Annual Meeting of the Research Training Group ArcTrain

Mar 30, 2023

Participants of the annual ArcTrain-meeting at MARUM in Bremen. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp — Participants of the annual ArcTrain-meeting at MARUM in Bremen. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Doctoral students of the German-Canadian research training group ArcTrain "Processes and impacts of climate change in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Canadian Arctic" met in Etelsen Castle for their annual meeting. The annual meetings are an important part of the joint education program. They promote transatlantic exchange among the scientists and with their professional supervisors. ArcTrain doctoral students present their research, and invited guest speakers give lectures.

The current meeting is the last of its kind; after ten years and three cohorts of PhD students from Germany and Canada, the project ends this year. ArcTrain has been jointly funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) since 2013 as part of the Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE). Ten Canadian universities are participating under the umbrella of geotop, as well as on the German side the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen.

The ArcTrain students' research contributes to the understanding of climate change processes and impacts in the Arctic and North Atlantic. As part of the program, PhD students explore the realities of climate change in the Arctic in the field through shore excursions and participation in ship expeditions, complementary to their own research projects. Research stays in the partner institutions provided insights the research landscape and culture of the partner countries. Since 2019, the third cohort of the Training Group with a total of twelve students has been funded in Bremen – they are now completing their projects.

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