the past few decades – due to the reduced sea-ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in summer, to higher water and air temperatures, and to rising sea levels. Less sea ice means e.g. that winds produce larger waves [...] in the Arctic is insulated by water and sea ice, one might assume there was no permafrost there. But guess again: at the bottom of certain shallow coastal seas, the ground is permanently frozen. This type [...] there was so much water frozen in the massive inland ice sheets of Scandinavia and North America that in some places, the sea level was 120 metres lower than today. Where now we see ocean waves, there was

Arctic Seas) COSYNA cabled underwater observatory Helgoland (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) COSYNA is an observing system comprising several land and sea-based sensor systems in the North Sea and in the [...] is the North Sea, were more than 80 % of the coastline is already artificially protected. In 2010, the Centre for Scientific Diving of the AWI has installed an underwater experimental field North of Helgoland [...] the Arctic. The AWI contributes to COSYNA with two cabled underwater observatories in the North Sea (Helgoland) and in the Arctic (Kongsfjord Spitzbergen). Both systems are part of the Helmholtz Observatory

northern foothills extend from the northeast tip of Greenland to Laptev Sea in Siberia. At this point the Eurasian and the North American plate drift apart by a few millimetres every year. Using the research

more plastic particles in the sea than previously assumed. According to the study, there are 27 million tons of tiny plastic particles in the upper water layer of the North Atlantic alone. Plastics can [...] from the Beginning: Dr. Melanie Bergmann Melanie Bergmann has been a researcher in the AWI's Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology Working Group since 2004. She has taken part in over 20 expeditions on international [...] at the AWI-HAUSGARTEN Observatory to investigate the effects of global warming on the Arctic deep sea. Since 2012, she has been focusing on plastic pollution in the oceans. She has published the reference

science and the opportunities for active climate protection in the marine ecosystems of the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The resulting findings on regional conditions serve as a starting point for identified [...] Nature conservation and Ecosystems Climate Change impacts on marine ecosystems in the Baltic and North Sea and insights into the potential carbon uptake of marine ecosystems - a literature study on the state [...] current state of knowledge on the climate change impacts on marine ecosystems in the Baltic and North Sea as well as insights on the potential carbon uptake of marine ecosystems was compiled. For this purpose

Publication: Ecological reef restoration: consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters , January 2025 Award : The RESTORE and PROCEED projects were selected [...] Publication: Setting the stones to restore and monitor European flat oyster reefs in the German North Sea, April 2023 Publication: Potential of calcein staining as growth monitoring marker in Ostrea edulis

on the development and testing of possible ways to reestablish the native oyster in the German North Sea. All restoration measures are implemented under consideration of the IUCN Standards , the International [...] News Publications & Downloads RESTORE Project: Restoration of European oyster stocks in the German North Sea Find out more SKATE Project: Restoration of native skate species in the German Bight – Developing [...] reefs and the ecological impact of a CO2 removal technique on benthic filter feeders Find out more North Sea Office Knowledge transfer: Research and advisory centre on environmental research at the AWI Find

Sell, SEA Pineda-Metz, M Wegner, S Brand, LNS Shama, J Wollschläger, TH Badewien, S Laakmann, & KH Wiltshire. Connectivity and larval drift across Marine Protected Areas in the German Bight, North Sea, Part [...] Connectivity and larval drift across marine protected areas in the German bight, North Sea: Necessity of stepping stones. Journal of Sea Research, 204 , 102563. doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2025.102563 . 2024 [...] oyster ( Ostrea edulis ) in the German North Sea (RESTORE preliminary investigation). BfN-Schriften 684. BfN, Germany. doi.org/10.19217/skr684 . 2023. SEA Pineda‐Metz, B Colsoul, M Niewöhner, T

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, impacts on marine [...] uses is crucial. In AnthroTop, we are using models to predict how different use scenarios in the North Sea might affect the distribution of marine top predators and what this might mean for marine ecosystems [...] Funding: Bundesamt für Naturschutz CRANMAN II Scientific studies on the biology and fisheries of the North Sea shrimp CRANgon crangon as the basis for an efficient self-MANagement system Catch of the brown shrimp

Antarctic. It coordinates German polar research efforts, while also conducting research in the North Sea and adjacent coastal regions in Germany. Combining innovative approaches, outstanding research [...] anthropogenic use. Though the strains on them are especially apparent in coastal regions and shelf seas, where densely settled cities and claims to usage rights are often concentrated, the vast and unpopulated [...] over longer timeframes. They research the atmosphere, ice, oceans and coasts. They explore the deep seas, the glaciers and the permafrost soils of the polar regions first-hand. And they analyse data from