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Laura Dietrich
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Postdoc on water isotopes, snow surfaces, ice cores, paleo-climate, Greenland Ice Sheet, modelling; at Geophysical Institute and Bjerknes Centre in Bergen, Norway.
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Laura Dietrich @lauradietrich.bsky.social · Mar 17
📚 New paper alert! 🧵
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🧪 We present a unique dataset of 465 (!) in situ measurements of the #water_isotopes in vapor up to 1500m above the #Greenland Ice Sheet.

🌍 We demonstrate the use of water isotope profiles to reveal gaps in climate model physics.
Picture of a measurement site on the Greenland Ice Sheet. In the foreground is a fixed‐wing uncrewed aerial system (UAS), looking like a small, light plane with a wing span of 3 m. The UAS is prepared for take-off on a launching system with a high pressure flask that is filled with air through a connected compressor. In the background are white, heated measurement cabin and a turbulence measurement system (eddy covariance) that is connected with a thick bundle of cables to the cabin.
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xabidavila.bsky.social
New paper alert 🚨 🌊

The Southern Ocean and the Arctic are freshening. In our new paper we link, for the first time, such freshening to sea ice decline through salinity and stable oxygen isotopes observations and machine learning techniques.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Freshwater Sources in the Global Ocean Through Salinity‐δ18O Relationships: A Machine Learning Solution to a Water Mass Problem
This study quantifies meteoric water and sea ice meltwater in the ocean freshwater budget by estimating multiple freshwater endmembers δ18O shows that Antarctic bottom water has significantly fre...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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haraldsodemann.bsky.social
Finally, our unique dataset of combined water isotope and aerosol/INP observations from the ISLAS2021 field experiment at Andenes has been made public in the pangeaa database! Thanks to all who contributed, and stay tuned for the ISLAS2021 data paper! @erc.europa.eu
doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANG...
ISLAS2021: Calibrated stable water isotope measurements and aerosol measurements at the coast of northern Norway during March 2021
Sodemann, Harald; Seidl, Andrew Walter; Thurnherr, Iris; Dekhtyareva, Alena; David, Robert Oscar; Carlsen, Tim; Chandler, David M; Schäfer, Britta; Gjelsvik, Astrid Bragstad; Touzeau, Alexandra; Zanno...
doi.pangaea.de
September 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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bjerknes.uib.no
Good news for the Gulf Stream! A study from @unibergen.bsky.social, the Bjerknes Centre and @ox.ac.uk indicates that the Arctic Ocean compensates for less deep water formation farther south. @mariusarthun.bsky.social @ailinbrakstad.bsky.social @jakobdoerr.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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instaar.bsky.social
Want to collect air with drones? Check out a "tools of the trade" article in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com by Kevin Rozmiarek www.nature.com/articles/s43...

He & his fellow grad students were encouraged to write about their work by Nature editor Graham Simpkins, who visited INSTAAR this Spring 🙏🏽
Collecting atmospheric air with drones - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Kevin Rozmiarek describes how samples of water-vapour isotopes obtained by drones can be used to explore the dynamics of the hydrological cycle.
www.nature.com
July 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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frediotto.bsky.social
Without our continued burning of fossil fuels, the current heat in London & most of the UK would not have been a heatwave: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Heatwaves are dangerous. Drink water, lots of it, stay cool, even if you feel invincible, you're probably not.
Two foxes in dry grass in early morning sun in London's Burgess Park
June 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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rahmstorf.bsky.social
Wer zieht die Strippen hinter Trump und Vance, und was ist sein Plan?
Sehr wichtiger und hervorragend gemachter Podcast vom Deutschlandfunk, den jeder kennen sollte:
www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-peter-th...
Die Peter Thiel Story
Peter Thiel ist der Strippenzieher hinter dem kulturellen Rechtsruck in den USA und einer der wichtigsten Unterstützer von Donald Trump. Mit Paypal und Facebook ist er reich geworden. Das ist die Gesc...
www.deutschlandfunk.de
June 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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gunnarmy.bsky.social
Happy to share our paper in ‪@science.org‬ 'Observed trend in Earth energy imbalance may provide a constraint for low climate sensitivity models' | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Observed trend in Earth energy imbalance may provide a constraint for low climate sensitivity models
Climate forcings by greenhouse gases and aerosols cause an imbalance at the top of the atmosphere between the net incoming solar radiation and outgoing longwave radiation from Earth. This Earth energy...
www.science.org
June 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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juliusgarbe.github.io
🚨📢 New Publication Alert

Our new study shows that the #WestAntarctic #IceSheet repeatedly crossed #TippingPoint thresholds in the past, with important implications for its future stability.

Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌊🧊⚒️🧪🥼
Scientists say next few years vital to securing the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
03.06.2025 – Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four metres of global sea level rise to play out ove...
www.pik-potsdam.de
June 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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bjerknes.uib.no
🧪 🎉 🎓 We are celebrating Dr. Inès Ollivier today - successfully defending her thesis "“Impact of Surface Processes on the Antarctic Water Isotope Climate Signal"
Here with supervisor, Professor Hans Christian Steen-Larsen.
May 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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instaar.bsky.social
👏🏽 Congrats to ADAM ODORISIO & KEVIN ROZMIAREK! They're the winners of this year's INSTAAR Graduate Student Community Awards.

See their commendations & our other INSTAAR award winners www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...
Adam Odorisio poses with his INSTAAR community award. Gifford Miller presents an INSTAAR graduate student community award to Kevin Rozmiarek.
May 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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heleneocean.bsky.social
🌊 Interested in a phd position in physical oceanography? Try beautiful Bergen! tinyurl.com/Phd-oceanogr...
May 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
lauradietrich.bsky.social
Au revoir Paris! 🥐 Three inspiring workshop days at #LSCE and a great start for the #ISOSAM team to do a French-Norwegian comparison of our #stablewaterisotope modelling efforts in polar #snow ❄️🧊

#NFR #AURORA 🇳🇴 #CampusFrance 🇫🇷
@lsce-ipsl.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Sonja Wahl from @unibergen.bsky.social giving a crash course on the #d-excess in our lecture series on #stablewaterisotopes at #ITP in #Beijing.

#CAS #ANSO-fellowship
April 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
lauradietrich.bsky.social
My magnificent colleague Sonja Wahl kicking off the lecture series we will give on #stablewaterisotopes at the Institute for Tibetan Plateau Research #ITP. 🧪

Big thanks to our host Prof. Jing Gao during our ANSO visiting fellowship Chinese Academy of Science #CAS in #Beijing! 🙏
April 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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haraldsodemann.bsky.social
Assembling the #ISOSCAN sampling kit @bjerknes.uib.no
Box for pickup of complete kits Organising collection Assembling the pouches and instructions
April 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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bjerknes.uib.no
🧪 There is an available position as a postdoc at NORCE in paleo climate modelling in Bergen.

❄️ The focus is on investigating the Arctic region during past warm climates using NorESM, and is part of the ERC granted @i2b-erc.bsky.social

Read more and apply here 👇
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral researcher in paleo climate modelling (278253) | NORCE
Job title: Postdoctoral researcher in paleo climate modelling (278253), Employer: NORCE, Deadline: Friday, May 2, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
April 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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instaar.bsky.social
🧊 New ice core study of the last ice age by Chloe Brashear, Tyler Jones et al. suggests abrupt warming events were preceded by periods of unusually stable temperatures. Shifting sea ice is a potential driver of the phenomenon.

Read our story: www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...
Thawing the mysteries of ancient climate changes
A new study from Chloe Brashear, Tyler Jones and others suggests abrupt warming events were preceded by periods of unusually stable temperatures during the last
www.colorado.edu
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
lauradietrich.bsky.social
Great news in tricky times for climate and environment! 🌱

Scandinavia's largest public transport operator #Nobina teams up with #STABL_Energy to reuse old e-bus batteries for energy storage 🔋♻️ shorturl.at/CiADb

And my brother is one of the four epic #STABL co-founders! 🤩👏
stabl.com #proudsister
Nobina wants to use decommissioned electric bus batteries for second-life storage - electrive.com
Scandinavia's largest public transport operator Nobina has entered into a strategic partnership with the Munich-based company STABL Energy. The aim is to
shorturl.at
March 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
lauradietrich.bsky.social
Let me share a picture of marvelous #Jostedalsbreen on today's #WorldDayForGlaciers. 💫

#Norway is rich in glaciers and ice caps, but their number is likely to reduce by 98% by the end of the 21st century. 👇🧵

Are Norway's #fossifuels truly a source of wealth or rather a threat to it? #ClimateAction
The picture shows a mountaineous Norwegian landscape with steep and jagged mountain tops on an overcast day. There's almost no vegetation apart from a bit of moss and the ground. The foreground shows a scree field and side ice patches of glacier Skålabreen are visible. The picture shows the view from the top of Mt Skåla towards glacier Jostedalsbreen. A branch of Jostedalsbreen, Ramnefjellsbreen, hangs on top of Mt Ramnefjell. The picture is taken in August 2024, thus all snow has melted and it's branches and cracked ice eges are nicely visible. The glaciers fingers reach down a steep wall of Ramnefjell which ends in lake Lovatnet that has a magnificent turqoise color. In the background rises the vast, smoothly shaped expanse of the main part of Jostedalsbreen. The scenary looks very majestetic as it combines the stunning view of steep and rough mountains, glaciers, turquoise waters, and a heterogeneous cloudy sky with deep contrasts.
March 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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thirstygecko.bsky.social
We have a new paper now online in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a group of amazing ECR coauthors reviewing methods and applications of (offline) paleoclimate data assimilation and looking toward the future www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Advances in Paleoclimate Data Assimilation | Annual Reviews
Reconstructions of past climates in both time and space provide important insight into the range and rate of change within the climate system. However, producing a coherent global picture of past clim...
www.annualreviews.org
March 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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instaar.bsky.social
👏🏽 Congrats to grad student KEVIN ROZMIAREK & his int'l research team, for their first-of-its-kind data & analysis of atmospheric water-vapor isotopes above an ice sheet!

Their work has implications for vapor transport, ice cores, & more. Read this thread from coauthor Laura Dietrich (U of Bergen)👇🏽
lauradietrich.bsky.social Laura Dietrich @lauradietrich.bsky.social · Mar 17
📚 New paper alert! 🧵
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🧪 We present a unique dataset of 465 (!) in situ measurements of the #water_isotopes in vapor up to 1500m above the #Greenland Ice Sheet.

🌍 We demonstrate the use of water isotope profiles to reveal gaps in climate model physics.
Picture of a measurement site on the Greenland Ice Sheet. In the foreground is a fixed‐wing uncrewed aerial system (UAS), looking like a small, light plane with a wing span of 3 m. The UAS is prepared for take-off on a launching system with a high pressure flask that is filled with air through a connected compressor. In the background are white, heated measurement cabin and a turbulence measurement system (eddy covariance) that is connected with a thick bundle of cables to the cabin.
March 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
lauradietrich.bsky.social
📚 New paper alert! 🧵
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🧪 We present a unique dataset of 465 (!) in situ measurements of the #water_isotopes in vapor up to 1500m above the #Greenland Ice Sheet.

🌍 We demonstrate the use of water isotope profiles to reveal gaps in climate model physics.
Picture of a measurement site on the Greenland Ice Sheet. In the foreground is a fixed‐wing uncrewed aerial system (UAS), looking like a small, light plane with a wing span of 3 m. The UAS is prepared for take-off on a launching system with a high pressure flask that is filled with air through a connected compressor. In the background are white, heated measurement cabin and a turbulence measurement system (eddy covariance) that is connected with a thick bundle of cables to the cabin.
March 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
lauradietrich.bsky.social
📣 New preprint out for discussion! 🤓
egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
We demonstrate that the eddy covariance method is reliable for measuring #turbulence over the #Greenland Ice Sheet in summer!


Huge shout out to @idahaven.bsky.social for leading this paper!


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March 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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valmasdel.bsky.social
Unprecedented attack on science

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
lauradietrich.bsky.social
#standupforscience ✊
Science needs reliable support and protection!
March 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM