• Into the ice – RV Polarstern opens the arctic season by setting course for Spitsbergen

      Polarstern will leave its home port in Bremerhaven, setting a course for the Arctic. Led by Dr Ilka Peeken from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) a team

    • Week 1 at the ice floe

      that it will soon be gone. With contributions from Ulrike Egerer, Hauke Flores, Allison Fong, Ilka Peeken, Priit Tisler

    • PEBCAO

      Dr. Katja Metfies (PI, molecularbiology) PD Dr. Barbara Niehoff (PI, zooplankton ecology) Dr. Ilka Peeken (PI, sea ice ecology & flow cytometry) associated scientists: Dr. Eduard Bauerfeind Dr. Hauke Flores

    • SynSenPFT

      Japan (Prof. Dr. Takafumi Hirata) AWI, Polar Biological Oceanography , Bremerhaven, Germany ( Dr. Ilka Peeken ) Richmond School of Arts and Science, Dep. of Geography and Environment (Dr. Tihomir Kostadinov)

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    • Ilka Peeken

      adjacent ecosystem. Contact Ilka Peeken +49(471)4831-1626 E-Mail CV Publications ORCID Google Scholar Photo Download Dr. Ilka Peeken at the MOSAiC expedition. jpg | 318 KB Dr. Ilka Peeken at the MOSAiC expedition [...] expedition. jpg | 378 KB Marine biologist Dr. Ilka Peeken jpg | 2 MB Scientist Ilka Peeken dives the ROV from the, jpg | 605 KB Media National Geographic | 30.10.2019 Why does the Arctic have more plastic than [...] Sea ice: a habitat for specialists Dr Ilka Peeken, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Biodiversity Polar regions Plastic Sea Ice Climate change is especially putting the polar regions under

    • Microplastics

      Pollution Observatory / Microplastics in the Arctic (in-house project; PIs: Melanie Bergmann, Ilka Peeken and Gunnar Gerdts) “Microplastics Reactor” and “Sediment Separator” (in-house technology transfer

    • Projects

      Pollution Observatory / Microplastics in the Arctic (in-house project; PIs: Melanie Bergmann, Ilka Peeken and Gunnar Gerdts) “Microplastics Reactor” and “Sediment Separator” (in-house technology transfer

    • Important phenomenon discovered in the Arctic

      An international study led by the University of Copenhagen and involving the Alfred Wegener Institute has discovered an important phenomenon under the Arctic sea ice that was previously thought to be

    • Setting sail to a region in rapid transition

      With the departure of the research vessel Polarstern from Punta Arenas (Chile) scheduled for this weekend, the "Summer Weddell Sea Outflow Study" (SWOS) international expedition will commence. Up to e