APRIL 7, 2026

MEDIA OUTREACH

International Kongsfjorden year discussed in Fram Forum publication

A publication on year-round sampling in Kongsfjorden featuring YESSS has been published in the Norwegian Fram Forum magazine, contributing our project leader Clara Hoppe, and our PhD students Max Willems, Sneha Sivaram, Milan Beck, and Lola Nader as co-authors.

The article outlines the premise and program of the 2024-2025 year-round research on Svalbard, now known as the International Kongsfjorden Year (IKY), and discusses the extensive variety of sampling campaigns conducted by the teams involved.

Read the article here.

Scientists Involved

DR CLARA HOPPE

Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven

Role in YESSS: Lead of the YESSS project. Lead of work package 3. Experiments on winter survival in warming oceans

Research focus in the project: Year-round monitoring of the Kongsfjorden ecosystem with a focus on phytoplankton, overwintering success and temperature sensitivity of Arctic phytoplankton.

MILAN BECK

University of Bremen, Marine Botany

Role in YESSS: PhD student

Research focus in the project: Year-round monitoring of the potential effects of temperature stress on a high Arctic intertidal macroalgae.

SNEHA SIVARAM

Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven

Role in YESSS: PhD student

Research focus in the project: Seasonally resolved climate warming impacts on ccophysiology of Arctic phytoplankton in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard.

MAX WILLEMS

Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU), Institute for Molecular Physiology (imP) Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven

Role in YESSS: PhD student

Research focus in the project: Fish physiology - field research.

LOLA NADER

Kiel University GEOMAR Helmholtz Cenntre for Ocean Research Kiel

Role in YESSS: PhD student

Research focus in the project: The effects of warming on Arctic sea urchins and mussels.

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