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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
Tagged Climate, Climate change, landscapes, Modelling, Precipitation | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged aerosol geoengineering, climate change and politics, climate change solutions, Geoengineering | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged climatesnack, leadership, SciSnack | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Earth Surface Dynamics, ESD summer school, international research network, Martin Trauth Mark Maslin Verena Foerster, student collaboration, summer school | Leave a comment |
“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
Tagged art, Climate, outreach, scicomm, science communication | Leave a comment |
[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
Tagged academia and industry, career development, ECS skills, EGU, EGU ECS, EGU2018, Great Debates, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Bergen, cycling, habits, Rain, Weather | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged art, Bangladesh, Climate art, Eamon O'Kane, interdisciplinary, Norway, Robin Everett, Ruben Eikebø, Schools, Shakti Nomaan, Sunamganj, Valestrandsfossen | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Climate, Climate Models, climatesnack, Precipitation, Rain, Weather | Leave a comment |
  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
Tagged english science, language of science, norwegian and science | 1 Comment |
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
Tagged monsoon research, monsoon research hashtag, outreach, research and social media, scicomm, science communication, Social media in science, Twitter in science | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged atmospheric waves, clouds, gliders, hanggliding, morning glory, wave bore, wave clouds, Waves | 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 |
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
Tagged a and b parameters, century problem, flash-flood, Flood, hydroelectric, hydrological model, hydropower, innovation, Micro Rain Radar, MRR, radar, unsolved puzzle, Z-R relation | 2 Comments |
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
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, Infectious Disease, Meningitis, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged East Africa Summer School, Food Security, Modelling, Rainfall Uncertainty, Remote Sensing, Sub-Saharan Africa | Leave a comment |
    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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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
Tagged aquifer vulnerability, groundwater, hydraulic tomography, Mexico City, modeling | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Deep Biosphere, Early Life on Earth, Microorganisms | Leave a comment |
Professor Martin H. Trauth is an earth scientist at the University of Potsdam in...
Biology, Climate, Earth, Outreach, People

Collecting, processing and presenting information: summer schools in East Africa

Author SciSnack Date April 5, 2016
SciSnack
Tagged east africa, outreach bio-geo-science, presentation skills, summer school, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
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