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The Arctic has the minerals the world wants. Communities should decide the terms - ArcticToday The global rush for critical minerals is reaching the Arctic. Whether it benefits the people who live there depends on decisions being made right now. The residents of Narsaq, a small town in southern...

Lars H. Smedsrud from @unibergen.bsky.social and the Bjerknes Centre, has been part of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative. 🧪

In Arctic Today is their piece that examines the growing global demand for critical minerals and the need to listen to local communities: www.arctictoday.com/the-arctic-h...

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.

🤩 We are very proud of the new Centre for Mountain Transition exploring how mountain systems are changing and how we can build resilience for the future.
🧪 Ten new PhD candidates are soon in place - the first field trip just arbound the corner 🏔️
bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/up-a...

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…

A research trip to Antarctica is planned a long way ahead, often years. Still, there are many things you do not control. Elin Darelius from UiB and Bjerknes experienced this on her seventh trip to the Southern Ocean.
What do you do when things don’t go as planned?
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bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/krev...

Beneath the ice, fish have been shielded by the darkness. What happens now that the ice is melting? An advantage for one species may be a disadvantage for another.

Sciencenorway presents this nice piece by @ellenviste.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no featuring our recent work on the ecology of a changing Arctic, with less sea ice and more light partner.sciencenorway.no/biological-d...

Ph.d.-stipendiat i marin livshistoriemodellering (298243) | Universitetet i Bergen Stillingstittel: Ph.d.-stipendiat i marin livshistoriemodellering (298243), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: søndag 12. april 2026

🐟🦐 Come work with us!

We’re offering a PhD position in marine life-history modeling as part of the Arctic Ocean 2050 program. The position is based at the Theoretical Ecology Group at the University of Bergen in Norway.

www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

At NORCE Research and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, there is a vacancy for a postdoctoral fellow position within paleogenomics of the Arctic Ocean. 🌊

🧪It is a period of 3 years, to strengthen our ERC Synergy project @i2b-erc.bsky.social

Apply: karriere.norceresearch.no/en/jobs/7334...

How does the climate change affect avalanche activity?

Scientists at the Bjerknes Centre and the University of Bergen, has uncovered one of the longest, coherent avalanche records in the world, going 10,000 years back.
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What did they find?
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Congratulations to our new PhD, Julien-Pooya Weihs! Julien successfully defended his thesis, "Investigating understanding, knowledge, and conceptual difficulties using graph network analysis: A study of learners and epistemologies in cloud physics", today. Photo: Kjersti Daae

Less Sea Ice in the Arctic This year's sea ice maximum is approaching record low levels – an accelerating trend, according to researchers.

This year's sea ice maximum is approaching record low levels – an accelerating trend, according to researchers at @unibergen.bsky.social and Bjerknes.

This may indicate that natural variability and the effects of global warming are moving in the same direction.

bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/mind... 🧪🌊❄️

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in physical oceanography (297421) | University of Bergen Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in physical oceanography (297421), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Friday, April 17, 2026

❗NEW POSITION! Postdoctoral research fellow at the Geophysical Institute and the Bjerknes Centre, within physical oceanography. The position is for a fixed-term period of 3 years and is associated with the Arctic Ocean 2050 program. 🧪🌊 @unibergen.bsky.social

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Less ice – more light. What will life be like in a bright, new Arctic? Earlier spring blooms mean less food in summer, when fish need it most. Polar cod in the Barents Sea are particularly vulnerable. 🧪 🌊 🦑 @oysteinvarpe.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/en-l...

Volcanic eruptions linked to abrupt climate changes during the last ice age - NERSC A new international study shows that large volcanic eruptions in the tropics could disrupt major ocean currents during the last ice age, triggering abrupt,

Massive volcanic eruptions can cool the atmosphere, but they can also affect ocean currents and trigger abrupt climate shifts. Curious? Read more: nersc.no/en/features/...

Riding the storm A large-scale flight campaign on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean aims to uncover why some extratropical cyclones develop into storms, while others fizzle…

To sense the temper of a storm, you need to be right there – in the clouds. 🧪 @haraldsodemann.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social @scienceandtechuib.bsky.social

🧪🌊 Become a researcher within physical ocenography in the Arctic Ocean & the North Atlantic!
In our series with available positions, next one out is this one connected to the national research program @arcticocean2050.bsky.social
Supervisor: @mariusarthun.bsky.social
Come join us in Bergen!

The ice on Greenland is acting strangely. Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet are giant swirling plume-like structures. These have puzzled scientists for over a decade, but researchers now believe they have finally cracked the mystery. 🧪

www4.uib.no/en/research/...

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Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Bergen has a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position within climate change ecology.

Work with @vvandvik.bsky.social and the @ipcc.bsky.social.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

🧪 Come work with us in Bergen! 🌊
Do you have a good understanding of paleoceanography & a masters degree in Geosciences, Marine Biology or similar - this might be your chance to become a researcher 💥
@i2b-erc.bsky.social
@polhavet2050.bsky.social

Read more and apply here: lnkd.in/e8KBAyPi

The Arctic overturning circulation: transformations, pathways and timescales Abstract. The Arctic is the northernmost terminus of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and is an important source of the densest waters feeding its lower limb. However, relatively little...

🌊Where and how is dense water in the Arctic formed? In our new paper, we decompose the Arctic overturning circulation (ArMOC), the northernmost part of the AMOC. Check it out 🔽

@bjerknes.uib.no @mariusarthun.bsky.social @kristoferdoos.bsky.social @nansensenteret.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk

An evening in honor of Prof. Eystein Jansen "In the spirit of Eystein, it will be a gathering that emphasizes relationships, intellectual exchange, and the path forward, and is intended as a…

Thank you, Eystein, for all your achievements so far. We look forward to new ideas and initiatives in the coming years!
bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/eyst...

From the new generation paleoceanographers, Associate Professor Kaustubh Thirumalai at the University of Arizona, was a vibrant visiting guest, with a great seminar for all of the Bjerknes community the day ahead.

Professor Nele Meckler

Researcher Nil Irvali

Professor Emeritus Thomas Stocker

The event offered a warm atmosphere with excellent speakers looking toward the future of science, while also acknowledging Jansen’s astonishing scientific career and his remarkable ability to achieve great things—always while being the nice, humble, and soft‑spoken Eystein we know.

Eystein Jansen and Kikki Kleiven at science celebration at Litteraturhuset in Bergen

“Eystein set a requirement for the celebration: he wants us to look forward, not backward. And in the spirit of Eystein, it will be a gathering that emphasizes relationships, intellectual exchange and the path forward, a celebration of a vibrant research community", said Dir. @BCCR Kikki Kleiven

UiB Rector Margareth Hagen with warm speech to Eystein Jansen

Eystein Jansen and Margareth hagen

Professor Eystein Jansen is certainly worth celebrating!

As Professor Eystein Jansen now turns 73 and becomes Professor Emeritus, the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, the Institute of Earth Science, and the University of Bergen hosted a grand 🧪 celebration in his honor

Multi-model isotope simulations reveal a unified picture of Earth’s… An international research team has completed the first fully standardized comparison of isotope-enabled climate models, demonstrating that a multi-model…

An international research team has completed the first fully standardized comparison of isotope-enabled climate models, demonstrating that a multi-model ensemble provides the most accurate representation of the present-day global water cycle.🧪🌊

bjerknes.uib.no/en/news/mult...

A Nordic Perspective on AMOC Tipping This report is the outcome of the Nordic Council of Minister’s sponsored workshop arranged in October 21-24, 2025 in Helsinki and Rovaniemi, Finland as part of Finland’s council presidency theme resil...

💡 A new Nordic report highlights the potential impacts of AMOC tipping and calls for stronger mitigation, monitoring and preparedness.

The report reviews the current state of science on the impacts of a potential AMOC collapse 🧪🌊

pub.norden.org/temanord2026...

What if farmers had seen it coming? The retrospective potential of extended-range forecasts in managing the 2018 drought in Norwegian agriculture Climate variability and extreme weather events pose substantial challenges to global agriculture, threatening food security and self-sufficiency. In N…

What if farmers had seen it coming?

The 2018 drought in Norway starkly highlighted the sector’s vulnerability to climate risks. This study investigates the potential benefits of extended-range forecasts, which were not available to farmers during the drought.🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

First-year sea ice history in the Arctic Ocean inferred from ancient DNA of Polerella glacialis over the past 50,000 years

Sea ice is a crucial component of the climate system. In this study, they use several high‑resolution methods to reconstruct past sea ice conditions from an Arctic sediment core.

They aim to improve understanding of how sea ice has changed over time 🧪🌊

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Remineralisation changes dominate oxygen variability in the North Atlantic Abstract. Oxygen is fundamental to ocean biogeochemical processes, with deoxygenation potentially reducing biodiversity, and disrupting biogeochemical cycles. In recent decades, the global ocean oxyge...

Oxygen is essential to marine life, but the amount of oxygen in the ocean has been decreasing in recent decades. This decrease is underestimated in numerical ocean models by as much as 50 %. 🧪🌊

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Limited global effect of climate-Greenland ice sheet coupling in NorESM2 under a high-emission scenario Abstract. The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate due to the warming climate. In order to understand the potentially important ice-climate feedback processes, evolving ice sheets ne...

The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate due to the warming climate. In order to understand the potentially important ice-climate feedback processes, evolving ice sheets need to be included in global climate models. 🧪🌊

esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...