What is my general work focus?

As the largest carbon sink on Earth, the ocean is our most important ally in mitigating climate change. However, this function is under severe threat due to increasing pressure from human activities. Our work in WP4 aims to bring marine conservation into the social discourse and establish it as a guiding principle of climate policy action.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

On the one hand, the focus of our work is to enable our scientific partners to work in the context of current marine environmental policy. On the other hand, I bring scientific findings on the topic of marine and climate protection into relevant political bodies at EU and regional level (OSPAR).

What is my personal motivation for working within this topic?

The oceans need protection. They are an irreplaceable part of the earth and of inestimable value - for the climate, for us humans, but above all they have a value in themselves. I want to give the oceans a voice before humanity's uses completely destroy these special ecosystems.

What is my general work focus?

I have interest in the field of numerical modeling with focus on isotopic geochemistry, hydrodynamics, formation and transport of marine aggregates, advective flows in permeable sediments, carbon mineralization and early diagenesis in Marine Sediments.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

My contribution in APOC focuses on the transport/reaction modeling to determine POC fluxes to sediment, quantification of POC mineralization and embedding rates in sediment and the material fluxes across the sediment/water interface in the Helgoland muddy area.

What is my personal motivation for working within this topic?

APOC gives the opportunity to quantitively model how POC cycling contributes to carbon sequestration in the North Sea and understand how this ecosystem service is compromised and interlinked with global change and a range of human pressures.

What is my general research focus?

Within the project APOC I am investigating (bio)geochemical processes and carbon turnover, as well as the origin of sediments and particulate organic carbon (POC) in fine-grained sediments of the North Sea.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

My interest is in the fine-grained sediments of the Helgoland Mud Area (HMA) and I am working on different sediment cores – including pore water and solid phase. Our analyses aim to reconstruct the temporal variation of sedimentation rates, POC fluxes and POC burial rates. Furthermore, I am investigating the origin of sediments and POC as well as anthropogenic influences on POC mineralization and burial rates

What is my personal motivation for doing research within this topic?

Depo-centers of fine-grained sediments – such as the HMA in the southern North Sea – represent important carbon reservoirs – that are influenced by various anthropogenic activities. My motivation is to better understand the impact of anthropogenic activities on the carbon cycle of the North Sea in order to support its sustainable management.

What is my general research focus?

I am interested in climate change impacts on the organic carbon cycle.I study transport and fate of organic matter from land to sea and within the oceans. I use organic geochemical methods paired with radiocarbon dating.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

I participate in studying the composition of organic matter and how this is changing during transport and after deposition/burial in the sediments. I also help to establish age control on sediments.

What is my personal motivation for doing research within this topic?

The North Sea right outside our doorstep is strongly impacted by anthropogenic activity, which likely also impacts carbon degradation and burial of organic matter. It is also a remarkably dynamic depositional environment, in which diverse sedimentary regimes can be found in close proximity allowing for advanced process understanding.

What is my general work focus?

As the largest carbon sink on Earth, the ocean is our most important ally in mitigating climate change. However, this function is under severe threat due to increasing pressure from human activities. My work aims to bring marine conservation into the social discourse and establish it as a guiding principle of climate policy action.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

The focus of my work is to enable our scientific partners to work in the context of current marine environmental policy. In addition, I prepare scientific findings on the topic of marine and climate protection for society and politics and create recommendations for action for relevant decision-makers at national, regional and EU level.

What is my personal motivation for working within this topic?

Humans bear the main blame for the poor state of our sea. Noise and pollution, overfishing, anthropogenic pressures, climate change - the list is long. The healthier the marine ecosystems, the more CO2 they can absorb and thus mitigate the climate crisis. My goal is therefore an effective protection and sustainable use of the sea. 

What is my general research focus?

My research focuses on the identification and quantification of (bio-)geochemical processes during the early diagenesis in marine sediments. My work specializes on understanding how anthropogenic activities (e.g., deep-sea mining) affect natural environments in pristine ecosystems with respect to sediment removal and redeposition, nutrient availability and oxygen penetration depth.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

My specific contribution to APOC is to assist in the coordination of the collaborative project under the lead of Sabine Kasten (AWI) and Wenyan Zhang (Hereon).

What is my personal motivation for doing research within this topic?

My personal motivation is to create opportunities for exchange within the APOC community as well as with external partners and to support with public outreach activities as the collaborative APOC project addresses important and socially relevant topics in the North Sea – right at our doorstep.

What is my general work focus?

What is my general work focus?

What is my general work focus?

As the largest carbon sink, the ocean is an important ally in climate protection. This function is severely threatened by anthropogenic pressure. WP4 aims to introduce marine protection into the social discourse and to establish it as a guiding principle for climate policy action. In WP3, the important societal issues are also brought into the scientific arena.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

The focus of BUND's work is to enable the scientific partners to work in the context of current marine environmental policy and to research use data for APOC modelling. On the other hand, scientific findings on the topic of marine and climate protection are to be fed into relevant political bodies at national, EU and regional level (OSPAR).

What is my personal motivation for working within this topic?

Human activities contribute to climate and biodiversity crises through exploitation and pollution, with enormous impacts on marine ecosystems. Scientific analysis is essential for the development of conservation measures. As an advocate for the oceans, I want to develop good, effective and concrete protection measures and arguments for strong marine protection. 

What is my general work focus?

I examine, as human beings, how and how much we are affecting the nature, our great resource with the purpose of creating a space to making better and more sustainable decisions for the environment and future.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

I investigate the anthropogenic pressures and their impacts in the North Sea. I have been working on the statistical analysis of bottom trawling fisheries as well as trying to find answers to the questions of “How the fishing activities affecting the wind farm and marine protected areas in the North Sea?”

What is my personal motivation for working within this topic?

With this project, I found a chance to analyse how the human pressures are affecting not only biodiversity but also North Sea’s dynamics itself and to analyse the current management plans in the North Sea. Hopefully I can contribute for better future in the North Sea with the policy makers.

What is my general research focus?

My research focuses on the investigation, quantification and modeling of geochemical, biogeochemical and early diagenetic processes in marine sediments of different depositional environments. A special focus of my work is the investigation of transient and nonsteady (bio)geochemical processes in coastal and open-marine sediments as triggered by erosion, resuspension and sedimentation events, among others.

 What is my specific contribution in APOC?

My specific contribution to APOC is coordination of this collaborative project together with Wenyan Zhang from HEREON. Scientifically my focus is on WP1 where my group investigates and quantifies particulate organic carbon cycling, transformation, mineralization and long-term burial in the area of the Helgoland Mud area.

 What is my personal motivation for doing research within this topic?

My personal motivation is to better understand and quantify the role of sediment-bound particulate organic matter in the main depo-centers of the North Sea – in particular assessing it’s role as long-term carbon sink and how it is impacted by anthropogenic activities.

What is my general research focus?

My focus lies on early diagenetic processes which are driven by carbon burial and degradation. I am interested in the relation between depositional regimes and remineralization processes and the resulting nutrient fluxes across the sediment-water interface.

What is my specific contribution in APOC?

I support geochemical analyses of sediment and suspended matter including sequential extractions for iron and phosphorus phases. My main focus will be the Helgoland mud area.

What is my personal motivation for doing research within this topic? 

The North Sea is a unique ecosystem which is highly valuable, but also under a lot of anthropogenic stress. Political decisions require solid scientific data. We need a better process understanding to be able to protect regions that are key areas of long-term carbon storage.

What is my general work focus?

What is my general work focus?