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Yearly Archives: 2018

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Marrying in Space

August 27, 2018 in Generale / Short stories / The Archive by Valentin Ludwig (updated 1994 days ago)

In a couple of weeks 6 German and 8 Canadian ArcTrain PhD students will join the Floating University, an educational program that will take place on a 6-week scientific cruise to the high Arctic. In preparation for this expedition some of us went to the polar bear protection training. Now […]

Polar Bear Protection Training

August 20, 2018 in Getting out there / What's happening? / The Archive by Anouk Vlug (updated 1994 days ago)

« Pourquoi diable es-tu venu ici ??? » entends-je souvent depuis 11 ans. Oui. Pourquoi ai-je donc quitté la Martinique, une île tropicale Française où la température minimale possible le matin en « hiver » est de 20°C… pour venir à Rimouski (Québec, Canada) où il neige 5 mois par année et où la […]

Des Tropiques à l’Arctique : une éternelle histoire!

August 1, 2018 in Getting out there / Life as PhD student / Short stories / The Archive by Quentin Duboc (updated 1994 days ago)

My physics teacher in high school always used to tell us to think of something warm when we were complaining about being cold. These days when you definitely not have to think of something warm to feel warm, I was wondering if this would also work the other way around, […]

Something Cool On A Hot Day…

July 26, 2018 in Generale / The Archive by Lina Madaj (updated 1994 days ago)

Last Sunday July 15th was Arctic Sea Ice Day, which is why we would like to tell you today a little bit about the importance of sea ice. Isn’t sea ice just frozen seawater? Sure, that’s totally true, but it is frozen water with a global significance. Sea ice is […]

Why Do We Care So Much About Sea Ice?

July 18, 2018 in Science for everyone / Short stories / The Archive by Lina Madaj (updated 1994 days ago)

Hello out there! Six weeks ago, I was talking about our research to a class of eighth graders. One question stayed in the back of my head and the longer I thought about it, the more I thought that it merits a blog post. A girl asked how high the […]

Carbon footprint of climate science

July 9, 2018 in Generale / The Archive by Valentin Ludwig (updated 1994 days ago)

Monday again! Wohoo! New week, new post! …. No? No post? Again?! That’s fine, just wait a little longer… until Tuesday… Still no post?! Does that sound familiar to you? Yes, we are aware that there sometimes are post-less Mondays… but don’t worry, this ain’t one of them. This is […]

Again no Monday – Post?!? =(

July 2, 2018 in Life as PhD student / Short stories / The Archive by Lina Madaj (updated 1994 days ago)

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

June 25, 2018 in Life as PhD student / Science for everyone / The Archive by Nicole Marshall (updated 1994 days ago)

Hello out there! Today, I want to explain you how satellites work and why we like them so much for polar research. First of all, you may wonder about the relation between the headline and satellites. Well, satellites fly high above the Earth, around 700 km. And the farther you […]

Big Brother in Space

June 20, 2018 in Science for everyone / The Archive by Valentin Ludwig (updated 1994 days ago)