a Jiffy Birgit steckelberg on the phone. On the outside you have made fast to the flying field ready, she says. A strange task for a surgeon. However, Steckelberg is currently working on an unusual place: in the Atka-Bay in the 200-Meter thick Ekstrom ice shelf in the Antarctic. There, the German research station, Neumayer 3, which is managed by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremerhaven is. Steckelberg, since February, the Station. In the following weeks, the researchers will grow the team up to 70 people.
The preparations for the guest researchers to run now. Last week, canadian pilots landed on the specially prepared snow slopes, the first Stranger, which saw the Team after eight months. 28. February flew the last supply plane. Since then, steckelberg and her five colleagues and three of my fellow – scientists, engineers, and a cook – were on their own. A task of the Doctor was to investigate how people adapt to the isolation phase. They collected blood and urine samples and carried out cognitive tests with the staff. Steckelberg has the responsibility for the physical and emotional health of the team. “Major problems are not yet occurred, fortunately,” says the Doctor.
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so a Job is boring? Finally, Steckelberg was more than 20 years as a surgeon in hospitals in Hannover. “No, on the contrary, I could blow my brain cells on the other side,” she says. The hardest time during the polar nights, where between the age of 20. May and the 22. July, the sun came up, survived the Team well. “We were very well prepared,” says Steckel mountain. In addition, there was so much to do that she came barely to Think, “what was good”.
Once, when it stormed for a week, the Team could have the snow melt to refill, the water was scarce. “The coldest measured temperature in this Winter was minus to 43.6 degrees on 11. August,” says Steckel mountain. “If you don’t put on da when you go Out very carefully, this can quickly lead to frostbite.” You yourself experienced even when only a square centimeter in the face looked out. She was on the way to the 500 meters away, the Container in which the Crew of the vegetables and “crazy salads” breeds, a research project.
The most fascinating thing is for the Doctor’s nature: the desert of ice, the icebergs and the animals. Very close to a colony of Emperor penguins to hatch. You have but the seals still prefer. Recently, they drove over the ice in the sunset, “indescribably beautiful” it was. The biggest challenge? “It was at the beginning, as we had to find a access from the ice shelf to sea ice, where the researchers perform their measurements.” The ice shelf juts out like a cliff over the sea ice. “I was roped to the Snowcat, as we worked on the ramp.”
Only four of their children missing the 54-Year-old “really”. Their three sons and daughter are already grown-up, and as they departed, was a reason for Steckelberg, to start something entirely different.
Created: 27.10.2019, 18:45 PM
