Highlights from 2025

Bjerknes Getaway 2026 7-9th of January at Hotel Scandic Voss Wednesday 7. January 08:29–09:41 Train trip Bergen-Voss 10:15 Kikki Kleiven: Welcome to Voss and the Bjerknes Getaway. 10:20-11:20 Climate in Norway 2100: How did we produce the report? The county profile for Vestland and how Voss municipality plan for a changing climate. 11:20-14:30 Break for skiing or other activities (walk to Bordalsgjelet). 11:30 Lunch (Note: For those skiing and not joining lunch: bring your own packed lunch from home) 14:30 Gather for a musical surprise and the afternoon program. Our strategic projects 2022-2025 14:45-15:30 Climate change and sustainability in Norwegian fjords, CLIFORD How did it go? Short talks on challenges, results and the way forward. 15:30-16:00 Coffee break and check-in 16:00-16-:45 Dynamics of the North Atlantic Surface and Overturning Circulation, DYNASOR Short talks on the challenges, results, and the way forward. 16:45-17:30 The breathing Ocean (O2Ocean) Short talks on the challenges, results, and the way forward. 18:00 BarQuiz 19:00 Dinner Thursday 8. January 09:00-09:45 Proxy Assimilations for Reconstructing Climate and Improving Models (PARCIM) Short talks on the challenges, results, and the way forward. 09:45-10:30 Seal level Projection and Reconstruction unit (SEAPR) Short talks on the challenges, results, and the way forward. 10:30-11:00 Mental representations of “Science” by Steffen Wagner 11:00-14:00 Time off for skiing or other activities (walk to Bordalsgjelet) 11:30 Lunch 14:15 Coffee break 14:30-15:00 PIONEER by Margit Simon Machine Learning for increasing weather data resolution by Sigrid Passano Helland 1500-1730 Poster session starting with 1 minute poster pitch presentations. 17:30 The Bjerknes bowling tournament at Voss bowling 19:30 Dinner Friday 9. January 09:00-10:30 Summing up 2025. The research theme leaders and director’s 90 minutes Global by Stefan Sobolowski Highlight: Edson Silva Polar by Marius Årthun Highlight: Rebekka Frøystad Hazards by Stijn De Schepper Highlight by: Manuel Hempel Carbon by Nadine Goris Highlight: Jerry Tjiputra 10:30-11:00 Check out 11:00-11:30 What we do with AI and Machine learning by Stefan Sobolowski Planning for the years to come by Kikki Kleiven 11:30 Lunch 12:30-13:45 Group work Goodbye 14:07 – 15:24: Train leaves for Bergen

Abstract This talk shares SOCCO’s journey from a small South African research effort to a leading Southern Ocean carbon–climate programme. Through pioneering glider campaigns, remote sensing and high-resolution modelling, we show how fine-scale ocean dynamics shape the seasonal cycle, carbon flux variability and climate sensitivity—offering new insights and challenges for next-generation climate models. Speaker information Sandy Thomalla is a Chief Researcher at the CSIR and Research Group Leader of the Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory (SOCCO), a national programme advancing understanding of the Southern Ocean’s role in a changing climate. Her work focuses on how physical drivers shape event-scale to inter-annual variability in ecosystem and biogeochemical processes, with the aim of better constraining carbon cycling in the Southern Ocean. Her combined expertise in observations, autonomous technologies, and remote sensing provides a strong foundation for improving assessing the climate sensitivity of the Southern Ocean biological carbon pump.

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