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In the latest episode of the Bjerknes Podcast, experts debate the future of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a crucial component of the global climate system. Listen to colleagues discussing the AMOC in a measured and thoughtful manner.  There is an ongoing debate among scientists regarding the potential collapse or slowdown of the AMOC. Both scientific support and contrasting views can be found among colleagues at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. In this new episode of the Bjerknes Climate Podcast, host Stephen Outten discusses these two viewpoints with Andreas Born and Marius Årthun. 

Eivind Heldaas Seland og Kikki Kleiven har skrevet bok om klimahistorie. Her forteller de om middelalderens varmeperiode, om temperaturfallet under den lille istiden og om hvordan klimakriser har skapt både stagnasjon og nye idéer. Eivind Heldaas Seland er professor i historie ved Universitetet i Bergen. Kikki Kleiven er direktør ved Bjerknessenteret for klimaforskning og førsteamanuensis ved Universitetet i Bergen.

Phd-student Edson Silva at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center is talking with our host Stephen Outten, Senior researcher at the Nansen center, about one of the newest tools in our predicting arsenal, an algae bloom predictor. Trained on the coast of north Norway, it can be a great support for managing our costs, but it can be retrained for usage anywhere. Support and editing by Ingjald Pilskog, associate professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

In Bergen mid-March, the climate festival Varmere, våtere, villere (Warmer, wetter, wilder) filled three floors in Bergen over three days, for talks and debates on climate change and necessary solutions. Devyn Remme, PhD Candidate, at the Center for Climate and Energy Transition (CET), University of Bergen, works in research of the social and environmental consequences of the transition to electric cars from a global perspective. At the festival she was in the "Around the World with Climate Science" to talk about her research and experience as a climate researcher. She joins host Ingjald Pilskot in the festival podcast booth.

In Bergen mid-March, the climate festival Varmere, våtere, villere (Warmer, wetter, wilder) filled three floors in Bergen over three days, for talks and debates on climate change and necessary solutions. Vandhna Kumar, postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Institute (GFI) and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate research, is from Fiji, and works in the OceanStates project at the University of Bergen. At the festival she was in the "Around the World with Climate Science" to talk about her experiences from climate change in Fiji, and motivated her to become a climate scientist. She joins host Ingjald Pilskot in the festival podcast booth.

Oxygen is important for the living creatures in the deep ocean. When global oceans warm, some processes lead to less oxygen in the deep. This somewhat scary trend is what Rachael Sanders investigate in her work in the project O2Ocean. In Bergen, mid-March, the climate festival Varmere, våtere, villere (Warmer, wetter, wilder) filled a 3-floored house in Bergen over three days, for talks and debates on climate change and necessary solutions. Rachael Sanders, postdoctoral fellow at NORCE and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research was at stage with a talk on the breathing ocean and the oxygen situation in the world oceans today. As the global oceans warms, there are processes driving change in the ocean interior. As we know warmer water can hold less gas, the ocean takes up less oxygen from the surface. We also know, that the oceans warms, it get more stratified, and not so much waters – with fresh oxygen is transported into the deep ocean. – In this project, I look at trends within climate change. This is ver

Professor Eystein Jansen is one of the founders of the Bjerknes centre for climate research. His field, paleoclimate, is vital to understand how earths climate has changed and is still changing. By studying the past, we have been able to do good predictions of how we humans affect the climate we have now, and the future climate. Our host Stephen Outten is from the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and our co-host Ingjald Pilskog is from the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Inès Ollivier spent a year in Antarctica where she tended instruments that gives us an understanding on how snow accumulates into the massive ice sheet that we know as the Antarctic. Now she is well into her first year as a PhD-student in the EU-funded DEEPICE project. In this project they studies proxies in deep ice cores to understand the past climate dynamics in Antarctica. Inès Ollivier is a PhD-student at the Geophysical institute, UoB, and a Bjerknes Centre researcher. Learn about her work together with our host Stephen Outten from Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and co-host Ingjald Pilskog from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Anton Korosov works with observations and models to predict sea ice.

From Curacao to Havana: A first-hand experience of causes, consequences and solutions to climate change. Kerim Nisancioglu, professor at the University of Bergen and research leader at the Bjerknes Centre, speaks about the three-week cross-disciplinary course during the One Ocean Expedition.

Danielle Grant is a PhD-student that hunts ancient DNA under the sea ice in the Arctic. As part of the EU-funded AGENSI project Grant is working on understanding the past variability of sea ice in the Arctic by finding fossile DNA in the sediments on the ocean floor north of Svalbard. Learn about her work together with our host Stephen Outten from Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and co-host Ingjald Pilskog from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Hva er egentlig en merd og hva er koblingen mellom fisk og klima? Du får svaret i studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Forsker ved Bjerknessenteret og Havforskningsinstituttet Frode Vikebø, fiskehelsestudent Anna Nygård Johansen og havbrukstudent Christina Ingdal Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Hva er CO2, og hvordan kan vi fange og lagre CO2? Og hjelper det egentlig mot global oppvarming? Hør mer i studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Forsker ved UiB Martin Fernø og fysikkstudent Anne-Line Sørberg Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag  

Hva er forskjellen på vær og klima og hvor lenge har vi visst at global oppvarming er en greie? Du får svaret i studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Forsker ved Bjerknessenteret og UiB Helge Drange og energistudentene Ida Louise Mortensen og Ann Louise Egelandsdal Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Hva er fortidsklima og hva kan det si oss om klimaet i fremtiden, eller i dag? Hør mer i denne episoden av studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Direktør for Bjerknessenteret for klimaforskning Kikki Kleiven og geostudentene Stine Gregersen og Natalie Blindheim Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Hva har matematikk med klima å gjøre, og hva er klimarisiko? Det får du svaret på i denne episoden av studentpodden #RealfagUiB, en serie på fem podcaster hvor UiB-studenter stiller klimaspørsmål til klimaforskere. Medvirkende: Forsker ved Bjerknessenteret og NORCE, Marie Pontoppidan og matematikkstudent Johanne Holmøy. Lenke til nettsted: https://www.uib.no/realfag

Kristin Richter, researcher at Norce and the Bjerknes Centre, is looking into the deepwater in the North-Atlantic ocean. With Argo floats and other observation they have found that there is lacking watermasses traveling southwards in the deep ocean. Here you can listen to this research and get to know Kristin Richter and the research she is doing together with her colleagues. 

Jenny Hagen, a young PhD candidate at Geophysical Institute and the Bjerknes Centre, is working with taking flood prediction the next step by introducing artificial intelligence. In this podcast she explain how they can speed up and improve flood prediction, even in a changing climate, by letting the machine learn from historical data. Stephen Outten is a researcher at Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Ingjald Pilskog is an associated professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and connected to the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.

Most people has a good relationship with forests and the uncontrolled logging around the world is taking its toll on both the wildlife, but also the climate. It stand to reason that letting the forests grow and claim land should be unconditionally positive for the planet, but as often it is not so simple. Priscilla Mooney, a researcher at NORCE and the Bjerknes centre, talks to our host Stephen Outten and co-host and producer Ingjald Pilskog about the consequences of both the destruction of the forests and the unexpected costs of letting the forests claim the higher latitudes and planting new forests without a proper understanding of the effects.