Bjerknes Climate Podcast

Phd-student Edson Silva at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center is talking with our host Stephen Outten, Senior researcher at the Nansen center, about one of the newest tools in our predicting arsenal, an algae bloom predictor. Trained on the coast of north Norway, it can be a great support for managing our costs, but it can be retrained for usage anywhere. Support and editing by Ingjald Pilskog, associate professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

In Bergen mid-March, the climate festival Varmere, våtere, villere (Warmer, wetter, wilder) filled three floors in Bergen over three days, for talks and debates on climate change and necessary solutions. Devyn Remme, PhD Candidate, at the Center for Climate and Energy Transition (CET), University of Bergen, works in research of the social and environmental consequences of the transition to electric cars from a global perspective. At the festival she was in the "Around the World with Climate Science" to talk about her research and experience as a climate researcher. She joins host Ingjald Pilskot in the festival podcast booth.

In Bergen mid-March, the climate festival Varmere, våtere, villere (Warmer, wetter, wilder) filled three floors in Bergen over three days, for talks and debates on climate change and necessary solutions. Vandhna Kumar, postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Institute (GFI) and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate research, is from Fiji, and works in the OceanStates project at the University of Bergen. At the festival she was in the "Around the World with Climate Science" to talk about her experiences from climate change in Fiji, and motivated her to become a climate scientist. She joins host Ingjald Pilskot in the festival podcast booth.

Oxygen is important for the living creatures in the deep ocean. When global oceans warm, some processes lead to less oxygen in the deep. This somewhat scary trend is what Rachael Sanders investigate in her work in the project O2Ocean. In Bergen, mid-March, the climate festival Varmere, våtere, villere (Warmer, wetter, wilder) filled a 3-floored house in Bergen over three days, for talks and debates on climate change and necessary solutions. Rachael Sanders, postdoctoral fellow at NORCE and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research was at stage with a talk on the breathing ocean and the oxygen situation in the world oceans today. As the global oceans warms, there are processes driving change in the ocean interior. As we know warmer water can hold less gas, the ocean takes up less oxygen from the surface. We also know, that the oceans warms, it get more stratified, and not so much waters – with fresh oxygen is transported into the deep ocean. – In this project, I look at trends within climate change. This is very interesting, but also scary, Sanders admits in the podcast. Listen to an interesting conversation with podcast host Ingjald Pilskog, on chemical oceanography from the Southern ocean surrounding the Antarctica, to the North Atlantic in a specific cold anomaly episode in 2015. And finally, please remember that the Bjerknes Climate Podcast is a scienctist-to-scientist talk – so be prepared for some specialized knowledge!

Professor Eystein Jansen is one of the founders of the Bjerknes centre for climate research. His field, paleoclimate, is vital to understand how earths climate has changed and is still changing. By studying the past, we have been able to do good predictions of how we humans affect the climate we have now, and the future climate. Our host Stephen Outten is from the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and our co-host Ingjald Pilskog is from the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Inès Ollivier spent a year in Antarctica where she tended instruments that gives us an understanding on how snow accumulates into the massive ice sheet that we know as the Antarctic. Now she is well into her first year as a PhD-student in the EU-funded DEEPICE project. In this project they studies proxies in deep ice cores to understand the past climate dynamics in Antarctica. Inès Ollivier is a PhD-student at the Geophysical institute, UoB, and a Bjerknes Centre researcher. Learn about her work together with our host Stephen Outten from Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and co-host Ingjald Pilskog from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Anton Korosov works with observations and models to predict sea ice.

From Curacao to Havana: A first-hand experience of causes, consequences and solutions to climate change. Kerim Nisancioglu, professor at the University of Bergen and research leader at the Bjerknes Centre, speaks about the three-week cross-disciplinary course during the One Ocean Expedition.

Danielle Grant is a PhD-student that hunts ancient DNA under the sea ice in the Arctic. As part of the EU-funded AGENSI project Grant is working on understanding the past variability of sea ice in the Arctic by finding fossile DNA in the sediments on the ocean floor north of Svalbard. Learn about her work together with our host Stephen Outten from Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and co-host Ingjald Pilskog from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Hva er egentlig en merd og hva er koblingen mellom fisk og klima? Du får svaret i studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Forsker ved Bjerknessenteret og Havforskningsinstituttet Frode Vikebø, fiskehelsestudent Anna Nygård Johansen og havbrukstudent Christina Ingdal Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Hva er CO2, og hvordan kan vi fange og lagre CO2? Og hjelper det egentlig mot global oppvarming? Hør mer i studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Forsker ved UiB Martin Fernø og fysikkstudent Anne-Line Sørberg Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Hva er forskjellen på vær og klima og hvor lenge har vi visst at global oppvarming er en greie? Du får svaret i studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Forsker ved Bjerknessenteret og UiB Helge Drange og energistudentene Ida Louise Mortensen og Ann Louise Egelandsdal Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Hva er fortidsklima og hva kan det si oss om klimaet i fremtiden, eller i dag? Hør mer i denne episoden av studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Direktør for Bjerknessenteret for klimaforskning Kikki Kleiven og geostudentene Stine Gregersen og Natalie Blindheim Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Hva har matematikk med klima å gjøre, og hva er klimarisiko? Det får du svaret på i denne episoden av studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Forsker ved Bjerknessenteret og NORCE, Marie Pontoppidan og matematikkstudent Johanne Holmøy. Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Kristin Richter, researcher at Norce and the Bjerknes Centre, is looking into the deepwater in the North-Atlantic ocean. With Argo floats and other observation they have found that there is lacking watermasses traveling southwards in the deep ocean. Here you can listen to this research and get to know Kristin Richter and the research she is doing together with her colleagues.

Jenny Hagen, a young PhD candidate at Geophysical Institute and the Bjerknes Centre, is working with taking flood prediction the next step by introducing artificial intelligence. In this podcast she explain how they can speed up and improve flood prediction, even in a changing climate, by letting the machine learn from historical data. Stephen Outten is a researcher at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Ingjald Pilskog is an associated professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and connected to the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.

Most people has a good relationship with forests and the uncontrolled logging around the world is taking its toll on both the wildlife, but also the climate. It stand to reason that letting the forests grow and claim land should be unconditionally positive for the planet, but as often it is not so simple. Priscilla Mooney, a researcher at NORCE and the Bjerknes centre, talks to our host Stephen Outten and co-host and producer Ingjald Pilskog about the consequences of both the destruction of the forests and the unexpected costs of letting the forests claim the higher latitudes and planting new forests without a proper understanding of the effects.

Parisavtalen vart vedteken under FNs klimatoppmøte i desember 2015, etter mange års arbeid for gjennomslag for internasjonal klimahandling. I den står det at me skal etterstrebe å halde temperaturauken til under to grader. Kvar er vi no, fem år etterpå? Vi skal ikkje ein gong seie orda «2020 har vore eit spesielt år», sagt uttallege gongar sidan mars, og især no i slutten av desember gjenteke i årskavalkadar. For klimaet sin del har det likevel vore første året ein reduksjon i utslepp av CO2 sidan vi byrja å måle utslepp – sjølvsagt av grunnar vi helst skulle ha latt vere å ha gjennomført. Tore Furevik, direktør ved Bjerknessenteret, som var i Paris i desember 2015, oppsummerar dei siste fem åras utvikling – både for politikken generelt, og for seg personleg, ei utvikling han meiner har endra han frå pessimist til optimist. Du har no lytta til ein podcast frå Bjerknessenteret for klimaforsking. Bjerknessenteret er eit partnerskap mellom Universitetet i Bergen, Norwegian Research Centre NORCE, Nansensenteret og Havforskningsinstituttet. Musikken er Arcade Montage av Lee Rosevere under Creative Commons-lisens by-3.0. Podcasten er produsert av meg, Andreas Hadsel Opsvik, ved Bjerknessenteret for klimaforsking.

The great ice-sheets in Antarctica and Greenland holds many mysteries. David Chandler, a postdoctoral fellow at the Bjerknes Centre and NORCE, are trying together with his colleagues to unravel these mysteries. In this episode David Chandler takes Stephen Outten and Ingjald Pilskog to the Antarctica where we are discussing how global warming are melting the ice-sheet, in some places irreversibly, leading to sea level rise and life altering climate changes to people all over the globe. David Chandler is a postdoctoral fellow at NORCE and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Stephen Outten is a researcher at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Ingjald Pilskog is an associated professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and connected to the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.