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A large number of global environmental datasets have become freely available during recent years....
Climate, Earth, Land

The paradox of free data access in Tanzania

Author Canute Hyandye Date April 19, 2016
Canute Hyandye
Tagged bias correction, Climate data access, free weather data, weather satellite | 1 Comment |
Clean fresh water is essential for human life, but less than 1% of all...
Earth, People, Society

Protecting the people’s water supply in Mexico City

Author Emilio Sanchez Date April 15, 2016
Emilio Sanchez
Tagged aquifer vulnerability, groundwater, hydraulic tomography, Mexico City, modeling | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Deep Biosphere, Early Life on Earth, Microorganisms | Leave a comment |
  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
Tagged Climate, East Africa Summer School, history, Modelling, science communication | Leave a comment |
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 SciSnack Date April 5, 2016
SciSnack
Tagged east africa, outreach bio-geo-science, presentation skills, summer school, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
Sometimes we hear people saying: “It’s the little things that matter most”. Indeed, only...
Air, Climate, Earth, People, Physics, Society

My weather app shows rain at a sunny day!?

Author Lucas Höppler Date March 18, 2016
Lucas Höppler
Tagged flash-flood, Flood, Floods, hydroelectric, innovation, little things, Micro Rain Radar, MRR, suddenly occuring rain, umbrella, weather app | 1 Comment |
Slippery sloppy slushy slopes, slimy slimy silvery soaps. Fluttering fluffy frosty froth, Does indoor...
Air, Climate, Culture

The Isobar Czar (of Bergen)

Author Ashley Braunthal Date March 7, 2016
Ashley Braunthal
Tagged Bergen, Cyclone, Rain, slush, snow | 1 Comment |
Is mowing the lawn destined to become a thing of the past? (Photography by...
Biology, Climate, Land, Society

Lazy lawn? Not in my back yard!

Author Richard Beason Date March 1, 2016
Richard Beason
Tagged Artificial grass, biodiversity loss, gardens, greenwash, lazy lawns | Leave a comment |
Professor Mark Maslin is based in the Geography Department at University College London. He...
Outreach, People, Society

Unique London Training of Environmental Scientists

Author SciSnack Date February 26, 2016
SciSnack
Tagged Doctoral Training Programme, Education, NERC, Training, transferrable skills | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged eddies, OGCM, parameterization, simplified equations | Leave a comment |
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
Tagged Communication, reading, science writing | 1 Comment |
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
Tagged atmosphere, Climate, movies, Ocean, Weather | 1 Comment |
  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
Tagged CONFERENCE, COP21, POLETOPARIS | Leave a comment |
The wind combs the land, the trees, the bushes. The slow growing vegetation drawn...
Air, Climate

Combed trees

Author Mathew Stiller-Reeve Date November 16, 2015
Mathew Stiller-Reeve
Tagged devon, prevailing wind, weather poem | 1 Comment |
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
Tagged buoyancy, FAMOS2015, tank experiment | Leave a comment |
“Could you check out the weather for a hike?” shouts my friend from the...
Climate, Physics

The Doppler Debutante – Introducing SODAR into society

Author Anne Karina Date November 2, 2015
Anne Karina
Tagged doppler, meteorology, RASS, SODAR, Wind | Leave a comment |
Do you know where your science story burns to engage your target audience? Did...
News

Event: Where the Science Story Burns

Author SciSnack Date October 22, 2015
SciSnack
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The denial of climate science is wide spread. Most people have been confronted with...
Climate, People, Society

How to respond to climate science denial

Author Karin van der Wiel Date October 5, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Climate science denial, Global warming, greenhouse gases, Inoculation theory, science communication, Sticky Science, Uncertainty | Leave a comment |
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
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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
Tagged Climate change, Lab work, paleo-climate | Leave a comment |
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