One of the projects at Neumayer that continues virtually year-round consists in measuring the thickness of the sea ice at regular intervals. This layer of ice forms on the open water in the autumn and remains frozen throughout the winter. Only in summer does the ice cover completely or partly ... [Read more]

By Amabelle Go, Sian Seymour, Stacy Ballyram, Yoania Perez, Ahmad Mohamed | One of the core modules for this expedition is the Oceanography module. This is where we get the opportunity to gain some hands-on experience using different oceanographic instruments as well as analysing the data ... [Read more]

My name is Lantovololona Felaniaina ….huh…for short Felana. I come from Madagascar, the land of lemurs and the land of long named people. Since my childhood, I have always wanted to be an international scientist, firstly to travel the world and secondly to represent my country as an eminent ... [Read more]

By Luciana Shigihara Lima | Hello, I’m Luciana from Brazil. Since I was a child I felt a deep connection with the ocean and already knew what I wanted to be when grown up. When I was five years old, I kept asking to my parents questions such as why waves brake at the beach or why the ocean ... [Read more]

About the authors: Richard Thoman is a Climate Specialist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, USA, (see an earlier post by Rick here) and Gita Ljubicic is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies ... [Read more]

The March for Science is an international initiative for the freedom of science. On 4 May 2019, demonstrations and events will take place worldwide to demand the freedom of research and teaching.   Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch ... [Read more]

Hmm, did you notice? The last report on the re-emergence of the first Neumayer Station was of course, in keeping with the date, just a little April fool’s day joke to kick off the new month.  The supposed ‘emergency exit’ is in reality the entry hatch to the Magneto-Observatory (MagObs), ... [Read more]

About the author: Mark R. Payne is a Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU-Aqua) in Copenhagen, Denmark, whose research examines the impacts of climate change and climate variability on life in the ocean. His work is pioneering the development of Climate Services for ... [Read more]

About the author: Senior researcher Tanja Joona works at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. Joona’s research interests focus on indigenous peoples’ rights, especially the Sámi rights, the ILO Convention No. 169 and other relevant international instruments, as well as traditional ... [Read more]

In this series we present talks of the Helmholtz Horizons Symposium 2018. Today's featured talk is by Obi Felten. Her keynote was titled: 'Solving problems that matter: Insights from X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory'. Helmholtz Horizons took place 6 November 2018 in Berlin. The motto was 'The ... [Read more]