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
Brandt, Angelika   Senckenberg FFM   since 2018   The influence of Larsen-C ice-cover on macrobenthic peracarid crustacean assemblages on the Antarctic shelf
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
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
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
Link, Heike   Universität Rostock   since 2017   Role of meio- and macrofauna in benthic ecosystem functioning: Testing effects of different ice cover regimes
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.
Trimborn, Scarlett   Universität Bremen   ssince 2018   Iron manganese co-limitation – a potential driver of Southern Ocean phytoplankton ecology
Ulrich, Tim   Universität Greifswald   seit 2021   Bacterial transformations of dimethylsulfoniopropionate in the Weddell Sea
Veit-Köhler, Gritta   Senckenberg Wilhelmshaven   since 2017   Role of meio- and macrofauna in benthic ecosystem functioning: Testing effects of different ice cover regimes
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
Wermter, Felizitas Charlotte   Universität Bremen   since 2019   Unrevealing the neurophysiological mechanisms responsible for OWA induced behavioral changes in polar fish: an NMR approach
Wichard, Thomas   Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena   since 2019   Adaptation of the green seaweed Ulva and its microbiome to cold temperature in Antarctica (COLDULVA)
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
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
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
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?
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?
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)
Physics and Chemistry
Name   Einrichtung   Laufzeit   Thema
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   seit 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
Ebbing, Jörg   Universität Kiel   since 2018   Taking the temperature of Antarctica with joint inversion of geophysical information from satellites and seismological and airborne studies – Antarctic Heat
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+)
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
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   seit 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)
Willmes, Sascha   Universität Trier   seit 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)