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While working on tiny plant fossils from the sediment cores I am studying, I...

Culture, Earth, People, Society

Research on remote islands – Where your closest neighbor is an astronaut

Author Maaike Zwier Date March 26, 2020

Maaike Zwier

The past decades of solar system exploration have revealed that Mars used to have...

Earth, Land

Ancient Lakes on Mars: Opportunities for past life

Author Elise Harrington Date October 21, 2019

Elise Harrington

Midlatitude weather is highly dominated by cyclones that typically form over the ocean and...

Air, Climate, Weather

How can evaporation of rain calm down the weather?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date August 26, 2019

Kristine Flacké Haualand

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

Air, Climate, Weather

Improving weather forecasts in the Arctic

Author Matilda Hallerstig Date May 2, 2019

Matilda Hallerstig

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

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

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

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