Øystein Varpe

Arctic geese in newly colonised, colder breeding areas have higher spring body mass and breed earlier relative to the onset of spring Moving to colder areas allows arctic geese to reduce the negative effects of climate change (trophic mismatch), but this comes at a price for parents as they face harsher nesting conditions (snow cov...

Hi. Colonizing colder Arctic zones enables pink-footed geese to realign breeding with spring onset, yet demands greater parental body reserves. Climate change drives and facilitates this shift, producing heterogeneous effects across individuals depending on their physiological quality 🌎

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.

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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

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!

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

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

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...

Biomolecular profiles of Arctic sea-ice diatoms highlight the role of under-ice light in cellular energy allocation Abstract. Arctic sea-ice diatoms fuel polar marine food webs as they emerge from winter darkness into spring. Through their photosynthetic activity they ma

Biomolecular profiles of Arctic Sea-ice diatoms highlight the role of under-ice light in cellular energy allocation
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Seasonal environmental transitions and metabolic plasticity in a sea-ice alga from an individual cell perspective - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Seasonal environmental transitions and metabolic plasticity in a sea-ice alga from an individual cell perspective

Seasonal environmental transitions and metabolic plasticity in a sea-ice alga from an individual cell perspective perspective
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Spatio-temporal dynamics in microalgal communities in Arctic land-fast sea ice
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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:

Axel Thorenfeldt; Kystfugler Salgsutstilling hos Grev Wedels Plass Auksjoner 24. - 30. april

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

Nuuk, Greenland (Grønland) 26/27 March 2025. #Arctic #ClimateNarratives

And a bit more on the Arctic Station: arktiskstation.ku.dk/english/

JD Vance to accompany wife on Greenland trip Greenland's leaders have criticised planned visits by US officials after Trump's threats to annex the island.

The intended BBC link: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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

The study is a follow-up on Nadja´s master project, which led to this article:
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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

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....

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

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"

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...

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

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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

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

Thanks. Have just entered Bluesky and would happily join

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