Polar research groups

Across Germany, there are many institutes doing polar research. On the map in blue are clusters where several research groups are in the same location.
Explore the research activities of German polar research in the following.

The Worldviews of Ice – Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld

Atmospheric changes in the Arctic and relationship with sea ice, aerosol, radiation, and trace gases – Technical University of Braunschweig

Climate Change and the Polar Oceans – Physical Oceanography, University of Bremen

Seaweed Biology in changing Polar coastal ecosystems- Marine Botany, University of Bremen

Polar Geodesy at Technical University of Dresden

Lemming cycles in North-East Greenland in the grip of Climate Change – University of Freiburg

Evolution, Behaviour and Adaptations of Seabirds of the Polar Oceans – University of Gießen

Strahlungshaushalt in der Antarktis – Strahlung und Fernerkundung, Leibniz Uni Hannover

Structure of the solid earth and heat flow under the ice – Geosciences, Kiel University

Reconstruction of the climatic and environmental history of polar regions by lake sediments – Quaternary Geology, University of Cologne

Properties and effects of clouds in the Arctic – LIM, University of Leipzig

Tracking Climate Change with Geodesy, Technical University of München

Exchange fluxes of climate-relevant trace gases off the Western AntaRctic Peninsula – ICBM, University of Oldenburg

Climate processes in polar regions – Environmental Meteorology, University of Trier

Climate relevant research using near-surface geophysics in polar regions – Geophysics, University of Tübingen

The adaptability of marine and terrestrial algae to extreme environmental conditions – Applied Ecology and Phycology, University of Rostock

Research in the working group “Polar & Bird Ecology”, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Analysis and prediction of global climate change and its effects on polar land ice masses and glaciers using remote sensing, field measurements and modeling

Arctic PASSION – Pan-Arctic Observing System of Systems

Southern Ocean phytoplankton ecology and biogeochemistry – ECOTRACE

Ecological time-series work in the transition zone between the North-Atlantic and the central Arctic Ocean – Observatory HAUSGARTEN

Research Division Bentho-Pelagic Processes

Benthic ecosystem functions in polar seas: Patterns, dynamics, threats, protection

Polar research of the Geophysics Section

Glaciology at the Alfred Wegener Institute

The resilience of polar key organisms to climate change

Permafrost thaw in a warming world

Polar Atmospheric Processes and interactions

Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Alpine glaciers and their role in the Earth system

Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology

Snow algae from the polar regions

Institute of Coastal Environmental Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre Hereon

Long-term observation and modeling for legacy and emerging organic contaminants in the Polar Regions

Trace metal inputs into the Southern Ocean and their distribution by regional water masses today and in the geological past

Southern Ocean Modelling at GEOMAR

Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

Ecological roles of fungal parasites on benthic diatoms in polar coastal waters

Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung

Was schwebt denn da? Partikel in der Atmosphäre und deren Einfluss auf das Klima

Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum

Polar biodiversity research in a changing environment

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

The dynamics of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in a changing climate