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  • Stable Isotope Facility

    water (usually in the form of ice) or silicon dioxide (e.g. in the opal skeleton of diatoms). The special thing about this is that the geochemical fingerprint [...] Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam, where some of the world's most important temperature reconstructions of climate history have been carried out: for [...] Stable Isotope Facility at the AWI Potsdam is one of only eight scientific centres of its kind in the world. A scanning electon microscopy image of purified diatom

  • Proxy Development

    all of us. Human activities are altering the composition of the atmosphere, and understanding how this connects to the changes we observe – and where it might lead – is one of the most pressing questions of our time. Earth's climate has shifted before, under conditions not unlike those emerging today. If we [...] temperature at a moment in the past. Another example is the isotopic composition of boron, which reflects the pH of ancient seawater – a measure of ocean acidity

  • Members

    . Microscopy, growth assessments, chemical analytics of seawater as well as the determinaion of organic carbon and nitrogen content are also part of the spectrum of my tasks in the group, [...] - On Svalbard, the atmosphere is warming ten times faster than the global average. The influx of warm Atlantic water and the rapid melting of glaciers [...] first introduced to the world of phytoplankton. I completed my master's degree at Université Laval in Quebec City, where I studied the extreme adaptations

  • Facility Bhv

    values in ice and water samples from the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as the δ 13 C values of dissolved inorganic carbon in the water of the polar oceans. In addition, our [...] quality (Fig. 6). Fig 6: δ 18 O analysis data of the house standards Ocean and DML as well as data of the control standard IA-RO63. It can be seen that the SD of the DML house standard [...] addition, the δ 15 N values of the organic matter also provide information on the efficiency of the biological pump if terrigenous input can be

  • Projects

    of anthropogenic lead (Pb) to Antarctic waters and the Pb-inventory of the Southern Ocean water column In November 2023, a ten-week [...] dynamics in the Southern Ocean, where deep, carbon-rich layers of the world ocean outcrop and exchange carbon with the atmosphere ( MacGilchrist et [...] two ice cores from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in the southern Weddell Sea, the lower parts of which consist of an approximately 60 or 165 m long sequence

  • Projects

    how climate change information is delivered, helping address the complex challenges of a warming world. As part of the EU’s Destination Earth initiative, the Climate DT produces multi-decadal, [...] to faithfully represent the centennial-scale evolution of the global climate, especially its variability, extremes and how tipping points may unfold under the [...] More information about this project Earth Generator EarthGenerator will develop a next-generation Foundation Model of the Earth system that extends the

  • Permafrost

    regions of the Arctic, there are areas in which 70 percent or more of the ground is made of ice – which means thawing has correspondingly dramatic [...] Given its smaller overall land mass, there is less permafrost in the Southern Hemisphere. Although the Antarctic offers the constant low temperatures needed, the amount of land where the soil could permanently freeze is limited; much of it is covered in ice, which insulates the ground from the cold air, often preventing the formation of permafrost. Facts and Figures

  • Seal research in Antarctica

    ) represents ~10% of the world’s oceans but hosts about 50% of the world’s stocks of seals. These large, abundant predators serve as powerful indicators of ecosystems and climate-driven change. The region of the Filchner Outflow System in the southern Weddell Sea is considered “hot spot” [...] and hydrographic features, we aim to comprehensively investigate the Filchner Outflow System (FOS). Here the outflow of ice shelf water of the Filchner Ronne Ice Shelf interacts with warm deep water of

  • List of Publications

    Olanrewaju, O. S. , & Buck, B. H. ( 2026 ). Simulation modeling of the Adjustable Buoyancy Device for open ocean low trophic aquaculture, part I: Test of a submersible long tube unit. Journal of the [...] the Avilés Canyon (southern Bay of Biscay). Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/jfb.70292 Neufeldt, H., Windt, C., Buck, B. H., Heasman [...] 2014. London, UK. Buck, B. H. (2014). Aquaculture perspective of multi-use sites in the open ocean: Evaluating the potential of IMTA. In Seminar at the University of Maine. Orono - Maine (USA). Buck

  • Data Assimilation Publications

    Massmann, S., Janssen, F. (2012). Assimilating NOAA SST data into the BSH operational circulation model for the North and Baltic Seas: Inference about the data. Journal of Marine Systems , 105-108, pp. [...] Kivman, G., Hiller, W., Schröter, J.(2007). Data assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter and the SEIK filter applied to a finite element model of the North Atlantic, Journal of Marine Systems , 65, [...] Proceedings of the 11th ECMWF Workshop / Eds. W. Zwieflhofer, G. Mozdzynski. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 63-83. doi:10.1142/9789812701831_0006