Name

   Einrichtung   Laufzeit   Thema

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

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   since 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   since 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   since 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-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2022   ELICA - Elucidating lipid-carbon flux dynamics in the Southern Ocean

Piontek, Judith

   IOW Rostock   since 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

Plum, Christoph

   Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg   since 2024   EVOLutionary adaptation of Antarctic PHytoplankton in a fluctuating Environment (EVOLPHE)

Pushkareva, Ekaterina

   University of Cologne   since2024   Adaptation mechanisms of bryophyte-microorganism associations in Antarctica

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

Scholten, Thomas

   Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen   since 2024   Microbial-induced pedogenesis: Microaggregates as nucleus for initial soil formation

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.

Urich, Tim

  Universität Greifswald   since 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

Wagner, Dirk

   Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ)   since 2024   Microbial-induced pedogenesis: Microaggregates as nucleus for initial soil formation

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

Name

   Einrichtung   Laufzeit   Thema

Berg, Sonja

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

Bohrmann, Gerhard

   Universität Bremen   since 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   since 2022   Climate sensitivity of western Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves (CSAPIS)

Drews, Reinhard

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

Franke, Steve

   Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen   since 2024   ICE DECODE: Investigating the Characteristics of Antarctica's basal ice by means of radio-echo sounding reflection analysis

Fromm, Tanja

   Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 2024   Geophysical characterization of the crust and subglacial sediments near the grounding zone of the Ekström Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, using Magnetotellurics (PRISTINE)

Gohl, Karsten

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

Gottschalk, Julia

   Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel   since 2024   Marine drivers and consequences of East Antarctic ice sheet instability in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean (Acronym: MarEASI)

Grayver, Alexander

   University of Cologne   since 2024   Geophysical characterization of the crust and subglacial sediments near the grounding zone of the Ekström Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, using Magnetotellurics (PRISTINE)

Helm, Veit

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

Horwath, Martin

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

Keul, Nina

   Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel   since 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   since 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

   Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel   since 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   since 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   since 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   since 2023   Tracing the effect of Ocean Acidification and Ocean Warming in the shells of calcifiers and the potential proxy implications

Melles, Martin

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

Müller, Juliane

   Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   since 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?

Ritter, Oliver

   Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ)   since 2024   Geophysical characterization of the crust and subglacial sediments near the grounding zone of the Ekström Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, using Magnetotellurics (PRISTINE)

Rückamp, Martin

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

Schannwell, Clemens

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

Scheinert, Mirko

   TU Dresden   since 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   since 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   since 2020   Marine Shelf Ice from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf: A sleeping iron giant?

Von Dobeneck, Tilo

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

Wolovick, Michael

   Universität Bremen   since 2024   ICE-HEAT INVERSION: Unveiling Antarctic Geothermal Heat Flow through Glaciological Observations

Zuhr, Alexandra

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

Name

   Einrichtung   Laufzeit   Thema

Albrecht, Torsten

   Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung   since 2023   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 Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel   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)

Ionita-Scholz, Monica

   Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung   seit 2024   AntExtremes - Extreme events in the Antarctic: Understanding strong regional sea ice fluctuations in connection with atmospheric and oceanic drivers

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

Melsheimer, Christian

   Universität Bremen   since 2024   AntExtremes - Extreme events in the Antarctic: Understanding strong regional sea ice fluctuations in connection with atmospheric and oceanic drivers

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

Seifert, Patric

   Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung   since 2024   SOPHY – Improved model parameterizations for Southern Ocean phytoplankton using laboratory data

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   since 2023   Response of the Southern Ocean biological carbon pump to climate-related changes in iron supply