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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

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 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

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

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

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

Imagine surfing a wave that is several kilometers long. Waves like this actually exist....

Air, Climate, People, Sea

Surfing atmospheric waves – the Morning Glory phenomenon

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date October 13, 2016

Kristine Flacké Haualand

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

For about 75 years, many brilliant minds all over the world have struggled to...

Climate, Earth, Life, People, Physics, Sea, Systems

The Century Problem – An Unsolved Puzzle in Meteorology

Author Lucas Höppler Date May 27, 2016

Lucas Höppler

Meningitis is a deadly disease that causes massive damage to the human brain. Young...

Climate, Health, People, Society, Systems

How wind brings death to West Africa

Author Frank Brenner Date April 28, 2016

Frank Brenner

Satellite data is revolutionising the way we look at our planet. From tracking deforestation...

Climate, Health, Land, Life, People

Certainly uncertain! Do satellites help to monitor food security in Africa?

Author Robert Luetkemeier Date April 22, 2016

Robert Luetkemeier

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

Clean fresh water is essential for human life, but less than 1% of all...

Earth, People, Society

Protecting the people’s water supply in Mexico City

Author Emilio Sanchez Date April 15, 2016

Emilio Sanchez

Figure 1: Grand Prismatic Hot Spring, Yellowstone National Park. Microorganisms inhabit this extreme environment...

Biology, Climate, Earth, Outreach, People

Extreme superbugs are revolutionizing our understanding of life on Earth

Author André Friese Date April 12, 2016

André Friese