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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

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

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

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

Climate, Outreach, Systems

Spinning up the past, present and future climate

Author Ingjald Pilskog Date May 18, 2016

Ingjald Pilskog

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

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

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

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

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 ClimateSnack Date April 5, 2016

ClimateSnack

Professor Mark Maslin is based in the Geography Department at University College London. He...

Outreach, People, Society

Unique London Training of Environmental Scientists

Author ClimateSnack Date February 26, 2016

ClimateSnack

Sometimes I read a scientific paper and struggle to pay attention. I have to...

Outreach, Society

On Reading

Author Matt Archer Date January 11, 2016

Matt Archer

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

Do you know where your science story burns to engage your target audience? Did...

News

Event: Where the Science Story Burns

Author ClimateSnack Date October 22, 2015

ClimateSnack

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

Here is another insightful post by professional writer, Dallas Murphy. Dallas conducts annual science-writing...

Expert

Consider the Audience

Author ClimateSnack Date January 6, 2015

ClimateSnack

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

The success of writing groups depends on effective feedback discussions. Structuring these feedback discussions is far...

News

Funneling group discussions

Author ClimateSnack Date May 12, 2014

ClimateSnack

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