Prospects of Germany’s new North Sea spaceport by Vladislav B. Belov

“…This strategy was updated in 2023, with one of the priorities being the creation of a dedicated spaceport for launching low-orbit rocket carriers in the North Sea. This project represents a unique opportunity not only to strengthen Germany’s position on the international stage but also to stimulate the development of the national space sector, including its commercialization, known as New Space. …”
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THE ROLE OF THE NORTH SEA OIL RESOURCES IN NORWAY’S ECONOMY by D. A. Talagaeva, A. A. Trashchenko

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Ecological reef restoration: consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators and European oysters by Julius A. Ellrich, Clemens Kozian-Fleck, Markus Brand, Bérenger Colsoul, Bérenger Colsoul, Bernadette Pogoda, Bernadette Pogoda

“…Therefore, this study examined consumptive and nonconsumptive interactions among common North Sea predators, brown crabs (Cancer pagurus) and European lobsters (Homarus gammarus), and European oysters on Helgoland island (German Bight, North Sea) for the first time. …”
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Formation of the Figge Maar Seafloor Crater During the 1964 B1 Blowout in the German North Sea by Jens Karstens, Jens Schneider von Deimling, Christian Berndt, Christoph Böttner, Michel Kühn, Benedict T. I. Reinardy, Axel Ehrhardt, Jonas Gros, Bettina Schramm, Dirk Klaeschen, Judith Elger, Matthias Haeckel, Mark Schmidt, Sven Heinrich, Philipp Müller, Frithjof Bense

“…In 1964, exploration drilling in the German Sector of the North Sea hit a gas pocket at ∼2900 m depth below the seafloor and triggered a blowout, which formed a 550 m-wide and up to 38 m deep seafloor crater now known as Figge Maar. …”
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Regional Exploration and Characterisation of CO2 Storage Prospects in the Utsira-Skade Aquifer, North Viking Graben, North Sea by C. Lloyd, M. Huuse, B. J. Barrett, A. M. W. Newton

“…The Utsira-Skade Aquifer (Utsira, Eir and Skade Formations), northern North Sea, has been identified as a suitable reservoir. …”
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Downsystem grain-size trends and mass balance of an ancient wave-influenced sediment routing system: Middle Jurassic Brent Delta, northern North Sea, offshore UK and Norway by Ikenna C. Okwara, Gary J. Hampson, Alexander C. Whittaker, Gareth G. Roberts

“… We reconstruct spatial variations in grain size in the sediment routing system of the data-rich Middle Jurassic Brent Group of the northern North Sea, using published stratigraphic, thickness, palaeogeographic, provenance and age constraints combined with representative core and wireline-log data. …”
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Spatial conflict resolution in marine spatial plans and permitting procedures for offshore wind energy: an analysis of measures adopted in Denmark, England and the Netherlands by Juul E. H. Kusters, Ferry M. G. van Kann, Christian Zuidema

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Future Trends in Worldwide River Nitrogen Transport and Related Nitrous Oxide Emissions: A Scenario Analysis by Carolien Kroeze, Sybil P. Seitzinger, Rita Domingues

“…Nevertheless, the calculated 9% reduction (relative to BAU) in DIN inputs to the North Sea as a potential side effect of air pollution control may help achieve the international policy targets for reduced N inputs to the North Sea.…”
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Analysis and Discussion of Atmospheric Precursor of European Heat Summers by Christine Träger-Chatterjee, Richard W. Müller, Jörg Bendix

“…However, inspection of the geopotential at 850 hPa shows that a Greenland-North Sea-Dipole is connected with extreme summers in Central Europe. …”
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This is EPIC: Extensive Periphery for Impact and Control to study seabird habitat loss in and around offshore wind farms combining a peripheral control area and Bayesian statistics by Anne Grundlehner, Mardik F. Leopold, Anna Kersten

“…The approach is showcased by investigating the effects of an OWF in the Dutch North Sea on the habitat use of razorbills (Alca torda) and common guillemots (Uria aalge), two seabird species that occur in large numbers across the North Sea. …”
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Energy Transition: Where is the Long-Term Thinking on Offshore Wind Energy? by Mirko Kruse

“…Abstract The paper at hand presents the development of offshore wind energy with a focus on the North Sea Region (NSR) and its dominant countries. …”
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Roaming the Seas—Assessing Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity Along Salinity Gradients With Zooplankton and eDNA Metabarcoding by Alica Ohnesorge, Uwe John, Lucie Kuczynski, Stefan Neuhaus, Kingsly Chuo Beng, Bernd Krock, Silke Laakmann

“…Our study confirms the value of metabarcoding to identify the North Sea and Baltic Sea invertebrates and underscores the importance of combining multiple approaches to understand invertebrate biodiversity and its change in the marine realm.…”
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Species Knowledge About a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site and the Importance of Connectedness with Nature by Ricardo Puppe, Till Schmäing

“…For this reason, this study is the first to survey the species knowledge of visitors to the UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site the Wadden Sea of the North Sea, which is the largest mudflat area in the world. …”
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Application of Stokes’ higher order theory and JONSWAP spectrum in modelling extreme wave events validation with historical data by Khan Muhammad Azeem, Nizamani Zafarullah, Nakayama Akihiko, Ahmed Mirza Munir

“…This study explores the application of Stokes’ 5th Order Wave Theory and JONSWAP (Joint North Sea Wave Project) spectrum to simulate wave conditions similar to those experienced during the Draugen Ringing Event. …”
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First record of the common sun star Crossaster papposus (L., 1767) in the Baltic Sea in over 100 years by Romoth Katharina, Gogina Mayya, Beisiegel Kolja, Darr Alexander, Zettler Michael Lothar

“…Possible explanations for such rare records of the occurrence of this presumably native species in the study region are briefly discussed, including uncommon survival due to salinity conditions caused by prior inflows of saline water from the North Sea.…”
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Amiens/Samarobriva, cité des Ambiens : aux origines de la ville romaine by Didier Bayard

“…The first is related to its origins: despite the mention of its Celtic-sounding name in the De Bello Gallico or Cicero’s correspondence, no tangible link could be established between the Roman city and a previous Gallic town, or even a Caesarian camp.The building of the North Sea road, maybe during Agrippa’s second rule in Gaul between -19 and -16, seems to be at the root of a settlement at the edge of the Somme river. …”
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Effects of zooplankton abundance on the spawning phenology of winter-spawning Downs herring (Clupea harengus). by Paul Marchal, Carolina Giraldo, David Johns, Sébastien Lefebvre, Christophe Loots, Lola Toomey

“…We have investigated phenological shifts in autumn- and winter-spawning Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) in the Eastern English Channel and the Southern North Sea (Downs component), in relation to temperature and the availability of potential zooplanktonic prey (Calanus finmarchicus, Calanus helgolandicus, Temora longicornis). …”
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Compensation of Linear Multiscale Doppler for OFDM-Based Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems by A. E. Abdelkareem, B. S. Sharif, C. C. Tsimenidis, J. A. Neasham

“…The proposed algorithms' performances were investigated using real data obtained from an experiment that took place in the North Sea in 2009.…”
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Analysing the Effects of Atmospheric Teleconnections on Streamflow Regime in the Eastern Black Sea Basin in Türkiye by Cenk Sezen

“…In this study, the relationship between the streamflow data belonging to five discharge gauging stations in the Eastern Black Sea Basin in Türkiye and the Arctic Oscillation (AO), East Atlantic-Western Russia (EAWR), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and North Sea Caspian Pattern (NCP) was investigated. For this purpose, Spearman’s correlation test, ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and relative importance analysis were used. …”
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Tides of Time: The Dutch Delta Works as Time-Mediating Climate Adaptation Infrastructure by Huub Dijstelbloem, Victor Toom, Annick de Vries

“…By examining the development of the Dutch Delta Works, a set of infrastructures initiated after the 1953 North Sea floods that killed more than 1,800 people, the article reconceptualizes the development from the response to the 1953 disaster to its current relationship with the consequences of climate change, in particular rising sea levels, river water inflows and weather fluctuations such as increased rainfall. …”
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