Extremely high benthic biomass provides food for predators and scavengers

Great interest in the media for published article with participation of Prof. Patricia Holm as co-author

A vast icefish breeding colony has been discovered in the southern Weddell Sea.
A breeding colony of notothenioid icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah, Nybelin 1947) of globally unprecedented extent has been discovered in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica.

Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean

last Blog from the Polarstern

The Antarctic expedition ended in Punta Arenas, Chile, and almost all scientists left the Polarstern research vessel. Dr. Gabriel Erni and six other members settled in for the Atlantic transit, which takes the Polarstern back to its home port in Bremerhaven, Germany.

Blog Swissinfo

This spring, Gabriel Erni Cassola and Kevin Leuenberger from our team are on board the German icebreaker “Polarstern” in the Southern Ocean that encircles Antarctica. They are taking us with them to show us their field work via this new eight-part blog series.

a special Antarctic expedition

Wo Eisfische brüten, Eisberge entstehen und Mikroplastik wandert.

Prof. Patricia Holm will report on her Antarctic expedition in spring 2021 at the 23rd firmm meeting in the Kultur- und Kongresshaus Aarau.

Wissenschaftsmagazin SRF, 19.02.2022

The sound of the underwater animals

Muaaah, boong oder gragrag – What aquatic animals tell each other

Whales do it and even crabs and sea urchins do it: they sing, click, grunt, drum and chirp. Now all these sounds are to be combined in a large sound library (GLUBS).

With Prof. Patricia Holm from minute 13:30