Approaches Towards population Enhancement Find out more OMAP Project: Oysters and mussels under anthropogenic pressure Find out more CLIMAREST Project: Innovative solutions for marine restoration. Find out [...] environmental research at the AWI Find out more CREATE Project: Concepts for reducing the impact of anthropogenic pressures Find out more

impacts and to better understand the structure and function of an ecosystem. Research AnthroTOP Anthropogenic uses in the North Sea: Impacts on marine top predators Human activities have various, mostly negative [...] when the ecosystem stress limit will be reached. Thus, understanding the cumulative effects of anthropogenic uses and estimates of the consequences of further expansions of uses is crucial. In AnthroTop [...] length determined. Over the years, we will be able to make statements about climate-related or anthropogenic changes, such as the direct and indirect influence of fishing in the Wadden Sea on the use of

fulfil a key role in the control of global environmental processes; they are also subject to anthropogenic use. Though the strains on them are especially apparent in coastal regions and shelf seas, where

global climate and are among the fastest warming regions worldwide. It is unclear to what extent anthropogenic environmental changes will impact the structure and functioning of the polar marine ecosystem

Thermosalinography, xBTs) and handle the associated data. Causes of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change will be discussed in the context of international climate negotiations, as well

challenge for the scientific divers was the support of an archaeological project dealing with anthropogenic traces underwater carried out by the Netherlands Arctic Institute in cooperation with AWIPEV.

viruses through to plankton and fish. Ultimately, we aim to understand and predict the effects on anthropogenic pressure on our shelf sea communities. Section Head Cédric Meunier (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

cellular processes and to gain a better understanding of the adaptability of marine animals to (anthropogenic) environmental influences. One of our priority questions is how environmental parameters (temperature

coordintion) Dr. Bo Liu Dr. Male Köster APOC: Anthropogenic impacts on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea The collaborative project "Anthropogenic impacts on particulate organic carbon cycling [...] position, is the quantification of the input behavior of anthropogenic lead in the working area. In addition, we aim to explore how lead of anthropogenic origin enters Antarctic waters, where it mixes with [...] at landscape scale fixation, storage, stabilization, and export of carbon, their natural and anthropogenic drivers and the timescales on which they operate. Our results will be used to develop new pathways

will be developed on a latitudinal gradient representative of different coastal ecosystems and anthropogenic and climate change pressures across Europe allowing for generalization of our results. These