Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly under the influence of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. My research focuses on the dynamics of disturbances, their landscape-scale impacts

warming by absorbing most of the excess heat in the climate system and a large fraction of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. However, over the past years the Southern Ocean has experienced drastic

W.-J. von Appen, 2016: Transient tracer distributions in the Fram Strait in 2012 and inferred anthropogenic carbon content and transport, Ocean Science, 12, 319–333; dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-12-319-2016

timing in Antarctic krill. With parts of the Southern Ocean experiencing rapid warming caused by anthropogenic driven climate change, it is of fundamental interest to understand the involvement of endogenous

global efforts to maintain ocean integrity and health in an era of climate change and emerging anthropogenic threats . OceanSOS integrates cutting-edge marine and climate sciences with socio-economic assessments

and maintained in these deep-sea organisms is still unclear, but important to understand, as anthropogenic activities can unknowingly disrupt critical environmental stimuli that set these rhythms. Microbial

and heats the stratosphere. Thus changes in the atmospheric circulation and in the emission of anthropogenic substances that affect the abundance of ozone in the atmosphere have direct effects on the global

nutrient uptake in phytoplankton for future net primary production, and time of emergence of anthropogenically induced trends in dissolved organic matter in Earth system model simulations. I am currently

time again, and most likely travelled along as stowaways on the oysters’ shells. In addition, anthropogenic climate change and the resultant rising temperatures in the North Sea are making it easier for

vertical mixing of carbon-rich deep waters into the surface layer and the downward mixing of anthropogenic CO 2 . Yet, despite the increasing stratification over recent decades, the Southern Ocean continued