• Junior Groups

    Investigators Group “Southern Ocean & Antarctic Sea ice Evolution (SO-ASE)” is looking into the unexpected changes that have been seen in Antarctic sea ice over the last few decades and the need to reduce [...] Ecosystem – is to assess the consequences of the decline in silicic acid concentration in the inflow of North Atlantic water into the Eurasian Arctic for the Arctic marine ecosystem using an ecosystem biology [...] climate change Link to project webpage ARJEL To better understand the role of jellyfish in Arctic seas, the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ARJEL (ARctic JELlifish) will combine the latest technologies

  • Young Investigator Groups

    Investigators Group “Southern Ocean & Antarctic Sea ice Evolution (SO-ASE)” is looking into the unexpected changes that have been seen in Antarctic sea ice over the last few decades and the need to reduce [...] Ecosystem – is to assess the consequences of the decline in silicic acid concentration in the inflow of North Atlantic water into the Eurasian Arctic for the Arctic marine ecosystem using an ecosystem biology [...] climate change Link to project webpage ARJEL To better understand the role of jellyfish in Arctic seas, the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ARJEL (ARctic JELlifish) will combine the latest technologies

  • Expeditions

    Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more Uthörn II – North Sea Wrecks 16. May 2022 – 20. May 2022, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more Uthörn I – North Sea Wrecks 28. June 2021. – 02. July 2021, Bremerhaven [...] Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more HE584 – North Sea Wrecks II 17. – 22. September 2021, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more HE573 – North Sea Wrecks I 06 – 11. April 2021, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven [...] RV Heincke Sediment sampling Side Scan SMS Mainz HE573 – North Sea Wrecks I 06 – 11. April 2021, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven The North Sea Wrecks project aims to develop and implement a common approach for

  • Team

    Melbourne. After his studies he had worked for the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde before he went to the Wadden Sea Station Sylt of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar [...] joined the AWI Wadden Sea Station to work on the sources and transmission pathways of antibiotic resistance genes in environments exposed to oyster farming (European project SPARE-SEA). Helen Spence-Jones [...] European oyster larvae from the restoration project in Borkum reef ground into other areas of the North Sea as part of the CREATE project, alongside other AWI / HIFMB scientists and colleagues from Thünen

  • WG Coastal Geosciences

    landscapes and ecosystems. Our regional focus are the sedimentary systems of the Wadden Sea and the coastal North Sea. We investigate geomorphological and sedimentary processes, biogeochemical exchange, the [...] beds (BMBF) Find out more Impact of mobile bottom-contact fisheries on seafloor habitats in the North Sea (BMBF) Find out more Team Dr. Lasse Sander (associated scientist) Dr. Svenja Reents (postdoc) Dr [...] interplay of these different aspects for the evolution of landscapes at the interface between land and sea. We consider the whole spectrum of coastal environments, from supratidal salt marshes to subtidal seafloor

  • Brochures and Reports

    glance The Greenland Ice Ice Sheets Sea Ice Influence on Europe's climate Climate change in the Arctic Climate change and the Southern Ocean Climate change and the North Sea Climate change and the ocean Permafrost [...] research The collaborative framework of AWI’s Antarctic research Marine Protected Area in the Weddell Sea Arctic Council Shipping in the Arctic Arctic and Antarctic – more differences than similarities? Arctic

  • Data Assimilation Publications

    Schroeder, A. Ridout, L. Nerger (2023) The effects of assimilating a sub-grid-scale sea ice thickness distribution in a new Arctic sea ice data assimilation system. The Cryosphere , 17, 2509–2532, ​ doi:10.519 [...] M., Nerger, L., Mu, L., Yang, Q., Liu, C. (2019) Using sea surface temperature observations to constrain upper ocean properties in an Arctic sea ice-ocean data assimilation system. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans [...] M., Losa, S.N., Ricker, R., Nerger, L., Liang, X. (2018) Improving sea ice thickness estimates by assimilating CryoSat-2 and SMOS sea ice thickness data simultaneously. Quarterly Journal of the Royal

  • INNOVA

    biodegradable floating meshes, and automated seeding—the project aims to upscale Ulva production in the North Sea and Gran Canaria. These techniques support a circular blue bioeconomy by transforming harvested

  • SiDe- EFFECT (2021-2026)

    on a previously unimaginable scale. One of the most obvious changes is the rapid decline in Arctic sea ice over the last two decades. This has a direct impact on Arctic microorganisms as more light is available [...] new production. In addition, ocean warming is leading to changes in the winter mixed layer in the North Atlantic, which has reduced the amount of silica entering the Arctic Ocean in recent decades. This

  • Molecular Sea Ice Ecology

    Molecular Sea Ice Ecology Polar oceans are seasonally covered by sea ice with an average size of the continent of North America. Despite harsh conditions therein, sea ice and its lower surface can carry [...] typically dominated by Diatoms. Sea ice can provide important primary production to polar oceans via these communities, although they are often very patchy. In times of declining sea ice coverage it is a major [...] major challenge to determine current sea ice biodiversity, functions provided by its biota, and the future of sea ice communities in a warming ocean. We address these questions through analyses of total