• Food web models in politics and management

    Sylt-Rømø Bight, Northern Wadden Sea C.de la Vega, S. Horn, D. Baird, D. Hines, S. Borrett, R. Asmus, H. Asmus 13:30-13:45 Are grey seals exerting a top-down control in the Baltic Sea? D. Costalago 13:45-14:00 [...] Please contact Dr. Ulrike Schückel or Dr. Sabine Horn to sign up for the workshop. Location Wadden Sea Station on Sylt of the Alfred- Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung. Costs [...] Stellenbosch, South Africa) Torsten Berg (MariLim, Germany) Prof. Dr. Stuart Borrett (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) Prof. Dr. Victor de Jonge (University of Hull, The Netherlands) Prof. Dr

  • Projects

    on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea The collaborative project "Anthropogenic impacts on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea" ( APOC ) is funded by the German Federal Ministry [...] carbon sequestration in the North Sea and how this ecosystem service is affected by global climate change and anthropogenic pressures. The sediment budget of the North Sea is strongly influenced by bo [...] sediments of the Baltic Sea, assess their OC accumulation rate and OC storage capacity, parameterise OC sedimentation and remineralisation and extrapolate the rates in the Baltic Sea. Funding Bundesamt für

  • The benefits of models

    most important connections between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic. In the past few years, we’ve seen a major decline in Arctic sea ice in the region. In addition, more warm and salty water is [...] extreme storms and changes in sea ice. Right now, I’m working with a regional climate model for the Arctic. The model consists of several components: the atmosphere, sea ice, ocean and land. Simulations [...] system components. For instance, we’ve recently begun using ice sheet models that provide insights into sea level variations. What fascinates me most are the feedback loops in the Earth system. Models allow

  • CONTRASTS

    causes and consequences of sea ice melt in three contrasting sea-ice regimes as functions of atmospheric and oceanographic conditions: 1) seasonal sea ice, mostly originating from Russian shelf regions and [...] observed sea ice, ocean, and ecosystem changes in the Central Arctic Ocean during melt season. We will investigate the causes and consequences of differences in sea ice melt in three contrasting sea-ice e [...] ice zone 2) first- and second year sea ice from the central Arctic Ocean, drifting along the transpolar drift system, and 3) multi-year ice in the “last ice area” north of Greenland. The overall objective

  • 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,

  • Permafrost Resources

    from the North to the South Pole. The effects of global warming on the most remote regions of our planet is visualized in the Spiegel article "Die große Schmelze": From melting sea ice at the North Pole to [...] Siberia and North America, and from the loss of glaciers on Greenland and in high mountain ranges, to the increase in Antarctic sea ice. Impressive images illustrate the journey from the North to the South [...] degree videos in a gallery The videos are grouped in Youtube playlists: 360 degree videos drone videos North-West Canada 2021 In September 2021, a field campaign took place in the Mackenzie Delta region of the

  • Projects

    (Helmholtz Project, PIs: Yaqing Duan, Sebastian Primpke and Gunnar Gerdts) Microplastics in the North Sea (in-house project; PIs: Claudia Lorenz (DBU stipend), Sebastian Primpke and Gunnar Gerdts) Fram [...] hadal zones in the long-term fate of marine microplastics: Identification of microplastics in the deep sea of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, Northwest Pacific (PIs: Angelika Brandt (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für

  • PRONICARE

    developed within the frame of the project within two different geographical locations (North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea). As part of the consortium, the AWI will work on the development of test methods for

  • Clancy

    Ecosystems , CSLN , University of Skövde , Technische Universität Dresden Funding: EU-Interreg North Sea Region News Would you like to participate in researching the right control strategy against the [...] Funding This project receives funding under the Grant Agreement Number 41-2-51-22 from the Interreg North Sea Programme co-funded by the European Union. [...] their claws. Every year in autumn, hundreds of thousands of adult crabs make their way back to the sea to spawn, where they die exhausted after reproduction. This mass occurrence of crabs has consequences

  • WP4 engl

    Ghent University, where she completed her PhD on the role of macrobenthos in the functioning of North Sea seafloor ecosystems (2011). During a 2-year research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Marine