How alarming are the ammunition remnants of two world wars still lying in old wrecks at the bottom of the North Sea and other seas? The EU-funded international project "North Sea Wrecks" investigated these questions, diving to wrecks in the North Sea, taking samples and analysing them. In a symposium on 19 and 20 April 2023 at the Alfred Wegener Institute, the project partners now presented the results. For more information, see this press release from the German Maritime Museum (DSM), which led the project.

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

Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more Uthörn II – North Sea Wrecks 16. May 2022 – 20. May 2022, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more Uthörn I – North Sea Wrecks 28. June 2021. – 02. July 2021, Bremerhaven [...] Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more HE584 – North Sea Wrecks II 17. – 22. September 2021, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven Find out more HE573 – North Sea Wrecks I 06 – 11. April 2021, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven [...] RV Heincke Sediment sampling Side Scan SMS Mainz HE573 – North Sea Wrecks I 06 – 11. April 2021, Bremerhaven – Bremerhaven The North Sea Wrecks project aims to develop and implement a common approach for

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

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Researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, together with the Bremerhaven Zoo have developed a special exhibition on the reintroduction of the European oyster (Ostrea edulis) into the North Sea. On display are living European oysters in an aquarium, a detailed model of an oyster reef and its inhabitants as well as background information on the ecological importance of the species in the exhibition.

Wadden Sea National Park the participating researchers will use e.g. empirical and model-assisted analyses to discover how minute plastic particles (microplastics) make their way from land to sea, which [...] Microplastics
Around the globe, the pollution of rivers, lakes and seas with plastic litter is on the rise. A new project jointly coordinated by the University of Bayreuth and the Alfred Wegener Institute

Oldenburg and Potsdam, Germany have confirmed the existence of a new cryptic amphipod species in the North Sea. For the first time for the description of a new species, they used a level of mitogenomic information

Today the German Norwegian Ocean Forum take place in Bremen. It is jointly organized by the Norwegian Embassy, Innovation Norway and the AWI. AWI director Antje Boetius guides through the program.

the globe are sounding the alarm: ocean temperatures are the warmest ever recorded. In 2023, the North Sea also experienced dramatic record highs, as readings taken by the Alfred Wegener Institute’s Biological