Hello out there! Two and a half weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about why it makes all the difference in the world if there is a pinch of salt in a glass of water or not. So, of course, the logical consequence is to write a blog post […]
Wissenschaft für jeden
Hello out there! Last week, a group of school kids visited our institute and I had the honourable task of introducing them to the world of sea ice. To this end, I prepared some experiments with ice cubes. They are really low-level to understand, but still you can explain a […]
Fun with Ice, Take 1/3: The Battle between Salt and ...
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
Welcome to part 2 of our humble quest to provide you with our #PolarNumbers! Today, I want to share some Arctic #PolarNumbers with you (and since today’s challenge is percentages, I of course hid some % in our Arctic numbers): 6*10⁶ km²: So much of the Arctic Ocean is covered by […]
Polar Week: Polar Number Challenge – Take Two
Today is the first day of the APECS Polar Week, as you already heard of by Valentin last Friday. And since APECS challenged all of us to share our #PolarNumbers with the world out there, we of course didn’t want to miss this. A Polar Number could be any number […]
Polar Week: Polar Number Challenge – Take One
Letzen Sonntag, am 15. Juli, war Arktis-Meereis-Tag. Deshalb möchten wir Euch heute kurz erklären, warum Meereis eigentlich so wichtig ist. Meereis ist doch eigentlich nur gefrorenes Meerwasser, oder nicht? Klar, das stimmt schon, aber es ist gefrorenes Wasser von globaler Bedeutung. Meereis ist eine der Hauptkomponenten in unserem Klimasystem. Abhängig […]
Warum ist Meereis so wichtig?
Do your parents seem confused as to why writing a paper can take months or years? “You should be able to finish this paper by Friday, right?” … Or, do your grandparents have no idea why you can’t just “graduate next semester”? When you get to travel for conferences and […]
Talking to non-Academic Family and Friends about my PhD
Hallo zusammen! Heute geht es um Satelliten. Wie funktionieren sie? Und warum finden wir Polarforscher sie so cool? Und was haben sie eigentlich mit der Überschrift zu tun? Naja, Satelliten fliegen ziemlich hoch über der Erde, etwa 700 km. Und je weiter man von etwas weg ist, desto größer wird […]