communities of reefs in the Wadden Sea Diego Filun (2022) , Uni Bremen Spatio-temporal patterns of Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) vocal behaviour in the Weddell Sea Elena Schall (2021) , Uni Oldenburg [...] (Collaboration with Hearing4All) Marie-Luise Schneider (2025), University Oldenburg Soundscape of the North Sea: Acoustic fauna identification using Hydrophones and Baited Remote Underwater Videos Marisa Vivanco [...] humpback whale populations in the eastern Weddell Sea in 2011 and 2012 Ramona Mattmüller (2019), Master Uni Bremen Marine mammal acoustic presence in relation to sea ice concentrations off Tasiilaq, East Greenland

The avian influenza type H5N1 has been spreading in Germany since the end of October. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute are now turning their attention to the Antarctic: on an expedition t

Debusschere, E. (2024): Revised clusters of annotated unknown sounds in the Belgian part of the North sea. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 5, 1384562. DOI: doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2024.1384562 Parcerisas [...] in the Weddell Sea. Endangered Species Research, 30:239-253. DOI: doi.org/10.3354/esr00739 . 2015 Menze S, Zitterbart D , Van Opzeeland IC, Boebel O (2016). The influence of sea ice, wind speed [...] Van Opzeeland, I., Eriksson B.K. (2025): The biological soundscape of temperate reefs in the Wadden sea. Sci Rep 15, 9216. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92955-0 Wöhle, S., Thomisch, K., Burkhardt

Stefanie Arndt, sea ice physicist at the AWI “The polar regions play a very special role at the COP, as this is where we are observing the greatest changes in global climate change as a whole. Sea ice areas [...] for climate modeling, sea ice prediction and the general physics of climate change Find out more To the complete expert database Stefanie Arndt Dr Stefanie Arndt, expert for sea ice physics Find out more [...] of key EU marine targets, including the commitment to legally protect at least 30 per cent of EU seas and reduce the negative impacts of fisheries on sensitive habitats and species. At COP30, Josie Antonucci

Koldunov, D. Sein, and T. Jung, 2022: Assessment of the Finite-VolumE Sea ice–Ocean Model (FESOM2.0) – Part 2: Partial bottom cells, embedded sea ice and vertical mixing library CVMix. Geosci. Model Dev. , 15 [...] e.adq7280 . Wang, Q., S. Danilov, and T. Jung, 2024: Arctic freshwater anomaly transiting to the North Atlantic delayed within a buffer zone. Nature Geosci ., 17 , 1218–1221, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01592-1 [...] Goessling, H.H. Hellmer, D.V. Sein, T. Semmler, D. Sidorenko and T. Jung, 2022: Delayed Antarctic sea-ice decline in high-resolution climate change simulations. Nature Comm. , 13 , 637, doi.org/10

Bioethanol Biodiversity Conservation Life Cycle Assessment Safe Packaging Reference Herbarium So. North Sea [...] Hofmann Dr Inka Bartsch Dr Mar Fernández-Méndez Prof. Dr. Bela Buck Prof. Dr. Astrid Gärdes Biomaterials Sea Key Model for Mariculture Open Ocean Cultivation Offshore Cultivation Kelp Engineering Marine Raw Materials

energy cycle in the ecosystems of the polar regions and of the shelf and coastal regions of the North Sea. Central research themes are (1) reactions of individuals, populations and communities on external [...] Biological Oceanography Sustainable Marine Bioeconomy Integrative Ecophysiology Shelf Sea System Ecology Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology

(one engine) Range Day tours Max. speed 10 knots Operation area around Sylt and North Sea / Helgoland Crew 2 Days on Sea per year (2013) Day tours at stations plans Shipyard Fassmer GmbH & Co. KG, Germany [...] Environmentally friendly research in the Wadden Sea The 21-metre-long Mya II is the newest member of the AWI research fleet and sails for the AWI Sylt in the Wadden Sea between Sylt and Rømø as well as up to the [...] the island of Helgoland in the North Sea. "It may be our smallest research vessel, but it is highly modern and very well equipped for coastal research." Prof. Dr Karin Lochte, Director of the Alfred Wegener

e. phytoplankton, zooplankton, mussels, and viruses). At present, we concentrate mainly on the North Sea, with its diverse habitats focusing especially on how different bacterial groups and populations [...] xenobiotica, toxin genes, and mobile genetic elements) in a coastal gradient from rivers to the open sea and the impact of plastic waste in the marine environment (macro-, micro- and nanoplastics). Research

and involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has discovered an important phenomenon under the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought to be impossible: So-called non-cyanobacteria can also fix nitrogen [...] conditions, which in turn could have an impact on the food web and the carbon budget in the cold north, as the researchers now report in the journal Communications Earth and Environment .