global Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) programme • European collaborative project • Arctic & Antarctic data • Large scale experiment in Plymouth Sound Seagrass - mooring mitigation Larval [...] MRes Scientific Diving Initial intake – Jan 2025 National Geographic Pristine Seas: Conserving the Oceans M I L E S T O N E P R O T E C T 3 0 % O F T H E P L A N E T B Y 2 0 3 0 H A L F O F T H E P L A N [...] water habitat use Future - MRes Scientific Diving National GeographicPristine Seas: Conserving the Oceans Slide Number 20 Slide Number 21 Slide Number 22 National Geographic Pristine Seas Slide Number 24

atmosphere-ocean interactions Atmosphere-ocean interactions at high latitudes are thought to play a key role in past atmospheric CO2 variability by controlling the sea-ice field, upper ocean physical parameters [...] in the Arctic, Topic: ERC-2018-COG AGENSI, an ERC Horizon 2020 project led by Stijn de Schepper (Bergen University, Norway), takes an innovative approach to generate essential knowledge on Arctic sea ice [...] the Arctic and global climate state. If greenhouse gas emissions remain unchecked and further increase, summer sea ice loss may pass a critical threshold that could drastically transform the Arctic as we

within one year due to the self-discharge of the battery in -1.75°C bottom waters of the deep Arctic Ocean. TRAMPER can be deployed with pin-point accuracy by means of a video-controlled cabled launching [...] crawler for long-term benthic oxygen flux studies in remote deep sea ecosystems , OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey, doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2016.776121.

between atmosphere and ocean. This concerns both hemispheres since cold-air outbreaks occur in the Arctic and Antarctic as well. Typical regions for cold-air outbreaks in the Arctic are the Fram Strait and [...] of the lower atmosphere with sea ice and ocean is strongly influenced by processes caused by the surface morphology, which is characterized in the Polar ocean regions first of all by the sea ice cover [...] Polar Atmospheric Boundary Layer - Observations and Small Scale Modelling Temperature profiles over Arctic sea ice during summer. Boundary layer heights amount here to about 60 m (blue) and 500 m (red) (Graphic:

Ocean Eddies
In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigated the long-term changes in the Arctic Ocean eddy activity [...] study reveals a remarkable surge in Arctic eddy activity in a warmer climate, a trend that is probably unparalleled when compared to other regions across the global ocean.

Consistency and Challenges in the Ocean Carbon Sink Estimate for the Global Carbon Budget. Front. Mar. Sci. 7, 571720. doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.571720 •[Arctic high-resolution] Schourup-Kristensen [...] nsen, V., Wekerle, C., Wolf-Gladrow, D., Völker, C. (2018): Arctic Ocean biogeochemistry in the high resolution FESOM 1.4-REcoM2 model, Progress in Oceanography, 168, 65-81, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2018.09 [...] macrozooplankton, Karakuş et al., 2022 ), and to include the sensitivity of phytoplankton growth to ocean acidification ( Seifert et al., 2022 ). Main REcoM references (chronological order): •[3 phytoplankton

The role of clouds and warm air masses from the open ocean for the rapid warming of the Arctic is at the heart of a recent Alfred Wegener Institute project on Svalbard. The researchers are applying a new

to the Arctic coastal-marine environment. CACOON Background Arctic rivers annually carry around 13% of all dissolved organic carbon transported globally from land to ocean, despite the Arctic Ocean making [...] Changing Arctic Carbon cycle in the cOastal Ocean Near-shore - CACOON No other region has warmed as much or as rapidly in the past decades as the Arctic. A new project, CACOON , investigates how the ecosystems [...] 1% of the Earth’s ocean volume. Arctic shelf waters are therefore dominated by terrestrial carbon pools, so that shelf ecosystems are intimately linked to freshwater supplies. Arctic ecosystems also contain

Earth compartments. MOSES primarily targets four events: heat waves, hydrological extreme events , ocean eddies and the thawing of permafrost . Hydrological extreme events Recent global projections predict [...] the Northern Hemisphere’s land mass and a large portion of the Siberian and North American shelves. Arctic warming occurs at a much higher rate (by up to 8 to 10 times) compared to the rest of the world.

Observatory in the Arctic Ocean Philipp Fischer et al. AWI Centre für Scientific Diving Photo: Gregory Tran The AWIPEV underwater observatory: a joint infrastructure of AWI and HEREON in an Arctic fjord system [...] MarTrec talk Philipp Fischer May 2024 "High-speed measurements in the Arctic: How to discriminate effects of marine heat waves and cold spells from „normal fluctuations“ in a polar shallow water ecosystem [...] Photo: Gregory Tran The AWIPEV underwater observatory: a joint infrastructure of AWI and HEREON in an Arctic fjord system (79°N) A year-round operated shallow water observatory in front of the Old Pier in Ny