) 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

you will have the opportunity to meet the scientific dive team in BAH Building B, to ask questions about all aspects of scientific diving and to learn [...] research but also for teaching. On open day you can learn more about what this important job entails. In a touch pool you can also get to know some of the species typical for the Helgoland rocky shore [...] communities using classical approaches will be linked to the presentation of current research themes and the state of the art technologies used to study the microbial ecology around Helgoland.

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

Looking beyond Iron: Dynamics of vitamins, zinc and cobalt and their effect on phytoplankton community composition in a changing Southern Ocean In large areas of the worlds oceans iron (Fe) limits primary production thus affecting the global carbon cycle. One such area is the Southern Ocean (SO). In [...] and vitamins will better elucidate the cycling of these micronutrients in the SO. In order to gain a better understanding of the physiological responses of phytoplankton