Biological Sciences

Name

  Einrichtung   Laufzeit   Thema

Becker, Burkhard

  Universität zu Köln   since 2020   Functional metatranscriptomics of Antarctic biological soil crust algae: Identification of key genes for the survival under the extreme conditions of Antarctica

Dietrich,Daniel

  Universität Konstanz   seit 2021   Pole to Pole exchange: Climate facilitated cyanobacterial parasite pressure & mat ecosystem response

Dumack, Kenneth

  Universität zu Köln   since 2020   Algivorous Cercozoa shape the community composition of cryptogamic covers, the dominant vegetation in Polar Regions.

Förster, Charlotte

  Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg   since 2020   Understanding the mechanistic bases of marine clocks and rhythms in the Antarctic key species Euphausia superba

Friedrich, Michael

  Universität Bremen   since 2018   Environmental Controls of Iron-Reducing Microorganisms in Antarctic Marine Sediments [ECIMAS]

Glaser, Karin

  Universität Rostock   since 2020   Algivorous Cercozoa shape the community composition of cryptogamic covers, the dominant vegetation in Polar Regions.

Grossart, Hans-Peter

  Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB)   since 2019   Ecological role of fungal parasites on benthic diatoms of polar coastal waters

Grossart, Hans-Peter

  Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB)   since 2023   Molecular and physiological mechanisms of fungal parasitism and their ecological consequences in polar waters

Harder, Tilmann

  Universität Bremen   since 2020   Siderophore mediated iron acquisition of psychrophilic Antarctic marine bacteria

Harder, Tilmann

  Universität Bremen   since 2020   Recognition, signalling and response of the diatom Fragilariopsis to epibiotic bacterial colonization.

Havermans, Charlotte

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2021   Sight unseen: Elucidating the trophic role and metapopulation structure of Southern Ocean gelatinous zooplankton using DNA metabarcoding

Herr, Helena

  Universität Hamburg   since 2018   Recovery status and ecology of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) at the West Antarctic Peninsula

Hench, Kosmas

  Universität Bielefeld   since 2023   Temporal and spatial dynamics of mutation load in the Antarctic predator Arctocephalus gazella

Hoffman, Joseph

  Universität Bielefeld   since 2019   Genomic dissection of climate change impacts on a declining Antarctic top predator population

Hoffman, Joseph

  Universität Bielefeld   seit 2021   COMPOSES: COMparing Polar Ocean SoundscapES – Investigating the influence of anthropogenic noise and changing sea ice conditions on the noise budgets and marine mammal communities of two polar regions

Hoffman, Joseph

  Universität Bielefeld   since 2022   Understanding host-microbe interactions in a changing world: drivers and fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in a declining Antarctic pinniped

Hoppema, Mario

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2021   Identifying the carbon that matters: chemical controls on organic matter aggregation (COMA)

Karsten, Ulf

  Universität Rostock   since 2019   Biodiversity and biogeography of marine benthic diatoms in Antarctic and Arctic shallow water coastal zones to evaluate the degree of endemism using fine-grained taxonomy and eDNA metabarcoding

Karsten, Ulf

  Universität Rostock   since 2019   Ecological role of fungal parasites on benthic diatoms of polar coastal waters

Karsten, Ulf

  Universität Rostock   since 2023   Molecular and physiological mechanisms of fungal parasitism and their ecological consequences in polar waters

Kroth, Peter

  Universität Konstanz   since 2023   Funktionelle Adaption an polare Licht-Bedingungen in marine Mikro-Eukaryoten

Pauli, Nora-Charlotte

  Alfred-Wegener-I H-Z f Polar- u Meer AWI   since 2022   ELICA - Elucidating lipid-carbon flux dynamics in the Southern Ocean

Piontek, Judith

  IOW Rostock   seit 2021   Bacterial transformations of dimethylsulfoniopropionate in the Weddell Sea

Plum, Christoph

  Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg   since 2020   Altered stoichiometry and species interactions in coastal Antarctic plankton communities under global climate change

Quillfeldt, Petra

  Universität Gießen   since 2022   Foraging and movement ecology of two sympatrically breeding Antarctic storm-petrels

Schloter, Michael

  München TUM   since 2022   Understanding host-microbe interactions in a changing world: drivers and fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in a declining Antarctic pinniped

Tebben, Jan

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2020   Siderophore mediated iron acquisition of psychrophilic Antarctic marine bacteria

Tebben, Jan

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2020   Recognition, signalling and response of the diatom Fragilariopsis to epibiotic bacterial colonization.

Ulrich, Tim

  Universität Greifswald   seit 2021   Bacterial transformations of dimethylsulfoniopropionate in the Weddell Sea

Verhaegen, Gerlien

  Universität Greifswald   since 2022   Where are the jellyfish? An integrative molecular study to reveal the gelatinous zooplankton species diversity, distribution, and connectivity within a changing Southern Ocean

Völker, Christoph

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2020   Siderophore mediated iron acquisition of psychrophilic Antarctic marine bacteria

Wietz, Matthias

  Universität Oldenburg   since 2023   Year-round dynamics and drivers of the Biological Carbon Pump in the Weddell Sea revealed by autonomous sampling

Witt, Gesine

  Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg   since 2022   Recording the baseline before the change: First steps towards an integrated chemical and biological pollution and effects assessment off Dronning Maud Land

Zimmermann, Jonas

  Freie Universität Berlin   since 2019   Biodiversity and biogeography of marine benthic diatoms in Antarctic and Arctic shallow water coastal zones to evaluate the degree of endemism using fine-grained taxonomy and eDNA metabarcoding

Zitterbart, Daniel

  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg   since 2020   Remote sensing of emperor penguin colony health and foraging success
Geological Sciences

Name

  Einrichtung   Laufzeit   Thema

Berg, Sonja

  Universität Köln   seit 2019   Marine ecosystem response to late Pleistocene climate conditions- evidence from snow petrel stomach oil deposits ("mumiyo") in East Antarctica

Berg, Sonja

  Universität Köln   seit 2023   Holocene environmental conditions in the coastal ocean off East Antarctica - evidence from the paleo-diet of snow petrels

Bohrmann, Gerhard

  Universität Bremen   seit 2019   Pleistocene Sediments around South Georgia: archives for Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics and climate-induced signals in Sub-Antarctica (Past-ACC)

Braun, Matthias Holger

  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg   seit 2022   Climate sensitivity of western Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves (CSAPIS)

Drews, Reinhard

  Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen   seit 2022   SOS Antarctica - Slipping Or Shearing in the margins of outlet glaciers in Antarctica

Ebbing, Jörg

  Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel   seit 2022   Taking the temperature of Antarctica with joint inversion of geophysical information - Antarctic Heat 2

Gohl, Karsten

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2023   East Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity under vulnerable conditions studied by combination of focused geophysical techniques

Helm, Veit

  Technische Universität Dresden   seit 2021   Advancing ice altimetry analysis to constrain the Antarctic Ice Sheet's response to climate change

Horwath, Martin

  Technische Universität Dresden   seit 2020   Advancing ice altimetry analysis to constrain the Antarctic Ice Sheet's response to climate change

Keul, Nina

  Kiel CAU   seit 2023   Tracing the effect of Ocean Acidification and Ocean Warming in the shells of calcifiers and the potential proxy implications

Klages, Johann Philipp

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2022   Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius (SWAIS 2C): Did a trans-Antarctic seaway open in a warmer-than-present world?

Krastel, Sebastian

  Kiel CAU   seit 2023   East Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity under vulnerable conditions studied by combination of focused geophysical techniques

Kuhn, Gerhard

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2019   Pleistocene Sediments around South Georgia: archives for Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics and climate-induced signals in Sub-Antarctica (Past-ACC)

Kuhlhanek, Denise

  Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel   seit 2022   Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius (SWAIS 2C): Did a trans-Antarctic seaway open in a warmer-than-present world?

Lembke-Jene, Lester

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2023   Tracing the effect of Ocean Acidification and Ocean Warming in the shells of calcifiers and the potential proxy implications

Melles, Martin

  Universität Köln   seit 2023   East Antarctic Ice Sheet Instability in the Vestfold Hills, Prydz Bay Region, Antarctica - History and Control

Müller, Juliane

  Alfred-Wegener-I H-Z f Polar- u Meer AWI   seit 2022   Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius (SWAIS 2C): Did a trans-Antarctic seaway open in a warmer-than-present world?

Rückamp, Martin

  Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften   seit 2022   Climate sensitivity of western Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves (CSAPIS)

Schannwell, Clemens

  Universität Tübingen   seit 2018   Quantifying millennial timescale grounding-line retreat in East Antarctica

Scheinert, Mirko

  TU Dresden   seit 2018   Interaction between mass changes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and solid Earth in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

Seehaus, Thorsten

  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg   seit 2022   Unlocking the glaciological information of historical aerial imagery to obtain long-term glacier mass balance information and to identify drivers of glacier changes on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Stichel, Torben

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2020   Marine Shelf Ice from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf: A sleeping iron giant?

Von Dobeneck, Tilo

  Universität Bremen   seit 2019   Pleistocene Sediments around South Georgia: archives for Antarctic Circumpolar Current dynamics and climate-induced signals in Sub-Antarctica (Past-ACC)

Zuhr, Alexandra

  Universität Tübingen   seit 2023   Is Dronning Maud Land mitigating sea level rise in the 21st century? Quantifying the anthropogenically induced change in snow accumulation in East Antarctica
Physics and Chemistry

Name

  Einrichtung   Laufzeit   Thema

Albrecht, Torsten

  Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung   since2023   Feedbacks between the Greenland and Antarctic ICE sheets via the Meridional Overturning Circulation and relative sea-level (ICE-MOC)

Arevalo-Martinez, Leonardo

  GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel   since 2021   Austauschflüsse klimarelevanter Spurengase vor der Westlichen Antarktischen Halbinsel (EWARP)

Arndt, Stefanie

  AWI Bremerhaven   since 2018   Snow contrasts controlling the fate of sea ice

Arndt, Stefanie

  AWI Bremerhaven   since 2022   Climate change: A friend or foe for the future Antarctic sea ice mass budget? (fAntasie)

Casado, Mathieu

  Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg   since 2020   Constraining the Climatic Signal Archived in Water Isotopes in Antarctic Ice Cores

Gutjahr, Marcus

  GEOMAR   since 2023   Transfer of anthropogenic lead (Pb) to Antarctic waters and the Pb-inventory of the Southern Ocean water column

Heinemann, Günther

  Universität Trier   since 2019   Regional high-resolution Downscaling of Climate Change in the Antarctic (REDOCCA)

Henning, Silvia

  Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e.V. (TROPOS)   since 2020   Variation of Antarctic Cloud Condensation (CCN) and ice nucleating particle (INP) concentrations and properties at NEumayer Station compared to their values in the Arctic at Villum Research Station (VACCINE+)

Hoffmann, Helene

  Universität Tübingen   since 2023   Investigating Climate Variability changes of the last 130 000 years using an ice core from Skytrain Ice Rise, West-Antarctica (CliVarSky130)

Istomina, Larysa

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2019   Recent Antarctic Sea Ice Surface Melt from Satellite Remote Sensing (REASSESS)

Kanzow, Torsten

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2016   Access of Atlantic Water to East Greenland glaciers

Lippold, Jörg

  Universität Heidelberg   since 2023   Transfer of anthropogenic lead (Pb) to Antarctic waters and the Pb-inventory of the Southern Ocean water column

Mehlmann, Carolin

  Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie   since 2021   A hybrid sea ice model to estimate the impact of sea ice-ocean-atmosphere coupling at the floe scale on the Antarctic sea ice evolution

Paul, Stephan

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2022   Patterns and Drivers of Sea ice dynamics in the Southern Ocean (PADOS)

Reeve, Krissy

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2019   WedUP: Weddell Gyre Upwelling and dynamical Processes

Ricken, Tim

  Universität Stuttgart Institut für Statik und Dynamik der Luft- und Raumfahrtkonstruktionen   since 2021   Modeling of small scale processes in Antarctic sea ice and their impact on the biological pump in the future Southern Ocean - a physical-biological coupled bi-scale approach

Seifert, Patric

  Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung   since 2021   COALA – Continuous Observations of Aerosol-cLoud interaction in Antarctica

Semmler, Tido

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2019   Regional high-resolution Downscaling of Climate Change in the Antarctic (REDOCCA)

Timmermann, Ralph

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2019   Regional high-resolution Downscaling of Climate Change in the Antarctic (REDOCCA)

Wernecke, Andreas

  Universität Hamburg   since 2023   A Monte-Carlo ensemble of Antarctic passive-microwave sea-ice concentrations: Identifying error sources and characteristics for machine-learning supported uncertainty quantification

Willmes, Sascha

  Universität Trier   since 2022   Muster und Antriebe der Meereisdynamik im Südlichen Ozean (PADOS)

Winkelmann, Ricarda

  PIK Potsdam   since 2018   Hysteresis of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Winkelmann, Ricarda

  PIK Potsdam   since 2018   Patterns and Drivers of Sea ice dynamics in the Southern Ocean (PADOS)

Ying Ye

  Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2023   Response of the Southern Ocean biological carbon pump to climate-related changes in iron supply