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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 |
Have you ever seen a documentary about a research cruise? Have you heard about...
Life, People, Sea

The non-science side of a research cruise

Author Chata Seguro Date September 8, 2015
Chata Seguro
Tagged experiences, non-science, Research cruise | Leave a comment |
In the 1920s your fridge could kill you. A range of explosive, flammable and...
Air, Chemistry, Climate, People, Society

CFCs and Ozone: The Hole Story

Author Mike Newland Date September 7, 2015
Mike Newland
Tagged Antarctica, atmosphere, CFC, Farman, Midgley, Ozone, ozone hole, pollution, Stratosphere | 1 Comment |
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 |
  You may have come across the term COP21 or indeed heard the phrase...
Climate, People, Society, Systems

What is COP21? By a layman for a layman

Author Osgur McDermott Long Date August 10, 2015
Osgur McDermott Long
Tagged Climate Action, Climate change, COP21, Road to Paris | Leave a comment |
Nobody likes to receive negative feedback, because this usually means that you have done...
Air, Ice, Land, Life

Why negative feedback is good for the climate

Author Annemarie Eckes Date August 4, 2015
Annemarie Eckes
Tagged Climate change, feedback, Ice-Albedo feedback, silicate weathering, water-vapor feedback, Weather | Leave a comment |
I study the physical climate system. It is easy, maybe even convenient, to think...
Climate, People, Society

Characteristics of climate science denial

Author Karin van der Wiel Date July 3, 2015
Karin van der Wiel
Tagged Climate change, Climate science denial, FLICC, Global warming, greenhouse gases, science communication, Uncertainty | Leave a comment |
Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering caused by VOCs emitted by forests. Behind the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa lies a landscape, reddish in the...
Air, Life, Society

Frits W. Went: Turning the Air Blue

Author Mike Newland Date June 2, 2015
Mike Newland
Tagged aerosol, biogenic emissions, blue haze, forest, mie, rayleigh, scattering, VOCs, Went | 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 |
As everyone living in Bergen knows, it can rain a lot. Most people have...
Air, Life, People, Physics

The Famous ”Person-Running-Through-Rain-Problem”

Author Patrik Bohlinger Date May 26, 2015
Patrik Bohlinger
Tagged drier, dry, person, Precipitation, Rain, run, running, walk, wet, wetter | Leave a comment |
I was dangling out of an aeroplane hatch, my legs stretching towards the ground...
Air

Glorious Glories

Author Amee O'Callaghan Date May 11, 2015
Amee O'Callaghan
Tagged anti-coronae, glory, mie theory, radiative dynamics | Leave a comment |
The quote “all models are wrong, but some are useful”  by Box and Draper...
Physics, Systems

In the climate model jungle

Author Annemarie Eckes Date April 13, 2015
Annemarie Eckes
Tagged AOGCM, Climate Models, climatesnack, EBM, EMIC, ESM, Global warming, Modelling | 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 |
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