• Pre-Quaternary

    stratification in the Arctic Ocean during the Miocene , arktos . doi: 10.1007/s41063-020-00079-8 Lohmann, G. , Knorr, G. , Hossain, A. and Stepanek, C. (2022): Effects of CO2 and Ocean Mixing on Miocene and [...] in the ocean model FESOM. The figure shows a land-sea configuration during the Middle Miocene (~15 million years ago) as incorporated in a complex Earth System Model. For example changes in oceanic gateways [...] between classic hypotheses for glaciations that involve e.g. tectonic changes and associated changes in ocean circulation or declining atmospheric CO 2 in combination with the Earth’s orbital configuration. Research

  • Bettina_Meyer_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    species Salpa thompsoni. In the Arctic, her focus is on the copepod Calanus fi nmarchicus as well as other copepod species in the Arctic Calanus complex and the Arctic krill species. Her research interest [...] Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg for „Biodiversity and Biological Processes in the Polar Oceans“ since 2014, and is a founding member of the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity

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  • Permafrost Resources

    the Canadian Arctic” is a project of the research group PermaRisk , which is led by Moritz Langer , and was published in 2020. Digital stories invite you to travel to the Canadian Arctic. Visual impressions [...] system. The background is the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere (SROCC) , which was published in 2019. Hugues Lantuit: Collapsing Arctic coastlines | Horizons 2019 Presentation This presentation [...] these four pages. Julia Boike, Alfred Wegener Institute, Permafrost, Arctic Circle 2015 Presentation This presentation was held at the Arctic Circle Conference in October 2015. Julia Boike talks about the

  • Flying Drones

    Since the marginal ice zone of the Arctic Ocean is a highly dynamic environment, it is crucial to track the position of the ice edge in order to define AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) mission parameters

  • MSM84-WeeklyReport4_en.pdf

    Labrador shelf was covered by a permanent but floating ice mass such as today’s ice cover of the Arctic Ocean. We finished our geological sampling work yesterday. Today and tomorrow are dedicated to collecting [...] the retreating ice stream. Instead, we aim at reconstructing the dynamic history of Labrador shelf ocean currents through the past few thousand years with these cores. At the end of the last glacial, when [...] large-scale environmental catastrophe, and it resulted in a significant disturbance of the established ocean current system on the Labrador shelf. On the long sediment cores, we will carry out different types

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  • Antje_Boetius_AWI-Expert_UK3.pdf

    focusing on questions of the impact of climate change on the biogeochemistry and biodiversity of the Arctic Ocean. She has been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council for her work, as [...] institutes, she established and headed a research group for the study of microbial habitats in the ocean at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology from 2003 to 2008. Since the end of 2008, she

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  • Biogeochemical Sensors

    C., Rabouille, C., Sauter, E., Schewe, I., Soltwedel, T. (2015): Benthic oxygen uptake in the Arctic Ocean margins - A case study at the deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait). PLoS ONE 10(10): [...] Braeckman, U., Hasemann, C., Wenzhoefer, F. (2018): Deep-sea benthic communities and oxygen fluxes in the Arctic Fram Strait controlled by sea-ice cover and water depth. Biogeosciences 15: 4849-4869. Braeckman [...] Marchant, H., Buckner, C., Bienhold, C., Wenzhöfer, F. (2018): Carbon and nitrogen turnover in the Arctic deep sea: in-situ benthic community response to diatom and coccolithophorid phytodetritus. Biogeosciences

  • Past Highlights

    proxies TEXH86 and UK’37 Long-term winter warming trend in the Siberian Arctic during the mid- to late Holocene Back from Antarctica Ocean surface temperature variability: Large model–data differences at decadal [...] profiles Flat Meridional Temperature Gradient in the Early Eocene in the Subsurface Rather than Surface Ocean Layering of surface snow and firn at Kohnen Station, Antarctica - noise or seasonal signal? Assessing

  • ACLOUD/AFLUX

    better understand and quantify the role of clouds in the lower Arctic atmosphere. A special focus is on the amplified climate change in the Arctic. To that aim measurements during ACLOUD and AFLUX were/are [...] Airborne Observations In, Below and Above Arctic Clouds Map of the areas for aircraft operation illustration the coordination activities at Polarstern and Ny Alesund (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) ACLOUD [...] research institutes (listed below) embedded in the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TR 172: ArctiC Amplification: Climate Relevant Atmospheric and SurfaCe Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms (AC)³

  • WG Community & Evolutionary Ecology

    ecology of Arctic coasts Currently, global warming especially causes strong effects on Arctic ecosystems. We study the consequences of increasing water temperatures on species interactions in Arctic benthic [...] Curr Opin Biotechnol 73, 225-232. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.07.026. Exciting results Arctic burrowing Effects of Arctic lugworms Find out more Marine heatwaves Do you remember? Find out more Team PIs: Dr [...] benthic coastal communities. From these investigations we predict future scenarios for a warmer marine Arctic ecosystem and its species communites. Evolutionary Ecology Species invasions as a tool to study rapid