|
|
|
|
Climate Futures gets prestigious status as a Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI)
Celebrating the good news! From left: Øyvind Paasche, Linda Nøstbakken (NHH), Tore Furevik, Margareth Hagen (Prorector UiB), Erik Kolstad and Trond Dokken. Photo: Andreas H. Opsvik.
Climate Futures is a new and ambitious action to generate long-term cooperation between companies, public organizations and research groups across sectors and disciplines to tackle one of the most urgent challenges of our time.
The changing nature of weather and climate poses a severe threat to the prosperity and well-being of our economy and society as a whole, but climate risk is inadequately managed due to knowledge gaps and deficiencies in the decision-making processes of businesses and public authorities.
– These are fantastic news. We knew that the theme of Climate Futures was relevant, and we are pleased that the Research Council also sees that climate risk is an area that requires great effort on the research front. We at NORCE and the Bjerknes Centre have a brilliant group of research partners, business world stakeholders and public sector partners. We are now looking forward to helping these deal with the great risk associated with weather and climate, whether for direct phenomena such as floods and droughts, or more transferred risk related to investments in other parts of the world, says centre manager and climate scientist Erik Kolstad in NORCE and the Bjerknes Centre.
Climate Futures is led by NORCE, and is comprised of seven other research partners and close to 30 stakeholder partners, representing agriculture, renewable energy, disaster mitigation, shipping, insurance, finance, risk management, and the public sector.
They will work together to create new solutions to predict and manage climate risk from 10 days to 10 years into the future.
Andreas Hadsel Opsvik
|
|
UiB and BCCR receive funding for online climate course
Kerim Nisancioglu and colleagues received funding from DIKU for developing a new online course on sustainable development and Climate Action. The course is interdisciplinary and targets the UN Sustainable Development Goals with a particular focus on climate change. The course will be offered in both English and Norwegian for students on campus, as well as for public officials, teachers, journalists and company employees interested in Climate and the UN SDGs. The course is a collaboration between UiB and UiO (University of Oslo) and builds on the iEarth partnership iearth.no
Gudrun Sylte
|
|
New Bjerknes T-shirts!
If you or your Bjerknes team is planning to participate in a race, a sports match or similar, we now have new T-shirts with the Bjerknes logo on the front and back. They may also be used if you want to promote the centre in other ways - at a research stand etc.Contact the Ellen Grong at the Bjerknes secretariat to get one.
Thank you, PhD student Peter Siew for being our model this time!
Ellen Grong
|
|
|
 Upcoming CHESS actiivities
Dallas Murphy’s annual Advanced Science-Writing Workshop,
June 15, 2020 – June 19, 2020
Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen
CHESS Annual Meeting 2020
28 September-2 October onboard of MS Trollfjord, Hurtigruten.
|
|
Publications
Beamish A., Raynolds M.K., Epstein H., Frost G.V. Macander M.J., Bergstedt H., Bartsch A., Kruse S., Miles V., Tanis C.M., Heim B., Fuchs M., Chabrillat S., Shevtsova I., Verdonen M., Wagner J. M.: 2020, Recent trends and remaining challenges for optical remote sensing of Arctic tundra vegetation: A review and outlook, Remote Sens. Environ., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111872
Siew, P. Y. F., Li, C., Sobolowski, S. P., and King, M. P.(2020): Intermittency of Arctic–mid-latitude teleconnections: stratospheric pathway between autumn sea ice and the winter North Atlantic Oscillation, Weather Clim. Dynam., 1, 261–275, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-261-2020,
Send us information about new publications: publications@bjerknes.uib.no
|
|
Upcoming events
PhD defense: Augustin Kessler:"Atlantic thermohaline changes and its implications on the carbon cycle during the Last Interglacial"
16 June 2020 via zoom
IMBeR ClimEco7 Summer School - Interdisciplinary ocean science for sustainable development goals
2020.08.17 - 2020.08.21 Vancouver, Canada
19th Swiss Climate Summer School
Extreme weather and climate: from atmospheric processes to impacts on ecosystems and society
23–28 August 2020, Grindelwald, Switzerland
50th Arctic Workshop
30 August-1 September 2020, Boulder, Colorado, USA
2nd International PalaeoArc Conference
late September/early October (TBD) 2020, Pisa, Italy
5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE OCEAN IN A HIGH CO2 WORLD
7 - 10 September 2020 Lima, Perú.
Bjerknes Annual Meeting
15 September 2020, Bergen
Arctic Circle 2020 Assembly
October 8-11, Harpa Reykjavík
Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Geophysical Society:
21-22 October 2020 in Bergen
EC ESA EO for Polar Science Workshop
28- 30 October, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bjerknes Getaway
11-13 January 2021, Geilo
The 52nd International Liège colloquium on Ocean Dynamics
17 - 21 May 2021 Liège, Belgium
Looking for Bjerknes Centre events? Check the calendar on our webpage
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Time for celebration!
