Tori Pedersen

In just a few years, AI has revolutionized weather prediction, performing much faster than conventional models. One of our newest members at the Bjerknes Centre wants to contribute to the development.

The five-year project will transform our understanding of how environmental factors shaped the evolution of behavioural complexity in early Homo sapiens. 

A holiday trip to Bergen may have contributed to Joshua Dorrington becoming a researcher at the Bjerknes Centre. His field of study fits well in Western Norway.  

Researcher Willem van der Bilt was surprised that the results of a project on storminess in a less icy Arctic showed the opposite of what was expected. 

By delving into the ancient fossil of pollen preserved in the lake sediments of Kerguelen Islands, Maaike Zwier and her co-authors reconstructed the natural variability of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds for the last almost 12 000 years. The interest in pollen came back home. 

Last week, Coppola attended her very first annual meeting at the Bjerknes Centre. She appreciated the wide range of climate research. "The further away from my field, the better."

He moved from the beautiful landscapes of Kerala to the research labs in Bergen. Now, Roshin Raj wants to give back to his roots by contributing with key insights in the Kerala project.

The climate and the westerly winds in the sub-Antarctic are variable, but their behavior over long timescales is uncertain. In her dissertation, Maaike Zwier reveals how the Westerlies have shifted in both strength and position over the last 12,000 years.

To assemble people who are interested in finding the links between climate and health, and to develop high-quality research and educational projects. That was the goal of the second meeting held by the Pandemic Centre and the Bjerknes Centre.

After a field trip to Kerguelen around Christmas time in 2019, several research studies have emerged. Talin Tuestad and Jarle Børve Sleire from the Department of Earth Science at UiB and the Bjerknes Centre have been working with moraines and sediment cores from the island.