• Past Climate Change

    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

  • Palaeogenetics Lab

    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

  • Hajo Eicken

    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

  • Sofia Kuzmina

    sofia.kuzmina@awi.de
    Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

  • A year in the ice: Tara Polar Station begins its drift through the central Arctic

    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.