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Note: This blog post was written by Brian Crow and Johanna Hingst Five months after the official start for the third ArcTrain Germany cohort, it was time for our first group retreat. The 12 ArcTrain students of the third cohort, one associated student, two ArcTrain students from Canada currently on […]

ArcTrain visits the Harz Mountains – First retreat of the ...

30 Mar, 2020 in General / Life as PhD student / The Archive by Johanna Hingst

Sea ice volumes is REALLY disappearing.

The Disappearing Sea Ice Volume

23 Mar, 2020 in General / Science for everyone / The Archive tagged sciencecommunication / sea ice / twitter by Damien Ringeisen

Note: This blog post was written by Marie-Michèle Ouellet-Bernier and Jade Falardeau Aklavik is located in the Mackenzie Delta, 2° North of the Arctic Circle. This community, of about 600 people, is part of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. To get there, we need to reach the town of Inuvik, a […]

Nordic adventure in Aklavik

20 Mar, 2020 in General / Getting out there / Life as PhD student / The Archive tagged arctic / canada / field work / sciencecommunication by Jade Falardeau

The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is known to be the flagship for the ocean sciences that takes place every two years in the United States. In 2020 the conference was held in San Diego, California, between February 16th and 21st. With more than 6300 participating scientists it is the largest conference within the ocean […]

ArcTrain at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020

6 Mar, 2020 in General / Life as PhD student / The Archive tagged conferences by Kevin Wiegand

It is often good to remember the reasons for doing something. It might be helpful during the process of doing it and in times of doubts. So, an important question for all of us ArcTrainees – and for all other PhD students out there – should be: Why am I […]

Why am I doing a PhD?

19 Dec, 2019 in General / Life as PhD student / Short stories / The Archive by Franziska Tell

After all this information and advice followed a nice presentation with an Arctic vibe to it about the MOSAiC expedition by Christiaan Haas. The meeting ended with an informal poster session with drinks and bites to get to know each other. With the posters, that some of us introduced by […]

ArcTrain Kick-Off Meeting – Round 3

21 Nov, 2019 in General / What's happening? / The Archive by Anouk Vlug

edit 2019-09-08 : adding the name of the authors of the text. Hey ArcTrain lovers, We started with us meeting at UQAM in Montreal at around 8.00 am, packed the vans and left for the upcoming adventure. The first leg of the journey was from Montreal to Tadoussac following the […]

ArcTrain Summer School – Day 1: Once upon a time ...

7 Sep, 2019 in General by ArcTrain Summer School 2019

For anyone who might have feared that we vanished some time during all these post-less Mondays, we didn’t. We’ve survived the recent hack, only melted figuratively away in our offices over the summer and are thus still here. However most of us on the German side are in their third […]

We’re still here

3 Sep, 2019 in General / Life as PhD student / What's happening? / The Archive by Anouk Vlug

Two weeks ago we, ArcTrainees (ArcTrain PhD students), went on our yearly retreat (re-read about our 2018 and 2017 retreat). This time we went on a four-day trip to Sylt, one of the islands in the Wadden Sea. You might wonder, is this some sort of holiday? I can tell […]

Let’s talk about: Life after the PhD

26 Mar, 2019 in General / Life as PhD student / What's happening? / The Archive by Anouk Vlug