Last week we presented MEMO2 at the EGU 2019, together with more than 16.000 scientists presenting their research. 113 countries participated! 5.531 oral, 9.432 poster, and 1.287 PICO presentations. 683 unique…

Let’s play: During our 2nd MEMO2 school about “Methane and society” in France, the exercise for our students was to figure parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)….

Fundamentally, I’ve been in contact with the Utrecht University (UU) and Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) since the first interview before getting admission to the MEMO2when I was…

During October 2018, I traveled to the Netherlands for a secondment with the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU) group at Utrecht University. My PhD research revolves around…

Let’s start! – June 18th I’ve arrived safe at King’s cross train station. It still takes more that 1 hour to reach Egham, where are the University campus and the…

I am not going to tell about the love story, but this might be a blog for the broken-hearted. Please be ready to read about the worst time I have…

Main topic of my Phd is assessing CH4 emissions from Swedish wetlands. I’m doing my Phd at Lund University, Sweden. During my studies I have to visit two academic partners…

If you want to know where your methane is coming from, you can measure the isotopic composition of the molecules. The isotopic composition is like a fingerprint, you can distinguish…

Gaussian plume and dispersion models are useful tools to derive emissions rates from mobile CH4 measurements as performed within MEMO2. In October 2018, our partner Heidelberg University organised a workshop on…

Blog written by Sara Defratyka There is a moment in each PhD’s life when students have to bring to life what they read in articles and confront expectation with reality. This…