Monatliche Archive: September 2018



Polar week, day 4! Today’s motto is ‘Macro-scale’. And what could be more macro-scale than a comparison between the two polar regions? So, here is our Arctic-vs. Antarctic list of #PolarNumbers: 91.5%/7.9% of the Earth’s frozen freshwater resources are stored in the Antarctic/Greenland ice sheet, amounting to 99.4% in total […]

Polar Week: Polar Number Challenge – Take Four


Polar week, day three. Today APECS challenged us to share our micro-scale Polar Numbers. And since we are an Arctic based research training group our knowledge about Antarctica is on a micro-scale range compared to our knowledge about the Arctic so we decided to change sides today and summarize some #PolarNumbers […]

Polar Week: Polar Number Challenge – Take Three





Hallo zusammen! Während das arktische Meereis sich seinem jährlichen Minimum nähert, nähert sich das öffentliche Interesse an der Arktis normalerwise seinem jährlichem Maximum. Deswegen möchten wir euch diese Woche gerne auf eine Möglichkeit hinweisen, um euren hoffentlich unstillbaren Hunger nach Polarwissen zu stillen: Die APECS Internationale Polarwoche vom 17. bis […]

Polar week coming!