• Co-Use

    has so far only been analysed in theory and in smaller pilot projects in the German Bight of the North Sea. With the help of an experimental implementation of co-use, this project aims to address gaps in [...] consequences and incentives together with the most important actors. In addition, the link between sea and land under the co-use concept is to be defined practically by means of a local marketing strategy

  • Offshore Site Selection

    sustainable and multifunctional use of marine areas in heavily used oceans on the example of the North Sea Objectives: The project aims to create a multi-use road map as a tool for the future use of marine [...] multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)-system. Model organisms are fish (turbot Scophthalmus maximus , sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax ) as fed aquaculture candidates, bivalves (mussels Mytilus edulis , oysters

  • UN Ocean Treaty

    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

  • Awards and honors

    mixing, and sea ice melt are connected and will develop a physics-based representation of these connections for consistent climate modeling. Lettie Roach , since 2024. SouthernOcean and Antarctic Sea ice Evolution [...] Evolution (SO-ASE) focuses on understanding the drivers of sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice changes from the satellite era to a warmer world. SO-ASE aims to unravel the fundamental physics of i [...] ice pack volume) aims to study the response of snow cover on Antarctic sea ice to changing atmospheric conditions and its impact on sea ice mass balance. Through observations and model development, this research

  • News

    Publication: Ecological reef restoration: consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters , January 2025 Award : The RESTORE and PROCEED projects were selected [...] Publication: Setting the stones to restore and monitor European flat oyster reefs in the German North Sea, April 2023 Publication: Potential of calcein staining as growth monitoring marker in Ostrea edulis

  • WP4 engl

    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

  • Awards

    2023 (3rd place). The image is acquired with the MACS airborne system over Nioghalvfjedersbræ in North-East Greenland showing a supraglacial lake that has drained. The dark colors show sediments like dust [...] Richardson Medal for its academic and leadership activities in the design and production of future sea-level projections. The AWI ISMIP6 members are Thomas Kleiner and Angelika Humbert, who contributed

  • OPENSEA Helgoland

    mysteries gives life an unprecedented meaning" (Alfred Wegener) Our location... In the middle of the North Sea, 60 km offshore is the island of Heligoland, a very popular site for marine research for more than

  • CONTRASTS

    causes and consequences of sea ice melt in three contrasting sea-ice regimes as functions of atmospheric and oceanographic conditions: 1) seasonal sea ice, mostly originating from Russian shelf regions and [...] observed sea ice, ocean, and ecosystem changes in the Central Arctic Ocean during melt season. We will investigate the causes and consequences of differences in sea ice melt in three contrasting sea-ice e [...] ice zone 2) first- and second year sea ice from the central Arctic Ocean, drifting along the transpolar drift system, and 3) multi-year ice in the “last ice area” north of Greenland. The overall objective

  • Clancy

    Ecosystems , CSLN , University of Skövde , Technische Universität Dresden Funding: EU-Interreg North Sea Region News Would you like to participate in researching the right control strategy against the [...] Funding This project receives funding under the Grant Agreement Number 41-2-51-22 from the Interreg North Sea Programme co-funded by the European Union. [...] their claws. Every year in autumn, hundreds of thousands of adult crabs make their way back to the sea to spawn, where they die exhausted after reproduction. This mass occurrence of crabs has consequences