Cape Verde Islands at 26 ° C, a cloudless sky and a gentle swell of 2 meters from the north. The hard-earned “sea legs” can rest for now, it could really be worse.

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

energy cycle in the ecosystems of the polar regions and of the shelf and coastal regions of the North Sea. Central research themes are (1) reactions of individuals, populations and communities on external [...] Biological Oceanography Sustainable Marine Bioeconomy Integrative Ecophysiology Shelf Sea System Ecology Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology

Transpolar Drift carries sea ice, fresh water, and suspended matter from the Siberian shelves across the central Arctic towards the Fram Strait channel, which connects to the Nordic Seas. This cross-Arctic flow [...] including microplastics and heavy metals – from Siberian river systems into the central Arctic and the North Atlantic. This material affects Arctic biogeochemistry and ecosystems, while the fresh water itself

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Over centuries the deep sea was considered as a vast, desert-like environment with low number of species. However, in recent years knowledge about biodiversity in the deep sea has started to increase and [...] life. Biodiversity in the deep sea depends among other parameters on water depth, which in turn is linked to food availability. In contrast to the past assumption that deep-sea organisms live in very stable [...] changes in a the transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling deep-sea biodiversity, the Alfred Wegener Institute established

how the SHW interacted with past changes in sea surface temperature and how this is linked to changes in Antarctica. We aim to reconstruct precipitation and sea surface temperature on decadal to millennial [...] southern hemisphere westerly wind belt (SHW) encircles Antarctica, tracking the mid-latitude meridional sea surface temperature gradient (e.g. Lamy et al., 2010 ). The SHW is an important component of global [...] understanding of the dynamics of the SHW and temperature evolution. To this end, we investigate a north-south transect of marine and lake sediment cores spanning the range of the SHW (Fig. 1). From these

surveying of geomorphology, sediment distribution and habitat properties in the Wadden Sea and in the coastal North Sea. To make area-based statements about the sediment properties of the seabed, we employ [...] Water Meets Land – Coastal Hydrography and Geology The Wadden Sea forms a transitional habitat between land and sea. High tidal amplitudes, shallow water depths, strong winds, and rivers discharge create [...] beneath the seabed and give us the opportunity to study the historical development of the very young North Sea on geological time scales. These methods help to visualize and analyze glacial surfaces and ancient

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

Arctic. Due to rising water temperatures, many Arctic fish species are retreating farther and farther north, while species from more temperate latitudes are increasingly being sighted off the coasts of Greenland [...] Institute have now analysed scientific publications on the ecological impacts of climate change in Arctic seas released in the past ten years. Their findings: the shifting habitats have affected entire biotic