Laura Dietrich
@lauradietrich.bsky.social
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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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📚 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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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
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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
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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
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🧪 🎉 🎓 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.
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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.
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🌊 Interested in a phd position in physical oceanography? Try beautiful Bergen! tinyurl.com/Phd-oceanogr...
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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
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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
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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! 🙏
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Assembling the #ISOSCAN sampling kit @bjerknes.uib.no
Box for pickup of complete kits Organising collection Assembling the pouches and instructions
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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
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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
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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
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Thanks for a stimulating exchange with #GlacierScientist @bekkz.bsky.social, who is investigating the sensitivity of #Folgefonna to #climatechange in her doctoral thesis. 🤓 Folgefonna is Norway's third largest glacier.
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Compagno et al. (2021) project that the Scandinavian glaciers will lose at least 67 ± 18%, but possibly 90 ± 7%
of their present-day volume, dependent on how much CO2 we emit until 2100. 🧊💧
doi.org/10.1017/jog.... 🧪
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📚 There's a new preprint by Henning Åkesson and peers that looks at the future evolution of Jostedalsbreen. Being the largest ice cap in Europe, Jostedalsbreen is more resilient than many smaller glaciers, but strong melting will likely split it into three parts.💔
doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-467🧪
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High-resolution satellite imagery allowed Andreassen et al. (2022) (doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.20) to map and count Norwegian glaciers more precisely. They estimate the current glacier area to be 2328 ± 70 km2, but their extent is rapidly shrinking (Nesje 2023, doi.org/10.1177/09596836231183069) 🏔️🧪
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Nesje et al. (2008) estimated that about 98% of the Norwegian glaciers will likely melt by the end of the 21st century, from 1627 glaciers to only 27, with a decrease in area to roughly one-third. 🧪
doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.08.004
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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.
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