• 20231107_Sargassum_s4s_report.pdf

    Sargassum. The following presentation and interpretation of the results matches the order of the questionnaire. The small number of participants does not allow for representative insights about the local community [...] good, the other half of the group assessed the quality as bad or rather bad. Yet, the vast majority agreed that the quality of the coastal environment is not improving over time, indicating that the participants [...] worried about the future development of the coastal environment. Most of the participants indicated that they use the coastal environment for recreational activities and described the coast and the sea as

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  • Outreach

    research topics or explore the conflict of interests of different Arctic stakeholders. Lesson Plan Permafrost in the Arctic Living in the wild North The Permafrost Risk The Ocean Race Summit Dr. Rebecca [...] and thematic perspectives. Different questions discuss the situation in the High North: What characterizes the Arctic environment? What changed in the Arctic over the last decades? What is permafrost? How [...] Outreach Lesson Plan "Permafrost in the Arctic" The lesson plan “Permafrost in the Arctic” explores the subject of degrading permafrost and its effects on men and environment from different spatial and

  • Environment Protection Seminar

    clicking on the flag symbol. At the end of the training, you will be asked 15 multiple-choice questions about the content of the training, which you have to answer correctly (see also information in the instruction [...] Training "Environmental Protection in Antarctica" The provisions of the German "Law for the Implementation of the Environmental Protection Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty" (see www.gesetze-im-internet [...] traveling to the Antarctic Treaty area (south of 60°S) with a German permit must have sufficient knowledge of environmental protection in Antarctica and the provisions of the law. For this reason, the Alfred

  • Permafrost Change

    comparison to the area of permafrost? What is the extend of these elements of the cryosphere – also in relation to the country of Germany? The back of the wooden tiles are revealing the result and some [...] A survey at the beginning of the event showed that the topic was new to most participants but of great interest, and also that not all of them were located in the area of Berlin (one even in Luxembourg [...] them to relate to. With the help of the resources provided by the Ralf Dahrendorf Prize, we will overcome that distance by showing interested members of the general public the broad landmasses that are

  • Projects

    in the Pacific Southern Ocean since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the Earth system, both for the uptake of anthropogenic carbon and for the exchange of heat [...] inspired the concept of the Arcwatch expeditions. The SNAC-cluster now aims at providing a synoptic view of the changing CAO. The “PaRaThA” project is based on the time-integrated information from the natural [...] sedimentation rate and the spatial distribution of the controlling environmental parameters in order to: to quantify the content of organic carbon (OC) in the sediments of the Baltic Sea, assess their OC a

  • West Antarctic Ice Sheet

    and paleo-current models of the continental rise and shelf of the Pacific margin of West Antarctica The results call for an urgent case of scientific drilling, in particular in the Amundsen Sea Embayment [...] reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat since the onset of Southern Hemisphere glaciation improves our understanding of ice sheet growth and melting processes and [...] that exceed those of any other Antarctic outlet glacier outside the Antarctic Peninsula. The incursion of warm Circum-Polar Deep-Water into the deeply incised glacial troughs of the shelves has been recognized

  • Iliana_Baums_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    world, including in the Caribbean and the Central and Eastern Pacific. She was the lead scientist on the „Jewels of the Gulf“ expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. In recognition of her scientific achievements [...] ng of the processes that shape marine life, with the goal of maintaining the diversity and productivity of marine ecosystems. Iliana Baums has led more than 30 expeditions to coral reefs around the world [...] status by the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) in 2024. The Eco Magazine also recognised her as one of the fifteen best coral reef researchers of 2020. In the same year, she received the Faculty Scholars

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  • Matthias_Brenner_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    representatives of the federal and state environmental authorities on the subject of munitions in the sea and the results of the research projects. His special interest is the transfer of knowledge from [...] Geography at the University of Bremen. Bet- ween 2005 and 2009 he was PhD student at Jacobs University and AWI and thought about the question: How can offshore windfarms be co-used for the cultivation of blue [...] munition in the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak. The aim of his research is to develop methods to detect health effects that organisms may suffer when they come into contact with or are exposed to the toxic compounds

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  • Kuestenbroschuere_2016_engl_webversion.pdf

    . Only a small part of it sticks out of the water, like the tip of an iceberg. By far the largest portion of the rock is submarine. The transitional zone between the island and the submarine is a rocky [...] Schmalenbach is tipping the contents of hundreds of small beakers over the railing of the “Aade” into the sea: hundreds of small lobsters which were raised in the laboratory. The onlook- ers in the unique Helgoland [...] signal of the algae on the rocky intertidal is recorded. Each pixel represents the colour spectrum of visi- ble light up to the infrared range. With the help of the characteristic reflection of the individual

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  • Awards and honors

    Development (ESD) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German UNESCO Commission. The klimafit core team includes: at AWI: Dr. Renate Treffeisen, Dr. Klaus Grosfeld, at the WWF Germany: [...] Hartmut Heinrich Award The unexpected discovery of Hartmut Heinrich has an enormous influence on the work of the section Paleoclimate Dynamics . Deep-sea sediment cores recovered from the Northeast Atlantic [...] insolation forces meltwater discharge from the ice sheets into the polar seas which subsequently enhances formation of sea ice during the winter. In the second case, growth of continental ice enhances iceberg