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Born to science podcast

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 подкаст 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.

Categories: Science & Medicine

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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 science
3:55 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 crew
18:20 Crew age
19:15 Climate inside and outside
20:30 What happened with the previous stations
21:40 Supply, energy, food
24:25 Internet connection
25:30 Free-time activities
28:00 Boats - no boats
28:27 Polar night and polar day
31:00 Live in isolation and space traveling
35:00 Is it possible to eat penguins?
36:00 Nature, as the most exciting experience
37:24 The second summer
39:05 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