• Automatic Weather Stations

    (AWS) In addition to the long-term measurements in Antarctica, ( Neumayer_III ), in the Arctic (AWIPEV ) and on the oceans ( Polarstern ) automatic weather stations (AWS) are in use. The numbers of the AWS-systems

  • Autonomous Platforms

    in various ways for many similar types of sensors utilized in ocean sciences, including a drogue to make the surface unit drift with the ocean currents and less with the wind. Our main application is to [...] platforms to obtain time series data throughout all seasons from the very remote regions in the Arctic and Antarctic. Our autonomous platforms, or more generally speaking ‘ice tethered platforms’, are [...] airborne campaigns and leave them behind to continue monitoring the atmosphere, snow, sea ice, and upper ocean. Often, we simply call them ‘buoys’ although most of these systems are not able to float and depend

  • Award-winning – deep sea researchers receive the Humboldt Memorial Award for investigations into the biodiversity of the deep Arctic Ocean

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  • Awards and honors

    the Arctic lost its white landscape and had a blue, ice-free ocean. Alexander Haumann , ERC Starting Grant VERTEXSO , January 2023 - Dcember 2027. VERTEXSO (VERTical EXchange in the Southern Ocean) studies [...] Artemics (Arctic internal wave energetics and mixing and their interdependence with sea ice in changing climate conditions) aims to elucidate the role of internal gravity waves in the warming Arctic Ocean. We [...] the North Atlantic Ocean but also in remote areas such as the Pacific Ocean and the Antarctic. Heinrich, H.: Origin and consequences of cyclic ice rafting in the northeast Atlantic Ocean during the past 130

  • BMBF Projects

    -Project are: to assess the influence of sea-ice and ocean dynamics in the Laptev Sea on the transpolar drift; to investigate changes in the arctic halocline, water mass formation, and transport mechanisms [...] the atmosphere - sea-ice - ocean system; to study the history of the transpolar system. Contact: T. Soltwedel, J. Hölemann, R. Stein BIOACID III (Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification) Project funded [...] Riebesell, GEOMAR, Germany The overarching questions of BIOACID -Project are: What are the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats? What are the underlying mechanisms of responses

  • Bathymetric compilations

    Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) , the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) ,the International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) , and the Southwest Indian Ocean Bathymetric [...] world’s oceans by 2030, and hosts the Seabed 2030 Southern Ocean Regional Center (SORC) . SORC’s and IBCSO’ s responsibility is to produce the best possible authoritative map of the Southern Ocean, the South [...] Global and regional bathymetric models IBSCO (International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean) (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / IBSCO v2, Dorschel et al., 2022) IBSCO v2 Datenabdeckung (Graphic:

  • Bathymetry

    provide information on past ice sheet dynamics. Ice sheet scours on the Lomonossov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean Madiba Sea Mount, south of South Africa, discovered 2013 with RV Polarstern Current-induced seabed

  • Bernhard Diekmann

    Europe: Bernhard Diekmann Find out more > Dialogue & Lectures Lectures | 15.07.2018 Arctic Environments in Change Ecologic Arctic Summer College Policy advice [...] glance back in time shows: the face of our planet was not only dictated by the coming and going of oceans and mountains, or the wandering of continents; it was also constantly shaped by natural climate change [...] live in a world characterised by perpetual ice in the Antarctic, and fluctuating ice extents in the Arctic, North America and Europe. The North German landscape is a legacy of the last glacial 20,000 years

  • Biogeochemical Sensors

    C., Rabouille, C., Sauter, E., Schewe, I., Soltwedel, T. (2015): Benthic oxygen uptake in the Arctic Ocean margins - A case study at the deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN (Fram Strait). PLoS ONE 10(10): [...] Braeckman, U., Hasemann, C., Wenzhoefer, F. (2018): Deep-sea benthic communities and oxygen fluxes in the Arctic Fram Strait controlled by sea-ice cover and water depth. Biogeosciences 15: 4849-4869. Braeckman [...] Marchant, H., Buckner, C., Bienhold, C., Wenzhöfer, F. (2018): Carbon and nitrogen turnover in the Arctic deep sea: in-situ benthic community response to diatom and coccolithophorid phytodetritus. Biogeosciences

  • Books and In-books

    International Ocean Color Coordination Group. www.ioccg.org/reports/IOCCG_Report_15_2014.pdf / S. Sathyendranath (editor) , Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 4A2, Canada., International Ocean-Colour Coordinating [...] V., Bracher, A., Ramon, D., Sathyendranath, S., Kutser, T., eds. (2020). Colour and Light in the Ocean. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88963-421-7 2018 Heim B., Juhls B., Abramova E. [...] Bracher A., Doerffer R., Goncalves-Araujo R., hellmann S., Kraberg A., Martynov, Overduin P. (2019) Ocean Colour Remote Sensing in the Laptev Sea. In: Barale V., Gade M. (eds) Remote Sensing of the Asian