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 From the Uummannaq region of Baffin Bay, aboard the USCGC Healy, the glider Odin was deployed into its right element!
The main purpose of the cruise and the glider deployment was to better understand how warm Atlantic water flows from the continental shelf edge through deep ridges in the inner fjords where it contributes to melt some of Greenlands fastest diminishing glaciers, and how the fresh melt water flows out towards deep ocean.
From the Bjerknes Centre Emil Jeansson, Stefanie Semper and Kjetil Våge participated, under the leadership of Bob Pickart (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI). Other participants were from WHOI and the University of Alaska.
The cruise lasted from September 12th to October 14th, departing from Nuuk, and arriving in Boston.
Read more from Kjetil Våge and Stefanie Semper here
Andreas H.O.
Photo: Stefanie Semper and Heather Furey
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Exciting US embassy visit to Bjerknessenteret Tuesday 19th of October
The United States is clearly back on and ready to deliver on Climate. We had a good focus with dialogue about and examples of ~20 years of Bjerknes-USA cooperation on research and teaching.
We ended the day at the Aquarium, with "oceanic academic mixer". We focused on research, teaching and the upcoming COP26 meeting for partners at the One Ocean expedition.
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Kerim Nisancioglu talked about our research training both in Greenland and at Statsraad Lehmkuhl, while Meike Becker showed how we use the expedition to collect data from the sea (see photo above)
Educational and good input from member of Parliament Sveinung Rotevatn and US chargé d'affaires Sharon Hudson-Dean on the importance of COP26.
Ragnhild
Photo: Andreas H.O.
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Recommended reading
Following up on the outreach debate at our annual meeting, we are starting up a new column today in the Bjerknes Times.
This will be a place where you can recommend reading to get a better and broader grip on developments in society regarding climate politics and development.
I will have a first go here and start out with a recommendation of some useful newsletters.
If you subscribe to them, they will arrive in your inbox in a certain frequency and offer a quick overview and links to further reading – to ensure that you are up to date on climate news.
Very convenient!
Here is my list, including 2 Norwegian and 4 international newsletters:
- Fem på fredag – Energi og klima . Coming to your mailbox every Friday morning. Mostly International and National climate politics, but also some business climate developments in business life.
- Carbon Brief – Weekly update. Every Friday with articles on science, energy and policy published on carbonbrief.org, as well as recommended articles in other publications.
- Climate Weekly – summary of the climate news delivered by Climate Home News, with stories on politics, finance, justice, energy, land, transport and science. Also Friday!
- Heated - a weekly newsletter (Mondays for a change) written by the young and independent climate journalist Emily Atkin. Heated gives more personalized and very US oriented stories, but interesting and offering alternative perspectives compared to the other newsletters.
- Climate Fwd. – NY Times newsletters, every Wednesday. Sign up link here.
- Elendig fredag – Filters klimanyhetsbrev (only for subscribers of Filter Nyheter)
This one is not for free, but is still a thorough sum up of climate news in Norwegian
Would you like to recommend readings for you colleagues? Feel free to send an email to post@bjerknes.uib.no
Gudrun
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New faces
We are happy to introduce you to Yikui Zhang and Inès Ollivier who are new members of the Bjerknes Centre:
Both are new PhDs at the Geophysical institute. Yikui is from China and his field is seasonal prediction. Inès is from France, her field of expertise is cryospheric processes, snow-atmosphere interface. Welcome to BCCR!
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PhD-Forum Workshop on IPCC AR6
On Tuesday evening last week, about 20 Bjerknes PhD students eagerly discussed the latest assessment report of the IPCC: “The Physical Science Basis”. It is often expected that we have an overview of all the different aspects of climate change – therefore it was immensely helpful to think together with other PhDs from the different topics of the Bjerknes community, such that everybody could contribute with a little piece of knowledge. Participants split into groups discussing different parts of the report and reunited at the end to present their impressions and the main points of each section. Despite the difficulty in synthesizing a report that is already very condensed, the groups were able to extract the most important aspects and explained complicated figures that can be hard to understand. In the perspective of doing outreach to non-climate scientists, we lively discussed the communication of uncertainty of this report as well as the political influence for choices made in the summary for policymakers.
The PhD Forum board
Vår, Anna, Jakob, Karl, Maaike, Paul
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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New publication
Send us information about new publications: publications@bjerknes.uib.no
Wang, Y., Pedersen, M.W., Alsos, I.G. et al including Mangerud, J. and Svendsen, J.I. (2021):. Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x
Info on how to include BCCR in your publications.
Older publications
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BCCR/GFI Seminar
 Title: Regional patterns of surface reservoir age changes and iceberg discharges across the North Atlantic over the last 40 thousand years
Name of speaker: Claire Waelbroeck, affiliation: CNRS - LOCEAN
Time and venue: 25.10.2021 14:15 – 15:00Bjerknes lecture room 4020 , Jahnebakken 5
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International Quaternary Webinar
October 27th: Yucheng Lin & Pippa Whitehouse, Durham University, UK
“A reconciled solution of Meltwater Pulse 1A sources using sea-level fingerprinting“
[Clark et al., 2002]
LOGIN information (Same each week!)
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/6140930719
See a list of all upcoming webinars here
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Vacant position
PhD position in Paleoceanography and Paleogenomics
NORCE Climate and Environment department
Deadline: 22 October 2021
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Upcoming events
Polar Climate Theme meeting and Polar Greenland Seminar
October 28-29, Realfagbygget
Webinar: Marine heatwaves – occurrence, effects, and expected frequencies
Thu, October 28, 2021, The Norwegian Environment Agency
Symposium og årsmøte i Norsk Geofysisk Forening
28.-29. October, Bergen
Climate hazards theme meeting
Hazards theme meeting will be on Nov 3, from 13-15h.
Workshop «Water Isotopes: From Weather to Climate»
15-17 November 2021
NorESM user workshop 2021
15-17 November, 2021, Scandic Solli, Oslo
Online Young Scientist School (YSS) MEGAPOLIS-2021 on "Multi-Scales and -Processes Integrated Modelling, Observations and Assessment for Environmental Applications"
15 November - 3 December 2021
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
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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