• Volker Rachold

      the German Arctic Office at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Arctic Arctic policy Climate change Anthropogenic climate change is affecting the Arctic to a greater extent and more rapidly than any other region

    • Microbial Ecology

      Another focus is dealing with anthropogenic influences in the marine environment and consequences on the organisms. Two main aspects are studied: measure of anthropogenic markers (e.g. xenobiotica, toxin

    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology

      both as free-living cells or attached to particles, the formation and dynamics of particles in anthropogenic coastal regions as well as industrial applications are another hot topic of our group. Algae-bacteria

    • SOS-iClimate

      vertical mixing of carbon-rich deep waters into the surface layer and the downward mixing of anthropogenic CO 2 . Yet, despite the increasing stratification over recent decades, the Southern Ocean continued

    • UN Climate Change Conference

      climate conference. Learn more. AWI at the COP Twin crisis: Climate change and loss of biodiversity Anthropogenic climate change and the loss of biodiversity are often seen as two separate crises. However, neither

    • Underwater Soundscapes - AWI OZA

      specified activity " (ISO18405, 3.1.1.2). Ambient sound is composed of natural abiotic and biotic and anthropogenic sounds. Natural abiotic ('geophonic') sounds include sound produced by wind, waves and ice movement [...] space and how does it relate to other environmental and ecological factors? How do natural and anthropogenic sounds contribute to the overall acoustic environment of an area? Which role does the character

    • Expeditions

      functioning. The region, still considered as "pristine", is under increasing climate change and anthropogenic pressure. FjordFlux will obtain spatial information on the current environmental state by combining

    • LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN

      Quéric, N.-V., Schewe, I., Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, M., Klages, M. (2016). Natural variability or anthropogenically-induced variation? Insights from 15 years of multidisciplinary observations at the arctic marine

    • peer-review

      Quéric N.-V., Schewe I., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Klages M. (in press) Natural variability or anthropogenically-induced variation? Insights from 15 years of multidisciplinary observations at the arctic open-ocean

    • UN Plastics Treaty

      been focusing on plastic pollution in the oceans. She has published the reference book 'Marine Anthropogenic Litter' and runs the online portal LITTERBASE to make research data on plastic pollution and