indicate that, in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere alike, the borders of the ocean gyres and their boundary currents are moving closer to the poles, [...] 6,000 years ago a tipping point was reached relatively suddenly. This was the key finding of a study by group of researchers led by geologists from the Alfred [...] ). (Graphic: Johannes Sutter) [05 February 2016] A future warming of the Southern Ocean caused by rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere may severely disrupt the stability of the West

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 [...] diverse experts in a 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 [...] for the economic, social and cultural value of the ocean; the world of water is to become a source of fascination and inspiration for as many

Fascinating discovery
Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world's largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system photographed and filmed thousands of nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah on the seabed. The density of the nests and the size of the entire breeding area suggest a total number of about 60 million icefish breeding at the time of observation. These findings provide support for the establishment of a Marine Protected

oldest ice, with which we can reconstruct the climate of the past, more than one million years ago? For all of these questions observations on site are essential. This begins with the determination of the ice thickness, continues with the inference of the crystal orientation fabric in larger depth and ends with the composition of the subsurface below the ice, both of which govern flow behaviour of ice. In the end, we hope to make conclusions about how ice masses

Examples of underwater sounds in the polar oceans Map of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean with all recording positions marked in red. ( [...] record this call most frequently in the vicinity of Elephant Island, off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the 20 Hz pulse also often contains a higher [...] AWI) The Southern Ocean is one of the last pristine areas of the world’s oceans. Only few fishing and research ships venture into the Southern

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

Clancy Successful control of invasive mitten crabs with an innovative trap concept The mitten crab is on the IUCN's list of the world's 100 most dangerous invasive [...] ingredients For an optimal use of the resulting crab biomass, knowledge of the contents but also the pollutants of the crabs is crucial. For this purpose, juvenile [...] crustaceans as well. In addition to the growth rate of the animals, we also focus on the digestibility of the feed. The prototype of the trap has been in Belgium since 2019

climates today but which came about because of the different (genetic) characteristics of the northern tree refugia – a legacy of the preceding glacial stage. Once [...] with temperature variations in the rest of the world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Correlation of multidecadal temperature variations in Brussels with temperature variations in the rest of the world in a climate model simulation (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Correlation of centennial temperature variations in

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

Horst Grunenberg posed this question to Helmut Schmidt, the German Chancellor at that time, he laid the foundation for the success story of the research icebreaker [...] vessel in the world to circumnavigate the North Pole. At the same time scientists study the bottom of the Arctic Sea. Author: Christian Salewski [...] ice. Birthday spends the research icebreaker in the vastness of Antarctica. The public can visit the ship in June, before it traveled the southern hemisphere