• News from the CSD

    were cautiously optimistic. However, as is often the case in the Arctic, circumstances took a different path. Upon arrival, the team was welcomed with thick clouds and strong winds - conditions that barely [...] the good feeling that all scheduled tasks were done and that the arctic winter 2017/2018 can come… Max Schwanitz, September 2017 _________________________ Stopover of our time-travel into the future ocean [...] expedition in the frame of our time-travel into the future ocean with conditions predicted by the recent IPCC report for the oceans at the end of the century. It was the last trip within the

  • UN Plastics Treaty

    Observatory to investigate the effects of global warming on the Arctic deep sea. Since 2012, she has been focusing on plastic pollution in the oceans. She has published the reference book 'Marine

  • PROCEED Postdoc Office

    were on these topics: · Climate and Geosciences (atmosphere, ocean, ice and land) · Coastal systems · Terrestrial Arctic ecosystems and permafrost · Marine and polar life · Marine bioeconomy (

  • AWI Sustainability Guideline

    . As a major research centre, the AWI maintains stations in the Arctic and Antarctic, research vessels and polar aircraft. This is associated with a comparatively high consumption of resources. For this [...] our research on changes in the atmosphere, the cryosphere, the ocean and the coast, corresponding feedback mechanisms as well as the consequences of climate change for polar and marine ecosystems and [...] significance of the UN goals for sustainable development for oceans and polar regions and to keeping these issues present in the public consciousness. A particular challenge for us is the targeted

  • In situ measurements

    depletion in polar regions: A comparison of observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. Tellus, 50B, 34-50, 1998. Frieß, U., J. Hollwedel, G. König-Langlo, T. Wagner, and U. Platt, Dynamics and chemistry [...] source is emission of 222 Rn from terrestrial soil, while the oceanic source strength (with two order of magnitude lower emission rates) can usually considered as negligible. However, in case of Neumayer [...] continental sources are far away and our measurements indicate that oceanic emissions significantly contribute to the measured signal and especially to the seasonal maximum in late summer after retreat of

  • Cooperations

    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

  • Projects

    and impacts of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the oceans through case studies in the Atlantic, the Arctic and the Mediterranean. It is developing new methods for assessing the impact of [...] blue light photoreceptors in Antarctic versus temperate and Arctic diatoms. The project is carried out in cooperation with the AG Kroth, University of Konstanz . Antarctic Diatoms (Photo: Melissa [...] interactions in a co-evolutionary context in a changing Arctic ecosystem. Functional Genomics and Ecological Impact of Viral Infection in the Toxic Haptophyte Prymnesium polylepis 2014-2016

  • Publications

    . Hoppe, L. Wu, G. Lohmann, 2025: The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem. Nature Climate Change, doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02224-7 2024 [...] Oliveira RS, Campos MC, Shi X, De Oliveira PE, 2014: Slowdown of ocean circulation increases the vulnerability of northern Amazon forests. Nature Geoscience 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-024-01578-z Ma, Q. [...] , X. Gong, P. Gierz, C. Stepanek, L. Stap, 2021: A salty deep ocean as a prerequisite for glacial termination. Nature Geo, 14, 930–936. doi:10.1038/s41561-021-00857-3 Selected book publications Lohmann

  • Labs

    permafrost region remote sensing applications Remote sensing of Arctic Ocean Color Upscaling of permafrost region field measurements with remote sensing Generating permafrost remote sensing datasets

  • Further Publications

    and Stein, R., 2015: Holocene environmental variability in the Arctic Gateway . In: "Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)". M. Schulz and A. Paul (eds.), Springer, Germany [...] 642-32235-8 Xu, X., M. Werner, M. Butzin, and G. Lohmann, 2013: Oceanic d18O Variation and its Relation to Salinity in the MPI-OM Ocean Model . In: "Earth System Science: Bridging the Gaps between [...] /978-3-642-32235-8 Bora, S., S. Danilov, and G. Lohmann, 2013: Ocean Adjustment to High-Latitude Density Perturbations . In: "Earth System Science: Bridging the Gaps between Disciplines Perspectives