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    • Prof. Dr. Laurie Carol Hofmann

      laurie.c.hofmann@awi.de
      +49(471)4831-2739
      Bussestraße 27, 27570 Bremerhaven

    • Prof. Dr. Jelle Bijma

      Jelle.Bijma@awi.de
      +49(471)4831-1831
      Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

    • Dr. Clara Hoppe

      Clara.Hoppe@awi.de
      +49(471)4831-2096
      Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

    • Arctic Ocean: Greater Future acidification in summer

      Over the past 200 years, our planet’s oceans have absorbed more than a quarter of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. As a result, their acidity has increased by nearly 30 percent their [...] recently demonstrated. If this comes to pass, it could have far-reaching consequences for life in the ocean, as they report in the journal Nature.

    • One-two punch against corals: how stress factors interact

      Ocean acidification
      A new study in the prestigious journal Science Advances shows that stress from rising water temperatures reduces ability of corals to adapt to ocean acidification.

    • Climate refugee Cod

      of the Paris Climate Agreement is not achieved. Under conditions of further warming and acidification of the ocean, Atlantic cod and its arctic relative polar cod would be forced to look for new habitats

    • Ocean acidification stimulates mass development of toxic algae

      New Study
      If carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and thereby in the ocean continue to rise, this could favour the mass development of toxic algae, with far-reaching consequences for the

    • Across the Weddell Sea

      vulnerable to ocean acidification. The increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to an increased absorption of CO2 in the cold waters of the polar oceans and enhances the acidification there

    • A strong case for limiting climate change

      Ocean Acidification
      In November 2017, the German research network on ocean acidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) reaches its conclusion after eight years of extensive in [...] from 20 German institutions clearly indicate that ocean acidification and warming, along with other environmental stressors, impair life in the ocean and compromise important ecosystem services it provides

    • Tropical coral reefs lose two thirds of their zooplankton through ocean acidification

      Climate change
      Tropical coral reefs lose up to two thirds of their zooplankton through ocean acidification. This is the conclusion reached by a German-Australian research team that examined two reefs [...] the seabed, lowering the water's acidity to a level, which scientists predict for the future of the oceans. The researchers believe that the decline in zooplankton is due to the loss of suitable hiding places [...] places. It results from the changes in the coral reef community due to increasing acidification. Instead of densely branched branching corals, robust mounding species of hard coral grow, offering the z