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Regional consequences of last glacial climate fluctuations in ultra-high resolution with the help of climate indicators
Using a sediment core from the Black Sea, Warnemünde geologists reconstructed together with an international team how the transition into the Greenland Interstadial 10 (GI10), a climate warming 41,000 years ago, affected the Black Sea region over the course of decades. The in-depth study was made possible by a precise synchronization with the ice cores and high resolution multi-proxy analyses. Since this detailed paleo study covers time scales comparable to those of the recent global warming, it contributes to the understanding of relevant processes.
The long arm of the Atlantic: How the climate of Northern Europe is influenced from afar
Climate researchers at the IOW for the first time were able to show with the help of statistical analyses, how fluctuations in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) affected the meteorological phenomenon of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the course of the last millennium. They also could establish a link between AMO and climate variables in the Baltic Sea region, such as the spread of sea ice, surface water temperature or river inflow.
» Read more … The long arm of the Atlantic: How the climate of Northern Europe is influenced from afar
Marine fungi in focus: Excellent young researcher starts Emmy Noether group at IOW
On August 01, 2020, Isabell Klawonn, Ph.D., who is specialised in microbial interactions and element fluxes in marine ecosystems, started working at the IOW. She will establish a new research group at the institute to investigate the largely unknown role of marine fungi, aided by the prestigious Emmy Noether Programme for outstanding young researchers, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
» Read more … Marine fungi in focus: Excellent young researcher starts Emmy Noether group at IOW
Time traveling with biomarkers: Baltic Sea sediment archives reveal frequency of “blue-green algae” since 1860
Researchers from Warnemünde and La Jolla, California, have succeeded for the first time in reconstructing the history of blue-green algae blooms in the central Baltic Sea over the last 160 years by using biomarkers and a well-dated sediment core. This way, they extended the period, for which information on the frequency of blooms was previously available, well into the past. In the international journal “Biogeosciences” they discuss possible causes for the fluctuations they detected.
To end the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea: Do the measures show effects?
Between 1995 and 2014, river discharges of the two main drivers of eutrophication, nitrogen and phosphorus, were significantly reduced in the western Baltic Sea. But are these measures also having an effect in the open Baltic Sea? The marine chemists of the IOW have not yet found any clearly discernible changes there. In a recently published study, they report on a method they used to track the fate of nutrients from river mouths into the Baltic Sea.
» Read more … To end the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea: Do the measures show effects?
Contact persons in all matters of press and public relation at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research are
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