Theme V – Anthropogenic signatures in Antarctica
Workshop Program
21 October 2025 - Day 1
Opening and welcome
| 11:00 -11:15 | Technical instructions | Marcus Lange (Hereon, Germany) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Opening and welcome | Ralf Ebinghaus (Hereon, Germany) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Antarctica InSync: a global effort to synchronise research across Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, connecting ice, ocean, climate, and life | Alexander Haumann (AWI, Germany) |
Session 1: Underwater noise monitoring and mitigation - Chair: Brian Miller (AAD, Australia), Co-Chair: Virginia Sciacca (CNR-ISP, Italy)
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Title: Investigating polar marine ecosystems through passive acoustic monitoring | Karolin Thomisch (AWI, Germany) |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Title (tbd) | Max Schuster (JASCO ShipConsult, Germany) |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Discussion | |
| 13:00 – 13:40 | (Lunch-) Break |
Session 2: Tourism impact assessment and management - Chair: Rita Fabris (UBA, Germany), Co-Chair: Andrea Spolaor (CNR-ISP, Italy)
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Antarctic tourism: impacts and management | Daniela Cajiao (Uni Wageningen, NL) |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | From Presence to Data: Exploring Pathways for Tourism Monitoring in Antarctica | Rita Fabris (UBA, Germany) |
| 14:20 – 14:30 | Discussion |
Session 3: Systematic monitoring of chemical pollution and management - Chair: Roland Kallenborn (NMBU, Norway), Co-Chair: Annika Jahnke (UFZ, Germany)
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Challenges in Environmental Research and Monitoring of Emerging and Legacy Contaminants in Antarctica | Zhiyong Xie (Hereon, Germany) |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Towards Consistency: Monitoring Chemical Contamination in Antarctica | Anette Küster (UBA, Germany) |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Plastic monitoring in Antarctica | Clara Manno (BAS, UK) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Discussion |
Session 4: Biosecurity and invasive species prevention - Chair: Stephanie Groß (TiHo Hannover, Germany), Co-Chair: Arlie McCarthy (HIFMB, Germany)
| 16:10 – 16:30 | eDNA for invasive species detection, investigation of zooplankton for pollutants | Charlotte Havermanns (Uni Bremen, Germany) |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | Biosecurity and mitigating invasive species introductions in Antarctica | Arlie McCarthy (HIFMB, Germany) |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Discussion |
22 October 2025 - Day 2
Ideas Market / 1-Slide Pitches - Chair: Marcus Lange (Hereon, Germany)
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Arlie McCarthy, HIFMB, Germany: Suggestion for sustainability across all research projects |
| Emilie Pillon, UMR, LAVUE, CNRS, France: Humanities - Social Science to Policies | |
| Olaf Krüger, Hereon, Germany: Signatures of the coupling between water and carbon cycles and effects on Southern Ocean phytoplankton | |
| Tina Kaiser, Uni Marburg, Germany: Antarctic Men-Ocean-Narratives, communicating and narrating climate change | |
| Andrea Spolaor, CNR-ISP, Italy: Photochemistry process and contaminants degradation | |
| Luisa Patrolecco, CNR, Italy: Anthropogenic impacts and emerging contaminants | |
| Nicoletta Ademollo, CNR, Italy: Temporal trends of emerging and legacy POPs in penguin eggs from the Victoria Land and Ross Sea regions | |
| Marina Arcagni, Instituto Antárctico Argentino, Argentina: Establishing natural baselines for mercury (Hg) in freshwater and snow | |
| Stephanie Groß, TiHo Hannover, Germany: Assessing Antimicrobial resistance in Antarctica as environmental pollutant | |
| Marco Grotti, University of Genoa, Italy: Tracing sources and pathways of heavy metals through isotopic analysis | |
| - - - > Room for more ideas and pitch presentations! | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Break |
Breakout groups
| 12:30 - 12:35 | Introductions into Breakout groups - Zhiyong Xie (Hereon, Germany) |
| 12:35 – 13:30 | Underwater noise monitoring and mitigations Chairs: Virginia Sciacca, Hauke Flores (tbc) |
| Tourism impact assessment and management Chairs: Rita Fabris, Andrea Spolaor | |
| Systematic Monitoring of Chemical Pollution and Management Chairs: Roland Kallenborn, Annika Jahnke | |
| Biosecurity and invasive species prevention Chairs: Stephanie Groß, Arlie McCarthy |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Breakout Group Reports |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Report on ongoing national planning (tbc) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Questions for Stefanie Arndt (AWI, Germany) |