offshore conditions. Conducting a diver supported long-term study on the effects of artificial constructions for coastal protection measures (tetrapods) on the biota under real conditions. The area is about [...] managed by its registered user (= sensor owner) from everywhere of the world to control and manage even complex sensor units fully remotely. As basic hydrographical parameters from the area, the AWI [...] ReMoBiB - Real time Monitoring of Bivalve Behavior. Download a short presentation of the project. 2016 - ongoing ( MARUM /Intercoast & AWI) CONCRETE - The ecology of

indicate that, in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere alike, the borders of the ocean gyres and their boundary currents are moving closer to the poles, [...] 6,000 years ago a tipping point was reached relatively suddenly. This was the key finding of a study by group of researchers led by geologists from the Alfred [...] ). (Graphic: Johannes Sutter) [05 February 2016] A future warming of the Southern Ocean caused by rising greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere may severely disrupt the stability of the West

of possible tipping elements in the next world climate report of the IPCC, the work of the PermaRisk project was also reported here: [...] about the current state of the possibilities and limitations of Modelling of IceRoads and to understand the needs of the different user [...] regard to a later application development. Participants included the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Transportation and the University of Alaska,

Kongsfjorden (79° N), Svalbard, the worlds northernmost cabled Underwater Observatory close to Ny Ålesund had its first major revision. Since the installation of the [...] . Only about four weeks later, mid of March 2017 the second dive-mission was scheduled. Meanwhile the daylight was back on 79°N but, unfortunately [...] 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

of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INMRAS). The AWI share is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education [...] are investigated. The exceedance of critical temperature thresholds in the Southern Ocean can lead to an irreversible collapse of the West-Antarctic Ice [...] by World Meteorological Organization’s World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) as a key component of the Polar Prediction Project (PPP). YOPP

climatic and oceanographic changes in the southern Indian Ocean Located in a key region in the southern Indian Ocean the complex topography of the Kerguelen Plateau, one of [...] 2020, comprised seismic reflection studies and geological sampling of the Kerguelen Plateau in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. The Kerguelen Plateau rises up 2000 m above the surrounding seafloor [...] and the Scotia Sea, the gateway between South America and Antarctica, enabled the exchange of water masses between the southern Pacific and

to detect and classify marine animal vocalisations, speeding up the analysis of passive acoustic data in order to address ecological questions. I am interested in understanding the effects of the [...] and acoustic behaviour in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Karolin Thomisch (2016), Uni Bremen Distribution patterns and migratory behavior of Antarctic [...] 2012), Bachelor Hochschule Bremerhaven Passive acoustic monitoring of ambient noise in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean Svenja Zakrzewski (2010), Bachelor Hochschule Bremerhaven The PALAOA-S

depth of 350 meter and a sidewise steering up to 100 meter port and starboard of the ship. In the area of these parameters, the towed system [...] a simultaneous sidewise steering up to 100 m port and starboard of the ship. Depeding on the diving depth of the system and the speed of the ship, the winch can pay out up to 2500 m of cable with 60 [...] respective scientific questions, the distance between to measurement profiles can only be changed by the shape of the undulation profile. The undulation profile

. Gerrit Lohmann PhD Candidate: Hanna Sophie Knahl Future warming of the Southern Ocean may significantly affect the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. A collapse of the WAIS occurred during the [...] duration: 1 Januar 2010 - Today Contact: Dr. Christian Stepanek The Pliocene is seen in many ways as a possible analogue of future warm climate states. The question of the characteristics and of the [...] better understanding of the climate of the Pliocene in the context of the climate forcings of the future. This is an important step to do since climate forcings

3 are interpreted as strong evidence for an oceanic LIP origin of the southern Mozambique Ridge. A LIP origin of the whole Mozambique Ridge could have had an immense influence on climate during the [...] collected dredge samples. The analysis of the first high-resolution multichannel seismic reflection reflection dataset covering the three southern segments of the [...] the question, whether distinct phases of magmatic or tectonic processes led to the deformation of the Manihiki Plateau and which role