interest in the algae's potential for innovations in the field of the “blue bioeconomy”. The AWI research group led by Dr. Fernández-Méndez is investigating the carbon and nutrient cycles of these mass [...] to the ocean for solutions to solve the climate crisis as quickly and on this scale. Of all the Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal (OceanCDR) strategies, we will particularly investigate the potential of the [...] de/en/ ), we will quantify the potential of Sargassum for CDR in the ocean and investigate the co-benefits of this species, taking into account societal perceptions. Report on the Sea4soCiety-Sargassum-Survey

Welfare The office of the Animal Welfare Officer is part of the enforcement of the legal regulations on animal welfare at institutions where research is carried out on or with vertebrate animals. The Animal [...] on, the working environment or the scientific work. AGG Complaints Office Under the provisions of the General Equal Treatment Act, employees may complain to the competent authority if, in the context of [...] employees on the basis of Section 178 of the German Social Security Code (SGB IX) and provides them with advice and support. It is an elected, voluntary body. The SBV ensures that the employer fulfils the duties

iceberg hit the underwater cable so that the communication to the underwater part of the observatory started to become critical. With the help of the AWIPEV station personal, the REMOS part of the underwater [...] overhaul of the underwater part of the installation, including the replacement of the concrete fundament. The April dive-expedition 2018 to Svalbard was therefore dedicated almost exclusively to the renewal [...] hammered into the sediment. Then, the divers filled the steel frame with additional 72 concrete plates each of it with a weight if 18,4 kg so that the desired final weight of the entire construction of 1.8 tons

g. in the opal skeleton of diatoms). The special thing about this is that the geochemical fingerprint of both substances differs depending on the environmental conditions that prevailed when the diatoms [...] example, the air temperature that prevailed at the time of formation," says AWI climate researcher Dr Hanno Meyer. He heads the ISOLAB Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam, where some of the world's most [...] Temperature data of the last 200,000 years The EPICA DML ice core had a length of 2.892 metres. In order to find out what temperature data is stored in the various ice layers of the core, the scientists took

play the conditions and the base of the ice for the speedy ice streams and did they change their behaviour in the past? Where can we find the oldest ice, with which we can reconstruct the climate of the [...] and ends with the composition of the subsurface below the ice, both of which govern flow behaviour of ice. In the end, we hope to make conclusions about how ice masses will change in the decades to come [...] million years ago? For all of these questions observations on site are essential. This begins with the determination of the ice thickness, continues with the inference of the crystal orientation fabric

. Only a small part of it sticks out of the water, like the tip of an iceberg. By far the largest portion of the rock is submarine. The transitional zone between the island and the submarine is a rocky [...] Schmalenbach is tipping the contents of hundreds of small beakers over the railing of the “Aade” into the sea: hundreds of small lobsters which were raised in the laboratory. The onlook- ers in the unique Helgoland [...] signal of the algae on the rocky intertidal is recorded. Each pixel represents the colour spectrum of visi- ble light up to the infrared range. With the help of the characteristic reflection of the individual

Development (ESD) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German UNESCO Commission. The klimafit core team includes: at AWI: Dr. Renate Treffeisen, Dr. Klaus Grosfeld, at the WWF Germany: [...] Hartmut Heinrich Award The unexpected discovery of Hartmut Heinrich has an enormous influence on the work of the section Paleoclimate Dynamics . Deep-sea sediment cores recovered from the Northeast Atlantic [...] insolation forces meltwater discharge from the ice sheets into the polar seas which subsequently enhances formation of sea ice during the winter. In the second case, growth of continental ice enhances iceberg

representatives of the federal and state environmental authorities on the subject of munitions in the sea and the results of the research projects. His special interest is the transfer of knowledge from [...] Geography at the University of Bremen. Bet- ween 2005 and 2009 he was PhD student at Jacobs University and AWI and thought about the question: How can offshore windfarms be co-used for the cultivation of blue [...] munition in the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak. The aim of his research is to develop methods to detect health effects that organisms may suffer when they come into contact with or are exposed to the toxic compounds

world, including in the Caribbean and the Central and Eastern Pacific. She was the lead scientist on the „Jewels of the Gulf“ expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. In recognition of her scientific achievements [...] ng of the processes that shape marine life, with the goal of maintaining the diversity and productivity of marine ecosystems. Iliana Baums has led more than 30 expeditions to coral reefs around the world [...] status by the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS) in 2024. The Eco Magazine also recognised her as one of the fifteen best coral reef researchers of 2020. In the same year, she received the Faculty Scholars

in the Pacific Southern Ocean since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the Earth system, both for the uptake of anthropogenic carbon and for the exchange of heat [...] inspired the concept of the Arcwatch expeditions. The SNAC-cluster now aims at providing a synoptic view of the changing CAO. The “PaRaThA” project is based on the time-integrated information from the natural [...] sedimentation rate and the spatial distribution of the controlling environmental parameters in order to: to quantify the content of organic carbon (OC) in the sediments of the Baltic Sea, assess their OC a