• Outreach

    Times' reports! Arctic climate change and the consequences for microalgae Contribution to the scientific expert reports section on the website of Scientific Year 2016/17 Resistant Arctic microalgae (De [...] (Deutschlandfunk, 25.1.2017) Radio interview on the responses of Arctic phytoplankton to climate change on the occasion of the Arctic Frontiers conference 2017, Deutschlandfunk. Tiny algae, hugely resilient [...] important source of food in the oceans. Dr Clara Hoppe of the Alfred Wegener Institute examines how changed living conditions as a result of climate change affect Arctic microalgae. Algal diet (Rheinpfalz

  • LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN

    Long-Term Ecological Research in the deep Arctic Ocean The marine Arctic has been an integral part of the history of our planet over the past 130 million years and contributes significantly to the present [...] state of the atmosphere depend to a significant extent on arctic marine processes. The past decades has seen remarkable changes in the Arctic, of which we do not know whether these represent temporary [...] and biotic parameters in a transition zone between the northern North Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean, the Alfred Wegener Institute established the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) observatory

  • Dr. Frank Niessen

    Frank.Niessen@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-1216
    Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven

  • Polar Meteorology

    provide answers to big questions on polar and global climate change. Future climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic depends on feedbacks governed by small-scale processes: How do the surface fluxes of [...] momentum and particles change as the atmosphere becomes less stable, and as sea ice gives way to open ocean? How do clouds and precipitation change in response to changes in temperature, moisture, circulation

  • SO-Clim

    the vast exchange of water between the deep ocean and the sea surface that is unprecedented in the global ocean elsewhere. Over past decades, the Southern Ocean has substantially slowed global surface warming [...] Low-salinity water in the Southern Ocean kept CO₂ locked… Low-salinity water in the Southern Ocean kept CO₂ locked away for decades - New study reveals an overlooked oceanic carbon storage mechanism. Find [...] Postdoc My aim is to better understand the ocean carbon sink and its changes, with a special focus on the Southern Ocean. I study how the physics of the ocean impact the return pathways of CO 2 to the surface

  • Long-term Meteorology

    this region, ocean currents from lower latitudes impact the sea water temperature, and the ocean is a heat storage affecting the local climate. Although Ny-Ålesund is situated in the high Arctic (78.9°N, 11 [...] Long Term Observations Surface Meteorology in the Arctic (AWIPEV Research Base in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen) Ny-Ålesund from above. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Ny-Ålesund is located on a fjord at the [...] risen by 1.2° C per decade, while the strongest warming is observed during the winter season. The 'Arctic Amplification' of global warming is analysed under various aspects by measurements and model simulations

  • Dr. Friederike Pollmann

    friederike.pollmann@awi.de
    1296
    Klußmannstraße 3, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Stein

    Ruediger.Stein@awi.de
    +49(471)4831-1578
    Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven

  • Natasha Bryan, M.Sc.

    Developing a Novel Methodology to investigate Diatom Silicification in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean using Imaging Flow Cytometry and PDMPO natasha.bryan @ awi.de ORCiD Alfred Wegener Institut Am [...] E-1015 Overview of Doctoral project Phytoplankton communities living inside and below sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic arefacing rapid changes due to ongoing climate change. Light and nutrient availability [...] polar phytoplankton composite images obtained with the multispectral Imaging Flow Cytometer? How do Arctic phytoplankton communities differ from Antarctic communities in terms of their species composition

  • Ecological Chemistry

    on, aggregation, ecological function and distribution of organic compounds in the changing polar ocean. We aim to understand the function of marine organic compounds, both, as diagnostic markers to decode [...] 2026 In the “FjordChange” project, we are investigating the influence of Atlanticification on the Arctic ecosystem around Spitsbergen. To this end, we are studying four fjords with varying degrees of A [...] of marine life Subtopic 6.3 The future biological carbon pump Subtopic 6.4 Use and misuse of the ocean: Consequences for marine ecosystems Publications of the Section Biological carbon pump Influence of