Setting Sail on "Ocean Change" 2025: Arved Fuchs' Climate and Marine Protection Expedition
Arved Fuchs embarks on the 'Ocean Change' segment in the year 2025 - Arved Fuchs is making his way to the Ocean Change event in 2025.
Polar explorer and author, Arved Fuchs, has embarked on another leg of his "Ocean Change" project. Together with his crew, they set sail on the historic vessel "Dagmar Aaen" from Flensburg on the 1st of June, 2025. Before departing, Fuchs shared his enthusiasm with Deutsche Presse-Agentur, stressing the expedition's focus on climate change impacts and marine protection - interconnected issues he champions through cross-disciplinary collaborations.
This year's voyage takes them through the sensitive inland sea of the eastern Baltic, the North Sea, and the eastern Atlantic. Key stops along the way include Stralsund, Greifswald, Świnoujście (Poland), Klaipėda (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia), the island of Föhr, the English Channel, and eventually Brittany and Cornwall. Their return to Flensburg is slated for late August, depending on weather conditions.
Equipped with intelligent measurement technology, data can be gathered in areas where research ships are scarce. "There aren't many of them, so we're filling in the gaps," Fuchs explained. With the "Dagmar Aaen", the team can amass and publicize data with this technology.
Established by Fuchs in 2015, the "Ocean Change" project investigates changes in the oceans and their effects on the climate and coastal landscapes.
- Arved Fuchs
- Climate Change
- Marine Protection
- Climate
- Flensburg
- North Sea
- Atlantic
- Citizen Science
- Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Enrichment Data:
Focus
- Climate Change Impact: Exploring how climate change affects marine ecosystems, particularly sensitive areas like the Baltic Sea and the North Sea/eastern Atlantic.
- Citizen Science: Engaging the public through an initiative called "Sailing for Oxygen," collaborating with GEOMAR and Trans-Ocean e.V. to encourage other sailors to participate in marine data collection.
Data Collection Methods
- Scientific Equipment: Using state-of-the-art gear like laboratory equipment, drifter buoys, Argofloaters, and an OceanPack to gather data continuously, measuring CO2 content, salinity, temperature, and phytoplankton presence in seawater.
- CCD Probe: Deploying a Conductivity, Density, and Depth (CCD) probe to collect data at depths up to 500 meters, providing readings four times per second.
- Satellite Transmission: Transmitting data directly to GEOMAR in Kiel via satellite channels.
- Citizen Science Tools: Utilizing a camera attached to the ship's jib boom to capture seawater photographs for the EyeOnWater project, which analyzes water color to evaluate ecological status.
- EyeOnWater App: Allowing participants to contribute data by using the EyeOnWater app to report water color changes, which are validated and recorded on the project's website.
- Arved Fuchs, during his interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur, highlighted the focus of the "Ocean Change" expedition on the interconnected issues of climate change and marine protection, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaborations in science.
- As part of the "Ocean Change" project's citizen science initiative called "Sailing for Oxygen," Arved Fuchs' team aims to gather data on health-and-wellness parameters like CO2 content, salinity, temperature, and phytoplankton presence in seawater, using environmental-science tools such as laboratory equipment, drifter buoys, Argofloaters, and an OceanPack.
