High Frequency Radar (HFR) is a land-based remote sensing instrument offering a unique
insight to coastal ocean variability, by providing synoptic, high frequency and high resolution …

In the next decade the pressures on ocean systems and the communities that rely on them
will increase along with impacts from the multiple stressors of climate change and human …

Rapid changes of the biosphere observed in recent years are caused by both small and
large scale drivers, like shifts in temperature, transformations in land-use, or changes in the …

The scientific and public interest regarding environmental pollution with microplastic has
considerably increased within the last 15 years. Nevertheless, up to now there is no widely …

For commonly applied microplastic sampling approaches based on filtration, high
throughput and no size-discrimination are conflicting goals. Therefore, we propose two …

Direct sensing of total ocean surface currents with microwave Doppler signals is a growing
topic of interest for oceanography, with relevance to several new ocean mission concepts …

Environmental management depends on high-quality monitoring and its meaningful
interpretation. The combination of local weather dynamics, regional anthropogenic stresses …

Lagrangian observations are important for the understanding of complex transport patterns
of floating macroscopic litter items at the ocean surface. Satellite-tracked drifters and …

Kelps are important foundation species in coastal ecosystems currently experiencing
pronounced shifts in their distribution patterns caused by ocean warming. While some …

Observations using two kinds of drifters were carried out in the southern North Sea aiming to
study the propagation pathways of marine litter. One drifter, which was driven by the upper …