Michaela Muehl, MSc
University of Bern (Switzerland) and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
Michaela, in red polar jacket and green woollen hat, holds a short ice core in a rubber-gloved hand. She is in the ice core facility (the cold room) at the University of Bern.
What’s the work that you do?
I am a third-year PhD candidate; I work in the “Past Climate and Biogeochemical Studies on Ice Cores” group. I analyze entrapped Greenhouse gases (my main focus is on methane) in ice cores from both Greenland and Antarctica to reconstruct the climate of the past. I am also part of the BeyondEPICA project; I will participate in the coming Antarctic field season (Nov 2023- March 2024) at Little Dome C to continue drilling the oldest ice.
What keeps you going?
There is not a single day that I don’t enjoy going to work. I like the “spirit” of research, this inquisitiveness, to learn something new every day. But most importantly, I appreciate the value of our work. The basic research is fundamental to better understand the “System Earth” with all its parts and interactions. Only with a comprehensive understanding of past climate changes and natural variability can we make reliable predictions for the future and how the Earth system will respond to human-induced climate change.
What’s your message to the world?
Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.
Organisation: University of Bern (Switzerland) and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
Nationality:
Germany
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