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Bjerknes at the annual democracy festival Arendalsuka
As society slowly is going back to normal, the annual democracy festival Arendalsuka again gathered politicians, business life and organizations.
The BCCR & Climate Futures where present with debates, with Kikki starting the week Monday evening at NRK kicking off the national election (valkamp) on NRK.
Kikki is on air ca 30 minutes into the live broadcast
Vigdis Vandvik had a keynote in the main program, at the main climate discussion with the leaders of all the main political parties
Find all the debates here, all of them in Norwegian 😊
https://www.bjerknes.uib.no/artikler/mot-bjerknessenteret-pa-arendalsuka-2021
Gudrun
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New PhD in town: Morven Muilwijk
Congratulations, Dr. Muilwijk! Morven successfully defended his PhD thesis on 19. August on "Atlantic Water in the Arctic Ocean - Mechanisms and Impacts".
His supervisors were Professors Helge Drange and Lars Henrik Smedsrud. Opponents were Dr. Céline Heuzé, University of Gothenburg and Associate Professor Bruno Tremblay, McGill University.
Many congratulations to you, Morven!
From left: Helge Drange, Morven Muilwijk and Lars Henrik Smedsrud. Photo: Andreas H.O.
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New faces
A warm welcome to our newly arrived "bjerknesians"!
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Marit Løland is a new PhD research fellow at GEO with paleoclimate as her field, and she will be a part of the Global climate research theme at the Bjerknes Centre. She is Norwegian.
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Daniel Gunning comes from UK, and just started in a PhD research fellow position at GEO. He will have a desk in Jahnebakken 5. His field is geology and glasiology. Daniel will be part of the Polar research theme.
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Katrina Nilsson-Kerr is a new postdoc at GEO, where she has a Marie-Skcłowdoska Curie Individual Fellowship.
Katrina is British and her field is Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography. She will be affiliated to the Global research theme at the Bjerknes Centre.
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Morgane Demeaux from France has started in a PhD research fellow position at BIO. Her field is Climate impact on the biodiversity and the functioning of alpine soil ecosystems. She will be affiliated to the Carbon system research theme.
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New publications
Send us information about new publications: publications@bjerknes.uib.no
Info on how to include BCCR in your publications.
Guttu, S.; Orsolini, Y.; Stordal, F.; Otterå, O.H.; Omrani, N.-E.; Tartaglione, N.; Verronen, P.T.; Rodger, C.J.; Clilverd, M.A. (2021): Impacts of UV Irradiance and Medium-Energy Electron Precipitation on the North Atlantic Oscillation during the 11-Year Solar Cycle. Atmosphere 2021, 12, 1029. https://doi.org/10.3390/ atmos12081029
Outten S. and S. Sobolowski (2021): Extreme wind projections over Europe from the Euro-CORDEX regional climate models, Weather and Climate Extremes, 33, 100363, doi:10.1016/j.wace.2021.100363
Payne, A. J., Nowicki, S., Abe-Ouchi, A., Agosta, C., Alexander, P., Albrecht, T., et al including Goelzer, H. (2021):. (2021). Future sea level change under coupled model intercomparison project phase 5 and phase 6 scenarios from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091741. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091741
Solomon, A., Heuzé, C., Rabe, B., Bacon, S., Bertino, L., Heimbach, P., Inoue, J., Iovino, D., Mottram, R., Zhang, X., Aksenov, Y., McAdam, R., Nguyen, A., Raj, R. P., and Tang, H.(2021) : Freshwater in the Arctic Ocean 2010–2019, Ocean Sci., 17, 1081–1102, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1081-2021
Older publications
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The Portrait
Name: Kristine Steinsland
Position: PhD student
How long have you been at BCCR: Soon two years, from October 2019.
Education: MSc in marine geology and geophysics
Background: I did my masters here at the University of Bergen in the wonderful Realfagsbygget, before moving the few meters to GFI for my PhD. I did an exchange to the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and studies at UNIS in Svalbard.
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What is it you do exactly at work: I reconstruct sea ice cover, surface ocean hydrography, and deep ocean currents during the Last Interglacial (~116.000-128.000 years). Most of my time I spend on a microscope counting dinoflagellate cyst (microfossil) assemblages, or I'm in the organic geochemistry lab at AWI working with biomarkers.
Why climate research: Because I wanted to save the world of course, or at least something in that direction... I started with geology quite blindly, not really knowing what I was going into. I quickly realized that I was drawn to studies about oceans and ice and the processes that change the Earth's climate on different timescales from the formation of the Earth until today.
What extracurricular activities do you have? I am a very standard GFI-located PhD student; I climb, run, and hike. Else I am off doing something with my newfound hobbies, sailing and windsurfing (which also includes watching a lot of YouTube videos).
Do you have a favourite song, band or Artist? A hard question! I love a lot of different music. To choose an all-time and forever love I will say Radiohead. I am currently addicted to the French artist Thylacine - who composed and recorded an entire album on the Transsiberian! (!!)
Favorite food: Crab, and cheese (not combined).
The best and worst about Bergen: The best is the fact that you can be in the city centre and on top of a byfjell in 40 min if you want! And that everyone is SO happy on the sunny days, including me! I am not in love with the cruise ships in the summer and I miss a market culture.
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PhD Forum
The Bjerknes PhD Forum is open for all PhDs affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre.
The Forum intends to create a community for international and Norwegian PhD students from different research areas during their time in Bergen.
Our aim is to facilitate exchange among new and advanced PhD students as well as to distribute and preserve knowledge about “the way things work”.
We meet about once a month to network and discuss different aspects of the academic career and/or life in Bergen. Visiting PhD students and interns are welcome to join our activities.
The current PhD Forum board members are:
Vår Dundas (leader) - var.dundas@uib.no
Anna-Marie Strehl (co-leader) - anna-marie.strehl@uib.no
Jakob Simon Dörr - jakob.dorr@uib.no
Karl Guy Romeo Purcell (contact person for new PhDs) - karl.purcell@uib.no
Maaike Zwier - maaike.zwier@uib.no
Paul Lucas Halas - paul.halas@uib.no
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Upcoming events
6th Conference on Modelling Hydrology, Climate and Land Surface Processes
September 14–16, 2021, Lillehammer, Norway.
Summer School on glacier-climate change
September 6-11, Iceland
WCRP workshop on attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system
22-24 September 2021, Online
Workshop: Multi-annual to Decadal Climate Predictability in the North Atlantic-Arctic
Sector
20 – 22 September 2021 Event in Bergen or Copenhagen tbc
15th Polar Low Workshop
8-10 December 2021 by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow in a hybrid format
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022
27 February– 4 March 2022 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Bjerknes Annual Meeting 2021
SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022
25 - 30 September 2022, Cape Town, South Africa
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Contribute to the Bjerknes Times!
Bjerknes Times is our internal bi-weekly newsletter. Send an email for all registering of lectures, publications, meetings, and other tips to post@bjerknes.uib.no
Join the Bjerknes Outreach Group!
Would you like to be involved in outreach activities? Join the Bjerknes outreach group, and you’ll get the opportunity to discuss your ideas with other enthusiastic outreachers. Whether you have plans for big or small projects, large or small audiences, traditional or innovative formats – or so far no specific plans at all – you’re very welcome.
Please, send an e-mail to gudrun.sylte@uib.no or ellen.viste@uib.no if you would like to have more information about the group.
BCCR on Flickr for photo sharing
We have many good photographers here at the Bjerknes Centre.We have a Flickr account for sharing good photos and possibly also illustrations. This can be useful when you need an illustrative photo. Check out our photostream
Send an e-mail to gudrun.sylte@uib.no or ellen.viste@uib.no if you would like to contribute.
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