CATS – The Changing Arctic Transpolar System
Members of the project consortium
Partner organization | Principal investigator |
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (coordinating institute from the German side) | Dr. Heidemarie Kassens |
FSBI Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg (coordinating institute from the Russian side) | Dr. Vladimir Ivanov |
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven | Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow |
Christian Albrechts University Kiel | Prof. Dr. Dieter Piepenburg |
Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Dr. Yaroslav Ovsepyan |
Hamburg University | Prof. Dr. Lars Kaleschke / Prof. Dr. Thomas Pohlmann |
Mainz Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Literature | Dr. Robert Spielhagen |
Lomonosov Moscow State University | Dr. Ekaterina Taldenkova |
Trier University | Univ-Prof. Dr. Günther Heinemann |
Work packages and tasks
Work package | Title and scientists in charge | Tasks (task coordinator) |
WP 1 | Dynamics of physical processes in Siberian shelf seas and their impact on the transpolar system Dr. Jens Hölemann / Dr. Vladimir Ivanov | |
WP 2 | Changes of atmosphere/sea-ice/ocean interactions and their impact on the transpolar system Dr. Aleksandr Makshtas / Univ.-Prof. Dr. Günther Heinemann | Task C: Modeling of atmosphere/sea-ice/ocean interaction (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Günther Heinemann) |
WP 3 | Biogeochemical cycles in the Laptev Sea Prof. Dr. Martin Frank / Andrey Novikhin | |
WP 4 | Ecological consequences of climate change in the Siberian shelf seas Prof. Dr. Dieter Piepenburg / Dr. Vasiliy Povazhnyy | |
WP 5 | Long-term and paleoceanographic changes of the Arctic climate system Dr. Robert Spielhagen / Prof. Dr. Leonid Timokhov | |
WP 6 | Dr. Heidemarie Kassens / Dr. Vladimir Ivanov |
Members of the CATS team
Organization | Name | Position | Field of research | Email address |
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research | Dr. Henning Bauch | Holocene sea-ice variability, water mass distribution and sea-level history in the western Laptev Sea (Task 5B) | hbauch (at) geomar.de | |
Prof. Dr. Christian Haas | Hydrodynamic modeling of changes in sea ice and their impact on ocean dynamics (Task 1C) | christian.haas (at) awi.de | ||
Dr. Jens Hoelemann |
| The shelf-edge system: influence of shelf processes on the Arctic Boundary Current (Task 1B) | jens.hoelemann (at) awi.de | |
Dr. Markus Janout |
| The shelf-edge system: influence of shelf processes on the Arctic Boundary Current (Task 1B) | markus.janout (at) awi.de | |
Prof. Dr. Torsten Kanzow |
| The shelf-edge system: influence of shelf processes on the Arctic Boundary Current (Task 1B) | torsten.kanzow (at) awi.de | |
Dr. Casper Kraan | Mechanisms controlling the distribution of nutrients in the Laptev Sea (Task 3A) | casper.kraan (at) awi.de | ||
Dr. Thomas Krumpen | Hydrodynamic modeling of changes in sea ice and their impact on ocean dynamics (Task 1C) | thomas.krumpen (at) awi.de | ||
Prof. Dr. Ruediger Stein | Holocene sea-ice variability, water mass distribution and sea-level history in the western Laptev Sea (Task 5B) | ruediger.stein (at) awi.de | ||
Prof. Dr. Anya Waite | Dynamics of pelagic particle processes and benthic functional diversity patterns (Task 4A) | anya.waite (at) awi.de | ||
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute | Ekaterina Vladimirovna Bloshkina | The shelf-edge system: influence of shelf processes on the Arctic Boundary Current (Task 1B) | bloshkinaev (at) mail.ru | |
Dr. Petr Vitalyevich Bogorodsky | Monitoring of sea-ice properties and production (Task 2B) | bogorodski (at) aari.ru | ||
Ekaterina Arkadyevna Chernyavskaya | Changes of the hydrochemical structure of the Laptev Sea (Task 3B) | cherni_ka (at) mail.ru | ||
Dr. Anna Vladimirovna Danshina | Hydrodynamic modeling of changes in sea ice and their impact on ocean dynamics (Task 1C) | danshina (at) mail.ru | ||
Dr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Ivanov |
| Hydrodynamic modeling of changes in sea ice and their impact on ocean dynamics (Task 1C) | Vladimir.Ivanov (at) aari.ru | |
Valery Yuryevich Karpiy | Long-term variability of the thermohaline state of the Arctic transpolar system (Task 5A) | valkar (at) mail.ru | ||
Vasily Yuryevich Kustov | Processes in the atmospheric boundary layer of the high Arctic (Task 2A) | kustov (at) aari.ru | ||
Mikhail Sergeevich Makhotin |
| Hydrography and watermass formation in the Laptev Sea (Task 1A) | m-makhotin (at) mail.ru | |
Irina Alexandrovna Makhotina | Processes in the atmospheric boundary layer of the high Arctic (Task 2A) | i-makhotina (at) mail.ru | ||
Prof. Dr. Alexandr Petrovich Makshtas |
| Processes in the atmospheric boundary layer of the high Arctic (Task 2A) | maksh (at) aari.ru | |
Fedor Mikhailovich Martynov | Dynamics of pelagic particle processes and benthic functional diversity patterns (Task 4A) | fedor.martynov (at) gmail.com | ||
Andrey Evgenevich Novikhin |
| Changes of the hydrochemical structure of the Laptev Sea (Task 3B) | andrey.novikhin (at) gmail.com | |
Vasily Vladimirovich Povazhnyy |
| Biological community changes in the Laptev Sea (Task 4B) | povazhny (at )aari.ru | |
Dr. Alexandr Viktorovich Smirnov | The shelf-edge system: influence of shelf processes on the Arctic Boundary Current (Task 1B) | alexander.vic.smirnov (at) gmail.com | ||
Prof. Dr. Leonid Alexandrovich Timokhov |
| Long-term variability of the thermohaline state of the Arctic transpolar system (Task 5A) | ltim (at) aari.ru | |
Natalya Andreevna Vyazigina | Long-term variability of the thermohaline state of the Arctic transpolar system (Task 5) | naty_vyazik (at) mail.ru | ||
Christian Albrechts University Kiel (CAU) | Stefan Buettner | Dynamics of pelagic particle processes and benthic functional diversity patterns (Task 4A) PhD student | sbuettner (at) geomar.de | |
Miriam Hansen | Biological community changes in the Laptev Sea (Task 4B) PhD student | mhansen (at) geomar.de | ||
Prof. Dr. Dieter Piepenburg |
| Dynamics of pelagic particle processes and benthic functional diversity patterns (Task 4A) | dpiepenburg (at) ecology.uni-kiel.de | |
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel | Dr. Dorothea Bauch | Mechanisms controlling the distribution of nutrients in the Laptev Sea (Task 3A) | dbauch (at) geomar.de | |
Prof. Dr. Martin Frank |
| Mechanisms controlling the distribution of nutrients in the Laptev Sea (Task 3A) | mfrank (at) geomar.de | |
Dr. Heidemarie Kassens |
| Holocene sea-ice variability, water mass distribution and sea-level history in the western Laptev Sea (Task 5B) | hkassens (at) geomar.de | |
Dr. Georgi Laukert |
| Mechanisms controlling the distribution of nutrients in the Laptev Sea (Task 3A) | glaukert (at) geomar.de | |
Dr. Carsten Schirnick | Data management | cschirnick (at) geomar.de | ||
Pina Springer | Data management | pspringer (at) geomar.de | ||
Dr. Karen Volkmann-Lark |
| kvolkmann-lark (at) geomar.de | ||
Hamburg University | Prof. Dr. Lars Kaleschke / Prof. Dr. Thomas Pohlmann |
| Monitoring of sea-ice properties and production (Task 2B) | lars.kaleschke (at) uni-hamburg.de |
Dr. Xiangshan Tian-Kunze | Monitoring of sea-ice properties and production (Task 2B) | xiangshan.tian-kunze (at) uni-hamburg.de | ||
Mainz Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Literature (AdW) | Dr. Robert Spielhagen |
| Holocene sea-ice variability, water mass distribution and sea-level history in the western Laptev Sea (Task 5B) | rspielhagen (at) geomar.de |
Moscow Lomonosov State University (MSU) | Natalya Olegovna Chistyakova | Holocene sea-ice variability, water mass distribution and sea-level history in the western Laptev Sea (Task 5B) PhD student | natal-y (at) mail.ru | |
Dr. Yaroslav Sergeevich Ovsepyan | Holocene sea-ice variability, water mass distribution and sea-level history in the western Laptev Sea (Task 5B) | yaovsepyan (at) yandex.ru | ||
Dr. Ekaterina Evgen'eva Taldenkova |
| Holocene sea-ice variability, water mass distribution and sea-level history in the western Laptev Sea (Task 5B) | etaldenkova (at) mail.ru | |
Trier University | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Guenther Heinemann |
| Modeling of atmosphere/sea-ice/ocean interaction (Task 2C) | heinemann (at) uni-trier.de |
Svenja Kohnemann | Modeling of atmosphere/sea-ice/ocean interaction (Task 2C) | svenja.kohnemann (at) uni-trier.de | ||
Dr. Andreas Preusser | Monitoring of sea-ice properties and production (Task 2B) | preusser (at) uni-trier.de | ||
Frank Schnaase | Modeling of atmosphere/sea-ice/ocean interaction (Task 2C) PhD student | schnaase (at) uni-trier.de | ||
Dr. Sascha Willmes |
| Monitoring of sea-ice properties and production (Task 2B) | willmes (at) uni-trier.de |