Hello, everyone! In times when you might think there’s nothing but bad news, we wanted to tell you about a great idea that put a smile on the faces of all nine of us. Children at the Protestant day-care centre Zwergenland in the town of Girkhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia) made a lovely model ... [Read more]

First of all, thanks so much for the flood of responses to our blog. I frequently deliberated whether or not I should continue the current talk about the coronavirus (which has also reached us in the form of news headlines on websites, and personal reports) in the blog. After all, we’re currently ... [Read more]

Hello, everyone! The flag’s been taken down on the airfield and the station has once again been prepared for the approaching severe-weather front. All the vehicles – except for two caterpillar trucks, just in case we need them – have been returned to the garage below the station, the ... [Read more]

In the morning the alarm goes off. Breakfast is served from 7.30 to 8.30 am. Only half awake, I stumble into the breakfast hall, where you always receive a warm welcome from the friendly stewardesses. The breakfast menu offers everything the heart desires: from pancakes to scrambled eggs, to freshly ... [Read more]

Preparing AWIPEV station for the winter requires to make all the boats ready for the cold season, with temperatures going as low as -25°C. To do so, the boats are taken on the shore, batteries are removed, engines are checked and oiled, the cockpit is folded. The boat is then ready to be put ... [Read more]

We send our best wishes for this new year 2020 ! ... [Read more]

The story of Akashrup Banerjee’s research stay at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, actually starts with a long car trip away from Darmstadt. Together with a colleague he drove to Calais, took the ferry to Dover and went up to the University of Surrey near London, a 12-hours trip. The reason: They ... [Read more]

About the Authors: Sergi González is a weather forecaster and research scientist at the Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET. He earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona in 2019. Sergi has been a weather forecaster at the Spanish Research Station Juan Carlos I and participated ... [Read more]

How we’re keeping our footprint in the Arctic to a minimum By Marcel Nicolaus Our standards concerning the precision of our measurements and the overall scale of observations of the atmosphere, ice and ocean are naturally quite different from those 125 years ago, when Nansen first set ... [Read more]

It’s tumour research that drove Charnay Cunningham from iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Science (iThemba LABS) in South Africa to GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, for a sandwich Ph.D. „I felt that it would be of advantage to expand my radiobiology knowledge and to gain practical experiences“ ... [Read more]