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In a new study, scientists suggest that the pattern of ocean circulation was radically altered in the past when climates were warmer.

Each year young scientists spend some weeks at summer school to learn even more about climate research. This year’s ACDC will be held in Vesterålen.


Camille Li has left the Bjerknes Centre and Bergen for a few months, choosing New York to learn even more about climate research.

Bjørg Risebrobakken and Petra Langebroek are two of the researchers at the Bjerknes Centre who recently have gained funding for new research projects.

To the trumpets of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra the Bjerknes Centre opened its anniversary conference today.

Seventy Ph.D. students competed for the 25 places at this year’s Advanced Climate Dynamic Courses (ACDC) Summer School at Dovre. And now, renewed funding means that there will be summer school next year and beyond.

Global warming can signal bad news for the Baltic ecosystem. If the waters of the Baltic get warmer it may instigate low oxygen conditions and massive blooms of cyanobacteria ("blue-green algae").

"The grand puzzle of climate research" is the title of the BCCR-protrait in the  international edition of UiB’s research and education magazine Hubro.  

The European monitoring network ICOS is well underway to completing the international monitoring of CO2 emissions. Truls Johannessen is aiming at getting the ocean monitoring to the Bjerknes Centre.




The brand new SKD team is now set. Meet them in the SKD website - online today

IGBP-chair James Syvitski believes that time is ready to declare Anthropocene as a new geological era.
 

A group of early career scientists discussed climate model results and proxy data at the ACDC 2011 summer school, and decided to condense the discussion to a short article. The article was published in the beginning of April. 

"2011 was another active year at the Bjerknes Centre with record numbers of peer review publications" our Director Eystein Jansen writes in the Annual Report 2011. Read it in pdf here.