of Greenland Sea only (Fram Strait). The western, sea ice-dominated, part of Fram Strait proved to have short, late (middle May) and time varying phytoplankton blooms. At the marginal sea ice zone of the [...] production values increased in the north-eastern open ocean area of the Greenland Sea, on about 120 mgC/m2 per day for the thirteen years of observations. The Greenland Sea primary production estimates we [...] production of the Greenland Sea and the carbon stored in sediments. Related publications: Cherkasheva, A. (2014) Greenland Sea primary production with respect to changes in sea ice cover . PhD thesis, Department

Centre for Polar and Marine Research’s Wadden Sea Station on Sylt, where he heads the Working Group Community and Evolutionary Ecology and the AWI’s North Sea Office. Born in Bad Harzburg in 1968, he grew [...] thesis on species interactions on the North Sea coast. From 1998 to 2001, he pursued his doctorate on diversity and biological interactions on mussel banks in the Wadden Sea at Universität Hamburg. The close [...] cooperation between science and environmental management led to the establishment of the AWI’s North Sea Office in 2011 and the ongoing development and implementation of various environmental research

where from 1986 to 1989, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the molluscan fauna of the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. During this time and in the following two years as post-doc at AWI, he took part in five [...] expeditions, both land-based and ship-based. He describes the total of 14 months he spent in the Weddell Sea and at the British Antarctic Survey research station Signy as the best time of his life. From 1992 [...] Deputy Secretary of the international Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment in the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) in London. After a short period as an expert for the European Commission, he

In connection with current plans for a massive expansion of wind farms in offshore areas of the North Sea, the idea emerged to combine these with the installation of extensive mariculture for bivalves and [...] interaction between physical offshore processes and man-made structures in areas of the German North Sea territory where mariculture has potential, the conditions for possible combination of mariculture [...] ment force experiments that algae were capable of resisting the high-energy environment of the North Sea. The concentration of mussel larvae in the water column decreased offshore and resulted in a low

framework for implementing multiple land use within the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea taking as an example the potential combination of projected offshore wind farms and offshore mariculture [...] (Mytilus edulis) and kelp (Laminaria saccharina), show promising results for mariculture in the German North Sea (see " Offshore Aquaculture Project " and " Roter Sand "). Due to the provision of fixed infrastructure [...] growing marine organisms in the open sea, but also to counterbalance the continuing scarce seed mussel supply, which influences the mussel fishery sector in the Wadden Sea. That way, the ocean areas designated

investigations conducted by the AWI showed that the basic biotic conditions in many parts of the German North Sea are given for the cultivation of various candidates under offshore conditions, such as seaweeds [...] analysis conducted by the AWI showed that farmed or wild mussels from the intertidal areas in the Wadden Sea suffer under high infestations of macro parasites such as copepods (see Fig. 3), trematods (see Fig

candidates, which can be cultivated under such hydrodynamic and environmental conditions within the North Sea and hold large potentials on the German market. Within the group of bivalves, especially the blue

Potentials for Open Ocean Aquaculture in the North Sea Region Within the scope of the diploma thesis "Potentials for Open Ocean Aquaculture in the North Sea Region" maps of the German Bight have been created [...] Lower-Saxony (Fig.1) and one the Schleswig-Holstein part of the North Sea (Fig.2). The maps cover commercial mussel beds in the Wadden Sea, an oyster farm, land-based recirculation systems as well as present [...] created. These maps show the current mariculture sites in the German part of the southern North Sea. In order to create those maps the geographic information system ArcGIS has been used. ArcGIS software

and oysters ( Crassostrea gigas, Ostrea edulis ) several types of cultivation can be used in the North Sea region. Predominately, longline constructions are proposed for the cultivation of bivalves, by which

Boetius, AWI, Bremerhaven The FRAM Ocean Observing System will be installed in the gateway between the North Atlantic and the Central Arctic, representing a highly climate-sensitive and rapidly changing region [...] Lochte, AWI, Bremerhaven The ROBEX alliance aims to pool expertise gained in lunar expeditions and deep sea investigations to identify, develop, and test technologies that will allow the exploration of highly [...] inaccessible terrain, including areas on earth with extreme environmental conditions, such as the deep sea and Polar Regions, as well as other planets. The alliance will focus on developing a modular, robotic