Science
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