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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
Tagged carbon isotopes, climate PhD, oceanography, publication | Leave a comment |
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 |
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 |
Despite popular opinion, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is not the deepest...
Earth

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

Author Matthew Morriss Date November 28, 2018
Matthew Morriss
Tagged Deepest Canyon in North America, geomorphology, Hells Canyon, Snake River | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Geography, geomorphology, Holocene Thermal Maximum, landform evolution, Last Glacial Maximum, Norway, periglacial landforms, Schmidt-hammer exposure-age dating | Leave a comment |
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
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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
Tagged Cascadia, dendrochronology, lakes, landslides, Pacific Northwest, subduction zone, tree rings | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged ESD summer school, geomorphology, orogen, Qilian, Rivers | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Earth Surface Dynamics, groundwater, hyporheic exchange, micro-plastics, River dynamics, river pollutants, surface water-groundwater interactions | 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 |
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
Tagged extra-terrestrial, hexagon, meteorology, saturn's hexagon, space, space storm | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged cake, inversion, irreversible, landscape evolution, reverse, river erosion | 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 |
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
Tagged Global warming, Norway, Precipitation, skiing conditions, skiing grandmas, snow, snow depth, snow in the future, temperature | 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 |
The film ‘Blood Diamonds’ provides a glimpse into the atrocities that conflict over minerals...
Earth

Deadly gems: is gem mining a blessing or curse in Kenya?

Author Abigail Wamunyu Date June 1, 2016
Abigail Wamunyu
Tagged East Africa Summer school on “collecting, gem, Kenya, mining, Tsavorite | 1 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 |
When I was at school I loved science but I hated having to learn...
Climate, Earth, Land

Standing on the shoulders of giants: why old science still matters

Author Jan Schuurman Date May 19, 2016
Jan Schuurman
Tagged Aridity, Climate, east africa, East Africa Summer School, Ethiopia, Hyperspectral, Lake Sediments, Last Glacial Maximum, Proxy, Younger Dryas | 1 Comment |
Why should we study glaciers that no longer exist? And why should we examine...
Climate, Earth, Ice, Land

Why Mud Matters

Author Rachel Devine Date May 18, 2016
Rachel Devine
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  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
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