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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

Between the warm tropics and the cold polar regions exists a broad belt of...

Air, Climate, Sea

How do heat and moisture from the ocean influence our weather in midlatitudes?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date October 19, 2020

Kristine Flacké Haualand

There is much more to mud than mud masks and mud castles. Mud can...

Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

What’s in mud

Author Anne Morée Date April 4, 2019

Anne Morée

We set sail from Iceland on Research Vessel G.O. Sars, in July 2015, to...

Climate, Sea

Big ocean temperature change recorded in tiny fossils!

Author Evangeline Sessford Date November 26, 2018

Evangeline Sessford

Water is essential for life. It is a critical resource to be preserved and...

Biology, Chemistry, Climate, Earth, Sea, Systems

Nature’s water purifier: Surface water-groundwater interactions

Author Reynold Chow Date October 29, 2018

Reynold Chow

Oceans slow down global warming but at the cost of “their health”. The oceans...

Chemistry, Sea, Society

Ocean Acidification – the evil twin of global warming

Author Maribel I. García-Ibáñez Date December 19, 2017

Maribel I. García-Ibáñez

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

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

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 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Southeast Asia killed more than 200,000 people. The...

Earth, Outreach, Sea, Society

Communicating tsunami risks is key to saving lives

Author Birgit Zipf Date May 3, 2016

Birgit Zipf

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing society today. To understand...

Climate, Outreach, Sea, Society

Do you want to become a climate researcher?

Author Johanna Englhardt Date April 8, 2016

Johanna Englhardt

When modelling the natural world we are often faced with limitations of our understanding,...

Air, Climate, Sea

Simplifying the equations

Author Aleksi Nummelin Date February 11, 2016

Aleksi Nummelin

In the second annual UEA Xmas SciSnack group post, we have chosen to explore...

Air, Biology, Climate, Culture, Life, People, Sea, Society

Disastrous Disaster Movies

Author ClimateSnack UEA Date December 17, 2015

ClimateSnack UEA

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

Last week, I was invited to the Forum for Arctic Modelling and Observing Systems...

Outreach, Sea

What I learnt from publicly failing my demo

Author Céline Heuzé Date November 12, 2015

Céline Heuzé

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

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 SciSnack Date September 25, 2015

SciSnack

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

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

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