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

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

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