specifically for polar missions by the French organisation Tara Ocean Foundation – is deliberately allowing itself to become trapped in the sea ice in order to explore the Arctic Ocean. Researchers from [...] a better understanding of the state of our planet’s only polar ocean, as well as the state of the Earth itself.

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Arctic Sea ice: Microstructure and geophysical processes Dr Hajo Eicken, Scientific Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Sea ice snow Arctic glaciology Sea-ice geophysics is a central research field within polar and climate sciences. Sea ice covers large parts of the Arctic [...] ice and thereby influence both Arctic ecosystems and large-scale feedbacks within the climate system. Beyond its role as a physical component of the climate system, sea

handling modern and ancient DNA samples. Our focus study areas are Arctic terrestrial systems (Russia, Alaska, Canada) and coastal–marine polar ecosystems (North Pacific & Atlantic, Southern Oceans). We

exposure will be studied in East Siberia along a transect from the Arctic Ocean to the Lake Baikal. The objectives of the project are to: (i) Reconstruct (a) mean interglacial temperatures at the southern [...] Meyer Funding: Leverhulme Grant Changes of water isotopes in Arctic Sea ice, Ocean, and atMosphere (CiASOM) (2021-2024) The main goal of the Changes of water isotopes in Arctic Sea ice, Ocean, and [...] is to provide a comprehensive description of the present-day Arctic water cycle and related key exchange processes between the atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice, using both instrumental data and climate

as temporary dive bases at the polar research station AWIPEV (Arctic - Spitsbergen), Dallman (Antarctic) and Neumayer III (Antarctic). With currently 12 certified "Dive Mission Leaders", the AWI CSD [...] in Europe and conducts professional underwater research in all oceans of the world. The main goals of the AWI Center for Scientific Diving are: To conduct, promote and support diver related underwater

Long-term Observation of Surface Radiation in the Arctic (AWIPEV Research Base in Ny-Ålesund, Spitsbergen) Pyranometer in Ny-Ålesund. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Ny-Ålesund is situated 78.9° N north of the arctic circle. During the polar night from 24. october to 18. february, sun doesn't appear, while there is no sun set during the polar day [...] thermal conditions and the circulation of the atmosphere and the ocean, shaping the main characteristics of the Earth's climate. The radiation budget components at the surface are measured in Ny-Ålesund

plankton productivity and particle sedimentation to the deep ocean, a process known as the Biological Pump, and the diversity and ecophysiology of key polar organisms, which illuminates the limits [...] biology of polar plankton, its role in the ecology of the Polar Oceans as well as its efficiency in stimulating the biological pump which is, in fact, mitigating the greenhouse effect. Research groups: [...] pelagic key specie s Phytoplankton ecology & particle flux in the Arctic Arktic zooplankton Marine Chronobiology Biodiversity Image analysis as well as molecular measurement processes are, among other

whose shared aim is to investigate the evolution of the central Arctic Ocean during past warm and super-warm climate states and to better understand how major bathymetric structures — the Lomonosov Ridge [...] Alpha Ridge, and the Morris Jesup Rise and Spur — have influenced ocean circulation, sedimentation, and sea-ice conditions through time. The Arctic Ocean responds disproportionately strongly to global [...] archives are, however, lacking from large parts of the central Arctic Ocean, in particular from the so-called Last Ice Area (LIA) off northern and northeastern Greenland and along the Lomonosov and

influence of melt events on stable oxygen isotope records from the Arctic. Due to rising temperatures over recent decades, the frequency of melt events in Arctic regions has increased. However, current [...] candidate at AWI also participated in expeditions to describe arctic vegetation and quantify biomass in Siberia (2021) and Canada (2022). My background is in Environmental Sciences with a focus on [...] JOIDES Resolution in the harbour of Fremantle before International Ocean Discovery Program Exp. 356 (Photo: Jeroen Groeneveld) Reconstructing past ocean water conditions using geochemistry in foraminifera