PhD thesis, Department

summer blooms with outbreaks typically seen in climates warmer than those experienced in, e.g., the North Sea. This may partly explain why Vibrio monitoring efforts in the German Bight are altogether lacking [...] traffic, pollution & eutrophication from various sources, and recently, the set-up of wind farms at sea. With our focus on microbes these two aspects, climate change and anthropogenic pressure are under

components such as deep-sea robots, ice buoys and autonomously operating underwater robots. They are designed to enable a look beyond the moorings and the Hausgarten into the Norwegian Sea and the Arctic Ocean [...] Ocean. The Fram Strait connects the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic. Unlike the shallow water conjunction to the Pacific, this connection is up to 5569 metres deep and thus the main region for exchange

sustainable population enhancement for various skate species that were (formerly) native to the German North Sea. The focus is on egg-laying skate species at risk, including the blue skate Dipturus batis , the

the opportunity to visit the long-term measuring station Spiekeroog operated by the ICBM in the North Sea and also to visit the various departments of the technical workshop at the AWI in Bremerhaven. Dr

Arctic Ocean Madiba Sea Mount, south of South Africa, discovered 2013 with RV Polarstern Current-induced seabed structures at the Southern Mozambique Ridge Iceberg scours on the shelf north of Svalbard Contact

Meadows Water Meets Land – Coastal Hydrography and Geology The Wadden Sea Over the Course of Time The Wadden Sea Ecosystem Wadden Sea Station Conference Rooms List Oyster Trail Team Guest houses Guest Research [...] Evolutionary Ecology Team Research Highlight: Community Ecology Team 100 years of Wadden Sea Station Wadden Sea Station Shelf Sea System Ecology Working Groups Ecophisiology of invertebrates Long-term observations [...] sedimentary flux PEBCAO Team Teaching&Outreach Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology Team Research Food for the deep sea Microbial communities in the deep sea ABYSS Higher life at the deep seafloor Experimental

lead to a shift in the jet stream and the formation of a blocking high-pressure system over the North Sea and parts of Germany. This in turn means that the April weather in Central Europe is getting much

(Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) LC-MS/MS chromatogram of a planktonic field samples from the North Sea containing several phycotoxins. Chemical structures of several phycotoxin classes. Current list