salt-oceans:

Karen is in South Korea this week, attending a workshop on Antarctic Oceanography. Why South Korea? Because the South Koreans have recently invested heavily in Antarctic facilities for science, including a new Antarctic base next to the Ross Sea, and a new ship called Araon.

Araon is an…

arctic-meltdown:

We’re getting towards the end of this Iceland field campaign: only tomorrow left now to finish everything we want to do, but it looks like our work might be cut short. The forecast for tomorrow is for really high winds – so much so that Oli, our landlord, has warned us to batten down the…

clever-microbes:

A simulation is the imitation of a system over time. It is a ‘virtual experiment’ that we can do that is easier and quicker than investigating the actual system. Simulations are often done using computers. Using a model and a set of initial (starting) conditions, a simulation calculates the…

electric-carbon:

NANO has become one of the most fashionable prefixes of our times. This magical word standing in front of a normal word implies

… that something is extremely small

… exactly 1/milliardth of something

… that it is the result of the newest research

… and it’s extremely fancy

tidal-turbine:

Tidal turbines and other renewable energy solutions provide a way for us to produce electricity without the carbon dioxide emissions associated with traditional power stations, or the waste problems associated with nuclear power stations. Renewable energy solutions do have an impact on the…