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 – […]
Schülerpraktikum am GEOMAR – Einblicke in die marine Forschungspraxis
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 […]
FYORD Travel Grant Reports: September 2025
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 – […]
Equally successful?
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 […]
FYORD Travel Grant Reports: August 2025
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 […]
Abtauchen in der Kieler Förde – das Projekt Snorkeling.City
Abtauchen in die Unterwasser-Welt Kiels und mit Profis die unterschiedlichsten Organismen erforschen. Das durften wir, 24 StudentInnen der CAU, Dank dem Umweltbildungsprojekt Snorkeling.City erleben. Im Rahmen einer Exkursion haben wir uns mit Herrn Dr. Henry Göhlich und seinem Team in der Strandbar am Seebad Düsternbrook getroffen. Unser Arbeitsbereich für den heutigen Tag war perfekt gewählt, […]
Diving in the Kiel Fjord – the Snorkeling.City project
Exploring the underwater world of Kiel and discovering a wide variety of marine organisms – all guided by professionals. Thanks to the environmental education project Snorkeling.City, we, 24 students from Kiel University (CAU), had the opportunity to experience this first-hand. As part of an excursion, we met with the project coordinator Dr. Henry Göhlich and his […]
FYORD Travel Grant Reports: July 2025
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 […]
Between algae and monkeys
Research into light pollution in Malaysia Imagine you are walking along the promenade or through your favorite street at night. What do you see? The glow of streetlights, ship lights, illuminated shop windows. You probably see something, right? While actually, it should be dark. The issue at hand is light pollution. Artificial light at night […]
FYORD Travel Grant Reports: June 2025
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 […]