New year, new team! We have some changes in our editorial team and would like to introduce our new chief editors to you today – please say hi to Mack and Leah!
Mack and Leah will be taking over the role as chief editors from Maria Scheel, Lina Madaj, Emma Pearce and Loeka Jongejans. You might have read their names before as authors or editors on some of our very recent posts. From January onwards, Mack and Leah will be your point of contact if you would like to write for the cryo blog. Let’s get to know them:
Three quick questions to Mack:
Mack Baysinger first got involved with the cryo blog when they authored the cryo cap mini-series on the tradition of ‘PhD Hat’ crafting in Germany. Mack defended their PhD in Potsdam, Germany with the Alfred Wegener Institute last summer, and is now a postdoc at Aarhus University in Denmark.
What’s your favourite part of the cryosphere?
I’m partial to permafrost, but a true editor doesn’t play favorites!
What’s a cryospheric field site you hope to visit someday?
I remember learning about the Permafrost Tunnel near Fairbanks (USA) as an undergrad in a geology class at Florida State University, and thinking that a facility like that was just the coolest idea ever. I still haven’t managed to see the tunnel, or the ancient plant roots that dangle from the ceiling of it, but I haven’t given up on this dream yet.
What do you hope to see from the cryo blog this year?
I especially look forward to blog post contributions from first-time authors. If you are hoping to try your hand at science writing, this is a great place to start.
Fig. 2: Mack measuring greenhouse gases in the field. [Credits: Mack Baysinger]
Three quick questions to Leah:
Leah Muhle has edited quite some posts for us lately and has written about Geysers, Geese, and Graph Neural Networks and Cryobooks. She is doing her PhD on the intersection of glaciology, geophysics and machine learning at the University of Tübingen in Germany.
What’s your favourite part of the cryosphere?
I am a computer person, so I really like the parts of the cryosphere I can model.
What’s a cryospheric field site you hope to visit someday?
If I get the opportunity, I would love to visit the German Neumayer station. Two of my uncles worked at the research vessel Polarstern and have been there several times and one of my aunts overwintered at Neumayer station. It would be really cool to continue this family tradition!
What do you hope to see from the cryo blog this year?
I totally agree with Mack – it is great to have people writing about their research or other cryotopics that are important to them. I really enjoy seeing how diverse work in the cryosphere is.
Fig. 3: Hi Leah. [Credits: Leah Muhle]
WELCOME, Mack and Leah – we are looking forward to your turn as chief editors and are curious about the directions you will take with the cryo blog.
Emma, Lina and Maria will be stepping down as chief editors but will stick around in the community and you might be seeing their names appear here and there from time to time. Loeka stepped down some time ago, making space for Emma. We would like to thank them for all their time, energy and effort they put into the cryo blog over the past years. Each chief editor always brings new ideas, style, and character to the blog, which makes it grow and shapes it into the blog it is today.
Thank you, Loeka, Maria, Lina and Emma and good luck with your new endeavors!
