Helgoland and the surrounding areas we contribute to the understanding of the ecosystem of the North Sea and support governmental responsibilities in marine conservation. OASIS is integrated in POF-IV [...] funding the long-term monitoring program „ O bserv a tion and Evaluation of the S chleswig-Holste i n North S ea Coastal Benthic Ecosystem – OASIS“ on the dynamics of benthic habitats of the rocky island of

national project Mak-Pak, where macroalgae suitable for processing and native to the North Atlantic and the North Sea were screened, and the growth and ingredients yield optimised. The Mak-Pak2 project

Greenland Ice-Core Project (EastGRIP) is a drilling project aiming to retrieve a deep ice core in North-East Greenland. The drilling site is on a dynamically active location, where the surface flow velocities [...] previous deep ice core sites. It is located at the onset of the largest ice stream in Greenland (NEGIS - North-East Greenland ice stream). Ice streams are not very well represented in large scale ice sheet models [...] if not prescribed by inversion methods based on observed surface velocities. Their contribution to sea level projections is thus not very well constrained and a source of uncertainty. Three regimes can

Arctic sea ice: a chain reaction Dr Thomas Krumpen, sea ice physicist and expert for satellite analyses at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice Application of satellite data Arctic Ocean IceBird For the [...] reference data set on the development of Arctic sea-ice cover worldwide. Those surveys indicate that the thickness of sea ice leaving the Arctic Ocean towards the North Atlantic has steadily decreased since 2001 [...] involved in the formation and disappearance of sea ice. With that goal in mind, we at AWI are exploring the thickness and surface conditions of Arctic sea ice. We measure both properties in several key

microseisms - formation, propagation and interaction with sea ice What does the sound of the waves in the deep sea sound like? What do storms and sea ice have to do with it? This is what we are investigating [...] on the formation of the Arctic Ocean Development of the North Atlantic Deepwater and its precursors What do we know about the development of North Atlantic Deepwater and its precursors? Follow this link

in the North- and Baltic Seas was a collaborative project with the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). The project focused on concentrations of algae and oxygen in the North Sea and Baltic [...] Agency (BSH) in the North and Baltic Seas. The data assimilation system uses PDAF and the operational model HBM coupled to the ecosystem model ERGOM and focused on the assimialtion of sea surface temperature [...] ocean models by data assimilation, for example by utilizing satellite observations of sea surface temperature or sea surface height. Similarly, ocean-biogeochemical models can profit from the incorporation

Sea ice: a habitat for specialists Dr Ilka Peeken, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Biodiversity Polar regions Plastic Sea Ice Climate change is especially putting the polar regions under [...] al changes in the Arctic result primarily from the decline in the area of sea ice and the decrease in its thickness, since sea ice itself represents a fundamentally important habitat. Specially adapted [...] tiny particles can then easily be ingested by sea life and accumulate in the food chain, as far up as fish. We have found high levels of microplastic in sea ice. The aim of our research is now to gain a

east of the Ross Sea operated in either dextral strike-slip or extensional motion throughout the region to the south and east of the Amundsen Sea Embayment and in the Bellingshausen Sea sector, connecting [...] on the Amundsen Sea shelf: (1) distributed rifting events parallel to the breakup front, (2) the influence of the Bellingshausen Plate motion with a plate boundary through the Amundsen Sea Embayment, and [...] and geothermal heat-flow data to improve our understanding of the role of the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea shelves and margins in context of the continental breakup, activities of the West Antarctic

Heincke to the North Sea Programme: Bachelor in Geography Duration: 4 days PhD and Master's Theses We offer PhD and MSc. thesis supervision in the field of Physical Oceanography of Polar Seas. Below you’ll [...] Basin (northern Weddell Sea) Temperature and salinity trends in the Weddell Sea based on long-term oceanographic moorings Tracer-based circulation time scales in the southern Weddell Sea Role of the Central [...] at sea, we teach students from the University of Bremen , AWI PhD students and Bachelor students of the Constructor University Bremen during campaigns aboard the research vessel Heinke in the North Sea

of planned offshore-windfarms with commercial marine aquaculture (open ocean aquaculture) in the North Sea area. Exclusively, literature data from existing international experiences are reviewed here, as [...] as input of urban waste water adds to the calamity. However, especially the hydrodynamics of the North Sea play a key role as hindrance of establishing commercial marine aquaculture in Germany. Secondly [...] development of a commercial offshore aquaculture in combination with the planned wind farms in the North Sea region. Contact Prof. Dr. Bela H. Buck Additional Content Mytilus edulis Crassostrea gigas Saccharina