Øystein Varpe
@oysteinvarpe.bsky.social
Biologist, ecology & evolution
Professor, University of Bergen
adaptations to seasonality; ecological interactions; ocean-coast-land; polar & high-latitude ecosystems; natural history
Also with NINA & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Professor, University of Bergen
adaptations to seasonality; ecological interactions; ocean-coast-land; polar & high-latitude ecosystems; natural history
Also with NINA & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
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Fargerik økologi og biologi på Nordvestlandet. Har sett slike blodraude dammar sjølv, bare litt lenger sør, på øya Frøya i Bremanger. Rock pool Haematococcus algae
Fargerik økologi og biologi på Nordvestlandet. Har sett slike blodraude dammar sjølv, bare litt lenger sør, på øya Frøya i Bremanger. Rock pool Haematococcus algae
Dette er årsaka til at gåtefullt tjern i Stad skiftar farge
Det går frå sitrongult, grønt til blodraudt. No har forskarar funne svaret på kvifor. – Ein litt morosam kuriositet.
www.nrk.no
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Fargerik økologi og biologi på Nordvestlandet. Har sett slike blodraude dammar sjølv, bare litt lenger sør, på øya Frøya i Bremanger. Rock pool Haematococcus algae
Fargerik økologi og biologi på Nordvestlandet. Har sett slike blodraude dammar sjølv, bare litt lenger sør, på øya Frøya i Bremanger. Rock pool Haematococcus algae
Kudos to the university library in Oslo. Forbodne bøker. Ytringsfridom. Freedom of speech. #BannedBooksWeek
October 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Kudos to the university library in Oslo. Forbodne bøker. Ytringsfridom. Freedom of speech. #BannedBooksWeek
Same procedure as every autumn term, kicking it of with field course at #Espegrend, our UiB field station. BIO102 Basic Ecology and Field Methods. Keen students!
August 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Same procedure as every autumn term, kicking it of with field course at #Espegrend, our UiB field station. BIO102 Basic Ecology and Field Methods. Keen students!
Visited Runde again today. The Northern Gannets, with their long breeding season, are still around. Decent number of recruits as far as I could judge through the binoculars. Morus bassanus, havsule.
August 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Visited Runde again today. The Northern Gannets, with their long breeding season, are still around. Decent number of recruits as far as I could judge through the binoculars. Morus bassanus, havsule.
One year jubilee for this rocky shore experiment. @catiamonteiro.bsky.social and @biointeractproj.bsky.social visiting the Bergen site. Treated with a generous low tide. Ascophyllum removal and responses across latitudes. #Seasonality #Espegrend
May 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
One year jubilee for this rocky shore experiment. @catiamonteiro.bsky.social and @biointeractproj.bsky.social visiting the Bergen site. Treated with a generous low tide. Ascophyllum removal and responses across latitudes. #Seasonality #Espegrend
Come and work with us here in wonderful Bergen. Two PhD positions in marine evolutionary ecology. Theoretical Ecology Group, BIO, UiB www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhD Research Fellow (two positions) in marine evolutionary ecology (281140) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD Research Fellow (two positions) in marine evolutionary ecology (281140), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2025
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May 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Come and work with us here in wonderful Bergen. Two PhD positions in marine evolutionary ecology. Theoretical Ecology Group, BIO, UiB www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Rebecca Duncan @polarbecologist.bsky.social presented at UNIS (Svalbard) today - on her super fascinating PhD work, competed last year. Sea ice ecosystems, fjords, light, seasonality and ice algae. Some of her papers in posts below:
May 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Rebecca Duncan @polarbecologist.bsky.social presented at UNIS (Svalbard) today - on her super fascinating PhD work, competed last year. Sea ice ecosystems, fjords, light, seasonality and ice algae. Some of her papers in posts below:
In Oslo after Easter? Go see these paintings by Axel Thorenfeldt. #Kystfugler #Seabirds #CoastalEcology - gwpa.no/nb/om-oss/ak...
Axel Thorenfeldt; Kystfugler
Salgsutstilling hos Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner 24. - 30. april
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April 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
In Oslo after Easter? Go see these paintings by Axel Thorenfeldt. #Kystfugler #Seabirds #CoastalEcology - gwpa.no/nb/om-oss/ak...
View from and towards Arctic Station. Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland. Stranded icebergs and some newly formed and snow covered sea ice. 30 March 2025 #Arctic #ClimateNarratives
March 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
View from and towards Arctic Station. Qeqertarsuaq, Disko Island, Greenland. Stranded icebergs and some newly formed and snow covered sea ice. 30 March 2025 #Arctic #ClimateNarratives
Nuuk, Greenland (Grønland) 26/27 March 2025. #Arctic #ClimateNarratives
March 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Nuuk, Greenland (Grønland) 26/27 March 2025. #Arctic #ClimateNarratives
While others “check on the island’s security” www.bbc.com/news/article... we are heading over to check on the marine ecosystem - in close collaboration with locals and dear Danish colleagues. Nuuk today. Soon at Arctic Station, Qeqertarsuaq. #ClimateNarratives Photo shows 2023 conditions
March 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
While others “check on the island’s security” www.bbc.com/news/article... we are heading over to check on the marine ecosystem - in close collaboration with locals and dear Danish colleagues. Nuuk today. Soon at Arctic Station, Qeqertarsuaq. #ClimateNarratives Photo shows 2023 conditions
Predation experiment ongoing - part of Nadja Meister´s exciting PhD project. We checked the cages yesterday. Dogwhelks preying on blue mussels in the intertidal, near our field station #Espegrend. Mytilus edulis and Nucella lapillus
March 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Predation experiment ongoing - part of Nadja Meister´s exciting PhD project. We checked the cages yesterday. Dogwhelks preying on blue mussels in the intertidal, near our field station #Espegrend. Mytilus edulis and Nucella lapillus
Reposted by Øystein Varpe
We're getting some cracking photo submissions to the Gulls Eating Stuff project! Here are a few showing gulls predating a coot chick, a vole, a mole (!) and a GBBG that has just killed an adult moorhen. Keep 'em coming! Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul....
March 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We're getting some cracking photo submissions to the Gulls Eating Stuff project! Here are a few showing gulls predating a coot chick, a vole, a mole (!) and a GBBG that has just killed an adult moorhen. Keep 'em coming! Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul....
Reposted by Øystein Varpe
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
We have tried to look into the future. @mariusarthun.bsky.social led the efforts. Several from @bjerknes.bsky.social contributed. Frida Cnossen essential in creating the elegant illustrations (e.g. Fig2 below). Barents Sea. Arctic. Sea Ice. Nansen Legacy. doi.org/10.1525/elem...
February 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We have tried to look into the future. @mariusarthun.bsky.social led the efforts. Several from @bjerknes.bsky.social contributed. Frida Cnossen essential in creating the elegant illustrations (e.g. Fig2 below). Barents Sea. Arctic. Sea Ice. Nansen Legacy. doi.org/10.1525/elem...
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New paper: The future Barents Sea-A synthesis of physical, biogeochemical, and ecological changes toward 2050 and 2100
Very nice interdisiplinary Nansen Legacy effort, including @jakobdoerr.bsky.social @islarsh.bsky.social @khuongdinh.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/elem...
Very nice interdisiplinary Nansen Legacy effort, including @jakobdoerr.bsky.social @islarsh.bsky.social @khuongdinh.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/elem...
The future Barents Sea—A synthesis of physical, biogeochemical, and ecological changes toward 2050 and 2100
The Barents Sea is a hotspot for ongoing Arctic climate change, manifested in a rapid warming of the ocean and the atmosphere and a strong decline of the winter sea-ice cover. These changes in the phy...
doi.org
February 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New paper: The future Barents Sea-A synthesis of physical, biogeochemical, and ecological changes toward 2050 and 2100
Very nice interdisiplinary Nansen Legacy effort, including @jakobdoerr.bsky.social @islarsh.bsky.social @khuongdinh.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/elem...
Very nice interdisiplinary Nansen Legacy effort, including @jakobdoerr.bsky.social @islarsh.bsky.social @khuongdinh.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1525/elem...
Springtime in south-facing parts of Western Norway. Vipera berus basking in the sun. -7C the night before. #microclimate #phenology ; hoggorm
February 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Springtime in south-facing parts of Western Norway. Vipera berus basking in the sun. -7C the night before. #microclimate #phenology ; hoggorm
Good to see the university bookshop here in Bergen featuring the Arctic. Lot´s of exciting titles
February 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Good to see the university bookshop here in Bergen featuring the Arctic. Lot´s of exciting titles
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Knotted wrack Ascophyllum nodosum is called “grisetang” (“pig wrack”) in Norwegian 🐷🌱Channelled wrack, Pelvetia canaliculata, is called “sauetang” («sheep wrack») 🐑🌱 This indicates the historic importance of rockweeds as animal feed. The picture: sheep feeding on “pig wrack” 🌱🐷🐑🌱 #PhycologyFriday
February 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Knotted wrack Ascophyllum nodosum is called “grisetang” (“pig wrack”) in Norwegian 🐷🌱Channelled wrack, Pelvetia canaliculata, is called “sauetang” («sheep wrack») 🐑🌱 This indicates the historic importance of rockweeds as animal feed. The picture: sheep feeding on “pig wrack” 🌱🐷🐑🌱 #PhycologyFriday
Splendid keynote by Jonas Hentati-Sundberg. Clever approaches, exciting findings, and deep motivation to understand how seabirds interact with their marine environment
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Splendid keynote by Jonas Hentati-Sundberg. Clever approaches, exciting findings, and deep motivation to understand how seabirds interact with their marine environment
Backstage at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, part of Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025. Amazing tour of the skin collections
February 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Backstage at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, part of Swedish Oikos Meeting 2025. Amazing tour of the skin collections