<  February 2018  >

BCCR/GFI Seminar: Shyft: a hydrologic simulation toolbox for community development of multi model hypothesis testing

Name of speaker: John F. Burkhart , Affiliation: Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo

Newbie Group: Data assimilation

Francois Counillon will talk about "Data assimilation"

Folgefonn Centre, seminar and workshop

The Folgefonn Centre in Rosendal (https://folgefonnsenteret.no/en/) opened last summer, with exhibitions provided by the Bjerknes Centre, the Institute for Marine Research (HI), and the Folgefonna National Park Visitor Center. This has already become an important dissemination platform for our research, and it has a potential for even more activities.  On Monday February 12 the leader of the Folgefonn Centre, Ivar Baste, will visit us and present the centre and its activities, followed by a discussion workshop introduced by Jostein Bakke and Eystein Jansen. You are all welcomed to take part in either the seminar only or both the seminar and the workshop. Venue is the fourth floor auditorium, West Wing of Geophysical Institute (Bjerknes Centre).

BCCR/GFI Seminar: Isotopes in the Nile Valley

Alexandra Touzeau will give a talk on February 12.  She is now starting a new post-doctorate with Harald Sodemann at UiB.

Newbie group: Jet streams

Camille Li will talk about "Jet streams"

Nansen Guest lecture

Welcome to Nansen Guest Lecture by Prof Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen. Title: “Dynamical down scaling: How confident are the projections?”

BCCR/GFI Seminar: Can we use ice core isotope records for climate reconstruction - strengths, weaknesses, and open questions

Speaker: Name: Hans Christian Steen-Larsen, Affiliation: GFI

Disputas: Fabian Bonitz

Diploma FABIAN GEORG WULF BONITZ disputerer for ph.d.-graden. 
Avhandlingens tittel: ”Molluscan sclerochronology on the Faroe Shelf - Climatic and ecological conditions inferred from shell properties of the bivalve species Arctica islandica”

Paleoseminar: Seasonally resolved paleoclimate records derived from fossil giant clam shells (Tridacna spp.), application to paleoENSO studies during the past 200ka.

Wednesday February 21st we will have a Paleoseminar at Geo where Prof. Mary Elliot, University of Nantes, will give a talk about paleoclimate records from fossil giant clam Shells.


 

Newbie Group: Stratospheric-Tropospheric coupling

Etienne Dunn-Sigouin will talk about "Stratospheric-Tropospheric coupling"

Seminar: Internal waves as nutrient pump in the ocean

Name of speaker: John Grue, professor, Dept of Mathematics, UiO. http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/people/aca/johng/

Seminar: Arctic clouds in the XXth and XXIst centuries

Name of speaker: Alexander Chernokulsky. Affiliation:(A.M.Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Science