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

Migration of Pelagic and Mesopelagic Scatterers From ADCP Backscatter Data in the Southern Norwegian Sea B. Cisewski*, H. Hátún, I. Kristiansen, B. Hansen, K.M.H. Larsen, S. Káradóttir Eliasen and J.A. Jacobsen [...] averages as red line and 7 days running mean as black line), (b) monthly averaged transports of Modified North Atlantic Water (MNAW) in the Faroe Current, (c) monthly transport-averaged temperature of the MNAW

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

I O N Free-floating Sargassum is a fast-growing macroalga native to the Sargasso Sea, in the middle of the tropical North Atlantic. In 2011, this alga escaped its natural open ocean habitat and has since [...] “Global warming” I “It sucks when they take so long to clean the sea, they do their best but sometimes it's too much sargassum to clean the sea.” J “From my childhood to the present the sargassum has its seasons [...] 1 Report on the sea4soCiety Sargassum Population Survey in Quintana Roo, Mexico, July 2022 Authors: Dr. Miriam Philippi, Dr. Mar Fernández-Méndez Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and

Arctic Seas) COSYNA cabled underwater observatory Helgoland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) COSYNA is an observing system comprising several land and sea-based sensor systems in the North Sea and in the [...] is the North Sea, were more than 80 % of the coastline is already artificially protected. In 2010, the Centre for Scientific Diving of the AWI has installed an underwater experimental field North of Helgoland [...] the Arctic. The AWI contributes to COSYNA with two cabled underwater observatories in the North Sea (Helgoland) and in the Arctic (Kongsfjord Spitzbergen). Both systems are part of the Helmholtz Observatory

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

(Coastal Observation System for Northern and Arctic Seas) is an operational coastal monitoring, forecasting and information system for the North Sea composed by fixed platforms, FerryBoxes, gliders and [...] PowerPoint Presentation Integration of a radioactivity system in a sensors’ network at the North Sea HCMR, AWI TNA Project RadConnect 12/10/2023 TNA Project RadConnect Motivation and Goals Systematic control [...] monitor natural and artificial radioactivity levels of the seawater at the specific area of the North Sea (Helgoland). Future environmental monitoring 12/10/2023 TNA Project RadConnect The idea to develop

measured sea ice thickness and properties, recorded the currents and chemical properties of the ocean and investigated life in and under the ice, in the open water and at the bottom of the deep sea. Their [...] significant changes compared to previous expeditions. On 7 September 2023, Polarstern reached the North Pole, and on 20 September there was the world's first livestream of an ROV under-ice dive from the

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 [...] Governance 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