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]

Nothing new around here for a long time... We should definitely change that, what do you think ? We got the chance to witness the first rocket launch of Andoya Space Center (ASC) and NASA this morning. A second one is planned for the next days ! You can also see the Lidar laser beam from ... [Read more]

"I learned a lot”, summarizes Wenxiong Zhou his 2-year-postdoc stay at GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt, Germany, “especially how to construct a big complex system” - within a team of people spread over 12 countries. Several hundreds of researchers The system Wenxiong has been working on is the ... [Read more]

About the Author: Matilda Hallerstig is a PhD candidate in meteorology at the Norwegian Research Center NORCE and the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway. The topic of her PhD study is on the evaluation of weather forecasts in the Arctic. Matilda received her master in ... [Read more]

From on board, 10 October 2019, by Stefan Hendricks for the ICE and Remote Sensing Teams | How we found the right floe for the ice drift through the Arctic Ocean First of all, the floe had to reflect the typical conditions in our region; this aspect is indispensable to arriving at representative ... [Read more]

When you enter a small, inconspicuous container on the premises of the GSI/FAIR particle acclerator facility close to the big experimental halls you find yourself in the cleanest and most sterile environment of a biology lab: It is the biophysics area, close to the place where the first cancer ... [Read more]

On board ship, 22 September 2019, by Marcel Nicolaus | On departure day it once again became clear to many of us just how long the planning and preparation phase for MOSAiC had been. Since the first meeting in 2011, the ideas and plans gradually became more and more concrete and detailed, ... [Read more]

About the Authors: Gunnar Noer has a MSc from the University of Oslo in 1997. He has been working as a senior forecaster at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), in the forecasting department in Tromsø, since 1998. Since 2010, he has held the position as a developer for polar ... [Read more]