My Views on the ‘EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online’ Virtual Conference

In May 2020, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly was held as a massive online virtual conference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new format would serve as a large scale experiment to understand the pro's and con's of virtual conferencing, potentially changing the nature of academic conferences forever. In this blog post, … Continue reading My Views on the ‘EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online’ Virtual Conference →

My First Visit to the Arctic!

In January 2020 I was given the opportunity to attend a conference in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago famed for housing more polar bears than humans. I was attending this conference to discuss my research project that was recently funded by the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) and to meet people from across the … Continue reading My First Visit to the Arctic! →

We came, we saw, we scanned a glacier!

It is often thought-provoking to quote Roman orators when discussing successful trips to far flung locations. That is not the reason for using it here, it's simply just a catchy title. In this, my very first blog post, I want to share my thoughts on a successful first field trip as part of my PhD. … Continue reading We came, we saw, we scanned a glacier! →

First Blog Post!

I will be blogging about life as a PhD student, general science news and anything that I find interesting! Please check the site out for posts about my activities!