PRONICARE

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

Rapid growth of land ice due to summer snowfall

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.

Weakening of Antarctic bottom water circulation is noticeable in the North Atlantic

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

Online - Seminar on Marine Technology, Research and Experiences in Coastal waters” – MarTREC

of a radioactivity system in a sensors’ network at the North Sea Download talk as pdf 09.11.2023, 11.00 Dr. Boris Cisewski, Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries: Vertical Migration of Pelagic and Mesopelagic [...] Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. Development of nature conservation measures for the North Sea - Project RESTORE No download available. 14.03.2024, 11:00 Alexandre Le Moal, Alfred-Wegener-Institute [...] Mesopelagic Scatterers From ADCP Backscatter Data in the Southern Norwegian Sea. Download talk as pdf 14.12.2023, 11:00 Dr. Katharina Seelmann, 4H-Jena Engineering GmbH: From the arctic to the tropic, from the

Mud binds carbon

ed how climate change and anthropogenic activities and pressure impact the carbon cycle in the North Sea. The final event took place in Berlin, which included an expert discussion with representatives

high-impact journals

Kipfstuhl S., Freitag J., Sasgen I., Lohmann G. , Vinther B., T. Laepple : Modern temperatures in central-north Greenland warmest in past millennium (Nature, 2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05517-z Klages, J. P [...] Méheust, M., Ren, J., Chapligin, B., Meyer, H., Stein, R., Tiedemann, R. and Lohmann, G. (2018): North Pacific freshwater events linked to changes in glacial ocean circulation , Nature, 559, pp. 241-245 [...] Chen, J., Gong, X. , Jonkers, L., Knorr, G. and Thornalley, D. (2015): Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events , Nature, 520, pp. 333-336, doi: 10.1038/nature14330 . Zhang, X. , Lohmann, G

Microbial Ecology

e. phytoplankton, zooplankton, mussels, and viruses). At present, we concentrate mainly on the North Sea, with its diverse habitats focusing especially on how different bacterial groups and populations [...] xenobiotica, toxin genes, and mobile genetic elements) in a coastal gradient from rivers to the open sea and the impact of plastic waste in the marine environment (macro-, micro- and nanoplastics). Research

Offshore aquaculture

and aims to ascertain the economic feasibility of an offshore marine aquaculture structure in the North Sea. As in the same area more than 3000 wind-generators are already installed or still in the planning

Candidate species

farmed using an extensive fixed off-bottom longline technique in the Baltic Sea as well as in tanks in the North Sea. Sea Lettuce Sea Lettuce Ulva spp. are edible green seaweeds that are used in foods, feeds [...] stops to prevent barotrauma of the fish. The sea bass can tolerate temperatures in the North Sea, but the average temperature of 10 ° C in the North Sea is below its optimum temperature range for growth [...] from the upper subtidal of the rocky coasts of the Atlantic from Greenland to Portugal and the North Sea. It is traditionally eaten dried in France, Ireland, Iceland and Canada, and is a source of minerals

Record highs in the North Sea: Even the German Bight is warmer than ever before

the globe are sounding the alarm: ocean temperatures are the warmest ever recorded. In 2023, the North Sea also experienced dramatic record highs, as readings taken by the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Biological