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Friday 19 November 2021, No 20, Week 46
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Director's note
The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow ended last weekend with a signed agreement among 200 nations to accelerate the fight against the global climate crisis and calls on governments to return next year with tougher pledges to cut emissions. We are still far from a 2°C goal, and unless the incremental progress succeeds, we will face average global warming between 2.4-2.7°C.
Several nations made new pledges on methane gas pollution and deforestation. We also got long-awaited rules on carbon trading and a notable US-China deal. But after a long negotiation, a promising language on phasing out on coal and pledges on financing on fossil fuel, was replaced by a much weaker and non-committing language. So it’s not enough.  The lack of progress during the COP26 meeting leave the world with plans and ambitions that are inadequate to address the ongoing climate crisis.
This week was back in business again for me after Glasgow with presentations and debate on Monday at Dokkhuset in Trondheim with focus on the climate crisis (me) and the nature crisis (Professor Vigdis Vandvik from BIO/UIB). Wednesday, the Bjerknes Centre had a visit from HE ambassador to Norway from South Korea Mr. Pil-woo KIM and on Thursday I had my first board meeting with the directors/CEOs from all four partners and the board leader Mr. Arvid Hallen.  The most important case to report from the board meeting is that all five strategic projects are now accepted by our board and ready TO GO! Congratulations and best of luck to organize and lead this important Bjerknes research over the four years to Mari, Andreas, François, Nadine, and Antonio!
 
Wish you all a very good weekend!

Kikki
Youth parties presented with national and international climate predictions
The meeting was arranged by the think tank Agenda, and gave a heads up that they would be interested in projects on climate research nationally and in developing countries. Øyvind Paasche presented the SFI Climate Futures, Annette Samuelsen presented the Horizon 2020 project TRIATLAS and the capacity building work done at CANEMS and Nansen-Tutu Centre, and Silje Lund Sørland presented the Horizon 2020 project CONFER.
 
From left: Annette, Øyvind and Silje

Represented by leadership and those responsible for international politics in Norwegian political youth wing parties from across the Norwegian political spectrum – the Centre Youth, Young Christian Democrats, Young Conservatives, Progress Party’s Youth, Red Youth, Socialist Youth, Young Greens of Norway, Young Liberals of Norway were interested onlookers and asked a lot of questions.
 
Read more about the projects on the Bjerknes web site

Andreas H.O.
Tor Eldevik, Are Olsen,  Pil-woo KIM, Young-a KIM and Kikki Kleiven in the lab. Photo: Andreas

A visit from the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to Norway
HE Korean Ambassador Mr. Pil-woo KIM and 2nd secretary Young-a KIM came to the Bjerknes Centre Wednesday 17th of November. They were first introduced to the research leaders and researchers talking about different Bjerknes-Korean cooperations, before being shown around the Geophysical Institute carbon research lab and roof top view.
 
“On SAS and cooperation with Korea” by Dr. Øyvind Paasche, “Dripstones as climate recorders” by Dr. Nele Meckler, «Arctic-Eurasian teleconnections; how does the Arctic ocean and Asia speak?» by Dr. Stephen Outten, and "Our cooperation with Korea" by Director Dr. Tore Furevik, Nansen Center for remote sensing.

Andreas H.O.
Photo: Isak Okkenhaug/Statsraad Lehmkuhl

Scientists of the Caribbean
The tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl and the teachers, researchers and students of the #SDG313 course continue their voyage through the Caribbean. This week they have been docked in Port Royal, Jamaica, visiting and signing an Memorandum of Understanding with University of West Indies, as well as being visited by pupils from Wolmers High, who exchanged and presented their home cities and the climate therein in a virtual meeting with pupils from Rothaugen school here in Bergen.
  Andreas H.O.
PhD-Forum/CHESS meeting about life as a PhD in Bergen
Last week, the Bjerknes PhD Forum and CHESS organized together an event to talk about struggles as a PhD candidate and how to find solutions. The event that lasted a day and half at the Panorama hotel gave the frame to spend time on these topics, since everyone had at some point to deal with struggles, but a proper time to find solutions is usually not allocated. It was also a wonderful opportunity to reconnect in this back-to-normal period.
After a session of one-on-one talks, we had an impressive list of issues that everybody could relate to. With the help of our guest speaker Jonathan Lilly, we were able to condense these into a few topics that are easier to handle – support, perspective, community, and balance. In a session on the second day, we picked up those points to share ideas on how we could improve, and what techniques people are already using. It was great to hear all the questions and the easy tricks that can make your life a lot easier.
Our second guest speaker, Gina Wisker, turned the focus towards successful supervision. To summarize her talk in a sentence: It’s all about communication! She touched upon various aspects about how we can set up a system that allows us to easier talk together and gave us tools to implement them into our daily lives.
Finally, some time was dedicated to how to continue CHESS after the funding period ends in about two years. In regards to this, many  ideas emerged and we hope to put them together in the near future.
The whole meeting was ground for very fruitful discussions and helped to develop a feeling of community among PhDs and supervisors.
We wish you a great weekend and a lot of light for the dark season!

The PhD Forum board & CHESS representative
Vår, Anna, Jakob, Karl, Maaike, Paul & Johannes
 
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
BCCR Ice Sheet Symposium
Friday 3rd of December, 11-14:30h
Bjerknes Lecture room (4th floor Jahnebakken 5) & Zoom

Dear Bjerknes colleagues,
You are kindly invited to join our Ice Sheet Symposium. The talks will showcase the results of the finishing strategic project RISES and other exciting ongoing ice sheet research within the Bjerknes Centre.
Please register by filling-out this short form by Monday 29 November.
 
Program:
11:00 – 11:15    Petra Langebroek: Introduction, RISES and beyond
11:15 – 11:30    Richard Davy: Atmospheric drivers of Greenland Ice Sheet melt
11:30 – 11:45    Basile de Fleurian: Longer or stronger, what is the worst melt season for Greenland’s dynamics?
11:45 – 12:00    Anna Hughes: Database of European Deglaciation (DATED): updates and uses, and the LGM missing ice problem
12:00 – 13:00    LUNCH
13:00 – 13:15    Carl Regnell: Deglaciation of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet and a Younger Dryas ice cap in the outer Hardangerfjorden area
13:15 – 13:30    Jo Brendryen: New insight in the deglaciation of the marine based Eurasian ice sheet from a new regional 14C calibration curve
13:30 – 13:45    Kristian Vasskog: Deglaciation- and sea-level history for the outer coast of western Norway
13:45 – 14:00    Anne-Katrine Faber: Greenland Ice cores: Moisture sources and summer conditions
14:00 – 14:15    Hans Christian Steen-Larsen: The what, who and why of the Beyond EPICA project
14:15 – 14:30    David Chandler: Last interglacial Antarctic Ice Sheet stability
 
Looking forward to seeing you at the symposium!
Petra and the RISES team
 
New faces
We are glad to introduce new members of the Bjerknes Centre:

From top left: Jiping Xie is a scientist from the Nansen Center, where he has worked since 2014. His field is oceanography and data assimilation, and he will be a member of the Polar theme. Jiping is from China. Timothy Spain is British and a scientific software developer at the Nansen Center. He will also be a member of the Polar theme. Below, from left:  Manuel Hempel from Germany is employed at NORCE as a PhD candidate. His field is seasonal forecasts, climate risk and agriculture and he will be an addition to the Climate Hazards theme. Harikrishnan Ramesh is a new PhD student at GFI. He is from India and has a degree in atmospheric sciences. He will be a part of the Global theme.
My name is Siri Helena Halvorsen and I will substitute for Andreas Opsvik as Communication Advisor at the Bjerknes Centre until August. Previously I have worked at the University of Bergen, managing and producing content to UiB’s social media accounts. I’m very happy to join BCCR and motivated to work strategically to disseminate climate research. Please feel free to reach out for advice or simply to discuss ideas!
The portrait

Name:
Richard Sanders
 
Position:
Icos Ocean Thematic Centre
 
How long have you been at BCCR?
2 years 3 mo
Education:
Chemistry (1992), Oceanography (1993), Environmental Sciences (2000)
 
Background:
I spent the last 30 years working on the ocean carbon cycle – mainly biological terms
 
What is it you do exactly at work?
We try to help people quantifying ocean carbon uptake so that we can know faster if its changing in order to decide what emission pathways to take.
 
Why climate research?
The climate crisis is very real and very serious. I want to do something to help
 
What extracurricular activities do you have?

Visiting small football grounds around Bergen to watch my kids play football, doing up my house.
 
Do you have a favourite song, band or artist?
I quite like the Jam
 
Your favourite food?
Lamb Rogan Josh
 
The best and worst about Bergen? 
Springtime + Bergen Branns appalling form this season
BCCR/GFI Seminar
Upcoming seminars:

Title: Impacts and dynamics of the interaction between the Greenland Ice Sheet and the North Atlantic Ocean
Time: 22.11.2021 14:15 – 15:00
Name of speaker: Donald Slater. Affiliation: University of Edinburgh

Title: Breaking up is hard to do - Simulating extreme sea-ice breakup events in the Arctic
Time: 29.11.2021 14:15 – 15:00
Name of speaker: Jonathan Winfield Rheinlænder. Affiliation: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre and UIB

Venue: Bjerknes lecture room(4th floor, Room 4020, Jahnebakken 5)
International Quaternary Webinar
November 24th: Dominik Fleitmann, University of Basel, Switzerland
“Holocene Temperature Variations recorded in stalagmites from Europe“
Time and venue: Palstrat. Salen, 3 floor, Realfagsbygget at 15:00

Or, join Zoom Meeting:
LOGIN information (Same each week!)
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/6140930719

See a list of all upcoming webinars here
New publications
Send us information about new publications: publications@bjerknes.uib.no

Cowling, O.C., Thomas, E.K., Svendsen, J.I., Mangerud, J., Haflidason, H., Regnéll, C. and Brendryen, J. (2021), Western Siberia experienced rapid shifts in moisture source and summer water balance during the last deglaciation and early Holocene. J. Quaternary Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3386 

Regnéll, C., Briner, J.P., Haflidason, H., Mangerud, J. and Svendsen, J.I. (2021), Deglaciation of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet and a Younger Dryas ice cap in the outer Hardangerfjorden area, southwestern Norway. Boreas. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12568
 
HaflidasonH., Brendryen, J., Eldegard, R.F., Mangerud, J., Ólafsdóttir, S., Regnéll, C. and Svendsen, J.I. (2021), High-resolution chronology of 24 000-year long cores from two lakes in the Polar Urals, Russia, correlated with palaeomagnetic inclination records with a distinct event about 20 000 years ago. J. Quaternary Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3391 
 
Mette, M. J., Wanamaker, A. D., Retelle, M. J., Carroll, M. L., Andersson, C., & Ambrose, W. G. (2021). Persistent multidecadal variability since the 15th century in the southern Barents Sea derived from annually resolved shell-based records. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2020JC017074. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC01707 

Österblom, H., Paasche, Ø. (2021): Earth altruism, One Earth, 4, 10, 1386-1397,
ISSN 2590-3322, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.003.
 

Book chapters:
Svendsen, J.I., Mangerud, J., Nazarov, D., Regnéll, C. 2021. Glacial landscapes of the Ural Mountains. Chapter 11, pp. 89-94, in Palacios, D., Hughes, P.H., Garcı´a-Ruiz, J.M., Andre´s, N. Eds. European Glacial Landscapes. Maximum Extent of Glaciations. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 528 pp.  

Svendsen, J.I., Mangerud, J., Nazarov, D., Regnéll, C. 2021. The Ural Mountains: glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. Chapter 35, pp. 257-264, in Palacios, D., Hughes, P.H., Garcı´a-Ruiz, J.M., Andre´s, N. Eds. European Glacial Landscapes. Maximum Extent of Glaciations. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 528 pp. 

Svendsen, J.I., Mangerud, J., Nazarov, D., Regnéll, C. 2021. The Ural Mountains: glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum. Chapter 54, pp. 419-425, in Palacios, D., Hughes, P.H., Garcı´a-Ruiz, J.M., Andre´s, N. Eds. European Glacial Landscapes. Maximum Extent of Glaciations. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 528 pp. 

Info on how to include BCCR in your publications.
Older publications
Popular science article
Jan Mangerud: Slutten av istiden ble jordmor for Fana. Fana Historielag. Årsskrift 2021, side 9-18.
Vacant positions
PhD position in ice sheet modelling
NORCE
Deadline: 23 November 2021
Post-doc position in data assimilation and machine learning 
NERSC
A 3-year post-doctoral position is open at the Nansen Center for reconstruction of Arctic sea ice thickness using data assimilation and machine learning
Deadline: 15th December 2021
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Upcoming events
BCCR Ice Sheet Symposium
3 December 11-14:30, Bjerknes lecture room/zoom.
15th Polar Low Workshop
8-10 December 2021 by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow in a hybrid format
Polar theme meeting and BCCR polar hosted Glacial carbon workshop  
8 December, at Lille Pynten, IMR, 10-13 and 13-17 PM
Winter school on Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea Ice Interaction Processes
 6-11 February 2022, UNIS in Longyearbyen on Svalbard
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022
27 February– 4 March 2022 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Earth System Modelling School (EaSyMS) 2021
3-10 December, 2021, Hamburg Germany
Bjerknes Getaway Seminar  April 26-28th, 2022, Scandic Bergen City hotel, Bergen, Norway
14th International Conference
on Paleoceanography

29 August–2 September 2022, Bergen, Norway
SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022 
25 - 30 September 2022, Cape Town, South Africa
Upcoming CHESS courses/activities  
Winter School on Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea Ice Interaction Processes, 6-11 February 2022
Practical Geochronoogical methods in Quaternary Geology and Geohazards, 7-25 February, 2022
Funding opportunities
NFR: Hosting Events
Deadline: Open-ended
NFR: Support for communication and dissemination
Deadline: Open ended
NFR: Personal overseas grant for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellows
Deadline: Open-ended
NFR: Personal overseas grant for Researchers
Deadline: Open-ended
NFR: Support for hosting a research visit of 1-12 months
Deadline: Open-ended
DIKU Research-Education cooperation Iceland-Norway
Open-ended
DNSZ Norway-Germany research and teaching collaboration
Deadline: 30 November 2021
Young CAS Fellow Network and project development
Deadline: 9 Dec 2021
NFR:
Researcher projects for Young Talents
Researcher Projects for Scientific Renewal
Three-year Researcher projects with International Mobility
Deadline: 2 February 2022
ERC-2022-StG Ground-breaking research for early career scientists ERC Starting Grants 2022
13 January (call opens 23 Sep 2021)
ERC-2022-CoG Research project (establish/strengthen your research team) ERC Consolidator Grants 2022
Deadline: tentative 17 March (call opens 19 Oct 2021)
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Research projects with mobility
Deadline: 14 September
ERC-2022-SyG Collaboration project with outstanding intrinsic synergetic effect
Deadline: 10 November
MSCA Doctoral Networks Establishment of doctoral network
Deadline: 15 November
International Research Exchange Program of ArCS II for 2022
Deadline: 30 November
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