EXC 80:  The Future Ocean

• Subject Area: Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Climate Research
• Term: from 2006 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24122362

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

Covering about 70% of the earth’s surface the ocean will play a pivotal role in achieving sustainable future of humanity. The ocean hosts our largest ecosystem, exerts a major influence on the global climate and provides living and non-living resources. The Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” has used the results of multidisciplinary scientific research on the past and present ocean to predict the future of the Earth’s marine environment. This involves understanding changes to the ocean as well as the interaction between society and the ocean with regards to marine resources, services and risks. This mission carries with it an obligation to develop and assess scientificallybased global and regional ocean governance options, taking their legal, economic and ethical aspects into account. Within the Cluster of Excellence "The Future Ocean" marine scientists across eight faculties at Kiel University and three partner institutions in Kiel have built up an integrated research environment, advanced world leading ocean science, published a large number of scientific paper, initiated new national, European and international initiatives to advance ocean science in the context of solutions to address the challenges on the changing ocean. During the two phases, the Kiel research network has grown to 323 members of which 35% are female and 30% international, 55 PIs have worked within the Cluster, and in total the Cluster had 120 fulltime employees with 56% females. The first phase of the Cluster focused on investigating ocean change and reevaluating both the ocean’s potential and the risks involved. New research teams have been established to bridge existing disciplines and encourage marine-related research across a broader range of disciplines and faculties. The second phase of the Cluster focused on achieving a deeper interdisciplinary understanding of the ocean system, predicting possible future states of the ocean, and advancing the science around improved ocean management regimes and made contributions to the ocean dimension of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The Cluster has advanced public outreach and stakeholder dialogue in order to improve the understanding of the need for a more sustainable human-ocean interaction. The Cluster’s structural impact on Kiel University has firmly established the Kiel Marine Science (KMS) as a research priority area within the University. KMS has established a productive partnership with other Kiel based institutions (GEOMAR, IfW and Muthesius University) and several of the Cluster’s activities have provided successful role models for improved knowledge exchange, research-oriented education, and early career support. Moreover, the important role of early career scientists and challenging career perspectives and support within the German research system has been recognized.

Link to the final report

https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/GBV:1696316464

Publications

• (2008) A new global coastal database for impact and vulnerability analysis to sea-level rise. J. Coastal Res. 24 (4), 917 – 924
  Vafeidis, Athanasios T.; Nicholls, Robert J.; McFadden, Loraine; Tol, Richard S. J.; Hinkel, Jochen; Spencer, Tom; Grashoff, Poul S.; Boot, Gerben & Klein, Richard J. T.
  
• (2008). The Legal Regulation of Floats and Gliders—In Quest of a New Regime? Ocean Development & International Law, 39:3, 298-328
  Bork, Katharina; Karstensen, Johannes; Visbeck, Martin & Zimmermann, Andreas
  
• (2010) Calcifying invertebrates succeed in a naturally CO2 enriched coastal habitat but are threatened by high levels of future acidification. Biogeosciences 7, 3879 – 3891
  Thomsen, J.; Gutowska, M. A.; Saphörster, J.; Heinemann, A.; Trübenbach, K.; Fietzke, J.; Hiebenthal, C.; Eisenhauer, A.; Körtzinger, A.; Wahl, M. & Melzner, F.
  
• (2010) Designed for failure: A critique of the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union. Marine Policy, 34 . pp. 1178-1182
  Khalilian, Setareh; Froese, Rainer; Proelss, Alexander & Requate, Till
  
• (2010) Disentangling seasonal signals in Holocene climate trends by satellite-model-proxy integration. Paleoceanography 25, PA4217
  Schneider, Birgit; Leduc, Guillaume & Park, Wonsun
  
• (2010) Disentangling seasonal signals in Holocene climate trends by satellite-model-proxy integration. Paleoceanography, 25. PA4217
  Schneider, Birgit; Leduc, Guillaume & Park, Wonsun
  
• (2010) Maritime Boundaries in a rising sea. Nat. Geosci. 3 (11), 803 – 806
  Houghton, K., Vafeidis, A.T., Neumann, B., Proelss, A.
  
• (2010) Methods for Greenhouse Gas Offsets Accounting: A Case Study of Ocean Iron Fertilization. Ecol. Econ. 69, 2495–2509
  Rickels, Wilfried; Rehdanz, Katrin & Oschlies, Andreas
  
• (2010) Response of the hydrological cycle to orbital and greenhouse gas forcing. Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L19705
  Khon, V. C.; Park, W.; Latif, M.; Mokhov, I. I. & Schneider, B.
  
• (2010) Side effects and accounting aspects of hypothetical largescale Southern Ocean iron fertilization. Biogeosciences 7, 4017–4035
  Oschlies, A.; Koeve, W.; Rickels, W. & Rehdanz, K.
  
• (2010) The Sahara Slide: Initiation and processes from headwall to deposit of a giant submarine slide. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. 11 (7)
  Georgiopoulou, Aggeliki; Masson, Douglas G.; Wynn, Russell B. & Krastel, Sebastian
  
• (2010) What is sustainability economics? Ecol. Econ. 69, 445 – 450
  Baumgärtner, Stefan & Quaas, Martin
  
• (2011) On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate. Nature, 472 (7344). pp. 429-436
  Beal, Lisa M.; De Ruijter, Wilhelmus P. M.; Biastoch, Arne; Zahn, Rainer; Cronin, Meghan; Hermes, Juliet; Lutjeharms, Johann; Quartly, Graham; Tozuka, Tomoki; Baker-Yeboah, Sheekela; Bornman, Thomas; Cipollini, Paolo; Dijkstra, Henk; Hall, Ian; Park, Wonsun; Peeters, Frank; Penven, Pierrick; Ridderinkhof, Herman & Zinke, Jens
  
• (2011) Rising Arctic Ocean temperatures cause gas hydrate destabilization and ocean acidification. Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L08602
  Biastoch, A.; Treude, T.; Rüpke, L. H.; Riebesell, U.; Roth, C.; Burwicz, E. B.; Park, W.; Latif, M.; Böning, C. W.; Madec, G. & Wallmann, K.
  
• (2011) Rising Arctic Ocean temperatures cause gas hydrate destabilization and ocean acidification. Geophysical Research Letters, 38 (8). L08602
  Biastoch, A.; Treude, T.; Rüpke, L. H.; Riebesell, U.; Roth, C.; Burwicz, E. B.; Park, W.; Latif, M.; Böning, C. W.; Madec, G. & Wallmann, K.
  
• On Substantiating the Conception of Strong Sustainability In: Sustainable Development: Relationships to Culture, Knowledge and Ethics [online]. Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 9791036538230
  Ott, K.
  
• (2012) Adaptive evolution of a key phytoplankton species to ocean acidification. Nature Geoscience, 5 pp. 346-351
  Lohbeck, Kai T.; Riebesell, Ulf & Reusch, Thorsten B. H.
  
• (2012) Fishing industry borrows from natural capital at high shadow interest rates Ecological Economics, 82. pp. 45-52
  Quaas, Martin F.; Froese, Rainer; Herwartz, Helmut; Requate, Till; Schmidt, Jörn O. & Voss, Rüdiger
  
• (2012) Geoengineering and International Law, in: Security and Peace Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 205-211
  Proelss, Alexander
  
• (2012): Using cavity ringdown spectroscopy for continuous monitoring of δ13C (CO2) and ƒCO2 in the surface ocean. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 10, 752-766
  Becker, M.; Andersen, N.; Fiedler, B.; Fietzek, P.; Körtzinger, A.; Steinhoff, T. & Friedrichs, G.
  
• (2013) Incentives for Optimal Management of Age-Structured Fish Populations, Resource and Energy Economics 35, 113-134
  Quaas, Martin, Requate, Till, Ruckes, Kerstin, Skonhoft, Anders, Voss, Rudi, Westergard, Nils
  
• Quantitative time-resolved vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy as a tool for thin film kinetic studies: New insights into oleic acid monolayer oxidation (2013). Journal of Physical Chemistry A 117, 7863 – 7875
  Kleber, Joscha; Laß, Kristian & Friedrichs, Gernot
  
• (2014) A sustainable development goal for the ocean and Coasts: Global ocean challenges benefit from regional initiatives supporting globally coordinated solutions. Marine Policy, 49 . pp. 87-89
  Visbeck, Martin; Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike; Neumann, Barbara; Rickels, Wilfried; Schmidt, Jörn; van Doorn, Erik; Matz-Lück, Nele & Proelss, Alexander
  
• (2014) Adaptation of a globally important coccolithophore to ocean warming and acidification. Nature Climate Change, 4 (11). pp. 1024-1030
  Schlüter, Lothar; Lohbeck, Kai T.; Gutowska, Magdalena A.; Gröger, Joachim P.; Riebesell, Ulf & Reusch, Thorsten B. H.
  
• (2014) Hybrid shallow on-axis and deep off-axis hydrothermal circulation at fastspreading ridges Nature, 508 (7497). pp. 508-512
  Hasenclever, Jörg; Theissen-Krah, Sonja; Rüpke, Lars H.; Morgan, Jason P.; Iyer, Karthik; Petersen, Sven & Devey, Colin W.
  
• (2014) Nano-tags for neonates and ocean-mediated swimming behaviours linked to rapid dispersal of hatchling sea turtles Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 281 (1796). p. 20141209
  Scott, Rebecca; Biastoch, Arne; Roder, Christian; Stiebens, Victor A. & Eizaguirre, Christophe
  
• (2014) Temporal Constraints on Hydrate-Controlled Methane Seepage off Svalbard. Science, 343 (6168). pp. 284-287
  Berndt, C.; Feseker, T.; Treude, T.; Krastel, S.; Liebetrau, V.; Niemann, H.; Bertics, V. J.; Dumke, I.; Dünnbier, K.; Ferré, B.; Graves, C.; Gross, F.; Hissmann, K.; Hühnerbach, V.; Krause, S.; Lieser, K.; Schauer, J. & Steinle, L.
  
• (2014) The economics of exploiting gas hydrates Energy Economics, 42. pp. 355-364. Fisheries
  Döpke, L. K. and Requate, T.
  
• (2014), Potential climate engineering effectiveness and side effects during a high carbon dioxide-emission scenario, Nature Comm., 5
  Keller, David P.; Feng, Ellias Y. & Oschlies, Andreas
  
• (2014). Securing blue wealth: The need for a special sustainable development goal for the ocean and coasts. Marine Policy 48, 184-191
  Visbeck, Martin; Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike; Neumann, Barbara; Rickels, Wilfried; Schmidt, Jörn; van Doorn, Erik; Matz-Lück, Nele; Ott, Konrad & Quaas, Martin F.
  
• (2014): Seasonal variability of methyl iodide in the Kiel Fjord. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 119, 1609–1620
  Shi, Qiang; Petrick, Gert; Quack, Birgit; Marandino, Christa & Wallace, Douglas
  
• (2014): Stimulated bacterial growth under elevated pCO2: Results from an off-shore mesocosm study. PLoS ONE 9, e99228/1-8
  Endres, Sonja; Galgani, Luisa; Riebesell, Ulf; Schulz, Kai-Georg & Engel, Anja
  
• (2016). Common Pool Politics and Inefficient Fishery Management. Environ Resource Econ (2016) 63: 79
  Hoffmann, Julia & Quaas, Martin F.
  
• (2015) Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation covaries with Agulhas leakage. Nature Communications, 6 (10082)
  Biastoch, Arne; Durgadoo, Jonathan V.; Morrison, Adele K.; van Sebille, Erik; Weijer, Wilbert & Griffies, Stephen M.
  
• (2015) COMMENTARY: No emergency argument for climate engineering Nature Climate Change, 5 (4). pp. 290-292
  Sillmann, Jana; Lenton, Timothy M.; Levermann, Anders; Ott, Konrad; Hulme, Mike; Benduhn, François & Horton, Joshua B.
  
• (2015) Future Coastal Population Growth and Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding - A Global Assessment, Plos One, 10, ARTN e0131375
  Neumann, Barbara; Vafeidis, Athanasios T.; Zimmermann, Juliane & Nicholls, Robert J.
  
• (2015) Methanhydrate: Erwärmung, Freisetzung und mikrobiologischer Abbau. In: Lozán, J.L. (Eds.) Warnsignal Klima: Die Meere – Änderungen und Risiken. Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen, Paul Parey: Berlin
  Treude, T.
  
• (2015) Modeling the fate of methane hydrates under global warming Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29 (5). pp. 610-625
  Kretschmer, Kerstin; Biastoch, Arne; Rüpke, Lars & Burwicz, Ewa
  
• (2015) Quantification of methane emissions at abandoned gas wells in the Central North Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 68 . pp. 848-860
  Vielstädte, Lisa; Karstens, Jens; Haeckel, Matthias; Schmidt, Mark; Linke, Peter; Reimann, Susan; Liebetrau, Volker; McGinnis, Daniel F. & Wallmann, Klaus
  
• (2015), Effect of elevated CO2 on organic matter pools and fluxes in a summer Baltic Sea plankton community, Biogeosciences 12, 6181–6203
  Paul, A. J.; Bach, L. T.; Schulz, K.-G.; Boxhammer, T.; Czerny, J.; Achterberg, E. P.; Hellemann, D.; Trense, Y.; Nausch, M.; Sswat, M. & Riebesell, U.
  
• (2015): C:N:P stoichiometry at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study station in the North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeosciences 12, 6389–6403
  Singh, A.; Baer, S. E.; Riebesell, U.; Martiny, A. C. & Lomas, M. W.
  
• (2015): Massive nitrous oxide emissions from the tropical South Pacific Ocean. Nature Geoscience 8, 530-533
  Arévalo-Martínez, D. L.; Kock, A.; Löscher, C. R.; Schmitz, R. A. & Bange, H. W.
  
• (2015): Water column methanotrophy controlled by a rapid oceanographic switch. Nature Geoscience 8, 378-382
  Steinle, Lea; Graves, Carolyn A.; Treude, Tina; Ferré, Bénédicte; Biastoch, Arne; Bussmann, Ingeborg; Berndt, Christian; Krastel, Sebastian; James, Rachael H.; Behrens, Erik; Böning, Claus W.; Greinert, Jens; Sapart, Célia-Julia; Scheinert, Markus; Sommer, Stefan; Lehmann, Moritz F. & Niemann, Helge
  
• (2016) It is the economy, stupid! Projecting the fate of fish populations using ecological-economic modeling Global Change Biology, 22 (1). pp. 264-270
  Quaas, Martin F.; Reusch, Thorsten B. H.; Schmidt, Jörn O.; Tahvonen, Olli & Voss, Rudi
  
• (2016) Links between tropical Pacific seasonal, interannual and orbital variability during the Holocene Nature Geoscience, 9 (2). 168
  Emile-Geay, J.; Cobb, K. M.; Carré, M.; Braconnot, P.; Leloup, J.; Zhou, Y.; Harrison, S. P.; Corrège, T.; McGregor, H. V.; Collins, M.; Driscoll, R.; Elliot, M.; Schneider, B. & Tudhope, A.
  
• Marine Living Resources, in: Donald R. Rothwell/Alex Oude Elferink/Karen Scott/Tim Stephens (eds), Oxford Handbook on the Law of the Sea, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 491-515
  Matz-Lück, N., J. Fuchs
  
• (2015) The limits of seaward spreading and slope instability at the continental margin offshore Mt Etna, imaged by high-resolution 2D seismic data. Tectonophysics
  Gross, Felix; Krastel, Sebastian; Geersen, Jacob; Behrmann, Jan Hinrich; Ridente, Domenico; Chiocci, Francesco Latino; Bialas, Jörg; Papenberg, Cord; Cukur, Deniz; Urlaub, Morelia & Micallef, Aaron
  
• (2016) Correcting North Atlantic Sea Surface Salinity Biases in the Kiel Climate Model: Influences on Ocean Circulation and Atlantic Multidecadal Variability. Climate Dynamics, 47 (7). pp. 2543-2560
  Park, T.; Park, W. & Latif, M.
  
• (2016) Earthquake nucleation in weak subducted carbonates. Nature Geoscience, 9 (9)., 717-722
  Kurzawski, Robert M.; Stipp, Michael; Niemeijer, André R.; Spiers, Christopher J. & Behrmann, Jan H.
  
• (2016) Emerging impact of Greenland meltwater on deepwater formation in the North Atlantic Ocean Nature Geoscience, 9 (7). pp. 523-527
  Böning, Claus W.; Behrens, Erik; Biastoch, Arne; Getzlaff, Klaus & Bamber, Jonathan L.
  
• (2016) Environmental aspects of the Mining Code: Preserving humankind's common heritage while opening Pardo's box? Marine Policy, 70, 192-197
  van Doorn, Erik
  
• (2016) Global Carbon Budget 2016. Earth System Science Data, 8 (2). pp. 605-649
  Le Quéré, Corinne; Andrew, Robbie M.; Canadell, Josep G.; Sitch, Stephen; Korsbakken, Jan Ivar; Peters, Glen P.; Manning, Andrew C.; Boden, Thomas A.; Tans, Pieter P.; Houghton, Richard A.; Keeling, Ralph F.; Alin, Simone; Andrews, Oliver D.; Anthoni, Peter; Barbero, Leticia; Bopp, Laurent; Chevallier, Frédéric; Chini, Louise P.; Ciais, Philippe; ... & Zaehle, Sönke
  
• (2016) News from the seabed – Geological characteristics and resource potential of deep-sea mineral resources Marine Policy, 70. pp. 175-187
  Petersen, S.; Krätschell, A.; Augustin, N.; Jamieson, J.; Hein, J.R. & Hannington, M.D.
  
• (2016) Oxygen Utilization and Downward Carbon Flux in an Oxygen-Depleted Eddy in the Eastern Tropical North Atlantic. Biogeosciences (BG), 13 pp. 5633-5647
  Fiedler, Björn; Grundle, Damian S.; Schütte, Florian; Karstensen, Johannes; Löscher, Carolin R.; Hauss, Helena; Wagner, Hannes; Loginova, Alexandra; Kiko, Rainer; Silva, Péricles; Tanhua, Toste & Körtzinger, Arne
  
• (2016), Could artificial ocean alkalinization protect tropical coral ecosystems from ocean acidification? Environ. Res. Lett., 11
  Feng (冯玉铭), Ellias Y; Keller, David P; Koeve, Wolfgang & Oschlies, Andreas
  
• (2016), No observed effect of ocean acidification on nitrogen biogeochemistry in a Baltic Sea plankton community, Biogeosciences, 13, 3901-3913
  Paul, Allanah J.; Achterberg, Eric P.; Bach, Lennart T.; Boxhammer, Tim; Czerny, Jan; Haunost, Mathias; Schulz, Kai-Georg; Stuhr, Annegret & Riebesell, Ulf
  
• (2016). Highly effective inhibition of biofilm formation by the first metagenome-derived AI-2 quenching enzyme. Frontiers in microbiology, 7, 1098
  Weiland-Bräuer, Nancy; Kisch, Martin J.; Pinnow, Nicole; Liese, Andreas & Schmitz, Ruth A.
  
• (2016). Map the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals. Nature 534, 320-322
  Nilsson, M., Griggs, D., and Visbeck, M.
  
• (2016): Acidification and warming affect prominent bacteria in two seasonal phytoplankton bloom mesocosms. Environmental Microbiology 18, 4579-4595
  Bergen, Benjamin; Endres, Sonja; Engel, Anja; Zark, Maren; Dittmar, Thorsten; Sommer, Ulrich & Jürgens, Klaus
  
• (2016): Fault zone controlled seafloor methane seepage in the rupture area of the 2010 Maule Earthquake, Central Chile. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17, 4802-4813
  Geersen, Jacob; Scholz, Florian; Linke, Peter; Schmidt, Mark; Lange, Dietrich; Behrmann, Jan H.; Völker, David & Hensen, Christian
  
• (2016): Microbial colonization and degradation of polyethylene and biodegradable plastic bags in temperate fine-grained organic-rich marine sediments. Marine Pollution Bulletin 103, 168- 178
  Nauendorf, Alice; Krause, Stefan; Bigalke, Nikolaus K.; Gorb, Elena V.; Gorb, Stanislav N.; Haeckel, Matthias; Wahl, Martin & Treude, Tina
  
• (2017) Modeling Polyp Activity of Paragorgia arborea using Supervised Learning. Ecological Informatics, 39. pp. 109-118
  Johanson, Arne N.; Flögel, Sascha; Dullo, Wolf-Christian; Linke, Peter & Hasselbring, Wilhelm
  
• (2017) Mussel larvae modify calcifying fluid carbonate chemistry to promote calcification. Nature Communications, 8 (1). Art.No. 1709 (2017)
  Ramesh, Kirti; Hu, Marian Y.; Thomsen, Jörn; Bleich, Markus & Melzner, Frank
  
• (2017) Ocean acidification experiments in large-scale mesocosms reveal similar dynamics of dissolved organic matter production and biotransformation. Frontiers in Marine Science 4, 271/1-11
  Zark, Maren; Broda, Nadine K.; Hornick, Thomas; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Riebesell, Ulf & Dittmar, Thorsten
  
• (2017) Rapid deglacial injection of nutrients into the tropical Atlantic via Antarctic Intermediate Water. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 463. pp. 118-126
  Poggemann, David-Willem; Hathorne, Ed C.; Nürnberg, Dirk; Frank, Martin; Bruhn, Imke; Reißig, Stefan & Bahr, André
  
• (2017) Reviews and syntheses: Parameter identification in marine planktonic ecosystem modelling Biogeosciences (BG), 14 (6). pp. 1647-1701
  Schartau, Markus; Wallhead, Philip; Hemmings, John; Löptien, Ulrike; Kriest, Iris; Krishna, Shubham; Ward, Ben A.; Slawig, Thomas & Oschlies, Andreas
  
• (2017) Sea-level rise impacts on the temporal and spatial variability of extreme water levels: A case study for St. Peter-Ording, Germany, J Geophys Res-Oceans, 122, 2742-2759
  Santamaria‐Aguilar, S.; Arns, A. & Vafeidis, A. T.
  
• (2017) Subsea mining moves closer to shore Nature Geoscience, 10 (3). pp. 158-159
  Hannington, Mark D., Petersen, Sven und Krätschell, Anna
  
• (2017) Upwelling and isolation in oxygen-depleted anticyclonic modewater eddies and implications for nitrate cycling. Biogeosciences (BG), 14 (8). pp. 2167-2181
  Karstensen, Johannes; Schütte, Florian; Pietri, Alice; Krahmann, Gerd; Fiedler, Björn; Grundle, Damian; Hauss, Helena; Körtzinger, Arne; Löscher, Carolin R.; Testor, Pierre; Vieira, Nuno & Visbeck, Martin
  
• (2017), Model-based assessment of the CO2 sequestration potential of coastal ocean alkalinization, Earth's Future, 5
  Feng, E. Y.; Koeve, W.; Keller, D. P. & Oschlies, A.
  
• (2017). Strong sustainability in coastal areas: a conceptual interpretation of SDG 14. Sustainability Science 2017; 12(6), 1019-1035
  Neumann, Barbara; Ott, Konrad & Kenchington, Richard
  
• (2017): Direct oceanic emissions unlikely to account for the missing source of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 385–402
  Lennartz, Sinikka T.; Marandino, Christa A.; von Hobe, Marc; Cortes, Pau; Quack, Birgit; Simo, Rafel; Booge, Dennis; Pozzer, Andrea; Steinhoff, Tobias; Arevalo-Martinez, Damian L.; Kloss, Corinna; Bracher, Astrid; Röttgers, Rüdiger; Atlas, Elliot & Krüger, Kirstin
  
• (2017): Effects of low oxygen concentrations on aerobic methane oxidation in seasonally hypoxic coastal waters. Biogeosciences 14, 1631–1645
  Steinle, Lea; Maltby, Johanna; Treude, Tina; Kock, Annette; Bange, Hermann W.; Engbersen, Nadine; Zopfi, Jakob; Lehmann, Moritz F. & Niemann, Helge
  
• (2017): Niche construction by non-diazotrophs for N2 fixers in the eastern tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett. 44, 6904–6913
  Singh, Arvind; Bach, Lennart T.; Fischer, Tim; Hauss, Helena; Kiko, Rainer; Paul, Allanah J.; Stange, Paul; Vandromme, Pieter & Riebesell, Ulf
  
• (2017): The ocean's vital skin: Toward an integrated understanding of the sea surface microlayer. Frontiers in Marine Science 4, 165/1-14
  Engel, Anja; Bange, Hermann W.; Cunliffe, Michael; Burrows, Susannah M.; Friedrichs, Gernot; Galgani, Luisa; Herrmann, Hartmut; Hertkorn, Norbert; Johnson, Martin; Liss, Peter S.; Quinn, Patricia K.; Schartau, Markus; Soloviev, Alexander; Stolle, Christian; Upstill-Goddard, Robert C.; van Pinxteren, Manuela & Zäncker, Birthe
  
• Due Diligence Obligations and the Protection of the Marine Environment, 42 L’Observateur des Nations Unies (2017), 169-187
  Matz-Lück, N., E. van Doorn
  
• (2018) Climate and marine biogeochemistry during the Holocene from transient model simulations. Biogeosciences (BG), 15 (10). pp. 3243-3266
  Segschneider, Joachim; Schneider, Birgit & Khon, Vyacheslav
  
• (2018) Gravitational Collapse of Mount Etna’s south-eastern flank, Science Advances
  Urlaub, M., Petersen, F., Gross, F., Bonforte, A., Puglisi, P., Guglielmino, F., Krastel, S., Lange, D., Kopp, H.
  
• (2018) Maritime Economy: Insights on corporate visions and strategies towards sustainability, Ocean and Coastal Management, 165 (2018). pp. 162-140
  Kronfeld-Goharani, Ulrike
  
• (2018) Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise. Nature communications, 9(1), 4161
  Reimann, Lena; Vafeidis, Athanasios T.; Brown, Sally; Hinkel, Jochen & Tol, Richard S. J.
  
• (2018) Mind the seafloor, Science, Vol. 359, Issue 6371, pp. 34-36
  Boetius A. and Haeckel M.
  
• (2018) Rapid evolution of highly variable competitive abilities in a key phytoplankton species. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2 pp. 611-613
  Bach, Lennart T.; Lohbeck, Kai T.; Reusch, Thorsten B. H. & Riebesell, Ulf
  
• (2018) Reconstructing the sediment concentration of a giant submarine gravity flow. Nature Communications
  Stevenson, Christopher John; Feldens, Peter; Georgiopoulou, Aggeliki; Schӧnke, Mischa; Krastel, Sebastian; Piper, David J. W.; Lindhorst, Katja & Mosher, David
  
• (2018) Submarine slope failure due to pipe structure formation. Nature Communications
  Elger, Judith; Berndt, Christian; Rüpke, Lars; Krastel, Sebastian; Gross, Felix & Geissler, Wolfram H.
  
• (2018) Toxic algal bloom induced by ocean acidification disrupts the pelagic food web. Nature Climate Change, 8 (12). pp. 1082-1086
  Riebesell, Ulf; Aberle-Malzahn, Nicole; Achterberg, Eric P.; Algueró-Muñiz, María; Alvarez-Fernandez, Santiago; Arístegui, Javier; Bach, Lennart T.; Boersma, Maarten; Boxhammer, Tim; Guan, Wanchun; Haunost, Mathias; Horn, Henriette G.; Löscher, Carolin R.; Ludwig, Andrea; Spisla, Carsten; Sswat, Michael; Stange, Paul & Taucher, Jan
  
• (2018), Baltic Sea diazotrophic cyanobacterium is negatively affected by acidification and warming, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 598, 49-60
  Paul, Aj; Sommer, U.; Paul, C. & Riebesell, U.
  
• (2018), Evaluating climate geoengineering proposals in the context of the Paris agreement temperature goals. Nat. Comm., 9
  Lawrence, Mark G.; Schäfer, Stefan; Muri, Helene; Scott, Vivian; Oschlies, Andreas; Vaughan, Naomi E.; Boucher, Olivier; Schmidt, Hauke; Haywood, Jim & Scheffran, Jürgen
  
• (2018), Integrated Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Removal, Earth's Future, 6, 565-582
  Rickels, W.; Reith, F.; Keller, D.; Oschlies, A. & Quaas, M. F.
  
• (2018). Mapping interactions between the sustainable development goals: lessons learned and ways forward. Sustainability Science, 13, 6, p. 1489-1503
  Nilsson, Måns; Chisholm, Elinor; Griggs, David; Howden-Chapman, Philippa; McCollum, David; Messerli, Peter; Neumann, Barbara; Stevance, Anne-Sophie; Visbeck, Martin & Stafford-Smith, Mark
  
• (2018). Ocean science research is key for a sustainable future. Nature Communications, 9 (1). Art.Nr. 690
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