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Postdoc Hugo Lévy of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) took part in the 4th COMMODORE Workshop, Advancing Ocean Modeling: Bridging Theory, Computation, Scales, and Applications, held in Trieste, Italy, from September 21 to 24. more ›

Hao Liang is a PhD candidate at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU), Mathematical Institute for Data Science (MIDS), and a member of TRR 181 subproject M3, “Towards Consistent Subgrid Momentum Closures. more ›

From 28 to 30 September, around 80 researchers from 12 participating institutions met for the annual retreat of TRR 181 “Energy Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean” at the Maritim Hotel in Timmendorfer Strand. With the Baltic Sea as a constant backdrop, the event combined intensive scientific exchange with innovative formats for communication and reflection, making the retreat both inspiring and strongly on theme. more ›

Postdoc Juntian Chen in subproject L2 “Quantifying Dynamical Regimes in the Ocean and the Atmosphere” from University of Hamburg just returned from the 2026 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS), held in Utrecht from 6 to 11 September under the theme “Delta Climate in Europe: weather, water, and warnings.” more ›

A major boost for women in science: Dr. Mansi Singh Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt from has been awarded the L’Oréal UNESCO “For Women in Science” (FWIS) grant. The internationally renowned programme honors outstanding early-career female researchers and strengthens their research impact through financial support and a global network. more ›

Meet our today’s spotlight: Boris Shapkin. He is a doctoral candidate at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in the Climate Dynamics section. more ›

Giulia Castellani – Postdoc in subproject S 3 “Climate Model Intercomparison” at Universität Bremen – traveled in August 8–19 to Oslo for the 12th SCAR Open Science Conference , one of the major international meetings shaping Antarctic research and open science. more ›

I am Bharath Krishnan, a doctoral researcher in subproject W6, “Spectral Energy Fluxes by Wave-Wave Interactions,” at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) in Kühlungsborn. My research focuses on mesoscale energy transfers in regional domains within the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). Various fundamentally different theories, ranging from gravity waves to stratified turbulence and wave-vortex interactions, have been proposed to explain the mesoscale dynamics. However, the role of gravity wave breaking and its associated energy transfers in the upper atmosphere remain relatively underexplored. To gain deeper insight into gravity wave dynamics and share my recent findings, I participated in the 6th Gravity Wave Workshop in Prague from August 24th to 26th. more ›

Prof. Friederike Pollmann is an Emmy-Noether group leader at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), where she investigates how oceanic internal waves drive mixing and through that might contribute to Arctic sea ice melt. more ›

Dr. Henning Franke is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg and works in TRR 181, in subproject L4 (Multiscale Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling) on small-scale ocean-atmosphere coupling. more ›