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Tools and techniques for palaeoclimate reconstruction

There will be a special seminar on palaeoclimate reconstruction which should be of particular relevance for RG6 and RG7 members (but any other members of Bjerknes would also be welcome to attend). There will be two 25 minute talks from two excellent speakers (biographies below):

Eric Grimm (University of Minnesota) - "The Neotoma Paleoecology Database: Community-led Cyberinfrastructure for Global Change Research”
Steve Jackson (Director, South West Climate Science Center, Arizona) - "Do paleoclimate proxies measure paleoclimate?”

BCCR/GFI Seminar: : Stirring of the Deep Western Boundary Current

Speaker: Isabela Le Bras, Affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

BCCR/GFI Seminar:Bias, variability and seasonal forecast in the Tropical Atlantic

Speaker: Chloé Prodhomme Affiliation: Earth Department - Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Bergen Polar Express by the Polar network

On Wednesday May 10, from 11:00 - 12:00 the Polar Network at UiB will have an "Express" overview of recent Polar Research from Bergen. The event is planned in
the new auditorium in the GFI West Wing.

This is a "farewell" present to the new director at the Norwegian Polar Institute - Ole Arve Misund,who has been a member of the network. This is an open event - everybody
is welcome.

Global biogeochemical model optimization - how good can we get, and what does "good" mean?

Speaker: Iris Kriest, Affiliation: GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. Follow link to find abstract.

BCCR/GFI Seminar: : Improving MJO Prediction and Simulation Using AGCM Coupled Ocean Model with Refined Vertical Resolution

Name of speaker: Chia-Ying Tu.Affiliation: Research Center of Environmental Change, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

BCCR/GFI Seminar: Variability and pathways of Denmark Strait overflow water in subpolar North Atlantic

Name of speaker: Erik Behrens. Affiliation: NIWA, National Center for Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand

Seminar: Lev Tarasov; Using models and paleo data to make confident inferences about the past instead of about the models

Using models and paleo data to make confident inferences about the past instead of about the models: some ideas, issues, and discussion. (with emphasis on group discussion)

BCCR/GFI Seminar: From Bergen via Cologne to the Arctic

Speaker: Erlend Moster Knudsen, Affiliation: University of Cologne / Pole to Paris

BCCR/GFI Seminar: Autosubmit: a versatile tool for managing Earth System Models on HPC platforms

Speaker: Domingo Manubes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

BCCR/GFI Seminar: Foehn flows and ice shelf melt in the Antartic Peninsula

Name: Ian Renfrew Affiliation: University of East Anglia

Nansen Guest Lecture: “A low carbon Research Vessel with robotic capabilities”

Nansen Guest Lecture by Dr. John Van Leer, RSMAS, University of Miami, USA.

Official opening of the west wing

Offical opening of the renovated west wing by prime minister Erna Solberg. Sign up via the link.

Nansen Guest Lecture by Fiamma Straneo: Greenland Ice Sheet/Ocean Interactions: the ocean as a driver and a receiver

Fiamma Straneo is Senior Scientist in the Physical Oceanography Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She studies the high latitude North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and their interaction with the atmosphere, sea-ice and the Greenland Ice Sheet