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29.04.26
Lunch seminar: Yanjun Cai: The moisture dynamics in arid Central Asia over the last 47 kyrs: insights from the Speleothem Record
Dear all, Next Wednesday, April 29, we have a guest from China, Prof. Yanjun Cai (Xi’an Jioatong University) giving a talk at the snapshot lunch seminar of the Quaternary Geology and Paleoclimate research group at GEO. The lunch seminar is in Kvartsitten at GEO (3rd floor, by the kitchen) and starts at 12:15. Yanjun uses stalagmites to reconstruct past climate, and the title of his talk is: The moisture dynamics in arid Central Asia over the last 47 kyrs: insights from the Speleothem Record Best regards, Nele

29.04.26
Talk by visiting Assoc. Professor Vasileios Gkinis (Niels Bohr Institute, PICE)
Dear All, Vasileios Gkinis from the Niels Bohr Institute, Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth will be visiting us next week and has agreed to give a short informal talk on his latest research: "Greenland basal ice isotope signals and a toy model for the Greenland glaciation” The seminar will be in Skybar on Wednesday 29th at 12:30. You are welcome to bring lunch. Best regards Hans Christian

29.04.26
Stormtracks group meeting
Hi everyone, We’ll have our Stormtracks group meeting this Wednesday (29.04) from 14:00 to 15:00 at U105. This week Josh will give a talk on Dynamical perspectives on forecasting, projecting and attributing extreme events. The meeting will be hybrid and you can join remotely via Zoom: https://uib.zoom.us/j/62886269543?pwd=ajWbi97zr0hbniaoQdZkUtD2EUSSri.1 Meeting ID: 628 8626 9543 | Password: qSKTfKU3 The meeting schedule for this semester is in the following google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F9hy45DSeS9qrXl-3l4cNzCPSE9OuBBVqdCu3VY240U/edit?usp=sharing See you all there! :) Cheers, Birgit and Yangfan
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20.04.26
150 years in the Norwegian Sea
The exploration of the ocean west of Norway started for real about 150 years ago. This created the Norwegian Sea.

15.04.26
Up and running at the Mountain Centre
Soon, all ten PhD candidates will be in place at the Centre for Mountains in Transition (CMT). Their first field trip is just around the corner.

08.04.26
A rough field trip to Antarctica
A research trip to Antarctica is planned a long way ahead, often years. Still, there are many things you do not control. Elin Darelius experienced this on her seventh trip to the Southern Ocean.





