4. Life on Antarctica station, glaciers and climate - Helene Hoffmann

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