About the author: Gertrud Nöth is deputy head of the Press and Public Relations at the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany’s National Weather Service. She has talked to DWD weather forecaster Christian Paulmann who spent six austral summer seasons at the German Neumayer Station in Antarctica. ...[Read more]

As promised, in today’s blog entry I’d like to talk about our exciting and varied preparation phase together in more detail: The deadline for online applications for overwinterers (ÜWIs) at the Neumayer Station is usually the end of February each year, and I received my – still tentative ...[Read more]

During our HeJu annual meeting 2021 (online) on 28th Jan, we elected our new HeJu steering committee as well as working group speakers for the term 2021-2022. We thank our previous steering committee - Michaela, Isabela (spokespersons) and Kevin (treasurer) - for their excellent work to unite ...[Read more]

Hello everybody, this is the new AWIPEV team speaking! We will share with you via this medium some of our experiences considering our job mission in Ny-Ålesund. With “we” I mean Gregory (stationleader), Yohann (logistics engineer) and me, Fieke (observatory engineer). At the moment we are ...[Read more]

In the last four weeks I have frequently listened to Ella Fitzgerald’s velvety alto voice singing “Summertime”, accompanied by Louis Armstrong on the trumpet: often in the evenings, gazing at palm-lined beaches (just on a poster, of course) while on the treadmill, I can almost feel the shimmering ...[Read more]

  About: Carlo Carmagnola is a post-doc at Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques in France. He works as a snow scientist, focusing on prediction capabilities in projects PROSNOW and CLIMSNOW. Martin Coath is a computer scientist and science communicator. He currently ...[Read more]

During our HeJu annual meeting 2021 (online) on 28th Jan, we elected our new HeJu steering committee as well as working group speakers for the term 2021-2022. We thank our previous steering committee - Michaela, Isabela (spokespersons) and Kevin (treasurer) - for their excellent work to unite ...[Read more]

During our HeJu annual meeting 2021 (online) on 28th Jan, we elected our new HeJu steering committee as well as working group speakers for the term 2021-2022. We thank our previous steering committee - Michaela, Isabela (spokespersons) and Kevin (treasurer) - for their excellent work to unite ...[Read more]

A contribution by Harithaa Anandakumar   Do’s: study, score in the top 5 percentile, earn a solid Bachelor’s, complete multiple internships, excel in a Master’s program, get skilled at minuscule writings on Eppendorf tubes followed by a brilliant thesis, submit numerous applications ...[Read more]

Hallo everyone! This is Theresa, the new voice on the radio for the Neumayer Station III. During our voyage to the Neumayer Station III on board the Polarstern, I went on a ‘recon’ of the ship with my penguin Rico. He was kind enough to pose for a few photos along the way, and today ...[Read more]