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Ocean Sciences

From Academic Research to Start-Up: A Marine Biologist’s Algae Farming Vision

April 8, 2025
From Academic Research to Start-Up: A Marine Biologist’s Algae Farming Vision
Credit: Mar Fernández-Méndez

We chatted with a marine biologist about her exciting journey from academia to becoming an entrepreneur. Discover how her algae farm start-up came to life, learn about the concept, achievements, and challenges she faced, future plans, and finally her advice as well as her take on the importance of bridging the two worlds of academia and industry.  Dr. Mar Fernández-Méndez is a marine biologist ded ...[Read More]

Embark on an Auditory Scientific Adventure to the South Pole!

January 14, 2025

Alongside SUNNA, an oceanographic robot as daring as it is curious, you will dive into a frozen and hostile environment to uncover its secrets. Over the course of seven episodes, our hero will gather invaluable scientific data to better understand the workings of the ocean, meeting the familiar inhabitants of this environment along the way.     The Southern Ocean and Argo Profiling Float ...[Read More]

Book Review: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski

December 13, 2024
Book Review: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski

The engine that is Earth’s ocean takes sunlight and converts it into giant underwater currents and waterfalls, hauling around the ingredients for life: nutrients, oxygen and trace metals like potassium and iron, shaping our coasts and transporting heat.  In her book Blue Machine – How the Ocean Shapes Our World, physicist Helen Czerski takes readers on an enlightening journey through t ...[Read More]

The Jinxed Scientist: The Conference Cough Symphony

November 29, 2024
The Jinxed Scientist: The Conference Cough Symphony

Bad things happen… but they make for the best stories. This blog is for all the jinxed souls out there who seem to attract bad luck in academia. As conferences are the perfect stage, almost predestined to showcase our most embarrassing moments, we will start right there. This blog post is for everyone who shivers at the thought of presenting on the conference stage. All the PhDs who just started a ...[Read More]