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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
Tagged Great Ouse, river, tidal bore, tide, Waves | Leave a comment |
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
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 |
  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
Tagged change, ecology, Lesseps, Mediterranean Sea, migration, Red Sea, Suez Canal | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Climate change, Flood, Global warming, Netherlands, Precipitation, Rivers, Sea, Sea level rise, Storm surge | 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 |
The African Sahel is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate variability. It...
Air, Sea

The effect of ENSO on Sahelian Sudan rainfall

Author Abubakr A. M. Salih Date November 13, 2014
Abubakr A. M. Salih
Tagged atmosphere, El Nino, ENSO, Monsoon, Precipitation, Rain, Sahara | Leave a comment |
Featured Video Play Icon As I boarded the ferry to go and see my family, I recalled my...
Climate, People, Sea

Sinking on the Seven Seas

Author Céline Heuzé Date October 30, 2014
Céline Heuzé
Tagged Accidents, iceberg, Ship, Waves | Leave a 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 |
7.2 billion people live on this planet. All these people need to eat. Eating...
Land, People, Sea, Systems

Urban Metabolism

Author Anne Morée Date July 16, 2014
Anne Morée
Tagged Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Urban, Waste, Water | Leave a comment |
‘El Niño’ – a Spanish phrase describing a global climate phenomenon. How did this...
Air, Sea

El Niño: a historical exploration and 2014 outlook

Author Karin van der Wiel Date June 24, 2014
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged atmosphere, convection, El Nino, Ocean, sea surface temperatures, Weather | Leave a comment |
The IPCC’s Working Group II report published in March this year gave centre stage...
Land, Life, People, Sea

What price ecosystem services?

Author Andrew Papworth Date May 28, 2014
Andrew Papworth
Tagged Animals, Australia, Biodiversity, Climate change, Ecosystems, Food Production, Gila Monster, greenhouse gases, Health, India, IPCC, Labour Productivity, Mangroves, Plants, Seas, Services, Sherman's Lagoon, Shrimp, TEEB, Thailand, Toomey, USA, Vultures, Waves | Leave a comment |
Featured Video Play Icon The success of writing groups depends on effective feedback discussions. Structuring these feedback discussions is far...
News

Funneling group discussions

Author SciSnack Date May 12, 2014
SciSnack
Tagged climatesnack, David Schultz, discussion, feedback, Funnel Model, writing group, Writing skills | 1 Comment |
After the set up of a small pilot group and a very productive advertising...
News

ClimateSnack Norwich blossoms

Author Céline Heuzé Date April 14, 2014
Céline Heuzé
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Coastal erosion by wind and rain is a phenomenon which occurred even before humans...
Land, Sea

Room with unexpected view: when coastal erosion strikes

Author Céline Heuzé Date March 11, 2014
Céline Heuzé
Tagged cliff, coastal erosion, Dieppe | 1 Comment |
During the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu late last month, ClimateSnack and Resclim held...
News

Discussing science writing and communication

Author SciSnack Date March 10, 2014
SciSnack
Tagged Christie Wilcox, Christina Schallenberg, Heather Galindo, Kim Martini, Ocean Sciences, scicomm, science communication, Writing skills | Leave a comment |
I find myself often shying away from conversations about my research for the fear...
People, Sea

Dallas Murphy: Science story-teller (part 1)

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date March 3, 2014
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged Ben Harden, Dallas Murphy, North Icelandic Jet, Science stories, To The Denmark Strait, Woods Hole Oceanographic | 1 Comment |
News from another country Watching from the comfort of a European city, the images...
Sea

Does a warming world increase the risk of North Atlantic tsunamis?

Author Matt Owen Date February 21, 2014
Matt Owen
Tagged Gas hydrates, Matt Owen, North Atlantic, Submarine landslides, Tsunami | Leave a comment |
Last Wednesday marked the birth of ClimateSnack at Stockholm University (SU). Eleven enthusiastic ‘snackers’...
News

ClimateSnack at Stockholm University

Author SciSnack Date February 5, 2014
SciSnack
Tagged climatesnack, Stockholm, writing group | Leave a comment |
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