A huge hole in the Weddell Sea ice pack, photographed here in 2017 by a satellite. While the mechanism by which polynyas are formed is relatively well known, Maud Rise polynya, with its gigantic size and persistence over time, has raised a number of questions among...
In February and March 2021, the research team took 17 water samples from the southern Weddell Sea to investigate the concentration of microplastics. Photo: Clara Leistenschneider The pollution of the Southern Ocean with microplastics has been significantly...
Among other things, the research team discovered the remains of a baleen whale on its images, which must have already been lying on the seabed for several months. The vertebrae and bones no longer hung together and there was no tissue left. Photo: Stauffer et al. 2022...
At first glance, the Weddell Sea seems pristine and wild. But researchers discovered the excesses of our civilization, namely microplastics, in the region’s water, ice and even air. Image: Dr Michael Wenger One of the most exciting Antarctic discoveries in...
The OFBOS images show the icefish and their nests spread over an area of more than 240 square kilometers. A total of 60 million (!) nests are extrapolated to the mapped area. Video: AWI Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research...
