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  • International Fascination of Plants Day 2024

    In the frame of the international Fascination of Plants Day, around 100 primary school children from Düsseldorf visited Heinrich Heine University for an exciting workshop titled "Pflanzen haben Superkräfte." Hosted by CEPLAS and the Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology (HHU), the workshop aimed to introduce children to the amazing world of plants and provide insights into plant research.

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  • CEPLAS Mitglied auf Arktis Expedition

    In the frame of the international Fascination of Plants Day, around 100 primary school children from Düsseldorf visited Heinrich Heine University for an exciting workshop titled "Pflanzen haben Superkräfte." Hosted by CEPLAS and the Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology (HHU), the workshop aimed to introduce children to the amazing world of plants and provide insights into plant research.

    ceplas.eu

  • CEPLAS Mitglied auf Arktis Expedition

    An expedition organized by the Alfred Wegener Institute led the CEPLAS doctoral researcher Ellen Oldenburg, as well as scientist Ovidiu Popa to Arctica. Both joined a group of researchers who, under the leadership of Dr. Torsten Kanzow, had traveled north on the research vessel "Polarstern" for 8 weeks to document changes in the Arctic Ocean. Ellen and Ovidiu are interested in bacteria and algae that live in the sea and will study how they change.

    ceplas.eu

  • Schlafen extrem - Wie schläft es sich, wenn es immer hell ist?

    Forschen auf der Polarstern – für Ellen Oldenburg war das ein riesiges Abenteuer, aber auch eine Herausforderung. Denn während ihrer Expedition in die Arktis war es dort permanent hell, dazu der Lärm auf dem Schiff. Wie hat sie das durchgehalten?

    deutschlandfunknova.de

  • Düsseldorfer Wissenschaftler sind auf Expedition in der Arktis

    Düsseldorf researchers Ellen Oldenburg and Ovidiu Popa want to find out how climate change is affecting sensitive ecosystems. And how the melting of the polar ice caps is changing the creatures in the Arctic Ocean.

    rp-online.de

  • Forschungsreise ins Eis

    In the summer of 2022, the two scientists from the Institute of Quantitative and Theoretical Biology at HHU, Dr. Ovidiu Popa and Ellen Oldenburg, spent six weeks in the Arctic Ocean on the research vessel "Polarstern" to collect ice and water samples. The data was collected as part of the large-scale international project "MOSAIC", during which various data was collected over the course of a year in the Arctic winter. The HHU researchers took a close look at life in the ice and water in order to understand the composition and function of the communities there.

    cm3-online.de

  • Dossier - Expedition ins Nordpolarmeer

    An adventure beyond borders: Ellen Oldenburg and Ovidiu Popa discovered the fascinating world of the Arctic in 2022. In an unforgettable expedition, they plunged deep into the icy depths of the Arctic Ocean. The results of this expedition have not only been recorded in a detailed cruise report, but have also been published in three scientific papers: “Atlantic Water Influx and Sea-Ice Cover Drive Taxonomic and Functional Shifts in Arctic Marine Bacterial Communities”, “Sea-Ice Melt Determines Seasonal Phytoplankton Dynamics and Delimits the Habitat of Temperate Atlantic Taxa as the Arctic Ocean Atlantifies”, and “Multiomics in the central Arctic Ocean for benchmarking biodiversity change”. These findings, summarised in a dossier entitled “Expedition ins Nordpolarmeer” (see the full dossier here), reveal both the fascinating diversity of the Arctic and the changes taking place in its ecosystems.

    scinexx.de

  • Interview - Expedition ins Nordpolarmeer

    An adventure beyond borders: Ellen Oldenburg and Ovidiu Popa discovered the fascinating world of the Arctic in 2022. In an unforgettable expedition, they plunged deep into the icy depths of the Arctic Ocean. The results of this expedition have not only been recorded in a detailed cruise report, but have also been published in three scientific papers: “Atlantic Water Influx and Sea-Ice Cover Drive Taxonomic and Functional Shifts in Arctic Marine Bacterial Communities”, “Sea-Ice Melt Determines Seasonal Phytoplankton Dynamics and Delimits the Habitat of Temperate Atlantic Taxa as the Arctic Ocean Atlantifies”, and “Multiomics in the central Arctic Ocean for benchmarking biodiversity change”. These findings, summarised in a dossier entitled “Expedition ins Nordpolarmeer” (see the full dossier here), reveal both the fascinating diversity of the Arctic and the changes taking place in its ecosystems.

    scinexx.de

  • Theory meets practice: A research expedition to the Arctic Ocean. An interview (12.06.2023)

    In the summer of 2022, Ellen Oldenburg and Dr. Ovidiu Popa set off on an Arctic expedition with the research icebreaker "Polarstern". The two researchers investigated microbial ecosystems in the Arctic with regard to the question: How is the melting of the polar ice caps changing the diversity and composition of living organisms in the Arctic Ocean? The bioinformaticians provide insight into the expedition and experiments on board and on the ice in an interview with Anna Soßdorf (Bürgeruniversität).

    qtb.hhu.de

  • Invitation to MultiKulti Webinar: Ellen Oldenburg on Arctic Microbial Communities

    The MultiKulti team has the great pleasure of welcoming Ellen Oldenburg, M.Sc., quantitative biologist for a lecture in the monthly webinar on 11th of May 2023, 4 pm. Ellen will share some insights into her research on microbial communities in a warming Arctic ocean. Guest listeners are very welcome. Microbial communities in Arctic seawater are major contributors in climate feedback systems and in food webs in the polar ecosystem. Given the importance of Arctic research in understanding global warming, this ecosystem is studied in a variety of ways.

    multikultivierung.de

  • Theory meets practice: A research expedition to the Arctic Ocean. An interview (12.06.2023)

    Ellen and Ovidiu are part of this years ATWAICE expedition to the Arctic. Starting today, they will spend around 50 days on the research vessel collecting samples and gaining new insights into the changes in the Arctic.

    qtb.hhu.de

  • International Fascination of Plants Day 2019

    In the frame of the international Fascination of Plants Day, around 100 primary school children from Düsseldorf visited Heinrich Heine University for an exciting workshop titled "Pflanzen haben Superkräfte." Hosted by CEPLAS and the Institute for Quantitative and Theoretical Biology (HHU), the workshop aimed to introduce children to the amazing world of plants and provide insights into plant research.

    ceplas.eu