filmed thousands of nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis ionah on the seabed. The density of the nests and the size of the entire breeding area suggest a total number of about 60 million icefish [...] breeding at the time of observation. These findings provide support for the establishment of a Marine Protected Area in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. A team led by Autun Purser from the Alfred [...] Fascinating discovery
Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research team has found the world's largest fish breeding area known to date. A towed camera system ph

UN Decade of Ocean Science Spotlight on the Ocean It’s a world full of riddles: though the ocean shapes the face of our ‘blue planet’, covering 70 percent of its surface, we still know far too little about [...] safety. In the context of the Decade, all of this knowhow is to be made available worldwide. And last but not least, the goal is to raise awareness for the economic, social and cultural value of the ocean; [...] network that investigates open research questions and develops solutions for the preservation and sustainable use of the ocean. Its motto: “The science we need for the ocean we want”. After all, intact ocean

subtropical ocean is expanding the tropics The observed anomaly of sea surface temperature during the last 5 years of the satellite age (2015-2019) in relation to the first 5 years of the satellite age (1982-1986) [...] [11 July 2018] The melting of glaciers on one side of the globe can trigger disintegration of glaciers on the other side of the globe, as has been presented in a recent paper by a team of AWI scientists [...] . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). doi: 10.1073/pnas.1714754115 . 2017 New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic Scientists

acoustic recording unit like the ones used by the PAM recorders in HAFOS. This takes advantage of the recorder now sitting just under the icy surface of the ice shelf, accessible by the Neumayer overwintering [...] Strait, respectively. See the maps to the right for of the recording sites occupied so far. Please note that not all sites are equipped with recorders at all time. Maps of the Arctic and Antarctic with [...] Tracking of Antarctic marine mammals) The aim of the PASATA project was to use time-synchronized passive acoustic recorders to localize vocalizing marine mammals in the Atka Bay area. Alongside the passive

buried peat layer at Swanson river at a depth of 80 cm. Future analyses in the laboratory will show the age and potentially the reason for the formation and burial of this peat layer. Claire and Miriam were [...] Kenai and the Division of Natural Resources of Alaska for two additional field sites on the Kenai river mouth and at the Swanson river mouth (approx. 30 km North of Kenai). With these two additional transects [...] cover the fresh- to saltwater transition in the soil and vege- tation, since the transects from last week did not show any large gradient in a first analysis of the soil water. As a result, the new field

and paleo-current models of the continental rise and shelf of the Pacific margin of West Antarctica The results call for an urgent case of scientific drilling, in particular in the Amundsen Sea Embayment [...] reconstruction of the dynamic history of Antarctic Ice Sheet expansion and retreat since the onset of Southern Hemisphere glaciation improves our understanding of ice sheet growth and melting processes and [...] that exceed those of any other Antarctic outlet glacier outside the Antarctic Peninsula. The incursion of warm Circum-Polar Deep-Water into the deeply incised glacial troughs of the shelves has been recognized

little about the life of the world’s second-largest whale. That makes the findings of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Johann [...] Antarctic Peninsula
During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in the Southern Hemisphere survived, and even today, marine [...] where in the peak month of May, so many fin whale vocalizations can be heard that the individual calls merge into a veritable chorous of sound, as the research team now reports in the journal Royal Society

focusing on the work of 10 AWI researchers including Frank . 2016-03-04 In an article in the New Scientist about the vanishing of large lakes Guido is one of the interview partners. 2016-02-08 On the radio (98 [...] University of Hamburg on the subject of " How dangerous is the thawing of the permafrost? " 2015-05-06 Science journalist Gerald Dietz from Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung reports on the latest results of AWI [...] soils and the release of greenhouse gases. 2015-04-10 On the occasion of the journey of the Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka to AWIPEV station on Spitsbergen for getting an overview of climate change

representatives of the federal and state environmental authorities on the subject of munitions in the sea and the results of the research projects. His special interest is the transfer of knowledge from [...] Geography at the University of Bremen. Bet- ween 2005 and 2009 he was PhD student at Jacobs University and AWI and thought about the question: How can offshore windfarms be co-used for the cultivation of blue [...] munition in the Baltic Sea and the Skagerrak. The aim of his research is to develop methods to detect health effects that organisms may suffer when they come into contact with or are exposed to the toxic compounds

often described as the planet’s ‘green lungs’ because they produce tremendous amounts of oxygen. However, an even greater volume of the oxygen we breathe originates in the ocean. The algal communities living [...] Plankton: The foundation of life in the sea Biologist Prof. Dr Helmut Hillebrand, Professor at the University of Oldenburg and Director at HIFMB Oldenburg. HIFMB Biodiversity Ecological stability Ecosystem [...] there produce at least half of the gas that is vital for breathing and as such essential for human life. But climate change is altering the algal world in our seas: as a result of increasing water temperatures