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Johannes during his defense. Photo: Geophysical institute, UiB.
On November 5, Johannes S. Dugstad defended his doctoral thesis with the title "Water mass exchange, pathways and the mesoscale eddy field in the Lofoten Basin of the Norwegian Sea". Opponents : Léon Chafik at Stockholm University and Sarah Gille at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Supervisors have been Ilker Fer, Pål Erik Isachsen (University of Oslo) and Inga Monika Koszalka (University of Stockholm).
Kristian Agasøster Haaga (#2 top row in the photo below) defended his doctoral thesis "Causal interactions in the Earth System" via Zoom on November 3
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Opponents were Holger Kantz, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems i Dresden, senior researcher Jaroslav Hlinka, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. Associate professor Anna Nele Meckler was internal member of the committee. Supervisors have been Bjarte Hannisdal, Jo Brendryen and David Diego Castro.
Photo: Department of Earth Science, UiB
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Exciting collaboration with the art faculty
The Art & Science Research Group is an experimental collaboration between the Academy of Art and Design and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research where 13 art students have been paired with 13 climate scientists to explore climate change together.
Artist Aleksandra Mir and Frans Jacobi at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design, together with Nele Meckler and Thomas Spengler, have been coordinating the project, leading to an interesting blog with the students reports.
Here you will find field and lab reports, portraits of and interviews with the scientists, personal, poetic and political meditations on climate change, experimental science visualisations, and reflections on a joint climate grief therapy session where several scientists also took part.
Next week, they will be doing an Instagram takeover at @kmdbergen, where they present bits and pieces of their project. We will be posting at the @bjerknessenteret Instagram as well.
Andreas Hadsel Opsvik
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Vår Dundas started in June as a PhD student at the Geophysical institute, UiB. Her field is polar oceanography and she will be working with Elin Darelius. Vår is Norwegian.
Welcome to the Bjerknes Centre!
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The portrait
 Name: Anaïs Bretones
Position: PhD student
How long have you been at BCCR? 3 years
Education: bachelor in Earth sciences, master in physical oceanography
Background: I grew up and studied in Lyon (France) until I graduated. Then I joined the meteorology-oceanography master program in Oslo for a year and back in France I moved to Brest to do more oceanography! I finished my master there, except for the 5-month final internship for which I went Oslo again.
What is it you do exactly at work? I am studying dense water formation in the Arctic. Using outputs from one fully coupled climate model, I am looking at changes in the Arctic overturning circulation under sea ice retreat, which can be linked to changes in dense water formation driven by open-ocean convection. While I would like to extend this work to CMIP6 models, I also plan to give more attention to shelf processes using a simplified model.
Why climate research? I had the chance to have access to a garden and nearby nature when I grew up. That raises environmental awareness! I would not have thought that the Arctic ocean would become my domain of action though.
As for the research part, I just really enjoyed my studies and wish I could continue learning new things every day.
What extracurricular activities do you have? It varies with the season, with my flatmates and now with the number of COVID19 infections... This month could be a combination of running, puzzling and baking!
Do you have a favourite song, band or artist? Not really.
Your favourite food? I eat a lot of boller, maybe that is my favourite food.
The best and worst about Bergen? Bergen taught me me that I should enjoy any kind of non-heavy-rain-weather, and I am grateful for that! I believe I spend more time outside than I used to do. The problem is that I get way too obsessed with Bergen weather: it is not rare that I would
check Bergen forecast while being on holiday somewhere else...
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BCCR/GFI Seminars
Upcoming seminars
16 Nov 14:15 Michael Singer: Translation of seasonal rainfall into regional water storage in the Horn of Africa
23 Nov 14:15 Elin Darelius: Climate change and deep water renewal in
Masfjorden
27 Nov 12:00 Dan Lud (Guest of Bjørg Risebrobakken) TBA
30 Nov 10:15 Rona Thompson (Guest of Are Olsen) Nitrous oxide
emissions are increasing faster than expected
18 Dec 12.00 Eleni Anagnostou (Guest of Bjørg Risebrobakken) TBA
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New publications
Kral, S. T., and Coauthors, The Innovative Strategies for Observations in the Arctic Atmospheric Boundary Layer Project (ISOBAR) —Unique fine-scale observations under stable and very stable conditions. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0212.1.
Van Breedam, J., Goelzer, H., and Huybrechts, P. (2020): Semi-equilibrated global sea-level change projections for the next 10 000 years, Earth Syst. Dynam., 11, 953–976, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-953-2020
Xia, Z.,Toska Oppedal, L., Van der Putten, N., Bakke, J., Yu, Z. (2020): Ecological response of a glacier-fed peatland to late Holocene climate and glacier changes on subantarctic South Georgia, Quaternary Science Reviews, 250, 106679, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106679
Kumar, O., Ramanathan, A.L., Bakke, J, Kotlia, B.S,, Shrivastava, J., Pankaj Kumar, P. Sharma, R., Kumar, P. (2020): Role of Indian Summer Monsoon and Westerlies on glacier variability in the Himalaya and East Africa during Late Quaternary: Review and new data, Earth-Science Reviews, 103431, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103431.
Sadatzki,S., Maffezzoli, N., Dokken,T.M. Simon, M.H., Berben, S.M.P. Fahl, K. Kjær, H.A., Spolaor, A., Stein,R., Vallelonga, P. Vinther,B.M., Jansen, E. (2020): Rapid reductions and millennial-scale variability in Nordic Seas sea ice cover during abrupt glacial climate changes, PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005849117
Simon, M.H., Ziegler, M., Barker, S. et al. (2020): A late Pleistocene dataset of Agulhas Current variability. Sci Data 7, 385, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00689-7
Erlandsen, H. B., K. M. Parding, R. Benestad, A. Mezghani, and Pontoppidan, M (2020): A Hybrid Downscaling Approach for Future Temperature and Precipitation Change. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 59, 1793–1807, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-20-0013.1
Åkesson, H, Gyllencreutz, R., Mangerud, J ., Svendsen,J.I., Nick, F.M. , Nisancioglu, K.H.. (2020):
Rapid retreat of a Scandinavian marine outlet glacier in response to warming at the last glacial termination, Quaternary Science Reviews,ISSN 0277-3791, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106645.
Send us information about new publications: publications@bjerknes.uib.no
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Bjerknes in the news
Klimaforskar skal halde Aarebrotforelesningen
Khrono 09.11.2020, Kikki Kleiven.
Noreg er 16. største nasjon på klimaforsking
Khrono 08.11.2020, Tore Furevik
Rebekka Borsch ny leiar i den norske UNESCO-kommisjonen
Kunnskapsdepartementet 06.11.2020, Tore Furevik
Krever vi mer av havet, vil det kreve mer av oss
Forskning.no 05.11.2020, Øyvind Paasche, Ailin Brakstad, Kjetil Våge
Året som snudde klimagassutsleppa
NRK 03.11.2020, Tore Furevik
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Upcoming events
Klimathon
18-19 November, online
CHESS: State of the Art Weather and Climate modeling
16-19 November, Geophysical Institute, UiB
AGU Fall meeting
7-11 December, 2020, Online everywhere
BCCR Polar theme Meeting
10 December, 9AM-13PM at Scandic Byparken, Bergen.
Arctic Science Summit Week
23-26 March 2021, Online
The 52nd International Liège colloquium on Ocean Dynamics
17 - 21 May 2021 Liège, Belgium
SOLAS Open Science Conference 2022
25 - 30 September 2022, Cape Town, South Africa
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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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Proposal-writing
