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The thick, white fog outside the airport window left no doubt about the reason...
Weather

Improving weather forecasts in the Arctic

Author Matilda Hallerstig Date May 2, 2019
Matilda Hallerstig
Tagged Arctic, icing, numerical weather prediction, polar lows, Weather forecasting | Leave a comment |
Geoscientists have been arguing for over a hundred years how the Norwegian mountains came...
Earth, Uncategorized

The rise of the Norwegian mountains

Author Åse Hestnes Date April 29, 2019
Åse Hestnes
Tagged Isostatic uplift, Mountains, Norwegian landscape, Norwegian mountains | Leave a comment |
There is much more to mud than mud masks and mud castles. Mud can...
Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

What’s in mud

Author Anne Morée Date April 4, 2019
Anne Morée
Tagged carbon isotopes, climate PhD, oceanography, publication | Leave a comment |
Chew Bahir on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia is a tough and merciless...
Climate, Culture, Earth, Land, People, Uncategorized

Did the mega-lakes of Ethiopia make us human?

Author Markus L Fischer Date January 15, 2019
Markus L Fischer
Tagged Climate, Climate change, landscapes, Modelling, Precipitation | Leave a comment |
“And what project are you working on?” With these seven words, I knew the...
Society

Impostor syndrome: The enemy within

Author Andrew Seidl Date January 10, 2019
Andrew Seidl
Tagged academia, impostor syndrome, psychology | 1 Comment |
Various predictions have forecast that within the next five to twenty years greenhouse gases...
Climate, Land, People

Promises and caveats of solar geoengineering on the land

Author Yuanchao Fan Date January 7, 2019
Yuanchao Fan
Tagged aerosol geoengineering, climate change and politics, climate change solutions, Geoengineering | Leave a comment |
SciSnack will celebrate it’s 7th year of existence in 2019, and it’s about time...
News

SciSnack: The Next Generation

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date December 13, 2018
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged climatesnack, leadership, SciSnack | Leave a comment |
Despite popular opinion, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is not the deepest...
Earth

Exploring the History of Hells Canyon – the Deepest Canyon In North America

Author Matthew Morriss Date November 28, 2018
Matthew Morriss
Tagged Deepest Canyon in North America, geomorphology, Hells Canyon, Snake River | Leave a comment |
We set sail from Iceland on Research Vessel G.O. Sars, in July 2015, to...
Climate, Sea, Uncategorized

Big ocean temperature change recorded in tiny fossils!

Author Evangeline Sessford Date November 26, 2018
Evangeline Sessford
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Wanderlust, which evolved during German Romanticism in the early 1800s, is becoming increasingly popular....
Climate, Earth, Ice

Rock induced wanderlust – How mountain landforms reflect past climates

Author Philipp Marr Date November 15, 2018
Philipp Marr
Tagged Geography, geomorphology, Holocene Thermal Maximum, landform evolution, Last Glacial Maximum, Norway, periglacial landforms, Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating | Leave a comment |
All scientific statements must be testable, and any such test should be reproducible. However,...
Climate, Earth, Systems, Uncategorized

Software in science: a plea to free your code

Author Marco van Hulten Date November 13, 2018
Marco van Hulten
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The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest is known for two things –...
Earth, Land

Dating Oregon landslides with ‘ghost forests’

Author Will Struble Date November 8, 2018
Will Struble
Tagged Cascadia, dendrochronology, lakes, landslides, Pacific Northwest, subduction zone, tree rings | Leave a comment |
How many years can a mountain exist, before it is washed to the sea?...
Climate, Earth, Land, Systems

How long does it take a mountain to die and why does it matter to us?

Author Xumin Pan Date November 6, 2018
Xumin Pan
Tagged ESD summer school, geomorphology, orogen, Qilian, Rivers | Leave a comment |
Water is essential for life. It is a critical resource to be preserved and...
Biology, Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

Nature’s water purifier: Surface water-groundwater interactions

Author Reynold Chow Date October 29, 2018
Reynold Chow
Tagged Earth Surface Dynamics, groundwater, hyporheic exchange, micro-plastics, River dynamics, river pollutants, surface water-groundwater interactions | Leave a comment |
We have the pleasure of welcoming the students from the Earth Surface Dynamics (ESD)...
News

Learning together about Processes at the Earth’s Vulnerable Skin: The ESD 2018 summer school in Germany

Author SciSnack Date October 25, 2018
SciSnack
Tagged Earth Surface Dynamics, ESD summer school, international research network, Martin Trauth Mark Maslin Verena Foerster, student collaboration, summer school | Leave a comment |
“All life, and all art, have a common field of tension: to live versus...
Climate, Culture, Outreach, People, Society

From different viewpoints we convey our insight: Interview with Rolf Aamot

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date October 16, 2018
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged art, Climate, outreach, scicomm, science communication | Leave a comment |
[This post was written by Mathew Stiller-Reeve for Geolog and is published on ClimateSnack...
Outreach, People, Society

Give us the foundation to build our transferrable skills!

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date June 25, 2018
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged academia and industry, career development, ECS skills, EGU, EGU ECS, EGU2018, Great Debates, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in...
Climate, Systems

The power of a butterfly

Author Francine Schevenhoven Date May 31, 2018
Francine Schevenhoven
Tagged butterfly effect, chaos, Climate Models, super modeling | Leave a comment |
When I ask my friends in Bergen why they don’t ride their bikes more...
Air, Climate, Culture, Health, People, Society

Do Bergen cyclists care about rain?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date May 22, 2018
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged Bergen, cycling, habits, Rain, Weather | Leave a comment |
Oceans slow down global warming but at the cost of “their health”. The oceans...
Chemistry, Sea, Society

Ocean Acidification – the evil twin of global warming

Author Maribel I. García-Ibáñez Date December 19, 2017
Maribel I. García-Ibáñez
Tagged Climate change, climatesnack, Global warming, greenhouse gases, Ocean, ocean acidification | 1 Comment |
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