Celebration of John Inge Svendsen and his remarkable career at University of Bergen – from Bømlo to Bolshoye and back
Thursday 9 February 2023 – Auditorium 5 and on this Zoom link:
https://uib.zoom.us/j/61867154460?pwd=cTY3YWxlY1Y1UGpIWjlGUk1MZG5sQT09
Program:
12:00 Welcome
Greetings from head of the department Atle Rotevatn
Greetings from the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research: Nele and Kerim
12:15 Atle Nesje and Jostein Bakke:
Highlights from John Inge`s scientific career
12:45 Haflidi Haflidason:
Fra Bolshoye Shchuchye til Sør Mesna
13:00 Inger Alsos Greve:
Ancient DNA from Polar Ural and elsewhere: how close are we to reconstructing past
ecosystems?
13:30 Elisabeth Thomas:
Western Siberia experienced rapid shifts in moisture source and summer water balance during the last declaration an early Holocene
14:00 Anna Hughes:
Towards a palaeoglaciology of the Eurasian ice sheets
14:30 Carl Regnell:
Pulling the plug – the role of ice-dammed lakes on the final demise of the Scandinavian Ice
Sheet
15:00 Jan Mangerud:
All Eurasian ice sheets melted away 50-60 ka ago
15.30 Coffe
15:45 Eiliv Larsen:
Volcanic impact on glacial events in Jan Mayen
16:15 Stein Bondevik:
Human occupation on a growing Tapes beach ridge at Longva, Western Norway
16:45 Richard Gyllencreutz:
Chirp sonar mapping of the Ikka Fjord column garden
17:15 Herbjørn Heggen:
From the ice ages in Russia to geohazard mapping in Norway
Closing remarks by John Inge Svendsen
18:00 Aperitif in EARTH LAB including slide show by Jan Mangerud
19:30 Dinner at Wessel Stuen (by invitation, sign up link will be sent out later)
BCCR Regional Climate Information mini-Workshop 14 February
Dear all,
It is with great pleasure that we are organising for the first time in Bergen a joint workshop across different groups and different approaches to provide and utilise regional climate information. The event will take place on the 14th of February as an all-day event, 9-17. The venue will be at the seminar room at the top floor at Jahnebakken 5
The mini-workshop aims to bring together the diverse community within the Bjerknes Centre who work to understand and communicate local to regional climate, climate change and its consequences. The distillation of regional climate information is as diverse as its actors. A wide range of methods (numerical, statistical, hybrid, etc.) and goals (fundamental understanding, adaptation support, climate services, etc.) are its hallmarks. We aim to raise awareness about the many different research activities in BCCR that are related to regional information and the value of this research to society.
It is our ambition is to raise awareness of the diversity of approaches and tools used at Bjerknes to do research on regional climate information as well as the value of our research to society. A few examples could be highlighted aiming at being presented as “storyboards” (see e.g., https://eucp-project.github.io/storyboards/), which may become a strong outreach element, useful also to a broader audience of users.
Hopefully, by getting everyone with an interest updated on ongoing, planned or dreams of future activities together, new ideas and collaborations can be fostered.
A likely schedule for the day looks like this:
9-9.25 Opening
9.25-10.50 Block 1
10.50-11.05 Break
11.05-12.00 Block 2 (part 1)
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.30 Block 2 (part 2)
13.30-15.00 Block 3
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.40 Block 4
16.40-17.00 Wrap up: ways forward
Each of the blocks are coordinated under the following four themes, while the order of presentations is still subject to changes.
Oceans: Anne Britt Sandø anne.britt.sandoe@hi.no
Atmosphere: Shunya Koseki Shunya.Koseki@uib.no
Climate Services: Stephanie Mayer stma@norceresearch.no
Extremes: Stephen Outten stephen.outten@nersc.no
More details on the event will soon be circulated along with information about where to sign up.