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As part of my paleo-climate PhD research, I did some laboratory work in Durham,...

Climate, Life, Sea

Podcast: Tiny creatures millions of years ago

Author ClimateSnack Date September 25, 2015

ClimateSnack

Have you ever seen a documentary about a research cruise? Have you heard about...

Life, People, Sea

The non-science side of a research cruise

Author Chata Seguro Date September 8, 2015

Chata Seguro

In the 1920s your fridge could kill you. A range of explosive, flammable and...

Air, Chemistry, Climate, People, Society

CFCs and Ozone: The Hole Story

Author Mike Newland Date September 7, 2015

Mike Newland

My right foot is six-inches deep in mud – thick, smelly, sticky mud –...

Climate, Land, Sea

Stuck in the mud: investigating a tidal bore

Author Peter Sheehan Date August 13, 2015

Peter Sheehan

You may have come across the term COP21 or indeed heard the phrase...

Climate, People, Society, Systems

What is COP21? By a layman for a layman

Author Osgur McDermott Long Date August 10, 2015

Osgur McDermott Long

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

I study the physical climate system. It is easy, maybe even convenient, to think...

Climate, People, Society

Characteristics of climate science denial

Author Karin van der Wiel Date July 3, 2015

Karin van der Wiel

Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering caused by VOCs emitted by forests.

Behind the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa lies a landscape, reddish in the...

Air, Life, Society

Frits W. Went: Turning the Air Blue

Author Mike Newland Date June 2, 2015

Mike Newland

In April, Valerie Kumer (University of Bergen) and I had the pleasure to organize...

News

ClimateSnack workshop in Uganda

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date May 29, 2015

Mathew Stiller-Reeve

As everyone living in Bergen knows, it can rain a lot. Most people have...

Air, Life, People, Physics

The Famous ”Person-Running-Through-Rain-Problem”

Author Patrik Bohlinger Date May 26, 2015

Patrik Bohlinger

I was dangling out of an aeroplane hatch, my legs stretching towards the ground...

Air

Glorious Glories

Author Amee O'Callaghan Date May 11, 2015

Amee O'Callaghan

The quote “all models are wrong, but some are useful” by Box and Draper...

Physics, Systems

In the climate model jungle

Author Annemarie Eckes Date April 13, 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

If you study hard to become a diplomat, you manage to work for...

Land, Life, People, Sea, Society

The unpredicted consequences of the life of Monsieur de Lesseps.

Author Umberto Binetti Date March 11, 2015

Umberto Binetti

What are polar lows? Through the centuries seafarers in the Nordic Seas have told...

Air

Polar lows: what fuels Arctic hurricanes?

Author Denis Sergeev Date March 4, 2015

Denis Sergeev

Norwegians love their mountains. They go there for hiking in the summer, skiing in...

Earth, Land

The mystery of the Norwegian mountains

Author Vivi Pedersen Date February 25, 2015

Vivi Pedersen

The Netherlands, ‘Nederland’, its name literally means ‘low country’. In the CIA World Factbook...

Land, People, Sea, Society

Flood management below sea level – strategies from the Netherlands

Author Karin van der Wiel Date February 3, 2015

Karin van der Wiel

Here is another insightful post by professional writer, Dallas Murphy. Dallas conducts annual science-writing...

Expert

Consider the Audience

Author ClimateSnack Date January 6, 2015

ClimateSnack

To celebrate both the Christmas period and the variety of nationalities within the UEA...

Air, Culture, People

Worldwide weird weather words

Author ClimateSnack UEA Date December 17, 2014

ClimateSnack UEA

“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