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SciSnack is now broadening its scope to include archaeology and in October we kickstarted...
News

Introducing ArchaeoSnack

Author Vana Orfanou Date November 12, 2020
Vana Orfanou
Tagged archaeological science, archaeology | Leave a comment |
SciSnack will celebrate it’s 7th year of existence in 2019, and it’s about time...
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SciSnack: The Next Generation

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date December 13, 2018
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged climatesnack, leadership, SciSnack | Leave a comment |
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 |
We have the pleasure of welcoming the students from the Earth Surface Dynamics (ESD)...
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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 |
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 |
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
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  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
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    Everyone waited for radio broadcasting to crumble, but then something incredible happened....
News, Outreach

‘DIY’ Journalism for Scientists through Scientific Podcasting

Author Ashley Braunthal Date April 20, 2016
Ashley Braunthal
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  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
Tagged CONFERENCE, COP21, POLETOPARIS | Leave a comment |
Do you know where your science story burns to engage your target audience? Did...
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Event: Where the Science Story Burns

Author SciSnack Date October 22, 2015
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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
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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
Tagged Climate change, feedback, Ice-Albedo feedback, silicate weathering, water-vapor feedback, Weather | Leave a comment |
In April, Valerie Kumer (University of Bergen) and I had the pleasure to organize...
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ClimateSnack workshop in Uganda

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date May 29, 2015
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged Makere University, Uganda, writing course, Writing skills | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Amundsen, penguin, polar exploration, Scott | Leave a comment |
Here is another insightful post by professional writer, Dallas Murphy. Dallas conducts annual science-writing...
Expert

Consider the Audience

Author SciSnack Date January 6, 2015
SciSnack
Tagged Dallas Murphy, graduate writing, know your audience, science writing, scientific audience, technical writing, Writing skills | Leave a comment |
“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
Tagged Arctic sea ice, Climate change, extreme events, Weather | 1 Comment |
    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
Tagged iSTAR, Pine Island Glacier, radiosondes, West Antarctica | Leave a comment |
There’s a whole wave of new and exciting ways to communicate our science. There...
News

Podcasting together

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date July 18, 2014
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged audio, Grantham Institute, Jack Soper, podcast, Resclim, scicomm, workshop | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Climate, glacier, landscapes, melt water, sediment coring, sediments | Leave a comment |
Featured Video Play Icon The success of writing groups depends on effective feedback discussions. Structuring these feedback discussions is far...
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Funneling group discussions

Author SciSnack Date May 12, 2014
SciSnack
Tagged climatesnack, David Schultz, discussion, feedback, Funnel Model, writing group, Writing skills | 1 Comment |
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