Science Week 2025 - Onsite event

24 Nov 2025, 12:30 → 26 Nov 2025, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Bremerhaven

Welcome to our Science Week 2025!

Address: Plenary hall "Nordseemuseum" at AWI-Campus, Building A
Am Handelshafen 12, 27570 Bremerhaven

Themes at the Science Week

• Outlook PoF V & Future Topic presentations
• Early Career Scientists Flashtalks
• Poster Session
• Tenure Track Talks
• Transfer activities
  
• Future Lighthouse Projects
• Science Support Session

 

Directions

Main Railway Station to Nordseemuseum

Monday 24 November

12:30 → 13:00 Arrival & Snacks

13:00 → 13:15 Welcome & Introduction

Welcome & Overall Aim of the Science Week, Outlook PoF V

Speaker: Thomas Jung

13:15 → 15:00 Plenary I: PoF V

Presentations of Future Topics in PoF V

Convener: Thomas Jung (Alfred Wegener Institut)

13:15 Topic A: "Understanding and Predicting the Climate System: Atmosphere and Land"

PoF IV: Topic 1
(5 min. pres. + 5 min. disc.)

Speaker: Markus Rex

13:25 Topic B: “Climate Change Feedback of Ocean and Cryosphere"

PoF IV: Topic 2
(10 min. pres. + 5 min. disc.)

Speaker: Gesine Mollenhauer

13:40 Topic C: "Ocean Life and Element Cycles: Functioning, Services, Risks"

PoF IV: Topic 6
(10 min. pres. + 5 min. disc.)

Speaker: Katja Metfies

13:55 Topic D: "Dynamic Earth: Risks and Resources"

(5 min. pres. + 5 min. disc.)

Speaker: Peter LaFemina

14:05 Topic E: "Functioning of the terrestrial Earth System, its ecosystem and biodiversity"

PoF IV: Topic 5
(8 min. pres. + 5 min. disc.)

Speaker: Ulrike Herzschuh

14:18 Topic G: "Functioning of the terrestrial Earth System, its ecosystem and biodiversity"

PoF IV: Topic 4
(8 min. pres. + 5 min. disc.)

Speaker: Moritz Holtappels

14:31 Topic I: "Closing the Circle: Bio-based Solutions"

PoF IV: Topic 7
(5 min. pres. + 5 min. disc.)

Speaker: Christian Hamm

14:41 Overall Discussion

15:00 → 15:10 Group Picture!

15:10 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 18:30 Plenary II: Future Lighthouse Projects (1)

Convener: Thomas Jung (Alfred Wegener Institut)

15:45 Aim of Session

15:50 Breakout Session I

15:50 Breakout Session II

15:50 Breakout Session III

Tuesday 25 November

09:00 → 11:30 Plenary III: Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems and Co-Design in Arctic and Coastal Research

Bridging scientific and Indigenous knowledge opens new pathways for understanding and protecting the Arctic. This session highlights inspiring AWI projects that embrace co-design approaches in close collaboration with Indigenous and local communities in Canada (Inuit), Finland (Sámi), and Greenland (Inuit). Together, these partnerships demonstrate how mutual respect, shared expertise, and traditional knowledge can lead to more meaningful and sustainable Arctic research.

09:00 Introduction - Indigenous Knowledge and Rights – Exemplary Projects at AWI

(10' min pres.+ 5' min disc.)

Speaker: Volker Rachold

09:15 Arctic Passion (Finland)

(10' min pres.+ 5' min disc.)

09:30 From harmful algae blooms to meaningful contributions to Greenland - Green HAB

(10' min pres.+ 5' min disc.)

Speaker: Maurits Halbach (HIFMB)

09:45 SQUEEZE (Canada)

(10' min pres.+ 5' min disc.)

10:00 ILLUQ - Permafrost, Pollution, Health

(10' min pres.+ 5' min disc.)
https://illuq.eu/

Speaker: Pia Petzhold

10:15 N.N.

(10' min pres.+ 5' min disc.)

10:30 Panel Discussion (with all speakers)

Joint reflection and exchange

11:30 → 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 → 13:05 Plenary IV: Plenary IV: Flashtalks Early Career Scientists

12:00 "Hard rocks and deep wetlands – the bed of Thwaites Glacier that impacts our future"

(10 min. presentation)

Speaker: Ole Zeising

12:10 Improving Reconstructions of Cosmogenic Radionuclide Production Rates during the Laschamps Event

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Vincent Wall

12:15 Past climate change unveiled by chemical fossils hidden in Arctic deep-sea mud

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Monika Mikler

12:20 tba

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Clarissa Vock

12:25 Drivers of Benthic Iron Fluxes and the Pore-water Iron Isotopic Signature in Sub-Antarctic Surface Fjord Sediments

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Berenice Ebner

12:30 West Siberian retrogressive thaw slumps: from 1960s to present

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Nina Nesterova

12:35 Ancient Viruses of Lakes and Oceans: The Long Memory of Sedimentary Ancient DNA

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Christiane Böckel

12:40 Flashtalk PostDoc

(10 min. presentation)

12:50 Potentially human pathogenic Vibrio spp.: Occurence and environmental conditions for an early warning system in German coastal waters

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Lara Grundler

12:55 How Melting Ice Effects Phytoplankton in the Arctic

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Alexandra Bettinelli

13:00 tba

(5 min. presentation)

Speaker: Alexander Henoch

13:05 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 16:45 Poster Session

14:00 1 min. Teaser

14:30 Poster Session

Wednesday 26 November

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary VI: Tenure Track Talks

09:00 Radiative- and boundary layer processes in the changing polar atmosphere and the role of circulation dynamics

(20 min. pres. + 10 min. discussion)

Speaker: Sandro Dahlke

09:30 tba

(20 min. pres. + 10 min. discussion)

Speaker: Paula Satizábal

10:00 tba

(20 min. pres. + 10 min. discussion)

Speaker: Hendrik Grotheer

10:30 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 11:45 Plenary VII: Science Support

Look forward to an inspiring session presented by our science support! The details are still in the works, but you’ll soon find everything about it right here. Stay tuned!

11:45 → 13:00 Plenary VIII: Lighthouse Projects

13:00 → 13:15 Closure of the Science Week

Outlook Strategic Evaluation

Convener: Thomas Jung (Alfred Wegener Institut)

13:15 → 13:20 End of Science Week