Sarah B. Puschmann

EUMETSAT • 10th June 2024

A virtual Earth

As extreme weather events become more frequent, mitigating their effects requires understanding them more deeply. This is exactly what Destination Earth enables people to do.

EUMETSAT • 22nd May 2024

Satellites over Africa save lives

Last spring, Cyclone Freddy tore across south-eastern Africa. It hit Malawi the hardest, pummeling the country with six months’ worth of rain in only six days.

EUMETSAT • 25th April 2024

Behind the data: rescuing rock lobsters from a red tide

In early March 2022, more than 700,000 West Coast rock lobsters made their way onto the shore of Elands Bay in South Africa.

EUMETSAT • 22nd November 2023

Cutting through the noise

In preparation for processing data from Himawari-10, Japan’s first satellite that will carry a hyperspectral infrared sounder, Shin Koyamatsu is spending a year at EUMETSAT learning from its wealth of infrared sounder data and the techniques used to process them.

EUMETSAT • 31st October 2022

The legacy of TOPEX-Poseidon

Today, it is common sense that by circulating water and heat throughout the globe, the ocean influences the climate and its changes. But the fact that the Earth’s climate – and, by extension, the fate of life itself – is inextricably bound to the ocean was not always known.

EUMETSAT • 2nd September 2022

The woman behind the many moving parts of MTG

For Susanne Dieterle, the space sector feels like home.

EUMETSAT • 2nd September 2022

Keeping an orbiting satellite on track is no easy feat

When Miguel Serrano first entered the field of spacecraft flight dynamics almost two decades ago, he was faced with the challenge of explaining his job to his mother.

EUMETSAT • 30th June 2022

Shaped by cyclones

The life-saving power of satellite images.

EUMETSAT • 23rd May 2022

Meteosat Third Generation: Cutting-edge weather data

These satellites will enable insights into the atmosphere, humidity, and lightning that could save lives.

EUMETSAT • 6th May 2022

New satellite ground station in Switzerland inaugurated today

EUMETSAT chatted with head of MeteoSwiss Regional Centre South, Marco Gaia, about how weather and climate data from revolutionary next-generation satellites, Meteosat Third Generation, will benefit Switzerland.

EUMETSAT • 15th November 2021

Europe’s first meteorological satellite in polar orbit ends its run

The process of taking Metop-A, Europe’s first polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, out of service has begun today.

EUMETSAT • 2nd November 2021

EUMETSAT fellow wins Weather4cast 2021 Challenge

A custom-designed recurrent neural network was the key to the prize.

EUMETSAT • 21st October 2021

How did the first coronavirus lockdown affect air and ocean pollution

A EUMETSAT expert examines satellite and ground-based pollution data from the first lockdown and weighs in on the effects.

EUMETSAT • 11th October 2021

Data in Action: Innovative platform to access complex marine data

The Marine Analyst platform enables even the most tech-unsavvy person to access custom analyses of over 1,600 marine environmental datasets.

EUMETSAT • 6th October 2021

In West Africa, monitoring droughts with satellites saves lives

Glimpse inside a Niger-based organisation that uses satellite data to predict when and how wet the rainy season will be.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory • 8th December 2017

Alasdair McDowall’s slow road to flash freezing

In the late 1970s, water was the bane of the microscopist’s existence.

Queen's Alumni Review • 1st September 2017

Who’s driving?

Jeff Dawson, PhD’01, created a locust-driven car to teach students about neural-machine interfacing.

Leibniz Institute for New Materials • 23rd June 2017

Paddling Through the Amazon 100 Years After Teddy Roosevelt

Marc Meyers, Humboldt-Award winner and materials scientist originally from Brazil, was inspired to retrace the historical Roosevelt-Rondon-Expedition 100 years later.

Hakai Magazine • 15th May 2017

Tiny Zombie Worms Are the Beavers of the Deep

These deep-sea worms carve habitats out of whale bone.