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; PI: Gunnar Gerdts

PD Dr. Barbara Niehoff Dr. Eva-Maria Nöthig, Senior Advisor Dr. Ilka Peeken Prof. Dr. Kristin Tessmar-Raible Dr. Klaus Valentin, Senior Advisor PhD Students Magda Dolinkiewicz, WG PD Dr. B. Niehoff

Ilka.Peeken@awi.de
+49(471)4831-1626
Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

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 early April, a multidisciplinary international research team will investigate the northwestern region of the Weddell Sea – an area of central importance for the global climate and ocean system, but one that can only be explored on site by research icebreakers such as the Polarstern due to challenging sea ice conditions.

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 impossible: So-called non-cyanobacteria can also fix nitrogen under Arctic conditions, which in turn could have an impact on the food web and the carbon budget in the cold north, as the researchers now report in the journal Communications Earth and Environment .

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; PI: Gunnar Gerdts

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 [...] organisms in the sea ice, and for the 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. jpg | 378 KB Marine biologist Dr. Ilka Peeken jpg | 2 MB Scientist Ilka Peeken dives the ROV from

AWI, Polar Biological Oceanography , Bremerhaven, Germany ( Dr. Ilka Peeken ) Richmond School of Arts and Science, Dep. of Geography and Environment (Dr. Tihomir Kostadinov) Public project's documents

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 Dr. Steffi Gäbler-Schwarz

With contributions from Ulrike Egerer, Hauke Flores, Allison Fong, Ilka Peeken, Priit Tisler