• Outreach

    Polar and Marine Research, have discovered in a recent study that Ocean Acidification can negatively affect diatoms of the southern polar ocean. In laboratory experiments, they observed that diatoms under [...] deep ocean. Thus, the CO 2 is removed from the global carbon cycle for a couple of thousand years. Dr. Sebastian Rokitta has explored during the past three years how the advancing Ocean Acidification affects [...] Helmholtz-PhD Awards who have been awarded for the very first time this year. Consequences of Ocean Acidification for calcareous algae (Youtube, 17.4.2013) The calcareous microalga Emiliania huxlyei is distributed

  • Dr. Felix Mark

    Felix.Christopher.Mark@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-1015
    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

  • Cell physiology

    influences. One of our priority questions is how environmental parameters (temperature, hypoxia, ocean acidification, pollution) and their combination affect fish, mussels and snails. One focus is on the cellular

  • Hans-Otto Pörtner

    IPCC Climate Change Ocean acidification Anthropogenic climate change is altering the living conditions in the ocean more dramatically than in the past 50 to 300 million years. The oceans are becoming warmer [...] which chemically react with constituents of seawater, making the oceans more acidic. But that’s not all: for various reasons, warming oceans store less oxygen. In other words, they gradually lose their lifeblood [...] in the seas simultaneously reduces the number of safe havens remaining to them. Increasing ocean acidification puts organisms under additional pressure. Further, these three climate impacts are mutually

  • Arctic plankton ecology and related sedimentary flux

    Nöthig Research The Arctcic Ocean reacts more sensitive to Gloabal Change than other oceans. Sea ice strongly decraeses, temperatures rise at least twice as much, acidification and, the influence of warmer [...] mainly as part of projects such as FRAM, LTER HAUSGARTEN, PEBCAO in different regions of the Arctic Ocean. The main goal of our arctic research is to understand and follow seasonal and interannual fluctuations [...] Key aspect is to measure the changes of all parameters in relation to rise in temperature and acidification.