• Research projects

    sustainMare research mission, is developing concepts for reducing anthropogenic stresses on marine ecosystems and biodiversity. The project brings together 32 experts from 15 institutes, whose goal is to

  • Sea-level rise

    continue to do so, and more quickly. This is chiefly due to anthropogenic climate change. The warmer atmosphere is heating the ocean, causing seawater to expand. In addition, glaciers around the globe [...] cause. What the future looks like will above all depend on anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions. According to the IPCC’s climate projections, if emissions can be cut rapidly, the sea level will still

  • Ocean Acidification

    the 1980s the oceans have absorbed 20 to 30 percent of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions. 7.7 pH value By the year 2100, today’s average pH value in the oceans could drop from 8.1 to ca. 7.7. If that [...] it would take millennia for the oceans to fully recover from anthropogenic changes. As such, the fateful trio of warming, acidification and hypoxia will continue to plague marine ecosystems for many

  • UN Plastics Treaty

    in the oceans. She has published the reference book 'Marine Anthropogenic Litter' and runs the online portal LITTERBASE to make research data on plastic pollution and scientific findings accessible to

  • SOS-iClimate

    deep waters into the surface layer and the downward mixing of anthropogenic CO 2 . Yet, despite the increasing stratification over recent decades, the Southern Ocean continued to take up CO 2 from the

  • New species in the Wadden Sea

    along as stowaways on the oysters’ shells. In addition, anthropogenic climate change and the resultant rising temperatures in the North Sea are making it easier for these newcomers, which often hail

  • Marine Chronobiology

    organisms is still unclear, but important to understand, as anthropogenic activities can unknowingly disrupt critical environmental stimuli that set these rhythms. Microbial influences on developmental

  • Long-term observations in the Arctic Ocean

    tracer distributions in the Fram Strait in 2012 and inferred anthropogenic carbon content and transport, Ocean Science, 12, 319–333; dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-12-319-2016 Metfies, K., W.-J. von Appen

  • Permafrost

    such, it may not be possible to quickly solve the problem that anthropogenic climate change has created, especially when irreversible changes take place in the permafrost regions. In other words, once the

  • Dr. Guido Bonthond

    guido.bonthond@awi.de
    +4942120288611
    , Bremen