• Research projects

    Research (DAM) through its sustainMare research mission, is developing concepts for reducing anthropogenic stresses on marine ecosystems and biodiversity. The project brings together 32 experts from 15

  • North Sea Office

    The North Sea is one of the most heavily used seas in the world. Shipping, fishing and other anthropogenic activities have substantial effects on natural ecosystems, while also influencing the North Sea’s

  • BEMO

    management in the Weddell Sea. BEnToolsMaPs will generate and transfer knowledge on effects of anthropogenic stressors on the structure and function of Southern Ocean seafloor systems, facilitating deci

  • Southern Ocean - Overturning Circulation

    and biological pumps of carbon will shift in future, hence whether changes in climate due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will be amplified or dampened. As physical oceanographers we are inv [...] that the Weddell Sea bottom water became warmer during the last decades, and that its content of anthropogenic CO2 increased continuously; by detailed investigations it could be shown that the densest part

  • SOS-iClimate

    vertical mixing of carbon-rich 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

  • PS128CruiseReport_BzPM_0764_2022.pdf

    Southern Ocean in anthropogenic carbon uptake has long been identified (Caldeira & Duffy, 2000), and it has been suspected that climate warming reduces the efficiency of this anthropogenic carbon uptake. [...] Wechselwirkung mit Zirkulationsänderungen im Südpolarmeer befassen. Die Reaktion des EAIS auf die anthropogene Erwärmung ist mit großen Unsicherheiten für die Vorhersage des zukünftigen Meeresspiegelanstiegs [...] ten ausgewählter Spurenmetalle (Nd, Pb, Sr) erlauben. Dies sind Untersuchungen, die aufgrund anthropogener Überprägung heutzutage nur an sehr wenigen Orten der Erde noch möglich sind. Im Zeitraum vom 2

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  • Past polar sea ice variability

    biomarker-based reconstruction of sea ice, which provides important information on: natural (non-anthropogenically induced) sea ice variability and associated climate variability; Changes in marine primary

  • Research Focus

    strong influence of humans on the natural conditions. To understand the climate system prior to anthropogenic influence, we have to follow another path and employ methods of paleoclimatology. Proxies provide

  • Holocene and Present

    natural variations that would occur even if humans were absent. Information regarding the pre-anthropogenic state of the Holocene can be obtained either from proxies that record past climate and environmental

  • Projects

    feasibility of geoengineering projects in order to adapt to possible future climate change due to anthropogenic influence. Website OC3: www.marum.de/en/Research/Project-OC3.html Contact: Monica Ion