Office of Science & Technology - Introducing Monika Winder: from Economist to Ecologist

Introducing Monika Winder: from Economist to Ecologist

bridges vol. 21, April 2009 / News from the Network: Austrian Researchers Abroad

By Juliet M. Beverly

Dr. Monika Winder in Antarctica participating in the NSF training course.

January 2008 - Christchurch, New Zealand - Monika Winder is prepped for her journey. She receives all the necessary protective equipment - most importantly, the thermal red coats, signature of those participating in the National Science Foundation's (NSF ) "Integrative Biology and Adaptation of Antarctic Marine Organisms " training course. She boards a C-17 aircraft where she sits near cargo boxes during the 7-hour flight that lands, finally, on the Antarctic ice sheets. The first thing she sees when stepping off the plane is "white, white, white, everywhere."

Not many people begin their year with a training course that takes them to the Antarctic. But if you're Monika Winder, a research associate in the Tahoe Environmental Research Center at the University of California, Davis, any opportunity to further your research in biology is worth it. And, any time to be outdoors - be it arid, or Antarctic - is time well spent.

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