• Impact of bottom trawling on marine protected areas in the North Sea and Baltic Sea

    using the North Sea and Baltic Sea in sustainable ways What impact will the exclusion of bottom trawling have on marine protected areas in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the North Sea and Baltic [...] Baltic Sea? Two pilot missions in the North Sea and Baltic Sea, which started in March, are examining this key question as part of the research mission “Protection and Sustainable Use of Marine Areas” of

  • Sunken ammunition: danger with long-term effects

    course for Helgoland. The research team of the "North Sea Wrecks" project collected samples around the wreck of the warship SMS MAINZ off the North Sea island. They will be used to investigate the extent [...] Research Project North Sea Wrecks
    Stormy weather and strict hygiene regulations put the science crew to the test. After a delay of almost two days due to weather conditions and several days of scheduled

  • PETA-CARB in the Media

    yedoma erosion study: "Speedily eroding North Slope river bluff offers window into ice age past" 2015-11-07 On Arctic Dispatch News there is another article about a North Slope tundra fire, a study Guido c [...] PNN reports on the 15th ICRSS conference in Potsdam which is organized by Guido Grosse: Thaw at the North Pole (in German only) 2018-09-06 Ingmar, Guido and other colleagues are authors of a guest post "How [...] co-author a joint-paper in Global Change Biology on the expansion of beaver habitat into the tundra in north-western Alaska . This paper was captured by several media including local to national newspapers,

  • Results

    study sites (Alaska North Slope, Western Alaska, Central Yakutia, Kolyma Lowland) in the northern permafrost zone from 1999 to 2014. Regional patterns of lake area change on the Alaska North Slope (−0.69%) [...] two thermokarst-affected yedoma landscapes – on Sobo-Sise Island and on Bykovsky Peninsula in the north of eastern Siberia. Soil cores up to 3 m depth were collected along geomorphic gradients and analysed [...] permafrost region. Link to journal Yedoma Ice Complex of the Buor Khaya Peninsula (southern Laptev Sea) Minimum, mean (red), and maximum ground temperatures based on almost 3 years continuous measurements

  • CO2-neutral on the North Sea

    Keel Laying for New Research Ship
    The Alfred Wegener Institute is setting new standards for sustainability in German maritime shipping. On 8 June 2021 the keel for the successor to the research cut

  • Heat from Below: How the Ocean is Wearing Down the Arctic Sea Ice

    water masses from the North Atlantic into the European marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in the marked decrease in sea-ice growth, especially in winter. Sea-ice physicists from the [...] growth in the Barents and Kara Seas for years. Furthermore, they demonstrate that the invasion of warm Atlantic water masses further east, at the northern edge of the Laptev Sea, can have such a long-term [...] thickness that the effects are evident a year later, when the ice has drifted towards Greenland via the North Pole and leaves the Arctic through Fram Strait. This study also includes data from the MOSAiC expedition

  • The North Sea in Miniature

    Wadden Sea Station Sylt
    The AWI’s new experimental facility on Sylt makes it possible to simulate the effects of climate change on coastal ecosystems.

  • The importance of mud

    North Sea
    How does the North Sea bind, cycle and store carbon dioxide (CO2) in form of particulate organic matter on the seafloor, and how are human activities and climate change affecting this ecosystem

  • Theses

    and environmental variability inferred from terrigenous sediment records in China and the North Pacific/Bering Sea. Universität Potsdam and Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meere

  • Passive Acoustic Monitoring - AWI OZA

    between both methods. 2016 - 2019 North Sea Pilot Pilot study in collaboration with BioConsult Holstein. Deployment of an IcLIsten Recorder in the German North Sea, southwest of the Doggerbank from October [...] System) A HAFOS deep-sea mooring consists of a long rope, up to several thousand meters, extending from the sea floor, where it is attached to an anchor weight, to some 200m below the sea surface, where it [...] to deep-sea mooring of the oceanographic Hybrid Antarctic Float Observatory (HAFOS) and the Frontiers in Arctic Marine Science (FRAM) observatory, which are distributed across the Weddell Sea and Fram