Approach your career as if you were growing a tree, not building a house
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of being awarded my doctorate. Time flies! And as good a time as any to reflect on my career so far. I recently read the…
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Women in oceanography
I just found out that “Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later.” is out! The special issue on women in oceanography was published by The Oceanography Society, as a supplement to the…
Guest post: Arctic sea ice thinning.
Exciting guest post on a newly published paper by Angelika H. H. Renner. I’ve met Angelika on a cruise in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current a long time ago where we worked…
Hydrothermal springs
Hydrothermal springs that you can visit without a deep-sea submersible. When teaching about hydrothermal springs, I usually use a video a friend of mine took of hydrothermal vents on the…
Polar bears – or reason #7691 for why it is great to be an oceanographer
Polar bear photos from a cruise last year. Just because. Imagine you are on a research ship somewhere in the Greenland Sea. You are, as you have been for the…
A fetching title for a fetching photo post
Using a photo from one of my research cruises to explain the formation of wind waves. Wind waves are (surprise coming up!) waves generated by wind that blows over the…