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In this blog post, I (Damien Ringeisen) reshape a Twitter thread that I published on November 3rd, 2021. Today, as the COP26 started a few days ago, I would like to help you visualize the reduction of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. For simplicity, we will compare two years: […]

Huge Melting Ice Cubes

November 4, 2021 in General / Science for everyone / The Archive tagged arctic / climate change / extent / ice / ice cube / sciencecommunication / sea ice / volume by Damien Ringeisen

You probably know the Climate Stripes. Yes, you know, the blue and red stripes representing the earth’s warming from human emissions. This powerful representation, invented by @EdHawkins, shows the average earth surface temperature change over the years. From blue to red, it demonstrates how the human greenhouse gas emissions increased […]

The Arctic Stripes

May 12, 2021 in General / Science for everyone / The Archive tagged arctic / climate change / sea ice / stripes by Damien Ringeisen

Few weeks ago, I celebrated the first anniversary of my home laboratory! Actually, when everything shut down the first time in March 2020, I was just back from a workshop I gave in the North. Luckily, for this workshop, I had to carry around a stereoscope (a kind of microscope; […]

A school workshop about paleontology and the evolution of life ...

May 3, 2021 in General / Getting out there / Science for everyone by Jade Falardeau

This is post 3/3 in a series on our experiences and tasks as ArcTrain PhD students during the research cruise M164 (GPF 19-1-105) in summer 2020 in the subpolar North Atlantic. Click here to see part 1/3 and here to see part 2/3. It’s just after midnight. Around the ship, […]

The ocean currents of the North Atlantic in a nutshell

April 20, 2021 in General / Getting out there / Life as PhD student / Science for everyone by Kevin Wiegand

This is post 2/3 in a series on our experiences and tasks as ArcTrain PhD students during the research cruise M164 (GPF 19-1-105) in summer 2020 in the subpolar North Atlantic. Click here to see part 1/3 and here to see part 3/3. A research cruise offers the great opportunity […]

PIES – Not just a piece of cake!

April 13, 2021 in General / Getting out there / Life as PhD student / Science for everyone by Simon Wett

This is post 1/3 in a series on our experiences and tasks as ArcTrain PhD students during the research cruise M164 (GPF 19-1-105) in summer 2020 in the subpolar North Atlantic. Click here to see part 2/3 and here to see part 3/3. The lines are loosened. The gangway is […]

There and back again – A research cruise during a ...

April 6, 2021 in General / Getting out there / Images / Life as PhD student / Science for everyone by Kevin Wiegand, Simon Wett

Schools are closed in Germany, outreach projects and workshops are cancelled – does this mean that there is no possibility for us as scientists to reach out to the public and educate young people about our planet and the Arctic? Luckily not: We just had the chance to discover that […]

The Arctic and its role in the climate crisis: An ...

January 25, 2021 in General / Science for everyone / The Archive by Franziska Tell, Johanna Hingst

What is my PhD project about? I want to give you an introduction to this. To make this introduction easily understandable for everyone, no matter what scientific or non-scientific background you have, I did it in a special form: I only used the 1000 most commonly used English words. Valentin […]

Marrying in the water

April 13, 2020 in General / Science for everyone / Short stories / The Archive by Franziska Tell

Sea ice volumes is REALLY disappearing.

The Disappearing Sea Ice Volume

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