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“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 |
Have you ever thought about what you would talk about in a conversation with...
Air, Climate, Earth

Meteorology is out of this world! – Extra-terrestrial meteorology

Author Andrew Seidl Date October 17, 2017
Andrew Seidl
Tagged extra-terrestrial, hexagon, meteorology, saturn's hexagon, space, space storm | Leave a comment |
If children from different countries and cultures want to exchange ideas about weather and...
Climate, Culture, Outreach, People, Uncategorized

The art of exchanging weather stories

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date October 4, 2017
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged art, Bangladesh, Climate art, Eamon O'Kane, interdisciplinary, Norway, Robin Everett, Ruben Eikebø, Schools, Shakti Nomaan, Sunamganj, Valestrandsfossen | Leave a comment |
A good cake can be unforgettable and can lead to massive cravings. In the...
Climate, Earth

How to unbake a cake or reverse an irreversible process in science

Author Vivi Pedersen Date June 7, 2017
Vivi Pedersen
Tagged cake, inversion, irreversible, landscape evolution, reverse, river erosion | Leave a comment |
Locals observe large differences in precipitation on short distances, and people have done for...
Air, Climate, Earth, People, Systems, Uncategorized

Terrain and climate models

Author Marie Pontoppidan Date April 24, 2017
Marie Pontoppidan
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, climatesnack, Precipitation, Rain, Weather | Leave a comment |
  What does proxy mean? For a native English speaker, it might be a...
Climate, Outreach, People, Society

Keeping a Norwegian scientific language alive – for scientists and the public

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date March 16, 2017
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged english science, language of science, norwegian and science | 1 Comment |
Use Twitter to communicate your research! Use social media to explain your latest results!...
Climate, Outreach, People, Society

Twitter for learning in research

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date February 8, 2017
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged monsoon research, monsoon research hashtag, outreach, research and social media, scicomm, science communication, Social media in science, Twitter in science | Leave a comment |
When I get old, I want to be a skiing grandma. For that dream...
Climate, Earth, Society

Future skiing conditions in Norway: Will I be a skiing grandma?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date December 21, 2016
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged Global warming, Norway, Precipitation, skiing conditions, skiing grandmas, snow, snow depth, snow in the future, temperature | Leave a comment |
How can such landscapes not change the local climate. Earth system models are best tools we have to study the climate and how...
Climate, Society

Politics: the forgotten climate driver

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date December 16, 2016
Ingjald Pilskog
Tagged Climate change, climate change and politics, climate migration, politics, urban climate | Leave a comment |
Imagine surfing a wave that is several kilometers long. Waves like this actually exist....
Air, Climate, People, Sea

Surfing atmospheric waves – the Morning Glory phenomenon

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date October 13, 2016
Kristine Flacké Haualand
Tagged atmospheric waves, clouds, gliders, hanggliding, morning glory, wave bore, wave clouds, Waves | Leave a comment |
Early last week, climate PhD students from the Nordic countries met in Upsete, deep in...
News

Debating social media in the Norwegian mountains.

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date September 30, 2016
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged climate PhD, climate scicomm, Nordic Climate PhD conference 2016, PhD debate, scicomm, social media, Twitter scicomm, Upsete | Leave a comment |
Weather and climate shape cultures and the lives of people everywhere. People have been...
Climate, Society, Systems

Climate detectives: What a Historical Climatologist does

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date September 21, 2016
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged acclimatization, Bombay, George Adamson, Historical climatology, Lucretia West, Monsoon, monsoon onset, Mountstuart Elphinstone | 1 Comment |
Shrub encroachment is threatening the livelihoods of billions of people world-wide. This is the...
Biology, Climate, Land

Shrub encroachment – time to demystify a global threat

Author Gregor Ratzmann Date June 14, 2016
Gregor Ratzmann
Tagged East African Summer School, Ecosystems, savanna, shrub encroachment | Leave a comment |
The film ‘Blood Diamonds’ provides a glimpse into the atrocities that conflict over minerals...
Earth

Deadly gems: is gem mining a blessing or curse in Kenya?

Author Abigail Wamunyu Date June 1, 2016
Abigail Wamunyu
Tagged East Africa Summer school on “collecting, gem, Kenya, mining, Tsavorite | 1 Comment |
For about 75 years, many brilliant minds all over the world have struggled to...
Climate, Earth, Life, People, Physics, Sea, Systems

The Century Problem – An Unsolved Puzzle in Meteorology

Author Lucas Höppler Date May 27, 2016
Lucas Höppler
Tagged a and b parameters, century problem, flash-flood, Flood, hydroelectric, hydrological model, hydropower, innovation, Micro Rain Radar, MRR, radar, unsolved puzzle, Z-R relation | 2 Comments |
When I was at school I loved science but I hated having to learn...
Climate, Earth, Land

Standing on the shoulders of giants: why old science still matters

Author Jan Schuurman Date May 19, 2016
Jan Schuurman
Tagged Aridity, Climate, east africa, East Africa Summer School, Ethiopia, Hyperspectral, Lake Sediments, Last Glacial Maximum, Proxy, Younger Dryas | 1 Comment |
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