Researcher Willem van der Bilt was surprised that the results of a project on storminess in a less icy Arctic showed the opposite of what was expected. 

By delving into the ancient fossil of pollen preserved in the lake sediments of Kerguelen Islands, Maaike Zwier and her co-authors reconstructed the natural variability of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds for the last almost 12 000 years. The interest in pollen came back home. 

After a field trip to Kerguelen around Christmas time in 2019, several research studies have emerged. Talin Tuestad and Jarle Børve Sleire from the Department of Earth Science at UiB and the Bjerknes Centre have been working with moraines and sediment cores from the island.

What does one keep around when looking back at a long career? We celebrate Professor Emeritus John Inge Svendsen.

Nele Meckler looks for climate answers in tiny droplets hidden in dripstones in tropical caves. The European Research Council supports her with the prestigous ERC Consolidator Grant.

Exceptionally large export of sea ice through the 1300 might have triggered the onset of the Little Ice Age. Such abnormal behaviour might happen "out of the blue" from internal variability within the climate system, Martin Miles and colleagues suggests in a new study. 


Unormalt store mengder sjøis i drift sørover i byrjinga av 1300-tallet kan ha satt i gang den vesle istida, og viser eit nytt studie. Tilfeldige og spontane klimaendringar kan vere grunnen til at det kom så mykje is – som igjen sette i gang mange hundre år med kulde i Europa.