ty on the High Seas Introductory report on High Seas Biodiversity Treaty 'Areas beyond national jurisdiction', 'high seas' or 'areas?': What is the difference? Under the Law of the Sea Convention, the [...] what, where, and how on the high seas. Topic navigation 'Areas beyond national jurisdiction', 'high seas' or 'areas?': What is the difference? Establishment of new high seas protected areas The limits of [...] insights. Antarctic sea ice, Weddell Sea (Photo: Mario Hoppmann) The contents and limits of the agreement As an implementing agreement to the International Convention on the Law of the Sea, the new agreement

this project. The University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde were also involved.

The North East Greenland Ice Stream transports enormous amounts of ice from the heart of the island to the sea and thus also influences global sea levels. An international research team led by the Alfred

computer-based model, they were able to show that warm water from the Atlantic flows into the European North Sea and ultimately into the cavern under the glacier tongue, where it melts the ice from below. Their [...] Greenland's ice-sheet
The Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier – also known as the 79° North Glacier – on the northeast coast of Greenland flows directly into a fjord, where it forms an 80-kilometre-long tongue [...] pave the way for more precise projections on the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet and increasing sea level rise from global warming.

Expedition "MAURIBO" logo of the expedition “MAURIBO” MSM127 (Graphic: C. Weinberg) Upcoming Expedition: North West African climate change, cold water corals, past ecosystems and spectacular engineering - "MAURIBO" [...] Jannis Viola , a Phd student in the team will join a research cruise (MSM127-2) along the coast of North West Africa and the continental slope off Mauritania. This area is characterized by high productivity [...] high-resolution palaeoarchive of climate change in NW Africa, allows analysis of the influence of sea-level change on methane seepage, and provides an ideal test field for investigations into the applicability

The North Sea Intensive utilization of the North Sea, e.g., transport, extraction and disposal of sand, laying of cables and pipes, fishery, and –for the last few years- area intensive usage by offshore [...] are employing an extensive base of reliable, validated and georeferenced data from the southern North Sea collected during several decades of sampling. Models are coupled to these data, and the results [...] and mapping of benthic species and biotopes in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea Participants: Jan Beermann , Lars Gutow Content: The Federal Republic of Germany is obligated by

Ghent University, where she completed her PhD on the role of macrobenthos in the functioning of North Sea seafloor ecosystems (2011). During a 2-year research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Marine

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

distances and facilitating the introduction of foreign species. We investigate these aspects in the North Sea as well as in other marine regions. Senior Scientist Dr. Lars Gutow

next course in summer 2018 COURSE DESCRIPTION Annual 12 days excursion to the island of Helgoland (North Sea) with emphasis on the taxonomic identification of major benthic macroalgae and associated animals