Expedition "MAURIBO" logo of the expedition “MAURIBO” MSM127 (Graphic: C. Weinberg) Upcoming Expedition: North West African climate change, cold water corals, past ecosystems and spectacular engineering - "MAURIBO" [...] Jannis Viola , a Phd student in the team will join a research cruise (MSM127-2) along the coast of North West Africa and the continental slope off Mauritania. This area is characterized by high productivity [...] high-resolution palaeoarchive of climate change in NW Africa, allows analysis of the influence of sea-level change on methane seepage, and provides an ideal test field for investigations into the applicability

from the North to the South Pole. The effects of global warming on the most remote regions of our planet is visualized in the Spiegel article "Die große Schmelze": From melting sea ice at the North Pole to [...] Siberia and North America, and from the loss of glaciers on Greenland and in high mountain ranges, to the increase in Antarctic sea ice. Impressive images illustrate the journey from the North to the South [...] degree videos in a gallery The videos are grouped in Youtube playlists: 360 degree videos drone videos North-West Canada 2021 In September 2021, a field campaign took place in the Mackenzie Delta region of the

The North Sea Intensive utilization of the North Sea, e.g., transport, extraction and disposal of sand, laying of cables and pipes, fishery, and –for the last few years- area intensive usage by offshore [...] are employing an extensive base of reliable, validated and georeferenced data from the southern North Sea collected during several decades of sampling. Models are coupled to these data, and the results [...] and mapping of benthic species and biotopes in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea Participants: Jan Beermann , Lars Gutow Content: The Federal Republic of Germany is obligated by

Ghent University, where she completed her PhD on the role of macrobenthos in the functioning of North Sea seafloor ecosystems (2011). During a 2-year research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Marine

the opportunity to visit the long-term measuring station Spiekeroog operated by the ICBM in the North Sea and also to visit the various departments of the technical workshop at the AWI in Bremerhaven. Dr

distances and facilitating the introduction of foreign species. We investigate these aspects in the North Sea as well as in other marine regions. Senior Scientist Dr. Lars Gutow

next course in summer 2018 COURSE DESCRIPTION Annual 12 days excursion to the island of Helgoland (North Sea) with emphasis on the taxonomic identification of major benthic macroalgae and associated animals

developed within the frame of the project within two different geographical locations (North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea). As part of the consortium, the AWI will work on the development of test methods for

parts of North America – reaching an ice thickness of more than 3 km, before it finally melted at the end of the ice age. To date, there have been few detailed studies of the evolution of the North American [...] that in particular the snowfall in summer favoured the growth of the ice sheet and influenced the sea level.

northwards into the large ocean basins, such as the Atlantic. This Antarctic bottom water drives deep-sea currents all over the world and circulates water masses to transport oxygen far down into the depths