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„A Microadventure in the Arctic Ocean – What stories do ostracods and foraminifera tell about Late Quarternary environmental change north of Svalbard?“ – Poster for The Micropalaeontological Society Pisa Conference 2025

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☀️🏔️Summer has arrived in the Arctic – and with it, the birds. ✨ Just a little reminder 🙃mindset shifts to take the fear out of your next scientific decision I spotted my first oystercatchers on Helgoland and was beyond excited! 🐦 Rick had already seen some in Scotland and showed me pictures — I was honestly a bit jealous. They don’t migrate to Svalbard, so I couldn’t find them up there. But as it turns out, they are everywhere in Bremerhaven too, even nesting on top of tall buildings! Such charming little birds! 🩵 🧊Field trip to Hiddensee – hunting for glacial treasures 🪨 Explore. That’s the whole point. 🌍 🤔Still thinking about which natural science path is right for you?
 Today I was at Pohlesee – a small lake near Berlin, connected to the Wannsee – for a workshop 📖. I had dragged my big telephoto lens across Germany 📷 and was this close to admitting it had been for nothing.
But then… this absolute legend of a grey heron showed up. Calm, collected, and posing like it had done this a hundred times before 🐦. Just when it started to rain … he got a little unmotivated. ✨April was a month spent mostly @awiexpedition Institute 🧪 – working on Arctic microfossils from my sediment core samples and learning from every pipette and protocol. But this post isn’t about thesis life or labwork. It’s about the living beings I shared the most time with – and the most beautiful moments.

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