• Partner

    Tallinna Tehnikaülikool (Estonia) Gronlands Naturinstitut (Greenland) Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Secretariat World Ocean Council EU-PolarNet Participants (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut)

  • Palaeogenetics Lab

    samples. Our focus study areas are Arctic terrestrial systems (Russia, Alaska, Canada) and coastal–marine polar ecosystems (North Pacific & Atlantic, Southern Oceans). We apply metabarcoding (target-specific

  • Palaeo-ice sheet dynamics

    sea levels are the two most important cornerstones. We conduct marine geological research in the Arctic and Antarctic to more precisely define the inadequately known advance and retreat behavior of the [...] contributes to better reconstructing the history of global ice sheets and evaluating their influence on ocean circulation and sea level variations. As a result, models for future ice sheet behavior are then to

  • PS101 KARASIK

    m at Gakkel Ridge of the Central Arctic. Such integrated studies of ultraslow oceanic spreading zones are rare, because the most extensive of these systems, the Arctic Gakkel Ridge and the Southwest Indian

  • PROCEED Postdoc Office

    announcements were on these topics: · Climate and Geosciences (atmosphere, ocean, ice and land) · Coastal systems · Terrestrial Arctic ecosystems and permafrost · Marine and polar life · Marine bioeconomy

  • PPR_Arctic

    remote sensing data alone, as the satellite ocean color algorithms are known to perform poorly at polar latitudes even if developed explicitly for the Arctic waters. Gaps in satellite data, which occur [...] for satellite applications. Ocean Science, 9 (2), pp. 431-445. doi: 10.5194/os-9-431-2013 , hdl:10013/epic.41331 Other references: Antoine, D. and A. Morel (1996). Oceanic primary production: I. Adaptation [...] PhD Thesis Alexandra Cherkasheva 2009-2014 Arctic phytoplankton today deserve special attention as they are already living in waters with most prominent climate change effect, which are shifting towards

  • POLEX

    the improved physical representation of polar air-sea ice-ocean interaction on the variability and changes of Arctic atmospheric circulation, Arctic sea ice and mid-latitude atmospheric circulation. Therefore [...] regions Arctic and Russia. Our project will strongly enhance the climate models capability to represent Arctic processes that are known to be critical for simulating linkages between the Arctic and mid [...] navigability of Northern sea route over the Arctic Ocean, wildfires and changes in vegetation characteristics over Russia. Milestone M4.1 Implementation of improved ocean wave-ice interaction model Milestone

  • PETA-CARB in the Media

    research in Arctic. 2015-11-27 On Arctic Dispatch News there is an article about our yedoma erosion study: "Speedily eroding North Slope river bluff offers window into ice age past" 2015-11-07 On Arctic Dispatch [...] contribution by rbb Wissenszeit: "Children ask questions" on the subject of "Climate change in the Arctic" , some PETA CARB members can be seen and heard. 2018-10-20 Based on an interview with PETA-CARB [...] Pole (in German only) 2018-09-06 Ingmar, Guido and other colleagues are authors of a guest post "How Arctic lakes accelerate permafrost carbon losses" in the science blog "CarbonBrief". 2018-09-05 A PNN newspaper

  • PEBCAO

    biogeochemical and planktonic parameters due to fast temperature increase and acidification of the Arctic Ocean. Team Dr. Eva-Maria Nöthig (coordinator, phytoplankton ecology & particle flux) Prof. Dr. Astrid

  • Outreach

    Times' reports! Arctic climate change and the consequences for microalgae Contribution to the scientific expert reports section on the website of Scientific Year 2016/17 Resistant Arctic microalgae (De [...] (Deutschlandfunk, 25.1.2017) Radio interview on the responses of Arctic phytoplankton to climate change on the occasion of the Arctic Frontiers conference 2017, Deutschlandfunk. Tiny algae, hugely resilient [...] important source of food in the oceans. Dr Clara Hoppe of the Alfred Wegener Institute examines how changed living conditions as a result of climate change affect Arctic microalgae. Algal diet (Rheinpfalz