ed how climate change and anthropogenic activities and pressure impact the carbon cycle in the North Sea. The final event took place in Berlin, which included an expert discussion with representatives

glacier in North East Greenland? To answer this question we needed the bathymetry at the shelf edge of 79th glaciers As ships cannot access this area, we planned a 36 km seismic cross line on the sea ice. This [...] allowed us to collect CTD profiles (Conductivity, Temperature, Density) of the seawater. To get reliable sea ice conditions we left early, in April 2016. Conditions were cold, -25°C to -40°C causing hardware

known as sand shrimp or brown shrimp, is a popular, high-priced and regional product of the German north sea coasts. The current fishing methods are causing considerable damage to the seabed and destroying [...] Contact: Mail to Isabela , Mirko or Kai Duration: 3.2024 – 3.2025 Funding: AWI-Innovationsfond A young North Sea shrimp from the mudflats (Photo: M. Bögner Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Not a typical mudflat dweller

German Norwegian Ocean Forum
From the Arctic to the North Sea: this year’s German Norwegian Ocean Forum was held in Bremen’s Übersee Museum. The spotlight topic of the symposium, which was jointly organised

regionally. Offices at the AWI Antarctic Office Arctic Office Climate Office Marine Biodiversity Change North Sea Office Technology transfer Transfer storys

n strategies to protect ecosystems in the North Sea threatened by toxic munitions compounds, such as TNT. (Photo: Ute Marx, AWI 2023) Funded by: EU-North Sea Interreg Programme 2021-27 Funding period: [...] which deals with the environmental impacts of conventional marine munitions in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea. The overarching goal is to facilitate a politically, socially and ecologically acceptable [...] CONMAR is to provide information on the distribution and condition of munitions in the German North Sea and Baltic Sea and to generate an understanding of the release and dispersal of explosives in water and

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

efforts in its permanent exhibit and offers tours of the Wadden Sea Station. Directly at the Wadden Sea What we offer The AWI’s Wadden Sea Station in List on the island of Sylt is the northernmost research [...] the Wadden Sea Station are offered by the Erlebniszentrum Naturgewalten. Get information via: E-Mail info@naturgewalten-sylt.de Phone +49 (0) 4651 / 83 61 90 Ph ot o: T . W ag ne r Wadden Sea Station List [...] research centre in Germany. Located within walking distance of the Wadden Sea, it offers the ideal point of departure for research at sea, in the intertidal zone, or in the station’s own laboratories. Roughly

an ice shelf is born. Meteoric ice floats on sea water because of its density being smaller (910 kilograms per cubic meter) compared to the density of sea water (1028 kilograms per cubic meter). An ice [...] part of an ice sheet and floats on the ocean, but it rests on the sea floor at its fringes and on embedded islands. Contact with the sea floor slows down the seaward movement of shelf ice and thus the ice [...] formed by intensive sea ice formation in coastal polynyas (large ice-free area near the coast) flushes the ice shelf cavity (Fig. 2), causing melt rates less than 1 meter per year. Sea water at the surface

marine deposits, the scientists could demonstrate that the Arctic Ocean as well as the Nordic Seas did not contain sea-salt in at least two glacial periods. Instead, these oceans were filled with large amounts [...] amounts of freshwater under a thick ice sheet. This water could then be released into the North Atlantic in very short periods of time. Such sudden freshwater inputs could explain rapid climate oscillations