candidates, which can be cultivated under such hydrodynamic and environmental conditions within the North Sea and hold large potentials on the German market. Within the group of bivalves, especially the blue

and oysters ( Crassostrea gigas, Ostrea edulis ) several types of cultivation can be used in the North Sea region. Predominately, longline constructions are proposed for the cultivation of bivalves, by which

Boetius, AWI, Bremerhaven The FRAM Ocean Observing System will be installed in the gateway between the North Atlantic and the Central Arctic, representing a highly climate-sensitive and rapidly changing region [...] Lochte, AWI, Bremerhaven The ROBEX alliance aims to pool expertise gained in lunar expeditions and deep sea investigations to identify, develop, and test technologies that will allow the exploration of highly [...] inaccessible terrain, including areas on earth with extreme environmental conditions, such as the deep sea and Polar Regions, as well as other planets. The alliance will focus on developing a modular, robotic

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

_________________________ Sylt (North Sea) The island Sylt in the North Sea (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Sylt is the northernmost island of Germany located in the Wadden Sea of Schleswig-Holstein. Scientific [...] Offshore diving in the German Bight and North Sea Research Vessel Heincke (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Dive missions in the German Bight and the North Sea are conducted from the research vessel RV [...] For sientific divers, the rocky island of Helgoland provides a unique biotope in the Southern North Sea (German Bight). Dive sites around Helgoland are typically characterized by hard bottom or sandy

where from 1986 to 1989, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the molluscan fauna of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. During this time and in the following two years as post-doc at AWI, he took part in five [...] expeditions, both land-based and ship-based. He describes the total of 14 months he spent in the Weddell Sea and at the British Antarctic Survey research station Signy as the best time of his life. From 1992 [...] Deputy Secretary of the international Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment in the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) in London. After a short period as an expert for the European Commission, he

Centre for Polar and Marine Research’s Wadden Sea Station on Sylt, where he heads the Working Group Community and Evolutionary Ecology and the AWI’s North Sea Office. Born in Bad Harzburg in 1968, he grew [...] thesis on species interactions on the North Sea coast. From 1998 to 2001, he pursued his doctorate on diversity and biological interactions on mussel banks in the Wadden Sea at Universität Hamburg. The close [...] cooperation between science and environmental management led to the establishment of the AWI’s North Sea Office in 2011 and the ongoing development and implementation of various environmental research

temperatures for multiple years along the Greenwich meridian from North (left) to South (right). Vertical extent from the sea surface (top) to the sea floor (white). Fig. 8: Ocean temperatures near the ocean bottom [...] rn-most extent of the Weddell Gyre, where at least some of the AABW is believed to escape to the North. Along with (electronic) CTD measurements, water samples are collected throughout the water column [...] and carbon constituents. Measurements of Total CO 2 in the Surface and Bottom Waters of the Weddell Sea, reveal a steady CO 2 increase, of likely anthropogenic origin, as surface water, charged with ant

subpolar North Atlantic In RACE we study the variability of the freshwater storage in the Arctic Ocean and the subpolar North Atlantic. We use observations and model simulations of the ocean and the sea ice [...] (Phys. Oceanography) Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Gerdes (Sea Ice Physics) Prof. Dr. Ursula Schauer (Phys. Oceanography) Myriel Horn (Phys. Oceanography) Tamas Kovacs (Sea Ice Physics)

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