SEPTEMBER 31, 2024
MEDIA OUTREACH
Bremen-based daily 'Weser-Kurier' reporting
Weser-Kurier is one of the most widely read large city newspapers in Northern Germany.
The article, titled “Winter in the Arctic,” reports on the kick-off of the YESSS project and highlights the importance of understanding the Arctic’s response to climate change, particularly during the winter months. As the article states, “the temperature of the sea here has increased twice as fast as in other regions of the world,” making the Arctic a critical indicator of global climate trends.
Scientists Involved
PROF. DR LAURA EPP
University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute, Department of Biology
Role in YESSS: Lead of work package 1. Year-round monitoring of biotic and abiotic parameters
Research focus in the project: Population genetic analyses of phytoplankton across the year. Overwintering strategies of phytoplankton and recruitment.
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.
PROF. DR BERNHARD LIEB
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU), Institute for Molecular Physiology (imP)
Role in YESSS: Senior researcher
Research focus in the project: Performing physiological and molecular experiments and NGS-based genomic and transcriptomic analyses on temperature sensitivities of the polar cod B. saida to identify variations in resilience as well as potential physiological bottlenecks of a changing arctic environment.
PROF. DR BJÖRN CHRISTIAN ROST
Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven University of Bremen
Role in YESSS: Researcher
Research focus in the project: Seasonally resolved physiological plasticity and ecosystem functions of Arctic phytoplankton under global warming.
DR KLARA WOLF
University of Konstanz, Environmental Genomics
Role in YESSS: Researcher
Research focus in the project: Genetic analysis of our year-round sampling campaign for an overview on general biodiversity and our different focal species throughout the different seasons of the year; overwintering strategies of phytoplankton in marine sediments.
