future) with interests in ocean dynamics (currents, waves, fronts and eddies), air-sea interactions, water masses and meridional ocean circulation, ocean telecommunication, ocean and atmospheric modelling [...] Introduction Ocean and shelf seas are pivotal to the future of humankind. Currently the oceans provide roughly 20 % of the protein consumed by humans. Emerging countries, with a huge need for ocean resources [...] Production; Phytoplankton Functional Types; Ocean Optics; Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Ocean; Satellite Validation; Atmospheric Trace Gases Oceanic Emissions. She is the leader of the Helmholtz

(ASSW) and other international Arctic conferences. As an observer on the Arctic Council, the most important forum on the Arctic, he worked with decision-makers from Arctic countries, and with representatives [...] the Arctic. He served on the planning committee for the International Polar Year 2007/2008 and numerous other committees involved in Arctic research. His duties included organising the annual Arctic Science [...] indigenous peoples in the Arctic. Since 2017, Volker Rachold has headed the German Arctic Office at the AWI and has advised federal ministries on matters concerning the Arctic. In 2018, his office was

category of mid-ocean ridges, accounting for about 15% of the total length of mid-ocean ridges worldwide. Since ultraslow ridges are located in the Arctic Ocean and the stormy Southwest Indian Ocean and are therefore [...] Ultraslow spreading mid-ocean ridges At mid-ocean ridges, the lithospheric plates move apart at rates of about 5-150 mm/year and new oceanic lithosphere is continuously formed. At low spreading rates of [...] making its way to the ocean floor through a cold, thick lithosphere. Therefore, the formation process of new ocean lithosphere differs at ultraslow spreading ridges from all other ocean basins. Ultraslow ridges

UN Ocean Conference 2025 The UN Ocean Conference (UNOC 2025) will take place from June 9 to June 13, 2025, in Nice, France. As the third edition of the United Nations Ocean Conference, it will be jointly [...] UNOC German Komitee of the UN Ocean Decade Antarctica InSync AWI @ UNOC 2025 Women of Arctic Science AWI photographer Esther Horvath will give a lecture on “Women of Arctic Science” at the UNOC on June [...] to accelerate and mobilize efforts to protect and sustainably manage the oceans, seas, and marine resources. It will gather ocean experts from political, scientific, civil society, and business sectors

important the ocean is for us: “The global ocean is the life insurance of our planet. It has greatly slowed down global surface warming. However, this service comes at a high cost: The ocean is acidifying [...] and climate change are putting pressure on natural sinks on land and in the oceans. For example, in the past decade, the oceans have absorbed 10.5 metric gigatons per year on average, or 26 percent of overall [...] conditions have reduced the oceans’ capacity to absorb CO2 by roughly 6 percent,” says Prof Judith Hauck, an environmental researcher at the AWI, who coordinated the content on the ocean sinks. An important

Since the early 20th century hydrographic measurements have been carried out in the Arctic Ocean. Although today the Arctic is a hotspot of climate change, data sampling is still sparse due to the large sea [...] climate studies in the Arctic Ocean. Many of the collected data are publicly available, but scattered across different electronic archives. Consequently, scientists working on Arctic climate change have to [...] awi.de The „Unified Database for Arctic and Subarctic Hydrography“ (UDASH) is an attempt to gather all publicly available temperature and salinity data for the Arctic Ocean and to provide them on a high quality

networks Systems are fully compatible for integration to HCMR POSEIDON System and to international ocean observing networks (e.g. GOOS) Expanding network’s potential by incorporating Marine Radioactivity [...] 12/10/2023 TNA Projecr RadConnect COSYNA - GeoMAREA • COSYNA (Coastal Observation System for Northern and Arctic Seas) is an operational coastal monitoring, forecasting and information system for the North Sea

has therefore been developed … Find out more The pulse of the Arctic The ‘Arctic PASSION’ project provides environmental data from the Arctic for the local population, for science and for local politics [...] Using Knowledge to Combat Plastic Litter Plastic has reached even the most remote corners of the ocean. The AWI is not only investigating the scale and impacts of the problem; it's also contributing the [...] politics Find out more Putting permafrost in the classroom The Arctic’s frozen soils are thawing – with consequences for climate and humans. Together with partner schools in Germany, schoolchildren from Aklavik

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investigating the impact of altered ocean circulation and ocean warming on glacial calving on the coast of Greenland and on the ocean-sea ice system in the Arctic Ocean. In the past six years he has led [...] regions of the world’s oceans. He began his career by investigating deep-ocean currents in the tropical Atlantic, and completed his doctorate at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel [...] led five major research expeditions along the east coast of Greenland and in the Arctic Ocean, including the third leg of the international MOSAiC expedition on the research icebreaker Polarstern in 2020