Awards 2009
Senior Scientists
Norel Rimbu, Gerrit Lohmann, Klaus Grosfeld
Romanian Academy Award „Stefan Hepites“ of Environmental Sciences Section
Award for: “Contribution to the understanding of atmospheric circulation during the Holocene"
Dec 09
Klaus Valentin
2nd place Roche Sequencing Projects Competition
Topic "Metagenomes of Polar Sea Ice Communities"
Jun 09
Antje Boetius
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Mar 09
Junior Scientists
Holger Klinck
Award 2009 for outstanding dissertations, University of Trier
for his dissertation (“Automated passive acoustic detection, localization and identification of leopard seals: From hydro-acoustic technology to leopard seal ecology.”)
Nov 09
Reinhard Drews
Bernd Rendel Prize 2009 of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
for outstanding young qualified geoscientists
Oct 09
YACHT TECCON Promotion Award
for his dissertation ("Climate variability from annual to multimillenial timescales: Insights from statistical and conceptual models")
Oct 09
Scarlett Trimborn
Poster Award and "Best Oral Presentation" - 4th SOLAS Summer School
for her poster presentation
Sep 09
Elizabeth Sweet
Presentation: Lecturer’s vote winner - 4th SOLAS Summer School
for her presentation "δ13C of particulate organic material in the Southern Ocean"
Sep 09
Svenja Kruse
SCAR Early Career Award
for her presentation “Distribution, composition and life cycle of meso- and bathypelagic chaetognaths in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean”
Jul 09
Florian Leese
Annette Barthelt Award for Marine Sciences 2009
for his works dealing with the development of biodiversity in the South Polar Ocean (dissertation "The recent evolutionary history of Antarctic and Subantarctic benthic isopods: Development and Analysis of fast evolving molecular markers")
May 09
Ann-Katrin Lüders
Award for the best presentation, "14. Internationale Crustaceologentagung"
for her presentation "Multidrug resistance associated protein (MRP) transporter in marine crustaceans: lobster (Homarus gammarus), shrimp (Crangon crangon), and isopod (Idotea emarginata)"
Apr 09
Susanne Liebner
Promotionspreis 2009 der Vereinigung für Allgemeine und Angewandte Mikrobiologie (VAAM)
Mrz 09
Morten Hvitfeld Iversen
ASLO outstanding Student Presentation Award
für seinen Vortrag „Particalute organic matter export: Degradation processes and ballasting effects“
Jan 09
Katherina Schoo
ASLO outstanding Student Presentation Award
Jan 09
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Boris Koch
1st place Bremerhaven Science Slam
for his presentation "Der Atem des Cäsar" ("Ceasar's breath")
Dec 09
Daniel Siegel, Birgit von See
Bionik Business Award
for their work "Fractal Solutions"
Dec 09
IEEE Local Organizing Committee, AWI represented via Innovation Transfer (Eberhard Sauter)
IEEE Ocean Engineering Society Award
for organizing the conference and fair OCEANS '09
Oct 09
Germany, Land of Ideas - Selected Landmark 2009
for the innovation transfer between Alfred Wegener Institute and industry/ business
Jun 09
AWI School project "SEA: Science & Education @ the AWI"
lead by Dr. Susanne Gatti and Winfried Hebold-Heitz
NordWest Award, Price of the Bremer Landesbank 2009