are also involved in basic research and data provision on marine conservation issues, including North Sea research, Antarctic research (CCAMLR), the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity [...] on the basis of integrated communication processes, and convert them into targeted products. The North Sea Office, the Climate Office or the Arctic Office play an important role in this. In return, research [...] Oslo-Paris Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic 4 HE LCOM - Helsinki Commission Baltic Sea Action Plan 5 SCAR - Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

Helgoland
In the 18th Coastal Summer School 16 young scientists from nine nations visiting the North Sea island Helgoland for eleven days. The aim of the project is to deepen their knowledge of coastal

ice-covered Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard, which they call their HAUSGARTEN. The deep-sea observatory is the first, and still the only one of its kind for year-round physical, chemical and

dynamo.html _blank>Click here for further information January 2019 2019 is a big year for the North Sea Benthos time series. The time series, which was initiated by Eike Rachor in 1969 turns 50 this year

between the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice, as well as on the ecosystem. Thanks to the collaboration between international experts, the one-year-long ice drift past the North Pole will take climate research

Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks FESOM Finite-Element/Volume Sea Ice Ocean Model FESOM-RecoM Finite Element/Volume Sea Ice Ocean Model – Regulated Ecosystem Model FIS Forschungsinfrastrukturen [...] Coordination Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the North-Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas ICGEM International Center for Global Earth Models ICON Icosahedral N [...] program encom- passing twelve collaborative projects in coastal and shelf research in the North and Baltic Sea, BMBF-funded LandscapeDNDC Biogeochemistry and ecosystem dynamics model LandTrans AGRI Modular

France Haliotis (FR) Sea-based Rhodes Univ. (ZA) & Wild Coast Abalone (ZA) Biofloc UFSC (BR) & Trevisan (BR) NEW ECHINODERM SPECIES Sea urchin NOFIMA(NO)& Wild Coast Abalone (ZA) Sea cucumber AWI (DE) & [...] organisms low on the food chain as sea urchins or mussels. The five chosen value chains include macroalgae, Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA), echinoderm species (e.g. sea cucumbers), shellfish and finfish [...] the Potential of Sustainable Aquaculture in the Atlantic Ocean 36 participants from Europe, Brazil, North America and South Africa 11 innovative case studies 4 years June 2019 - May 2023 +50 members in the

Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA): land-based and sea-based, new species and systems 3. New echinoderm species: sea urchins and sea cucumbers 4. Existing shellfish species: oysters and mussels [...] million euros in funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme 36 participants from Europe, Brazil, North America and South Africa 16 Countries 20 + members in the Industry Reference Group (IRG) 5 selected

Wadden Sea National Park the participating researchers will use e.g. empirical and model-assisted analyses to discover how minute plastic particles (microplastics) make their way from land to sea, which [...] Microplastics
Around the globe, the pollution of rivers, lakes and seas with plastic litter is on the rise. A new project jointly coordinated by the University of Bayreuth and the Alfred Wegener Institute

for atmospheric research and geophysics purposes, the airplane has landed on the Arctic sea ice near the North Pole, and at the South Pole.