UN Decade of Ocean Science Spotlight on the Ocean It’s a world full of riddles: though the ocean shapes the face of our ‘blue planet’, covering 70 percent of its surface, we still know far too little about [...] safety. In the context of the Decade, all of this knowhow is to be made available worldwide. And last but not least, the goal is to raise awareness for the economic, social and cultural value of the ocean; [...] network that investigates open research questions and develops solutions for the preservation and sustainable use of the ocean. Its motto: “The science we need for the ocean we want”. After all, intact ocean

rising and the Wadden Sea ecosystems are changing rapidly (Figure 1). At the Wadden Sea station of Sylt we have one of the most detailed and species rich marine time series in the world. The so-called Sylt [...] years, much of the work on the LTER has focused on key species and their role in habitat stability and species function. The demise of and introduction of species especially in the context of resilience [...] and taxonomical biodiversity of the North Sea, as well as the computation of flows of energy and nutrients through the system also via models. We aim to integrate the different data sets using modelling

often described as the planet’s ‘green lungs’ because they produce tremendous amounts of oxygen. However, an even greater volume of the oxygen we breathe originates in the ocean. The algal communities living [...] Plankton: The foundation of life in the sea Biologist Prof. Dr Helmut Hillebrand, Professor at the University of Oldenburg and Director at HIFMB Oldenburg. HIFMB Biodiversity Ecological stability Ecosystem [...] there produce at least half of the gas that is vital for breathing and as such essential for human life. But climate change is altering the algal world in our seas: as a result of increasing water temperatures

different types of killer whales live in the Southern Ocean. They are known to differ in feeding ecology and appearance. However, little is known about the distribution and behaviour of these different [...] whale ecotypes. To answer these questions, scientists monitor the whales’ communication with specific underwater sound recorders. However, so far nobody knew, which calls the different ecotypes are using

processes and the resulting environmental changes are needed to answer those questions. The study of structure of the crust and the upper mantle of the earth and accretionary processes of polar and subpolar [...] 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: Alfred Wegener Institut) Find [...] conditions form the focus to allow conclusions on the development of the glaciation of the polar regions during the past 70 million years. Data documenting the origin and development of tectonic, magmatic

Helgoland and the agency "studio klv". The Alfred Wegener Institute conducts research in the extreme habitats of the polar regions and oceans - from the atmosphere to the bottom of the seas. At the Helgoland and [...] on side The excavation pit is currently being prepared with the pile construction, and the next step will be the demolition of the two basement levels. In the course of the upcoming work, the subsoil is [...] around 600 square metres of state-of-the-art exhibition space. By combining haptic and virtual content, the BLUEHOUSE HELGOLAND will provide a whole new insight into the world of the North Sea and its exploration

earch-focus/gateways-of-the-southern- ocean.html under Effect of opening of Drake Passage on circulation in the South Atlantic, scroll to Variations in pathways and intensities of deep and bottom water [...] collected material to answer the raised questions about origin and development of this plateau and its role as an obstacle for the deep circulation in late Cretaceous times and the Tertiary. This successful [...] nces/geophysics/research-focus/gateways-of-the-southern-ocean.html www.awi.de/en/science/geosciences/geophysics/research-focus/gateways-of-the-southern-ocean.html www.awi.de/forschung/

collected material to answer the raised questions about origin and development of this plateau and its role as an obstacle for the deep circulation in late Cretaceous times and the Tertiary. This successful [...] nces/geophysics/research-focus/gateways-of-the-southern-ocean.html www.awi.de/en/science/geosciences/geophysics/research-focus/gateways-of-the-southern-ocean.html www.awi.de/forschung/ [...] possible by the extraordinary support of Captain Meyer and his crew. On deck we got excellent help during deployment, securing and retrieval of our equipment, the engineers made sure that the vessel moved

focusing on the work of 10 AWI researchers including Frank . 2016-03-04 In an article in the New Scientist about the vanishing of large lakes Guido is one of the interview partners. 2016-02-08 On the radio (98 [...] University of Hamburg on the subject of " How dangerous is the thawing of the permafrost? " 2015-05-06 Science journalist Gerald Dietz from Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung reports on the latest results of AWI [...] soils and the release of greenhouse gases. 2015-04-10 On the occasion of the journey of the Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka to AWIPEV station on Spitsbergen for getting an overview of climate change

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 Applied Mathematics and in 2005, he received the Lewis Fry Richardson medal [...] 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 Bremen and Bremerhaven [...] is professor of Dynamical Oceanography at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht and director of the Centre for Complex Systems Studies within the Department of Physics of Utrecht University