The Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam– GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences Internship

January 13, 2020

According to the results of the summer school Study of Landscapes through Research and Environmental Monitoring, which was carried out as part of the PALESCA project in UCA, AUCA student Mira Dzhakshylykova was able to undergo a 2-week internship at the German Research Center for Earth Sciences (GFZ), in Potsdam, Germany.

Research at the GFZ focuses on the geosphere within the highly complex System Earth with its further subsystems, its interacting subcycles, and its wide network of cause-and-effect chains. This is done in close interdisciplinary collaboration with the related scientific disciplines physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology as well as with the engineering sciences disciplines of rock mechanics, engineering hydrology and seismology.

Below, Mira shares her impressions:
This was the most memorable internship, during which I learned a lot and gained an unforgettable experience. During my internship, my supervisor was Jens Mingram, a senior fellow at the Department of Climate Dynamics and Landscape Development. I have visited GIS Day, which provides an international forum for users of geographic information systems technology to demonstrate real-world applications that are making a difference in our society. Besides, I worked with sediments from Sweden and from the Saali glacier, where we took samples and analyzed them with a microscope.

In addition to knowledge of sedimentology, I also visited a remote sensing station, a dendrochronology laboratory, and their local weather station. I was excited by their technology and their abilities in science. It should be noted that their dendrochronology laboratory is one of the best in the world. The Potsdam is a historical and scientific city, there is also the University of Potsdam, which I visited and was very inspired. They have a 3D laboratory at the university for students of geology and related faculties.

I would like to wish all students the same inspiring practice when you can feel the whole atmosphere of science and be confident in your choice and future!

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