• 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • PRONICARE

    developed within the frame of the project within two different geographical locations (North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea). As part of the consortium, the AWI will work on the development of test methods for

  • Projects

    (Helmholtz Project, PIs: Yaqing Duan, Sebastian Primpke and Gunnar Gerdts) Microplastics in the North Sea (in-house project; PIs: Claudia Lorenz (DBU stipend), Sebastian Primpke and Gunnar Gerdts) Fram [...] hadal zones in the long-term fate of marine microplastics: Identification of microplastics in the deep sea of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, Northwest Pacific (PIs: Angelika Brandt (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für