are currently changing more rapidly than at almost any time in Earth’s history. This is due to anthropogenic factors, which on the one hand have individual effects, but which are also mutually reinforcing

Bremerhaven, as a container building placed on a platform some meters above the snow. Concerning anthropogenic pollutants, the Antarctic atmosphere is "ultra clean". Thus local pollution by vehicles and the

cellular processes and to gain a better understanding of the adaptability of marine animals to (anthropogenic) environmental influences. One of our priority questions is how environmental parameters (temperature

motivation is to identify the nature of the associated aerosol sources (biogenic, geochemical, or anthropogenic) as well as source regions, and to elucidate to what extend the atmospheric signal is authentically

strong influence of humans on the natural conditions. To understand the climate system prior to anthropogenic influence, we have to follow another path and employ methods of paleoclimatology. Proxies provide

Group Marine Carbon and Ecosystem Feedbacks in the Earth System (MarESys). Global Carbon Budget Anthropogenic carbon distribution Southern Ocean Every year, we human beings emit large quantities of carbon

acoustic environment and marine mammal ecology? How can we best minimize potential impacts of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals? Our focus: We explore the distribution and behavior of whales and seals

OMAP Oysters and mussels under anthropogenic pressure: Does microplastic limit the tolerance to climate change of ecologically and economically important bivalves? OMAP is funded within the “AWI Strategy

the glomeruli (GL). (Photo: Ulf Bickmeyer) To elicit any effect on living systems, natural and anthropogenic compounds target the smallest unit of the biota, the single cell. Small molecules may act as signaling [...] fluorescent cellular compounds. The aim of this research is to define cellular targets of natural and anthropogenic small molecules. Chemical analysis of secondary metabolites Secondary metabolites are those chemical

production ( Völker and Ye, 2022 ). Contact Dr. Christoph Völker Dr. Ying Ye Uptake and cycling of anthropogenic carbon in the ocean We simulate the changing ocean carbon uptake in response to humans’ perturbation [...] ocean carbon cycle into the AWI-Earth System Model, and simulate the historical and future ocean anthropogenic carbon uptake under low and high emission scenarios. A focus of the group is on deep and bottom