Meet our young scientists

Here we will present some of our young talents.

Geofysisk Institutt, detalj.Copyright UiB.

Geophysical Institute, view towards the west wing.

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At the Institute we have research activity within four research groups, one in meteorology, one in climate dynamics and two in oceanography - chemical and physical oceanography.

Here we will present some of our young talents.

Models nutrients in the ocean

Algae do not live long, and the nutrient content of the water can change quickly. If you want to predict the primary production in the Barents Sea one or ten years ahead, it is more important to know the current conditions of temperature ocean currents, than the nutrient content in the ocean here...

Cold winters natural despite warming climate

When Svetlana Sorokina’s mother calls from Siberia and complains about the cold, Svetlana knows one thing: It has probably been unusually warm in the Arctic

The entire ocean in three boxes

Sometimes things are so complicated that you're forced to think simple. Erwin Lambert is an expert at that. With a few, plain boxes he tries to calculate how a rainy future will influence Atlantic currents.

Marius Årthun in an ice-free environment, at Corsica

A decade ahead

What if we could predict how much sea ice there will be in the Nordic Seas in two years? Or twenty? In the gap between ordinary weather forecasts and climate projections, there is a dialog between the ocean and the atmosphere. Without understanding how they interact, we cannot predict variations in...

Warm water governs winter ice

North Pole explorers send summer photos of melt water pools and cracks that become harder and harder to cross. If they had winter expeditions, they would see that ice covers as much of the Arctic Ocean as in the past. Only the Barents Sea and the region just north of Svalbard have lost winter ice.

Carina Bringedal, post doctor at UiB and Bjerknessenteret

Driven by the wind

The Gulf Stream transports warm water towards Northern Europe. This flow is driven by northward flows replacing water that sink in the Norwegian Sea, but also by the wind blowing over the sea. In some regions, the wind can be the strongest driver. Carina Bringedal studies the role of the winds at...

23.11.2018