) represents ~10% of the world’s oceans but hosts about 50% of the world’s stocks of seals. These large, abundant predators serve as powerful indicators of ecosystems and climate-driven change. The region of the Filchner Outflow System in the southern Weddell Sea is considered “hot spot” [...] and hydrographic features, we aim to comprehensively investigate the Filchner Outflow System (FOS). Here the outflow of ice shelf water of the Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf interacts with warm deep water of

Plankton: The foundation of life in the sea Biologist Prof. Dr Helmut Hillebrand, Professor at the University of Oldenburg and Director at HIFMB [...] human life. But climate change is altering the algal world in our seas: as a result of increasing water temperatures, cold-loving species are migrating towards the Poles, to the [...] predictions concerning the complex interactions in plankton communities and to learn more about the fate of these algal communities that are vital for our

processes and the resulting environmental changes are needed to answer those questions. The study of structure of the crust and the upper mantle of [...] What do we know about the development of North Atlantic Deepwater and its precursors? Follow this link Gateways of the Southern Ocean What was the effect of the opening of the gateways of the Southern Ocean? Lakes as climate archives Old lake-level terraces at the current shore (Photo:

Chloe Boehm Background The Southern Ocean, generally taken to be the ocean south of 60◦S, is of critical importance for global climate. Connecting three major [...] which contains 60 m of potential global sea level rise—a major threat to societies around the world. Changes in the Southern Ocean may also impact the climate [...] between the Southern Ocean, its overlying atmosphere, the AIS and Antarctic sea ice and the response of these components to external forcing,

to experience a unique exhibition ranging from the history of the North Sea to the future of marine research. Among other things, the focus will be on an 80,000-litre aquarium showing Helgoland's underwater world. The project is financed with around 20 million euros from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the state of Schleswig-Holstein [...] into the world of the North Sea and its exploration. Exhibition design and planning (Photo: studio klv Berlin) Design draft for the new

of the Canadian Beaufort Sea, we know little about the distribution of submarine permafrost for most of the shallow Arctic Shelf, over 80% of which lies offshore of Eastern Siberia. Degradation rates of the ice-bearing permafrost following inundation have been estimated [...] atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration. We need to know more about the current distribution and state of permafrost beneath the ocean, about what cause sit thaw, where and how quickly. This group

opening of Southern Ocean gateways, pointing towards a progressive strengthening of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current as the major cause for [...] decline of Cretaceous Supergreenhouse and through the Paleocene? Specific questions to address include: What was the thermal history of the [...] the opening of Southern Ocean gateways influence Late Cretaceous and Paleocene climate? Did early opening of the Drake Passage cause

Alfred-Wegener-Institut) In 2015 Prof. Lynne D. Talley , Scripps Institution of Oceanography elaborated the " Role of the Southern Ocean in the Global Overturning Circulation ". About a hundred colleagues from [...] in particular climate transitions, with a focus on the role of the oceans. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and [...] the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) developing one of the world’s leading global weather forecast model. Before

accurate climate simulation, we would need to include a digital twin of every atom in the ocean and atmosphere in the model – and the processing power of all the world’s supercomputers combined wouldn’t [...] 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to the IPCC the risk of exceeding certain tipping points in the climate system will be lower. This assessment was also the basis for the [...] data on the question of to what extent the weather is due to climate change. Researchers can do so thanks to a new “storyline approach”, which

of April. 2017-02-24 Frank gives an interview with the BBC about rapidly thawing permafrost close to the settlement of Batagay in Yakutia [...] 2016/2017: Seas and Oceans, the Nordsee-Zeitung is focusing on the work of 10 AWI researchers including Frank . 2016-03-04 In an article in the New Scientist about [...] 3sat published a film about monitoring of permafrost on the occasion of the start of the ESA GlobPermafrost-Projekt. 2016-01-26 The dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur