With the 25-year anniversary of GEM coming up, we wanted to get back to the roots and present Hans Meltofte, who is one of the founding fathers of the monitoring programme, now known as the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring programme. In this interview by Maria Scheel, Hans talks about the development of the monitoring programme and the establishment of Zackenberg research station.

While the field season finally started for most GEM Basisprogrammes, the GEM secretariat has taken over the ‘Scientist of the Month’ for June, featuring Marie and Elmer who share the work in the GEM secretariat.

For the start of the summer, we present you the GEM scientist of the month May 2020: Melissa J. Murphy. She recently moved from the UK to Copenhagen, to pursue a postdoc position at Copenhagen University. As a geochemist at CENPERM, she researches how weathering processes affect CO2 fluxes in the Arctic.

Despite not being a GEM member herself, we chose to feature Mel to share both her experiences of working dedicatedly in the GEM stations and with the existing long-term monitoring.