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Born to science podcastCome for science, stay for personality Author: Andrey Seryakov
Science and people behind it. In this podcast, I am a physicist, Andrey Seryakov, interviewing scientists about their fascinating research topics. During the episodes, we go through various scientific ideas trying to puzzle them out and reveal what is standing behind the academic life I record episodes in both Russian and English languages: - Born to science podcast - Born to science The podcast is available on Spreaker, iTunes, VK and Yandrex.Music. You can follow me on https://www.facebook.com/BornToScience/ https://vk.com/born_to_science https://www.instagram.com/andrey_seryakov/ If you have any comments or suggestion please write to me. Language: en Genres: Natural Sciences, Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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4. Life on Antarctica station, glaciers and climate - Helene Hoffmann
Monday, 11 November, 2019
How is life going on an Antarctic station? how physicists study glaciers and extract information about ancient climate? I'm speaking with Helene Hoffmann, she is a physicist from Germany, she studies glaciers and spent more than a year on a German Antarctic station. 00:40 Why do we study glaciers? 2:30 Helene’s trip to the science3:55 How did Helene end up in an Antarctic station?4:45 How to get to the crew? 7:10 Stations in Antarctica 7:55 Life and goals of the stations 13:40 How the German station looks like, how it is functioning 13:50 Why does it have legs?15:10 Antarctic office 16:00 Gender balance 16:55 Competition to get to the crew18:20 Crew age19:15 Climate inside and outside20:30 What happened with the previous stations 21:40 Supply, energy, food24:25 Internet connection 25:30 Free-time activities 28:00 Boats - no boats28:27 Polar night and polar day 31:00 Live in isolation and space traveling35:00 Is it possible to eat penguins? 36:00 Nature, as the most exciting experience37:24 The second summer39:05 Back to civilization 41:22 Glaciers, what are they and how do they form?44:29 Equilibrium line, dying Alp glaciers 45:40 Chronic of climate history. How to study temperature, humidity and volcanic eruptions and atmospheric composition of a distant past? 54:10 Most ancient climate record available to humanity 57:45 how to extract an ice core? 61:00 ice chronic conservation 65:40 Diseases frozen in the ice
