Throwback to the FYORD summer school, organized by PostDocs for Master’s and PhD students At the beginning of this year, a group of postdocs from GEOMAR and Kiel University, with the great support of FYORD and PACT, came together to brainstorm ideas for a potential summer school tailored for Masters and PhD students in marine […]
Empowering Mothers in Science
Women bring immense potential to science, yet they remain underrepresented in top academic and research roles. In 2022, over 52.3% of all students enrolled at German universities were women, and women earned more than 46% of doctorate degrees. But when it comes to university professors, this number drops dramatically to just 28% (Source: German Federal […]
Lessons from failure: A researcher’s journey through a disastrous experiment
When in January 2020 I started my PhD in Plant Ecology, I felt a mix of enthusiasm and anxiety. I knew the journey I was beginning would be arduous, and that was even before the several events that ended up making it even tougher than I expected. What follows is a recap of perhaps the […]
FYORD Travel Grant Reports: Master’s students travelling to international conferences
Visiting an international conference as a Master’s student In July, the International Conference on Seafloor Landforms, Processes and Evolution (ICSLPE) was held for the second time. This year it took place on the beautiful island of Lipari. My name is Luisa Rollwage and I am a Master’s student of geophysics at Kiel University. During my […]
Pipefish: Who’s the best dad?
Across the animal kingdom, there is a wide array of ways in which parents care for their offspring. When we think about animals with “good parenting”, we quickly think of close-to-home examples from mammals like ourselves: species in which the female can produce milk to feed her children who stay with their mother for some […]
FYORD Travel Grant Reports: Impressions from EGU 2024 (Part 2)
EGU is the largest European geoscientific conference, and it is no surprise that many FYORD members attended. This month for the FYORD Travel Grant reports you will find some more EGU reports. Stay tuned to find out where the FYORD members travel to in the next month! Naveen’s impression of EGU 2024 I am Naveen, […]
Overcoming lack of funding as a PhD Fellow to attend EGU 24
I’m Mafalda, a 29-year-old Portuguese woman doing my doctorate at the University of Kiel with a Portuguese PhD fellowship that allows me to develop my project with the cooperation of GEOMAR and the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA). I’m doing my PhD in Marine Geology studying a natural submarine system where carbon […]