Heatwaves in the waters around Svalbard are occurring more often and lasting longer. Today’s heatwave is quickly becoming tomorrow’s normality. Raising concerns about their impact on Arctic marine life and ecosystems.🧪🌊 bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/okni...

Increase in Marine Heatwaves Around Svalbard

Heatwaves in the waters around Svalbard are occurring more often and lasting longer. Today’s heatwave is quickly becoming tomorrow’s normality.

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🧪This new study provides new evidence on the beginning and continuity of outfield fen mowing, an essential practice to obtain fodder for the winter in traditional Norwegian farming. By: Kristine Fjordheim, Kari Loe Hjelle, Anne Elisabeth Bjune & Asbjørn Moen. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Four millennia of rich fen vegetation composition and haymaking in boreal outfields at Nordmøre (Møre og Romsdal), Norway - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

This study provides new evidence on the beginning and continuity of outfield fen mowing, an essential practice to obtain fodder for the winter in traditional Norwegian farming. Pollen and spores from ...

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Fram Strait is the main pathway for Atlantic water into the Arctic. Using gliders, Vår Dundas and Ilker Fer found substantial variability in the currents, apparently linked to the wind. @nansensenteret.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social os.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Atlantic Water flow through Fram Strait to the Arctic Ocean measured by repeated glider transects

Abstract. We present transport estimates of Atlantic Water (AW) and Recirculating Atlantic Water (RAW) across a zonal transect at 77°15′ N using repeated ocean glider observations. Over three missions...

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A new doctor on a sunny day! Qidi Yu successfully defended her PhD thesis "Forecast biases and errors – A feature-based approach and the role of diabatic heating" at @unibergen.bsky.social and the Bjerknes Centre today. Congratulations, Qidi! @scienceandtechuib.bsky.social

🧪🌿What happens when your “comfort zone” shifts uphill? For many plant species, that’s already reality. Mountains are biodiversity hotspots and new research highlights how climate warming is pushing plants to migrate upslope in search of suitable temperatures. www.sciencenorway.no/climate-chan...

Running up the hill – Climate change is forcing plants to move upwards

OPINION: Mountains are important recreational areas for us humans, where we can relax or challenge ourselves on bikes or skis. But mountains and their grasslands play a crucial role for nature in many...

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Complex, high impact weather is hard to predict in detail. Qidi Yu from @unibergen.bsky.social has looked into why, comparing traditional and AI models. PhD press release (in Norwegian): www.uib.no/nye-doktorgr... 🧪

AMOC is upheld by cooling in the north. But where is north? @jakobdoerr.bsky.social and colleagues from the Bjerknes Centre, @unibergen.bsky.social, @nansensenteret.bsky.social, @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and @noc.ac.uk investigate dense water formation in the Arctic. bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/golf...

Polar oceans influence the Gulf Stream

The warm Gulf Stream is maintained by coldness. The Barents Sea is a cooling machine.

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🧪🌊 How do the Nordic seas respond to marine cold air outbreaks? The Nordic seas (Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian Seas) play a role in the global heat transport and the AMOC. Svenya Chripko, Thomas Spengler, Stefanie Semper and Kjetil Våge looks into this: os.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Response of the Nordic Seas to the 2–6 February 2020 marine cold air outbreak in the GLORYS12 ocean reanalysis

Abstract. Marine Cold Air Outbreaks (MCAOs) play a crucial role in wintertime water mass transformation in the Nordic Seas. However, due to the spatio-temporal variability of atmospheric forcing and l...

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🧪 We have a new doctorate in the house! Many congratulations to @jogaudard.bsky.social who successfully defended his thesis “Global Change Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in Alpine Grasslands” at UiB Bio, and supervisors Joachim Töpper (to the left in 📷), Aud Halbritter and @vvandvik.bsky.social

🧪🌊 🐙 Light shapes the seasonality of primary productivity in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean, as well as animal behaviour. ✍️ Håkon Sandven and colleagues show that river run-off transported darkens the water column in the #Arctic Ocean. Open access: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

UArctic Congress last week and contributed with talk; Ecological consequences of less sea-ice and more light. Collaboration with @tomlangbehn.bsky.social & Trond Kristiansen. @bjerknes.uib.no A few main points follow:

GLACIMONTIS brings you reconstructions of mountain glaciers during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Augusto Lima and @suzetteflantua.bsky.social from @unibergen.bsky.social and the Bjerknes Centre explain why reconstructing ancient glaciers matter. 🧪

Mapping the world’s vanished glaciers

A global reconstruction of Ice Age mountain glaciers opens new doors for climate and ecosystem research.

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Understanding changes in ocean biological carbon pump and its impact on future climate change remains an outstanding research question. In a new publication Damien Couespel & colleagues @NORCE and BCCR investigate ocean changes in Earth system models 🧪🌊 bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...

Divergent sensitivities of apparent oxygen utilization to ventilation changes in the deep ocean across Earth system models

Abstract. The biological carbon pump (BCP), involving photosynthesis at the surface and remineralisation at depth, maintains a significant vertical gradient in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), thereb...

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🌊 New guest post from OceanICU partners on @carbonbrief.org → How marine life provides climate benefits worth billions of dollars: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h... ✍️ By Damien Couespel (NORCE), Fabio Berzaghi (WMU) , Jerry Tjiputra (NORCE), Richard Sanders (NORCE), and Dagmara Rusiecka (NORCE)

@jogaudard.bsky.social defends his PhD, "Global Change Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in Alpine Grasslands" at @unibergen.bsky.social.

We have a guest! David W. J. Thompson from Colorado State University and @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social is in Bergen this week. Yesterday he presented work on ocean-atmosphere interactions. Here, discussing with Johannes Lutzmann.

🧪Community paper: A global research prioritisation for peatland science A global survey identifying urgent research questions. The priorities span climate and carbon, restoration, policy, and local and Indigenous knowledge to guide future research and funding. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Priority research questions in global peatland science - Communications Earth & Environment

Global research prioritization for peatland science engaged 467 participants from 54 countries, identifying 50 priority research questions across carbon dynamics, climate impacts, restoration and mana...

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❗NEW POSITION: PhD Research Fellow in Arctic Paleoceanography! The position is for a fixed-term period of 3 years with the possibility of a 4th year with career-promoting work (e.g. teaching at the Department). The position is funded by @unibergen.bsky.social 🧪🌊 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Field trip to the Folgefonna ice cap. 🧪The PhDs candidates at the Centre for Mountains in Transition at @unibergen.bsky.social had a successful trip to Folgefonna. They set up a weather station that will measure temperature, precipitation, wind, and snow depth. Pictures taken by Håvard Gjesdal:

Norway has around 1000 official weather stations, but in a country of mountains and fjords, there are still gaps in the map. Marie Pontoppidan, researcher at NORCE and the Bjerknes Centre has used data from private rain gauges to provide more details. bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/regn...

Private rain gauges may improve weather forecasts

Observations from people's gardens have already helped Marie Pontoppidan.

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This spring: Bjerknes training program in machine learning. The program consists of a series of training sessions to provide all researchers at the Bjerknes Centre with tools to discover, understand and apply machine learning and neural networks to their own research🧪 More workshops to come!

The Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes annual meeting started in Bergen today hosted at the University of Bergen. The workshop is gathering more than 100 researchers. The first day of the workshop with a special focus on celebrating 150 years of modern marine research in the Nordic Seas.🌊🧪

Lars H. Smedsrud from @unibergen.bsky.social and the Bjerknes Centre, has been part of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative. 🧪 In Arctic Today is their piece that examines the growing global demand for critical minerals and the need to listen to local communities: www.arctictoday.com/the-arctic-h...

The Arctic has the minerals the world wants. Communities should decide the terms - ArcticToday

The global rush for critical minerals is reaching the Arctic. Whether it benefits the people who live there depends on decisions being made right now. The residents of Narsaq, a small town in southern...

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🤩 We are very proud of the new Centre for Mountain Transition exploring how mountain systems are changing and how we can build resilience for the future. 🧪 Ten new PhD candidates are soon in place - the first field trip just arbound the corner 🏔️ bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/up-a...

Up and running at the Mountain Centre

Soon, all ten PhD candidates will be in place at the Centre for Mountains in Transition (CMT). Their first field trip is just around the corner.

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A research trip to Antarctica is planned a long way ahead, often years. Still, there are many things you do not control. Elin Darelius from UiB and Bjerknes experienced this on her seventh trip to the Southern Ocean. What do you do when things don’t go as planned? 🧪🌊 bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/krev...

A rough field trip to Antarctica

A research trip to Antarctica is planned a long way ahead, often years. Still, there are many things you do not control. Elin Darelius experienced this on…

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Sciencenorway presents this nice piece by @ellenviste.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no featuring our recent work on the ecology of a changing Arctic, with less sea ice and more light partner.sciencenorway.no/biological-d...

Beneath the ice, fish have been shielded by the darkness. What happens now that the ice is melting?

An advantage for one species may be a disadvantage for another.

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🐟🦐 Come work with us! We’re offering a PhD position in marine life-history modeling as part of the Arctic Ocean 2050 program. The position is based at the Theoretical Ecology Group at the University of Bergen in Norway. www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

Ph.d.-stipendiat i marin livshistoriemodellering (298243) | Universitetet i Bergen

Stillingstittel: Ph.d.-stipendiat i marin livshistoriemodellering (298243), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: søndag 12. april 2026

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At NORCE Research and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, there is a vacancy for a postdoctoral fellow position within paleogenomics of the Arctic Ocean. 🌊 🧪It is a period of 3 years, to strengthen our ERC Synergy project @i2b-erc.bsky.social Apply: karriere.norceresearch.no/en/jobs/7334...

How does the climate change affect avalanche activity? Scientists at the Bjerknes Centre and the University of Bergen, has uncovered one of the longest, coherent avalanche records in the world, going 10,000 years back. 🧪 What did they find? 👇 bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/10-0...