Sentences with phrase «for ocean research»

Mojib Latif is a Professor of Climate Physics at Kiel University and Head of the Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics Division of the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany.

This is the question that scientists, under the auspices of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, pursued.

Meanwhile, Climate Central has an update from the Arctic expedition by Christian Berndt of the GEOMAR / Helmholz Center for Ocean Research:

Researchers at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have now studied with computer simulations the long - term global consequences of several «Climate Engineering» methods.

Christian Berndt, of the GEOMAR / Helmholz Centre for Ocean Research, has speculated that both phenomena could be going on at once, but he admits, «We have no proof.»

«It is not unlikely that an open - ocean dead zone will hit the islands at some point,» Johannes Karstensen, a researcher from the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany and the study's lead author, said in a statement.

Relationship between decadal variations in temperatures in the Pacific and the tropopause identified From the HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL (GEOMAR) Water plays a major role for our planet not only in its liquid form at the surface.

David Keller and colleagues from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany and colleagues report in Nature Communications that they used an earth system model to simulate five very different strategies to reduce the rate of global warming and keep the climate from dramatic change.

This process is known as ocean acidification, and it can have serious implications for marine life, says Sabine Mathesius from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel in Germany.

Mojib Latif — Head of the Research Division: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has commented publicly on the research.

In order to find out if these plumes are the result of that recent warming or are simply a feature of the area, a team of researchers led by Christian Berndt of Germany's GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel used a submersible to get a look at the seafloor where the methane is bubbling up.

His first expedition was in 1988 as a medic and photojournalist for the Ocean Research Center of the Arctic Project.

At 76 years old, Ms. Earle is still the chief steward of ocean conservation and founded three companies that design and build deep - sea submarines for ocean research.

In the international journal Nature, oceanographers of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have now published the most.

He is co-chair of the PAGES Scientific Steering Committee and serves on the Board of Advisors at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany, and MARUM at the University of Bremen, Germany.

The project has been coordinated by Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and Prof. Hans - Otto Pörtner, marine ecophysiologist at Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II.

Lithothamnion glaciale, a purple - pink coralline alga hosting a large biodiversity including larval stages of economically important fish, might loose its ability to withstand predation and erosion, according to a team of scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the universities of Bristol, Portsmouth and Western Australia.

Institutions involved: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Germany Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin (IGB), Germany Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany Bigelow Laboratory, Maine, USA European Centre for Research and Education in Environmental Geosciences (CEREGE), Paris, France University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

In an experiment led by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the researchers observed a close coupling between biological processes in the seawater and the chemistry of the sea surface microlayer.

Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) conducted a one year CO2 selection experiment using the calcifying microalgae Emiliania huxleyi and uncovered an enormous potential for adaptation to rapidly changing environments in this important phytoplankton species.

«Earlier experiments focused on highly productive nutrient - rich coastal areas», says Ulf Riebesell, Professor of Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

Because everyone in this global community will be affected by climate change, it will be for our own benefit if we manage to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in such a way that global warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius», says Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of BIOACID.

This is the conclusion drawn by Prof. Ulf Riebesell from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Dr. Jean - Pierre Gattuso from the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

The work was carried out in the framework of the German project on ocean acidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification), and lead by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

In an experiment with organisms from the Kiel Fjord, a team of biologists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel demonstrated for the first time, that ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition of copepods in the natural plankton community.

In a laboratory experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel showed that younger animals already eat less and grow more slowly at only slightly elevated carbon dioxide concentrations.

Using cutting edge technologies experts of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel together with colleagues from the UK, Canada and the United States were able to reconstruct pH values of the Northern Pacific with a high resolution since the end of the 19th century.

An international research group led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has now found evidence for potentially harmful effects the increasing acidification of the oceans may have on larvae of commercially important fish species such as cod.

BIOACID is coordinated by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

«Mostly in these kelp - dominated habitats you have huge fluctuations,» GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel scientist Jan Fietzke, who was involved with the research, said.

Martin Visbeck holds the physical oceanography chair at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University, Germany.

The exhibition is a contribution to the Science Year 2016 * 17 — Seas and Oceans and is presented at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, east shore campus, until 21 October.

Understanding the potential consequences of rising ocean carbon levels and related ocean changes for marine life and ecosystems is a high priority for the ocean research community and marine resource management.

Links: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany Institute of Physiology, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences, Kristineberg, Sweden Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, has a vacancy for a Post-doctoral Researcher in Metabolomics in the Research Unit Marine Natural Product Chemistry / GEOMAR Centre for Marine Biotechnology.

A film from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, has a vacancy for an Analytical marine natural product chemist in the research unit Marine Natural Products Chemistry / GEOMAR / Centre for Marine Biotechnology within the research division Marine Ecology.

Scientists from the universities of Gothenburg (GU) and Kiel (CAU), as well as GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) found that ocean acidification leads to reduced rates of digestion in larvae of the ecologically important green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.

But the exchange at the annual meeting 2014 at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel also revealed some critical knowledge gaps: In laboratory experiments, a common phytoplankton species was able to adapt to ocean acidification, even when simultaneously exposed to other stress factors such as rising water temperatures — but will the adapted strains also successfully compete in their natural environment?

The Evolutionary Biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel teamed with experts from Canada, Australia, the United States, Great Britain and Sweden to critically review previous studies and to give advice for future investigations.

But we have only a vague idea of the full extent of the consequences», says Ulf Riebesell, Professor of Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

Scientists of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel used so - called «indoor mesocosms» to mimic the future ocean in their laboratories: They transferred the natural plankton community from the Kiel Fjord into twelve 1400 - liter tanks and brought them to two different temperatures and two different carbon dioxide concentrations.

The professor of Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel coordinates the BIOACID project and the KOSMOS mesocosm experiments.

Riebesell is professor for biological oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

A mesocosm experiment by scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven (AWI) and the Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) reveals for the first time how ocean change might affect the special physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the ocean's uppermost boundary.

The professor of Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel coordinates the BIOACID project.

Links: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) box on ocean acidification Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA - ICC) GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory

The research unit «Physical Oceanography» of the research division «Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics» GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is offering a Scientific Employee position in Physical Oceanography.

In the January issue of the journal «Nature Climate Change» Ulf Riebesell, professor for Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso from the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) urge the international scientific community to undertake a concerted interdisciplinary effort.

More than 250 members of 20 German research institutes, representing a broad range of marine science disciplines, participated in the project coordinated by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.