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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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