Ocean Acoustics
Due to construction work in the sea, shipping, and gas and oil extraction, the oceans are becoming increasingly louder. A comprehensive international study has now shown that this n

Anthropogenic impacts on particulate organic carbon cycling in the North Sea [Translate to English:] Automatisierte in-situ Messung durch ein benthisches Absatzgestell. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) [...] investigate the transport and accumulation of particulate organic carbon within the North Sea and how anthropogenic activities might alter the potential for carbon sequestration in marine sediments. Sediments deposited [...] ability to predict sedimentation processes is limited especially in the North Sea. Additionally, anthropogenic activities, such as bottom trawling, can alter POC sedimentation, releasing the deposited carbon

Global Carbon Budget - Ocean Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere – the “global carbon budget” [...] land sink have approximately balanced. The oceans are therefore the most important net sink for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. The ocean in the Global Carbon Budget Less than half of all CO 2 emissions remain [...] land sink have approximately balanced. The oceans are therefore the most important net sink for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. Each year, we collect estimates of the ocean carbon sink from global ocean bi

Resilience and vulnerability of the central Arctic Ocean food web to cumulative stress by warming and anthropogenic pollution. Head of Group Dr. Doreen Kohlbach Further members of the Junior Research Group Master [...] retreat, increasing influx of Atlantic waters, riverine input and marine traffic will bring more anthropogenic pollutants, even to remote Arctic regions, where they are entrained in water and sea ice, and [...] absent. In this context, Double-Trouble aims at i) assessing trophic structures and the degree of anthropogenic pollution under current environmental conditions and ii) simulating cumulative effects of warming

Our mission is to characterize the implications of anthropogenic underwater noise on marine invertebrates and ecosystems The increase of anthropogenic underwater noise (AUN) has altered marine acoustic

research project APOC, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, has investigated how climate change and anthropogenic activities and pressure impact the carbon cycle in the North Sea. The final event took place in

today we will provide some information on the work of our colleagues here on board assessing anthropogenic impacts on the marine ecosystem on our way from Bremerhaven to Fram Strait (and back) and at

surface has risen noticeably over the past decades. This warming is to a large extent due to the anthropogenic emissions of CO2 that amplify the natural greenhouse effect. Observations show, however, that

atmosphere. Without this sink, the concentration of CO 2 in our atmosphere and the extent of anthropogenic climate change would be considerably higher.

year’s Global Carbon Budget was released. For the purpose of the budget, researchers estimate the anthropogenic carbon budget for the planet as a whole; this includes the sources (emissions), the carbon sinks