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SciSnack is now broadening its scope to include archaeology and in October we kickstarted...

News

Introducing ArchaeoSnack

Author Vana Orfanou Date November 12, 2020

Vana Orfanou

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

Greenstone belts record the Earths early evolution. They are geological structures of volcanic and...

Earth

Can a greenstone belt be used as a key to the past?

Author Harald Hansen Date November 11, 2019

Harald Hansen

In the petroleum industry, we use exploration seismology to obtain some properties of rocks below...

Earth, Physics

What seismic data tell us about rocks below our feet

Author Kui Xiang Date October 23, 2019

Kui Xiang

The past decades of solar system exploration have revealed that Mars used to have...

Earth, Land

Ancient Lakes on Mars: Opportunities for past life

Author Elise Harrington Date October 21, 2019

Elise Harrington

Geoscientists have been arguing for over a hundred years how the Norwegian mountains came...

Earth

The rise of the Norwegian mountains

Author Åse Hestnes Date April 29, 2019

Åse Hestnes

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

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

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

Earth

Exploring the History of Hells Canyon – the Deepest Canyon In North America

Author Matthew Morriss Date November 28, 2018

Matthew Morriss

Wanderlust, which evolved during German Romanticism in the early 1800s, is becoming increasingly popular....

Climate, Earth, Ice

Rock induced wanderlust – How mountain landforms reflect past climates

Author Philipp Marr Date November 15, 2018

Philipp Marr

All scientific statements must be testable, and any such test should be reproducible. However,...

Climate, Earth, Systems, Uncategorized

Software in science: a plea to free your code

Author Marco van Hulten Date November 13, 2018

Marco van Hulten

The Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest is known for two things –...

Earth, Land

Dating Oregon landslides with ‘ghost forests’

Author Will Struble Date November 8, 2018

Will Struble

How many years can a mountain exist, before it is washed to the sea?...

Climate, Earth, Land, Systems

How long does it take a mountain to die and why does it matter to us?

Author Xumin Pan Date November 6, 2018

Xumin Pan

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

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

Have you ever thought about what you would talk about in a conversation with...

Air, Climate, Earth

Meteorology is out of this world! – Extra-terrestrial meteorology

Author Andrew Seidl Date October 17, 2017

Andrew Seidl

A good cake can be unforgettable and can lead to massive cravings. In the...

Climate, Earth

How to unbake a cake or reverse an irreversible process in science

Author Vivi Pedersen Date June 7, 2017

Vivi Pedersen

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

When I get old, I want to be a skiing grandma. For that dream...

Climate, Earth, Society

Future skiing conditions in Norway: Will I be a skiing grandma?

Author Kristine Flacké Haualand Date December 21, 2016

Kristine Flacké Haualand