An new episode of the IcePod, the official podcast for the Year of Polar Prediction, has now been published. On this second episode, we take a further look behind the scenes of MOSAiC. The master student and professional photographer Thea Schneider was one of the lucky ones, namely one of the twenty early-career scientists who went on board the Russian icebreaker Akademik Fedorov, which supported Polarstern into the Central Arctic.
In our interview, Thea Schneider from the University of Potsdam, Germany, tells us about the difficulties of assembling a sea-ice buoy without IKEA instructions, what a smoking curl has to do with Arctic turbulences, and how lonesome you can (not) be as a vegetarian among Russian meat-eaters.
How does a photographer look at the Arctic, and how does a physicist? - Both are very creative, and with Thea, everything comes together. Because at heart, she is a theoretical physicist: she loves equations; through physics she found a way to make her photography even more complete. And, if you are looking for a PhD student who likes modelling and at the same time enjoys field work in the Arctic, maybe Thea is the choice...
Find the new and all previous IcePod episodes e.g. on
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/61tYAioSkHuACuCdOo4i9K
Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/episode-two-the-set-up-scene/id1480223567?i=1000463831154
Castbox https://castbox.fm/episode/Episode-Two---The-Set-up-Scene-id2373890-id224658627?country=us
or on our website theicepodcast.home.blog
The IcePod is the podcast about polar science and the people. We’ll talk to scientists who went on board Polarstern, the German research icebreaker, for the biggest research expedition in the Arctic. The IcePod is the official podcast of the Year of Polar Prediction initiative to improve weather and sea-ice forecast in the Arctic and Antarctic. It is produced in collaboration with the Alfred Wegener Institute and Radio Weser.TV where the full episode with music will be played at https://www.medialabnord.de/radio-livestream/. For dates check back with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Editorial responsibility: Kirstin Werner and Sara Pasqualetto
