• News from the CSD

    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 to investigate the growth of cold-water [...] complementary 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 third-part [...] was relatively good, expectations 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

  • 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 Anthropogenic

  • PROCEED Postdoc Office

    announcements 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 Journal Subscriptions

    Elsevier. [ Impact Factor: 3.513 ] Print Ausgabe: 1.1981 - 85.2007 Z 366 Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. / Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado. Print Ausgabe: 31.1999 - [...] td-1">Z 2180 Ocean dynamics. / Springer [ Impact Factor: 1.612 ] Print Ausgabe: 52.2001 - 57.2007 Z 2183 Ocean modelling [...] dd tr-187"> eOnly Report of the ... Meeting / Arctic Ocean Science Board. <td class="td-last

  • AWI Sustainability Guideline

    for employees, politics and society. 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 [...] societal options for action. With 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 [...] habitats and species and the overall 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

  • In situ measurements

    and O. Schrems, Tropospheric ozone 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 [...] half-life time of 3.82 days. The main 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

  • Cooperations

    largest marine research alliances. The DAM aims to strengthen the sustainable use of coasts, seas and oceans through research and transfer, data management and digitalisation, and by coordinating the infra [...] Survey United Kingdom University of Alaska Fairbanks United States Norwegian Polar Institute Norway Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) Russia University of Tromso (UiT) Norway IFREMER France Woods

  • Research Vessel and Icebreaker Polarstern

    days a year, typically cruising in the Antarctic from November to March and pursuing research in the Arctic during the summer months. In the process, she covers ca. 50,000 nautical miles every year – the [...] heat wave in 2003 has changed the North Atlantic until today Extreme events change the ecology of oceans abruptly: For example, a marine heat wave in 2003 had such strong effects on species composition

  • Projects

    degradation 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 [...] tipping points and impacts on the functioning of local ecosystems and services. Disko Bay and the Arctic Station, Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Bay, Greenland (Photo: Uwe John) Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education [...] functional adaptations of LOV-domain 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

  • Publications

    1126/science.adp3491 Gou, R., K. Wolf, C. 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 [...] Lohmann G, Boers N, Daniau AL, 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 [...] and M. Kucera, 2023: Plankton biogeography shows strong meridional variation in ice age to modern ocean warming. Nat. Geosci., DOI:10.1038/s41561-023-01328-7 2022 Pontes, G., A. Taschetto, A. Sen Gupta