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21.10.25
How can we tell temperatures from thousands of years ago?
Sher-Rine Kong has been studying a lake in Svalbard, and her findings suggest that temperatures during the Early Holocene - around 11,700 years ago - were up to 3.5 °C warmer than today. But how can they know what the lake temperature was back then?
13.10.25
Two Systems, One Critical Challenge
The new Global Tipping Point Report is out and warns of potential risks to the Atlantic Ocean Circulation – however, there are large uncertainties about when, or if, the tipping points will be crossed.
30.09.25
Bringing Climate Models to Everyone
How AI is making complex data understandable
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24.10.25
Carbn research theme meeting
24.10.25
BCCR Distinguished Speaker: Naomi Oreskes @ Vilvite 24. October
Bjerknes Distinguished Speaker – FRIDAY, 24.10.2025, 12:15 @ Vil Vite, Nash Auditorium We have the pleasure to announce that Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, is visiting us this Friday! Naomi has written several books, among them the “Merchants of doubt”. Please see the announcement below and register using the sign-up link. Starting time is 12:15, but it would be nice to be there 5 minutes early. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=vCSKZI2pJUCcYEjBmhQgacTDuXM3ixZIgT02n0WeIpdUMTJCMVYzTDhYUE02RUxRR0c5R1NQWTc4MC4u
24.10.25
Disputas. Daniel Gunning: «Modelling the Pleistocene Climate Cycles: Assessing the Roles of Precession and Obliquity»
KUNNGJØRING DISPUTAS UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN Fakultet for naturvitenskap og teknologi Ph.d.-grad MSc. Daniel Francis James Gunning disputerer for ph.d.-graden: Tid: Fredag 24. oktober 2025, kl. 13.15 Sted: Auditorium 5, Realfagbygget Se her for pressemelding Se her for avhandling Legg til i kalenderen din Avhandlingens tittel «Modelling the Pleistocene Climate Cycles: Assessing the Roles of Precession and Obliquity» Opponent Professor Christine S. Hvidberg Niels Bohr Institutet Københavns Universitet Danmark Opponent Forsker Didier Paillard Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Frankrike Øvrig medlem i komiteen Professor Andreas Born Institutt for geovitenskap, UiB Leder av disputasen Professor Ulysses Silas Ninnemann Institutt for geovitenskap, UiB Veiledningskomité Professor Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu, Institutt for geovitenskap, UiB (hovedveileder) Professor Roderik Van de Wal, Universiteit Utrecht, Nederland (medveileder) Forsker Emilie Capron, Institut des Geosciences et de l’Environnement, Frankrike(medveileder) Adgang for interesserte tilhørere. Velkommen til lokalet i god tid før disputasen begynner!