on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea The collaborative project "Anthropogenic impacts on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea" ( APOC ) is funded by the German Federal Ministry [...] carbon sequestration in the North Sea and how this ecosystem service is affected by global climate change and anthropogenic pressures. The sediment budget of the North Sea is strongly influenced by bo [...] sediments of the Baltic Sea, assess their OC accumulation rate and OC storage capacity, parameterise OC sedimentation and remineralisation and extrapolate the rates in the Baltic Sea. Funding Bundesamt für

on the development and testing of possible ways to reestablish the native oyster in the German North Sea. All restoration measures are implemented under consideration of the IUCN Standards , the International [...] Interesting Facts & Downloads RESTORE Project: Restoration of European oyster stocks in the German North Sea Find out more SKATE Project: Restoration of native skate species in the German Bight – Developing [...] reefs and the ecological impact of a CO2 removal technique on benthic filter feeders Find out more North Sea Office Knowledge transfer: Research and advisory centre on environmental research at the AWI Find

the AWI’s Data Assimilation group. I’m interested in using data assimilation to study the global air-sea flux of CO 2 . Maya Dalby (Postdoc) I studied biology and marine biology and have become a zooplanktologist [...] interactions affect the efficiency of the biological carbon pump and lastly carbon export to the deep sea and sediments. Currently, I investigate how to implement new iron sources and new phytoplankton functional [...] projects. I completed a master's thesis on the effects of eddies on the phytoplankton bloom in the North Atlantic using a simple NPZD (Nutrient-Phytoplankton-Zooplankton-Detritus) model (biogeochemical model)

transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling Arctic deep-sea biodiversity. • Permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the [...] The Weddell Sea features a rich and diverse ecosystem, complex sea-ice dynamics and intense ocean circulation. The physical and biogeochemical processes that prevail in the central Weddell Sea and the water [...] transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, and to determine the factors controlling Arctic deep-sea biodiversity. • Permanent presence at sea, from surface to depth, for the

causes and consequences of sea ice melt in three contrasting sea-ice regimes as functions of atmospheric and oceanographic conditions: 1) seasonal sea ice, mostly originating from Russian shelf regions and [...] observed sea ice, ocean, and ecosystem changes in the Central Arctic Ocean during melt season. We will investigate the causes and consequences of differences in sea ice melt in three contrasting sea-ice e [...] ice zone 2) first- and second year sea ice from the central Arctic Ocean, drifting along the transpolar drift system, and 3) multi-year ice in the “last ice area” north of Greenland. The overall objective

between the estimated and calculated frequency spectra of stable oxygen isotopes in cores from the North Greenland Traverse (NGT). Additionally I'm inspecting sections of the B22 core where melt layers are [...] project is based on mass spectral imaging of marine sediment cores to create high temporal resolution sea surface temperature time series. The aim is to quantify stratigraphic noise and the spatial repres

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energy cycle in the ecosystems of the polar regions and of the shelf and coastal regions of the North Sea. Central research themes are (1) reactions of individuals, populations and communities on external [...] Biological Oceanography Sustainable Marine Bioeconomy Integrative Ecophysiology Shelf Sea System Ecology Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology

Temperatures around the world continue to rise – and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, increasingly frequent and intense heat events also have consequences for marine [...] with their repercussions for plankton. They have also conducted an experiment that exposed the North Sea plankton community to different future warmer scenarios, both with and without heatwaves. The r

zoologists of the 19th century, who became known for his ecological work on oyster beds in the North Frisian Wadden Sea and coined the term "biocenosis". His concept of ecological living communities was grou [...] research and was frequently visiting the island of Helgoland for his morphological-physiological work on sea algae. In 1860 he was appointed as a full member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Pringsheim was [...] founded, which established a small field station for oyster research and the exploration of the Wadden Sea on the Island of Sylt in 1924.