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  • MarGate

    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

  • Current research

    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

  • News

    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,

  • News from the CSD

    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

  • Completed Projects

    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

  • Expeditions

    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

  • Team - AWI OZA

    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

  • Triaxus

    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

  • Projects

    . 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

  • Large Igneous Provinces

    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