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 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

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

computer-based model, they were able to show that warm water from the Atlantic flows into the European North Sea and ultimately into the cavern under the glacier tongue, where it melts the ice from below. Their [...] Greenland's ice-sheet
The Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier – also known as the 79° North Glacier – on the northeast coast of Greenland flows directly into a fjord, where it forms an 80-kilometre-long tongue [...] pave the way for more precise projections on the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet and increasing sea level rise from global warming.

The North East Greenland Ice Stream transports enormous amounts of ice from the heart of the island to the sea and thus also influences global sea levels. An international research team led by the Alfred

this project. The University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde were also involved.

ty on the High Seas Introductory report on High Seas Biodiversity Treaty 'Areas beyond national jurisdiction', 'high seas' or 'areas?': What is the difference? Under the Law of the Sea Convention, the [...] what, where, and how on the high seas. Topic navigation 'Areas beyond national jurisdiction', 'high seas' or 'areas?': What is the difference? Establishment of new high seas protected areas The limits of [...] insights. Antarctic sea ice, Weddell Sea (Photo: Mario Hoppmann) The contents and limits of the agreement As an implementing agreement to the International Convention on the Law of the Sea, the new agreement

At the AWI ice laboratories, part of an ice core from the North Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) is currently being tested. The core was collected during “EastGRIP”, a joint project involving several international [...] insights into the behaviour of ice streams and improve our grasp of how they could contribute to future sea-level rise. Another goal is to record past climatic conditions beneath the northeast section of the

Ecosystems , CSLN , University of Skövde , Technische Universität Dresden Funding: EU-Interreg North Sea Region News Would you like to participate in researching the right control strategy against the [...] Funding This project receives funding under the Grant Agreement Number 41-2-51-22 from the Interreg North Sea Programme co-funded by the European Union. [...] their claws. Every year in autumn, hundreds of thousands of adult crabs make their way back to the sea to spawn, where they die exhausted after reproduction. This mass occurrence of crabs has consequences

the (sub-) polar North Atlantic (Fram Strait, Greenland Sea, Baffin Bay) and their changes through late Quaternary times. Of special interest will be the interrelationship between sea-ice cover, meltwater [...] Arctic sea ice variability, a crucial indicator or ‘canary in the coal mine’ for the Arctic and global climate state. If greenhouse gas emissions remain unchecked and further increase, summer sea ice loss [...] draining into the Amundsen Sea, the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. If these two major ice streams continue retreating into the deep inner basins, they would raise the global sea level by ~1.5 m. In order