Delivering Five years into my PhD and I still wasn’t done. To be fair, I hadn’t exactly had an easy ride, starting just weeks before COVID lockdowns were announced, becoming a mother in my second year, and trying to build a new model system from scratch (Pipefish and their male pregnancy are adorable, but they […]
A Polar Marine Science Conference on Sea Ice in the mountains of Tuscany I am Sophia Hirschmann, a Ph.D. candidate in the microbial biogeochemistry group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. My research focuses on the dynamics of phytoplankton and organic matter in the Arctic Ocean, especially the Fram Strait. In particular, I […]
The September blogpost is the internship report from Felix about his student internship at GEOMAR, with a brief insight into Lea’s perspective, who supervised the internship. The blog is published in German anf English. During my two-week internship at GEOMAR in July/August 2025, I gained comprehensive insight into various areas of marine science work – […]
Der Blogbeitrag im September ist der Praktikumsbericht von Felix über sein Schülerpraktikum am GEOMAR, mit einem kleinen Einblick von seiner Betreuerin Lea. Der Blog erscheint auf Deutsch und auf Englisch. Während meines zweiwöchigen Praktikums am GEOMAR im Juli/August 2025 erhielt ich einen umfassenden Einblick in verschiedene Bereiche der meereswissenschaftlichen Arbeit – von Laboranalytik über Probenvorbereitung […]
International Temperate Reef Symposium, France Oh boy- time to head to my first real research conference and present (for the very first time!) data from my PhD. The nerves? High. The poster? Printed (finally!) the weekend before. The train ticket? Booked. Yes, we decided to travel to Brest, Brittany in northern France by train – […]
What is success? If you are better than others? If you do something that was expected of you? If you reach a goal you have worked hard for? If something works out, just as planned? If you are proud? If you had the chance to evolve and learn something new? I think, success, in the […]
EGU General Assembly In the beginning of springtime in Vienna, Austria, as every year, thousands of geoscientists met for the EGU General Assembly 2025. And thanks to FYORD, I, Lenya Baumann, got the opportunity to be part of it. Studying geophysics and working as a student assistant for the group ‘Marine Geophysics and Hydroacoustics’ at […]
EGU 2025 (I) Hello, my name is Elisaveta – though I often go by Lisa – and I’m a second-year doctoral researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. My research focuses on marine geophysics, particularly using ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) and 2D seismic reflection data. At EGU 2025, I presented data from the […]
International Seaweed Symposium My name is Friederike Gronwald. I am a third-year PhD student in the Management Ecology of Marine Macrophytes Group (RU Experimental Ecology) at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research. My work focuses on the hydrodynamic and aerodynamic effects on the drifting behaviour of marine macrophytes with diverse morphologies in the Baltic […]
Hi, Henrike here. You don’t know me? Well, we should change that. Formally, I’m a scientist, a science educator and communicator, and a project manager. Personally, I love taking my dog for walks on the beach, feeling the sun on my face and the wind in my hair. I’m creative, curious, a bit chaotic, often […]