is due to return to its home port of Bremerhaven from its final Arctic expedition of this summer. The ten-week PS156 (LAMEX 1) expedition took around 40 researchers from Germany, Norway, Italy, Argentina

as temporary dive bases at the polar research station AWIPEV (Arctic - Spitsbergen), Dallman (Antarctic) and Neumayer III (Antarctic). With currently 12 certified "Dive Mission Leaders", the AWI CSD [...] in Europe and conducts professional underwater research in all oceans of the world. The main goals of the AWI Center for Scientific Diving are: To conduct, promote and support diver related underwater

plankton productivity and particle sedimentation to the deep ocean, a process known as the Biological Pump, and the diversity and ecophysiology of key polar organisms, which illuminates the limits [...] biology of polar plankton, its role in the ecology of the Polar Oceans as well as its efficiency in stimulating the biological pump which is, in fact, mitigating the greenhouse effect. Research groups: [...] pelagic key species Phytoplankton ecology & particle flux in the Arctic Arktic zooplankton Marine Chronobiology Biodiversity Image analysis as well as molecular measurement processes are, among other

the framework of intergovernmental bodies (eg SCAR, IASC, ATCM, Arctic Council, CCAMLR, OSPAR). The office is coordinating the AWI contributions and will perform as an information platform for environmental [...] networks (DAM, DKK, Helmholtz Climate, KDM, UN Decade of Ocean Science, IPCC, IPBES, Leopoldina, etc.), in which the research contributions of the AWI / of Helmholtz Earth system research are of

DAM aims to strengthen the sustainable use of coasts, seas and oceans through research and transfer, data management and digitalisation, and by coordinating the infrastructures. To this end, the DAM is [...] Alaska Fairbanks United States Norwegian Polar Institute Norway Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) Russia University of Tromso (UiT) Norway IFREMER France Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

processes in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans for a changing climate and the polar ecosystems. Polarstern in der Arktis / Polarstern in the Arctic Contact [...] Main research topics of our group Physical Oceanography of the Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas are integral parts of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, and hence key [...] for the global climate. The perennial sea ice cover makes the Arctic Ocean distinct from subarctic oceans – the presence of… Find out more Ocean Optics Analytical bio-optical techniques are applied to

Projects AFIN: Antarctic Fast Ice Network Changing Arctic Ocean Beyond Arctic Passion Tara Polar Station ESA: Climate Change Initiative MOSAiC S3MPC-Sentinel-3 Altimetry Mission Performance ArcSolution SNOWflAke IceBird Transdrift: Arctic Ice-Ocean-Interaction CONTRASTS

, we aim to improve current predictions about the fate of the Arctic Ocean in times of climate change Link to project webpage ARJEL To better understand the role of jellyfish in Arctic seas, the [...] for future sustainable ecosystem management in the Central Arctic. Link to project webpage SO-ASE The Helmholtz Investigators Group “Southern Ocean & Antarctic Sea ice Evolution (SO-ASE)” is looking [...] system. Link to project webpage SO-CLIM Linkt to project webpage oceanPeak ERC Starting Grant OceanPeak COLDSPOT The project investigates where and why Arctic soils act as sinks for methane and nitrous

, we aim to improve current predictions about the fate of the Arctic Ocean in times of climate change Link to project webpage ARJEL To better understand the role of jellyfish in Arctic seas, the [...] for future sustainable ecosystem management in the Central Arctic. Link to project webpage SO-ASE The Helmholtz Investigators Group “Southern Ocean & Antarctic Sea ice Evolution (SO-ASE)” is looking [...] system. Link to project webpage SO-CLIM Linkt to project webpage oceanPeak ERC Starting Grant OceanPeak COLDSPOT The project investigates where and why Arctic soils act as sinks for methane and nitrous

Swedish research icebreaker Oden demonstrate that the glacial Arctic Ocean was not a barren ice desert but a breeding ground for the evolution of cold adaptation in marine fish. This is the main