• Visiting Scientists

    2 supply outdoor mesocosms comprising of twelve 1,800 l replicate tanks to simulate ocean warming and acidification under various tidal conditions. List is the home port of the AWI`s state-of-the-art research

  • Coral Reefs

    all latitudes. Cold-water corals (CWC) have long been considered particularly vulnerable to ocean acidification, but in the naturally acidified fjords of Patagonian Chile, we found large populations of CWC

  • Prof. Dr. Laurie Carol Hofmann

    laurie.c.hofmann@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-2739
    Bussestraße 27, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Judith Hauck

    CO 2 . A smaller ocean carbon sink can also be the outcome when climate changes affect major ocean currents, or when, due to changes in the marine environment (warming, acidification, nutrient and light [...] warming ocean simply can’t absorb as much as a cold one. In addition, the constant absorption of carbon dioxide affects the chemical balance of seawater. This phenomenon, referred to as ocean acidification [...] environmental scientist Dr. Judith, jpg | 14 MB Media Dialogue & Lectures Lectures | 06.11.2019 #Oceans4future? The ocean in the Global Carbon Budget Helmholtz Horizons Policy advice since 2018 Global Carbon Budget

  • Prof. Dr. Hans-Otto Pörtner

    Hans.Poertner@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-1307 / 2440
    Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Physiology of early life stages

    different habitats (e.g.: in the water column and on the bottom). Ocean warming, ocean acidification and decreasing oxygen in the world's oceans in the wake of rapid climate change pose a challenge to all life

  • Katja Mintenbeck

    highest authority Dr Katja Mintenbeck, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. IPCC Ocean acidification At regular intervals, the International Panel on Climate Change is faced with a mammoth task

  • AWIPEV Arctic Research Base

    marine organisms in the fjords of Spitsbergen react to increased UV radiation and increasing ocean acidification. The geosciences, on the other hand, focus on changes in permafrost soils and glacier systems [...] Without Borders in the Arctic The Svalbard archipelago is located east of Greenland in the Arctic Ocean. The archipelago is home to Ny-Ålesund, one of the northernmost settlements in the world. Depending

  • Arctic Zooplankton

    ng of colonisation and expatriation processes. Projects BioAcid II: Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification ( www.bioacid.de ) Cleopatra: Climate effects on planktonic food quality and trophic transfer [...] physiological responses of dominant species to climate chance to predict their role in the future Arctic Ocean. Feeding biology and trophic interactions of key species Who feeds who“ is one of the major factors [...] ( www.mare-incognitum.no/index.php/cleopatra-ii ) Transdrift: The transpolar system of the Arctic Ocean: ( www.transdrift.info ) Fram: Frontiers in Arctic Monitoring Members of the working group PD. Dr

  • News from the CSD

    PACOCV_4.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) PACOCV_1.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ocean acidification affects calcifying species, particularly those living at or near the saturation stage of the [...] complementary expedition in the frame of our time-travel into the future ocean with conditions predicted by the recent IPCC report for the oceans at the end of the century. It was the last trip within the third-part [...] Max Schwanitz, September 2017 _________________________ Stopover of our time-travel into the future ocean to investigate the growth of cold-water corals PACOCV_3.png (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) PACOCV_4