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When you envision what it looks like around the North Pole, you probably imagine...

Air, Ice, Sea

The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: Cracking Arctic sea ice

Author Henrike Wilborn Date October 6, 2022

Henrike Wilborn

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

Why should we study glaciers that no longer exist? And why should we examine...

Climate, Earth, Ice, Land

Why Mud Matters

Author Rachel Devine Date May 18, 2016

Rachel Devine

The Icelandic Eyjafjallajökull volcano, lying dormant for two hundred years, profusely puffed like...

Climate, Earth, Ice, Sea

Why the climate geeks need the volcano geeks.

Author Ashley Braunthal Date May 11, 2016

Ashley Braunthal

The SedWhat Podcast Episode 01: The Climate Messenger – Dr. Erlend Moster Knudsen...

Climate, Culture, Earth, Ice, News, Outreach, People, Sea, Society

The SedWhat Podcast – Episode 01: The Climate Messenger

Author Ashley Braunthal Date December 4, 2015

Ashley Braunthal

I didn’t know what to expect for my first research cruise, which entailed an...

Ice, People, Sea

Forcing and Response: The Climate of an Arctic Research Cruise

Author Ashley Braunthal Date September 28, 2015

Ashley Braunthal

Nobody likes to receive negative feedback, because this usually means that you have done...

Air, Ice, Land, Life

Why negative feedback is good for the climate

Author Annemarie Eckes Date August 4, 2015

Annemarie Eckes

There are moments during your PhD where you wonder what on Earth you’re doing....

Ice, People, Sea

The race to the South Pole (or why I became a polar oceanographer)

Author Céline Heuzé Date April 6, 2015

Céline Heuzé

“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the...

Air, Ice, People, Society

Why care about Arctic sea ice – it is so far from where I live?

Author Marie Kapsch Date December 9, 2014

Marie Kapsch

In early 2014 I participated in a research cruise to the Amundsen...

Air, Ice, Sea

The retreating glaciers of the Amundsen Sea

Author Richard Jones Date October 2, 2014

Richard Jones

If we bulldoze a hill to make way for a road or a house,...

Ice, Land

Glaciers bulldozing the landscape the slow way

Author Iselin Medhaug Date June 11, 2014

Iselin Medhaug

As my niece just turned 8 and is incredibly curious about sciences, I thought...

Ice, Sea

Fun with fluids: ocean mixing and hot chocolate

Author Céline Heuzé Date November 14, 2013

Céline Heuzé

In many ways, glaciers behave like ketchup. Once the layer of ketchup reaches a...

Ice

Ice can flow like ketchup

Author Clemens Spensberger Date October 4, 2013

Clemens Spensberger

The Sun is Earth’s largest source of energy. In addition to being essential for...

Air, Ice

Warm Winds of Change: Sporadic Heat Transport in the Atmosphere

Author Gabriele Messori Date September 2, 2013

Gabriele Messori

What are ice edge jets and why should we care? The ice edge is...

Air, Ice, Sea

Low Level Jets at the Ice Edge

Author Stefan Keiderling Date July 3, 2013

Stefan Keiderling

Variability in our oceans influences the variability in our atmosphere through complex air-sea interactions....

Ice, Sea

Alexander Korablev: On the quest for variability

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date April 25, 2013

Mathew Stiller-Reeve

In my last snack I wrote about how islands can act like rocks in...

Air, Ice

Like a Rock in a Cold River

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date March 24, 2013

Mathew Stiller-Reeve

It’s been cold in Bergen the past few days. And before that it was...

Ice

Moving a mountain on a needle

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date January 14, 2013

Mathew Stiller-Reeve