My current position is related to earth observation services and customer support at Kongsberg Satellite Services, since January 2023. I’m enjoying learning more about this field and contributing to maritime services!
To follow-up the previous post, you can check my second post doc article here. More from the group from the same project can be found here and here.
Check here for the first article from my current post doc project on phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean. This article is about phenology and environmental control of phytoplankton blooms, that means, when, and why then, do the phytoplanton blooms happen in this very little studied area far south. Phytoplankton is important for the ecosystem among other things as “food provider”, that is, they photosynthesize with the help of sunlight and create organic carbon (sugars).
Would you like to read about Arctic research in easy language and illustrated with cartoons? Search no longer – our article in Frontiers for Young Minds is now out, describing findings from the N-ICE2015 expedition!
This article is part of a whole collection where the Arctic, its natural environment and the science to find out more are described. The collection can be found here.
Greetings from the Southern Ocean!
I have started a post doc at the Norwegian Polar Institute, focusing on ecosystem dynamics and algal ecology at the Dronning Maud Land coast in Southern Ocean. Currently we are on a research cruise and heading towards our study area! Check for more information for example here.
I successfully defended my PhD thesis on the 21. September 2018! The title of my thesis is “Light response and acclimation of microalgae in a changing Arctic” and can be found here.
Yet another spring has come to the north! I have just returned from some easter skiing in the sunny and snowy mountains. At the office we continue to write up the results and papers from our big expedition N-ICE2015. The special issue is now completed and can be found here, but we are already on the “second round”. I recently submitted my second first-author paper. I have also been involved in some work on glacier fronts and what is the role of meltwater provided by tidewater glaciers to the fjord ecosystem in Kongsfjorden in Svalbard. Besides that, I am busy writing my PhD thesis – it is time for me to finish up by summer!
The N-ICE2015 special issue in Journal of Geophysical Research is filling up! Almost all submitted papers are now published, enjoy reading latest results from the Arctic pack ice region! A complete list of publications with links is available here under Publications headline, or you can check the Publications tab on this website for the ones I have been contributing to.
Here in Tromsø, we are lucky to have a yearly conference about the north: Arctic Frontiers. This conference attracts high-level politicians, shows the newest research from around the Arctic, and has a lot of focus on outreach to the younger generations. In this blog post you can read about the activities that we at APECS, the Association for polar early career scientists, were organizing during the conference together with Arctic Frontiers Young and Nordnorsk Vitensenter (local science centre). In addition to this, me and many of my colleagues were giving science talks during the science part of the conference – check pdfs behind this link! It was an interesting week!
Mar Fernández-Méndez discussing with 10th grade school pupils the poster they prepared for the event.
Hi! Here some updates from my PhD – I’m already halfway, how did that happen!?
After the big N-ICE2015 expedition field work, we were busy with analyzing samples and data, and writing papers. Special issue for the project in Journal of Geophysical Research collected 28 submissions, mine is one of them, thumbs up!
This Spring I joined one cruise, ARCEx2016 organized by the University of Tromsø, here a blog post about it. Currenlty I am in Canada, I joined the Ocean Optics conference Victoria, BC, and now I’m in Winnipeg visiting a research group at the University of Manitoba. My stay here will end with the Arctic Net conference, and some holidays in the mountains.
We had to find alternative ways for sampling sea ice on the ARCEx cruise, because there was so little of it, and so small floes.
Presenting a poster at Ocean Optics conference.
Currently I am a PhD student at the Norwegian Polar Institute, in the N-ICE 2015 project. My main focus is bio-optics, ranging from remote sensing of ice algae to photophysiology. My PhD started with the field campaign of drifting ice stations with research vessel Lance.
Photos by Mar Fernandez Mendez.
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