Bjerknes Climate Podcast
VitenskapDig into science with climate experts. Interviews and conversations with world-class scientists, hosted by Stephen Outten and Ingjald Pilskog. 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.
Siste episoder av Bjerknes Climate Podcast podcast
- Norwegian fjords in a changing climate (00:26:42)
Norway has more than 1700 named fjords, attracting tourists from all over the world. But what is a fjord? What goes on under the surface? In this episode of the Bjerknes Centre's podcast, Natalya Gallo discusses fjords in a changing environment with fellow researchers Elin Darelius, Agnes Weiner and Martine Røysted Solås. How do changes in the water influence fish and other creatures? What can the past tell us about the years to come? Can the future of the fjords be predicted? Natalya Gallo is a biological oceanographer and a researcher at NORCE and the Bjerknes Centre. Elin Darelius is a physical oceanographer and a professor at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, and the Bjerknes Centre. Agnes Weiner is a paleoclimatologist and a researcher at NORCE and the Bjerknes Centre. Martine Røysted Solås is a marine biologist and researcher at the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Bergen, and the Bjerknes Centre.
- Is the AMOC Going to Collapse? (00:34:00)
In the latest episode of the Bjerknes Podcast, experts debate the future of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a crucial component of the global climate system. Listen to colleagues discussing the AMOC in a measured and thoughtful manner. There is an ongoing debate among scientists regarding the potential collapse or slowdown of the AMOC. Both scientific support and contrasting views can be found among colleagues at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. In this new episode of the Bjerknes Climate Podcast, host Stephen Outten discusses these two viewpoints with Andreas Born and Marius Årthun.
- Klimahistorie (00:34:48)
Eivind Heldaas Seland og Kikki Kleiven har skrevet bok om klimahistorie. Her forteller de om middelalderens varmeperiode, om temperaturfallet under den lille istiden og om hvordan klimakriser har skapt både stagnasjon og nye idéer. Eivind Heldaas Seland er professor i historie ved Universitetet i Bergen. Kikki Kleiven er direktør ved Bjerknessenteret for klimaforskning og førsteamanuensis ved Universitetet i Bergen.
- Meike Becker og Ingunn Skjevlan - Deepwater acidification (00:21:08)
- Predicting algae blooms - a new tool in our arsenal (00:22:44)
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.
- Not so green transition (00:13:39)
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.
- Pacific islands in a rising ocean (00:18:26)
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.
- The Breathing Ocean (00:16:52)
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!
- We are very fond of mud! - paleoclimate with Eystein Jansen (00:24:47)
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.
- Instruments in the dark – How to understand Antarctica (00:18:45)
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.
- How can we predict sea ice? (00:19:39)
Anton Korosov works with observations and models to predict sea ice.
- The One Ocean Expedition (00:19:49)
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.
- The hunt for ancient DNA under the sea ice (00:20:00)
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.
- Havbruk og klima: Frode Vikebø om hvordan fisk påvirkes av temperatur i havet (00:13:07)
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
- Fysikk og klima: Martin Fernø om hvordan (og hvorfor!) vi fanger og lagrer CO2 (00:14:07)
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
- Energi og klima: Helge Drange om hvor lenge vi har visst om global oppvarming (00:18:06)
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
- Geovitenskap og klima: Kikki Kleiven om hva fortiden kan fortelle oss om fremtiden (00:10:49)
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
- Matematikk og klima: Marie Pontoppidan regner på regnet (00:15:44)
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
- The disappearance of water in the Nordic seas (00:20:58)
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.
- AI flooding the flooding research (00:21:03)
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.
- The climate cost of planting trees (00:21:00)
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 5 år etter – med direktør Tore Furevik (00:24:27)
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.
- Are we melting Antarctica irreversibly? (00:26:36)
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.
- Arven etter Nansen – med forskar Marius Årthun (00:15:56)
Gratulerer med dagen, Fridtjof Nansen! 10. oktober 2020 ville han ha vært 159 år, og vi holder virket hans i live gjennom samarbeidet i Arven etter Nansen. Forsker ved Universitetet i Bergen og Bjerknessenteret Marius snakker om inspirasjonen fra Nansens arbeid og vitenskap, grunnlaget han la for klimavarsling, og forskerrollen da og nå. Klimavarsling – en arv etter Nansen Oppvarming på 4°C i løpet av de siste 50 årene på Svalbard Hvordan kan vi bruke Fridtjof Nansens forskning i dag?
- Igor Ezau - Heatwaves, the weather that can kill thousands in developed countries (00:31:10)
Heatwaves are the extreme weather events that kills the most worldwide together with its close cousin the long-term draught. Peer-reviewed analysis places the European death toll at more than 70,000, in the 2003 European heatwave alone [1]. This was in developed countries with the resources to mitigate the worst consequences. It lasted one month which makes this event as mortal as the ongoing pandemic. The WHO defines heatwaves as more than three days with temperatures above 25 degrees C. This is when conditions start to get dangerous to humans. Other definitions are linked to higher temperatures than the normal temperatures – but what happens when the normal temperatures rise? Will there be less heatwaves? Igor Ezau dicuss with Stephen outten and Ingjald Pilskog in this new episode “Heatwaves, the weather that can kill thousands in developed countries”. [1] Robine, Jean-Marie; Cheung, Siu Lan K.; Le Roy, Sophie; Van Oyen, Herman; Griffiths, Clare; Michel, Jean-Pierre; Herrmann, François Richard (2008). "Solongo". Comptes Rendus Biologies. 331 (2): 171–178. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2007.12.001. ISSN 1631-0691. PMID 18241810