ArcTrain for the Arctic
A new German-Canadian project is investigating climate change.
YOUNG SCIENTISTS. Melting masses of ice in the Arctic, as can be seen in this photograph of Hudson Bay in Canada, clearly illustrate the mounting effects of climate change. Effectively addressing the resulting challenges will require large numbers ofwell-trained scientific specialists. That’s why ArcTrain has been established: the joint project, which is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Canadian National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), will be training and honing the skills of young doctoral and post-doctoral scientists over a period of up to nine years. On the German side, junior research talent will be coming from the Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), the marine geosciences and environmental physics departments of the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). The partner institutions in Canada have joined together in a consortium of eight universities.
