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Volker Strass is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these domains, they focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Strass has coauthored multiple papers alongside frequent collaborators such as Torsten Kanzow, Olaf Boebel, Gerd Rohardt, Astrid Bracher, and Hongyan Xi. These partnerships have contributed to a consistent output in notable scientific venues.

The publishing record includes papers in several respected journals, among which are:

  • Ocean science (2 publications)
  • Journal of Climate (1 publication)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans (1 publication)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science (1 publication)
  • Progress In Oceanography (1 publication)

Recent papers contributed by Volker Strass include:

  • "Multidecadal Warming and Density Loss in the Deep Weddell Sea, Antarctica," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Coherent Seasonal Acceleration of the Weddell Sea Boundary Current System Driven by Upstream Winds," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "High Resolution Water Column Phytoplankton Composition Across the Atlantic Ocean From Ship-Towed Vertical Undulating Radiometry," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "High-resolution physical-biogeochemical structure of a filament and an eddy of upwelled water off northwest Africa," 2020, Ocean science
  • "The Weddell Gyre heat budget associated with the Warm Deep Water circulation derived from Argo floats," 2023, Ocean science

Best Publications

  • Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom

    Victor Smetacek;Victor Smetacek;Christine Klaas;Volker H. Strass;Philipp Assmy;Philipp Assmy

  • Thick-shelled, grazer-protected diatoms decouple ocean carbon and silicon cycles in the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

    Philipp Assmy;Philipp Assmy;Victor Smetacek;Victor Smetacek;Marina Montresor;Christine Klaas

  • Formation and discharge of deep and bottom water in the northwestern Weddell Sea

    Eberhard Fahrbach;Gerd Rohardt;Norbert Scheele;Michael Schröder

  • Transport and structure of the Weddell Gyre

    Eberhard Fahrbach;Gerd Rohardt;Michael Schröder;Volker Strass

  • The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: Present Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Vernet;Walter Geibert;Mario Hoppema;P.J. Brown

  • Chlorophyll patchiness caused by mesoscale upwelling at fronts

    Volker H. Strass

  • The association of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba with the under-ice habitat.

    Hauke Flores;Jan Andries van Franeker;Volker Siegel;Matilda Haraldsson

  • Seasonal variation of diel vertical migration of zooplankton from ADCP backscatter time series data in the Lazarev Sea, Antarctica

    Boris Cisewski;Boris Cisewski;Volker H. Strass;Monika Rhein;Sören Krägefsky

  • Mesoscale frontal dynamics: shaping the environment of primary production in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

    Volker H Strass;Alberto C Naveira Garabato;Alberto C Naveira Garabato;Raymond T Pollard;Haika I Fischer

  • Seasonal shifts in ice edge phytoplankton blooms in the Barents Sea related to the water column stability

    Volker Strass;Eva-Maria Nöthig

  • Sea ice transports in the Weddell Sea

    Sabine Harms;Eberhard Fahrbach;Volker H. Strass

  • Upper ocean vertical mixing in the Antarctic Polar Front Zone

    Boris Cisewski;Volker H. Strass;Hartmut Prandke

  • Formation of Denmark strait overflow water by mixing in the East Greenland Current

    Volker H. Strass;Eberhard Fahrbach;Ursula Schauer;Lutz Sellmann

  • Spatial and temporal distribution of Fe(II) and H2O2 during EisenEx, an open ocean mescoscale iron enrichment

    Peter L. Croot;Patrick Laan;Jun Nishioka;Volker Strass

  • Significant portion of dissolved organic Fe complexes in fact is Fe colloids

    Marie Boye;Jun Nishioka;Peter Croot;Patrick Laan

  • The tunicate Salpa thompsoni ecology in the Southern Ocean. I. Distribution, biomass, demography and feeding ecophysiology

    E. A. Pakhomov;E. A. Pakhomov;E. A. Pakhomov;Corinna Dubischar;Volker Strass;M. Brichta

  • Temporal and Regional Variation of Sea Ice Draft And Coverage in the Weddell Sea Obtained from Upward Looking Sonars

    Volker H. Strass;Eberhard Fahrbach

  • New production in the summer revealed by the meridional slope of the deep chlorophyll maximum

    Volker H. Strass;John D. Woods

  • Spatial variability of phytoplankton, nutrients and new production estimates in the waters around Svalbard

    Georgina Owrid;Giorgio Socal;Giuseppe Civitarese;Anna Luchetta

  • Horizontal and Seasonal Variation of Density and Chlorophyll Profiles between the Azores and Greenland

    Volker Strass;J. D. Woods

  • Multidecadal Warming and Density Loss in the Deep Weddell Sea, Antarctica

    Volker H. Strass;Gerd Rohardt;Torsten Kanzow;Mario Hoppema

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Bathmann
Ulrich Bathmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ilka Peeken
Ilka Peeken Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Evgeny A. Pakhomov
Evgeny A. Pakhomov University of British Columbia
Astrid Bracher
Astrid Bracher University of Bremen
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow
Dieter Wolf-Gladrow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Eberhard Fahrbach
Eberhard Fahrbach Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Mario Hoppema
Mario Hoppema Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Peter Croot
Peter Croot University of Galway
Torsten Kanzow
Torsten Kanzow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Katrin Linse
Katrin Linse British Antarctic Survey

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