Aug 2024: Interview zu den Rekord-Meerestemperaturen und deren Auswirkungen [Link]
Aug 2024: Opinion pieace on the environmental impacts of deep sea mining [Link]
Aug 2024: Starting my new role as full professor and deputy head of the division for Climate and Environmental Physics and University of Bern
May 2024: A few thoughts on shipping emissions reduction impacts on recrod warm temperatures [Link]
Apr 2024: Provided a talk at the CMIP Seminar series [Link]
Apr 2024: Ein paar Einschätzungen zum neuen Klimabericht zu Europa [Link1] [Link2]
Apr 2024: Eine Replik der Wissenschaft zum Urteil der Klimaseniorinnen [Link]
Mar 2024: A few thoughts on the recnet potential regime shift in Antarctic sea ice extent [Link][Link]
Mar 2024: A few thoughts on the AMOC in SNSF Horizonte magazine [Link]
Feb 2024: Two open PhD positions in my group: 1) Earth system modeling with a focus on adaptive scenarios; 2) Modeling ocean carbon removal and
sequestration
Jan 2024: New paper on historical and future maximum sea surface temperatures [Link]
Jan 2024: Radio SRF interview about record high temperatures in 2023 [Link]
Dez 2023: Mega marine heatwaves: a conversation for the AtlantECO podcast [Link]
Dez 2023: Ten new insights in climate science has been published [Link]
Dez 2023: Das sind die Klimafakten 2023 - Interview for UniAktuell Bern [Link]
Dez 2023: Interview at Blue News about COP28 [Link]
Nov 2023: Some thoughts on the new climat state report 2023 and COP28 on Tagesschau Swiss Television [Link]
Nov 2023: New review paper on the zero emissions commitment [Link]
Nov 2023: Providing a lecture on 'Der Nordatlantik hat Fieber' at Volkshochschule Zürich [Link]
Nov 2023: New report on the impact of climate change on Indonesia's fisheries and coastal communities [Link]
Oct 2023: New paper suggesting that Southern Ocean NPP is potentially predictabe seven to ten years in advance [Link]
Oct 2023: New paper on the irreversible loss in marine ecosystem habitability after a temperature overshoot [Link]
Oct 2023: New paper on the key role of compound events for low fish biomass events in the global ocean [Link]
Oct 2023: Interview in Le Temps about the record high ocean temperatures [pdf]
Sep 2023: Die Ozeane im Hitzestress - Ein Bericht in der Republik [Link]
Sep 2023: we helped the European Court of Human Rights by evaluating climate risks for older women in Switzerland and turning them into legal terms. Insights and
six takeaways published in a comment by Nature [Link]
Sep 2023: New statement featured by WMO and WCRP on the current widespread extent of marine heatwaves [Link].
Aug 2023: I will start my new role as a full professor at the Climate and Environmental Physics Division of the University of Bern in August 2024.
Oct 2022: Der Meer im hohen Norden versauert. Interview for SRF Wissenschaftsmagazin [Link]
Sep 2022: Provided keynote lecture at 5th SFCNS Congress [Link]
Sep 2022: New partnership with Oliver Heer and the Polar Institute including ETH and Uni Lausanne to collect environmental data during the 2024 Vendée Globe Campaign. [Link English][Report in German]
Sep 2022: New paper on the ocean carbon sink, where we show that the simulated historical global ocean carbon sink by Earth system models is 10% larger than previously thought. [Link][Nature research highlight]
Jan 2022: New paper outlining the knowledge gaps in risk management and adaptation for extremes and abrupt changes in climate and ocean [Link]
Jan 2022: Nearly half of countries' shared fish stocks are on the move due to climate change, prompting dispute concerns. New study out in Global Change Biology [Link]
Dez 2021: New perspective paper on ocean biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the Ocean published in Nature [read-only pdf][Press UBern][Press ETHZ]
Dez 2021: Farmed seafood supply at risk if we don't act on climate change. New study out in Global Change Biology [Link]
Nov 2021: Giving a seminar talk at IAC ETHZ
Nov 2021: Delivering Keynote Talk at 3rd ICOS Nordic Symposium [Link]
Nov 2021: Outreach talk for Energie Agentur der Wirtschaft [Link]
Nov 2021: "Vielen ist nicht bewusst wo wir momentan hinsteuern" Interview in BärnerBär newspaper [Link][Full Interview]
Nov 2021: Present at the Physics Colloquium of the University of Bern [Link]
Oct 2021: Published new ScienceBrief Review on marine heatwaves [Link]
Oct 2021: Radio Interview Echo der Zeit about the Nobel Prize 2021 in Physics [Link]
Oct 2021: "Klimawandel beeinträchtigt Fischfang" New article in Tagesanzeiger [pdf]
Oct 2021: Talking at the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE/SARDINE workshop.
Oct 2021: Talking at the DAMOCLES workshop on the use of large ensemble to study compound events in the ocean.
Oct 2021: New paper in Science Advances on the ecological, economic and social implications of marine heatwaves [Link][Medienmitteilung][Press Release]
Sep 2021: Giving keynote talk at the conference on 'Climate Change and sea level rise: Legal consequences from the law of the sea, statehood and affected person perspectives' [Link]
Sep 2021: Giving an invited talk at the general assembly of the H2020 project TRIATLAS on the predictability of marine ecosystem drivers [Link]
Sep 2021: Talking about ocean compound events at the Virtual Open House of the Ocean Nexus Centre [Link] [Video]
Sep 2021: Panel member in session 'Ocean shocks: Key issues for equity and justice' at UN Predicting Ocean event. [Link][Recording]
Sep 2021: A new paper, part of the blue food assessment, shows that compound climate hazards pose high risks to sustainable aquatic food systems [Link]
Aug 2021: Talking at Sozialdiakoniekonferenz [Link]
Aug 2021: New paper published in Global Change Biology lead by Shannon Klein on the impact of marine heatwaves and ocean acidification and warm-water corals [Link].
Aug 2021: IPCC AR6 WGI report has been published. Contributed to Chapter 9 [Link]
July 2021: Giving Keynote at ORCHESTRA, ENOCRE, RoSES annual meeting.
May 2021: New study lead by Tayler Clarke (UBC Vancouver) demonstrates the utilities of the aerobic growth index to study the impacts of ocean warming and deoxygenation on many fishes and
invertebrates [Link]
May 2021: Providing an overview talk on tipping points in the climate system at AWEL Zurich
May 2021: Radio Interview SRF Wissenschaftsmagazin [Link]
April 2021: About my research: Fokus Forschung (45 min; in german) [Link]
April 2021: Contributed to Chapter 9 'Pressures from changes in the climate and atmosphere' of the Second World Ocean Assessment [Link]
April 2021: Was listed on Reuters 'Hot List' of the most influential climate scientists [Link].
April 2021: Presenting at SOEST
Oceanography seminar at U. Hawaii on ocean extreme events and compound events.
April 2021: Talking at Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) about the Gulf Stream and AMOC [Link]
Mar 2021: new paper on compound marine heatwave and low-chlorophyll events over the satellite period [Link]
Feb 2021: Talking at the Oeschger Centre plenary meeting
Feb 2021: Discussing at Science After Noon: Ein Jahr in der Arktis - über die Polarexpedition MOSAIC [Link]
Dec 2020: New co-authored paper in Science Advances examining the costs and benefits of marine spatial planning that prepares for climate-driven shifts in marine species
distributions [Link ]
Nov 2020: New co-author paper in Nature Geosciences on the remaining carbon budget [Link]
Oct 2020: Talking at the IOF Seminar of UBC Vancouver.
Sep 2020: The ocean is losing O2 as temperature rise. We show in a new paper that this trend could change as O2 levels in the ocean's different layers respond in their own ways.
Lay summary.
Sep 2020: Selected by SNSF to present our ocean extremes project at Sciencomm20.
Sep 2020: Our recent work on the impact of the Northeast Pacific 2013-2015 marine heatwave on fisheries has been highlighted by Horizonte - Das Schweizer Forschungsmagazin [Link]
Sep 2020: Many new papers have been published over the summer break. Check it out here.
Jun 2020: Is there warming in the pipeline? New multi-model analysis published about the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO2. [Link]
May 2020: Can we project changes in fish abundance and distribution in response to climate? New paper out in GCB [Link]
Apr 2020: New paper about marine heatwaves: The return of 'The Blob' could intensify climate change impacts on Northeast Pacific fisheries. [Link]
Apr 2020: Can we potentially predict variations in ocean temperature, oxygen, pH or net primary production? Check out our new paper: [Link]
Apr 2020: New paper published showing that in about a third of the global ocean thermocline deoxygenation emerges prior to warming. [Link]
Mar 2020: Giving a virtual seminar for the Zurich Actuarial Society about the IPCC SROCC
Feb 2020: Giving lecture about Climate Change and Facts at FHWN Olten [Link]
Feb 2020: Attended the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 in San Diego. Chairing a session on ocean extremes and prresented recent work on marine heatwaves and potential predictability of marine
ecosystem drivers.
Feb 2020: Presenting remotely marine heatwaves research to students in Pete Raymonds class at Yale University.
Feb 2020: Outreach talk about climate change for Kulturgesellschaft Ebikon [Link]
Jan 2020: Giving lecture about the ocean and their role in the climate system at the Volkshochschule Zürich [Link]
Jan 2020: Interview for Swiss Radio SRF about new record in ocean heat content [Link]
Jan 2020: New paper shows vulnerability of marine mammals to global warming. Published in Scientific Reports [Link]
Jan 2020: Mentioned in the news: Story about the northeast Pacific 2013-2015 marine heatwave and the mass starvation of seabirds[Link]
Dec: Short visual summary on the findings of the IPCC SROCC with emphasis on the Mediterranean Sea [Link]
Dec 2019: Invited speaker at the Ministerial Segment of COP21 to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean (Barcelona
Convention) [Link]
Nov 2019: New paper out in GRL: 27 simulations of 15 GCMs are integrated to near equilibrium. All models simulate a higher equilibrium warming than predicted by using extrapolation methods
[Link].
Nov 2019: New article by the German government featuring our recent papers on ocean acidification [Link]
Nov 2019: In the news: Commenting on the Venice floods in Swiss Television [Link].
Nov 2019: Wrote editorial in Physik unserer Zeit: Kalter Winter und global Erwärmung - ein Widerspruch? [PDF]
Nov 2019: Presenting key findings of IPCC SROCC at University of Bern together with William Cheung [PDF]
Oct 2019: Presenting remotely IPCC SROCC Chapter 6 results to students in Rebecca Ash class at East Carolina University.
Oct 2019: Giving keynote at University of Innsbruck on main findings of IPCC SROCC [Link]
Oct 2019: ZECMIP documentation paper published in GMD [Link]
Oct 2019: Attending Kick-off Meeting of H2020 Project COMFORT in Bergen on tipping points in the ocean
where I am co-leading WP2 on 'Dynamics, extremes, early warning indicators, and reversibility'
Oct 2019: Giving invited talk at 'Estimating the impact of climate change on Living Marine Resources: Sources of and constraints on uncertainties in climate models' workshop at
Bjerkness Centre
Sep 2019: Extended Radio Interview in Echo der Zeit about IPCC SROCC
Sep 2019: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and the Cryosphere in a changing climate has been approved. Was a lead author on chapter 6 about Extremes, Abrupt changes and Managing Risk
[Link].
Interview with Uniaktuell about the upcoming IPCC SROCC [Link]
Aug 2019: When will we observed significant changes in the ocean due to climate change? New paper published in Nature Climate Change [Link][Press Release]
July 2019: New paper on the "mechanisms of millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 change in numerical models simulations" published [Link].
July 2019: THEODOR KOCHER PRIZE: I will be the recipient of the 2019 Theodor Kocher Prize of the University of Bern (more information will become available here)
Nov 2018: Our marine heatwave study highlighted in EOS.
Nov 2018: Speaking at the symposium of the Swiss Society for Meteorology. Here.
Nov 2018: Giving a NOAA webinar about marine heatwaves on Nov. 15. Check out
here.
Nov 2018: Mentioned in the news: Story about ocean heat content changes: BBC
Oct 2018: Mentioned in the news: Story about ocean oxygen decline: Oceana
Sep 2018: Mentioned in the news: Story about coral reefs: Axios
Aug 2018: New paper out in Global Change Biology showing that local actions through effective fisheries management can reduce the probability of those species' extinction risk by as much
as 63 percent [Link][Media release]
August 15 2018: Our marine heatwave paper released in Nature.
We show that marine heatwaves have increased in recent decades and will increase further in terms of frequency, intensity, duration and spatial extent.
Jul 2018: Attending LAM3 of IPCC SROCC in Lanzhou, China.
Jun 2018: Giving a talk at U Liverpool. Thanks Ric for hosting me!
Jun 20 8: New paper coming out soon on 'Opportunities for climate-risk reduction through effective fisheries management'.
Jun 2018: Giving talk at the Nereus Annual Meeting.
Jun 2018: Giving a talk at Princeton University.
Jun 2018: New paper out in ESD showing that sea level, ocean acidification, regional warming and ocean circulation are very different under an overshoot pathway at 2100, despite hitting
the 1.5°C target for surface warming [Link].
Jun 2018: Talking about changes in marine heatwaves under global warming at ECCWO.
Jun 2018: Convening a session about ocean extremes at ECCWO in Washington DC.
May 2018: Giving seminar talk about marine heatwaves at Institute for Geography at UBern [Link]
May 2018: New paper out that shows how global warming may shift the geographic distribution of 686 marine species that inhabit North America's Atlantic and Pacific continental shelves
[Link][Lay Summary1][Lay Summary2][Lay Summary3][Lay
Summary 4]
Apr 2018: Organized WCRP Grand Challenge workshop on carbon-climate feedbacks at University of Bern
Apr 2018 Mentioned in the news: Marine heat waves have become more likely over the past century [carbonbrief.org[
Apr 2018 New paper accepted by James Morley et al. on 'Projecting shifts in thermal habitat for 686 species on the North American continental shelf'.
Feb 2018 New Paper out by Ana Franco contrasting the impact of future CO2 emissions on the extent of acidification in the Humboldt Current System.[LINK]
Feb 2018: Sandra Striegel won 'Young Academics Support' grant from the University of Bern. Congratulations!
Feb 2018 Comment about 'Emerging risks from marine heat waves' published today in Nature Communications. Link
Feb 2018: Attended the IPCC SROCC LAM2 in Quito. Was very exciting!
Jan 2018 New paper out in JGR that quantifies the equilibrium climate sensitivity using multi-millennial simulations of the GFDL models. Link
Nov 2017: New paper submitted showing how the climate system differs when achieving the 1.5°C limit by rapid emissions reductions versus when we overshoot this limit. [Link]
Nov 2017: Presented my OceanX project at the CEP seminar.
Oct 20 7: New paper out about drivers of continued surface warming after stoppage of carbon emissions: Link
Aug 2017: Gave a talk about ocean extremes at ICDC10 in Interlaken.
Aug 20 7: Selected as a lead author on chapter six of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a changing climate: see for details here.
June 20 7: New paper accepted in GRL. We show that hiatus-like decades may occur despite warming of the tropical Pacific and that the global ocean heat uptake tends to slow down
during hiatus decades LINK
May 2016: Markus Hofmann, Portrait: 'Tausend Jahre im Blick': Die Zeit. 4. Mai 2016 [PDF]
April 2016: Our paper by Carter et al. shows that ocean acidification-related alkalinity trends in the ocean can be detected earlier
using salinity-normalized alkalinity.
Mar 20 6: Do CMIP5 models overestimate volcanic-indued cooling after volcanic eruptions? No, according to our new study by Lehner et al.
Mar 2016: Panel member at Jorge Sarmiento's symposium
Feb 2016: New paper out! We explore the skill in projecting the occurrence of exploited species and distribution of observed
fisheries production
Feb 2016: Talking at Ocean Sciences
Meeting in New Orleans about confidence and uncertainty in projections of potential marine ecosystem stressors under climate change.
Jan 20 6: To improve our understanding of future changes in living marine resources and the resulting risk of impacts to ecosystems and societies under changing ocean
conditions, the new study, published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science,synthesize knowledge of how to address different sources of uncertainty by drawing from climate model inter
comparison efforts [Link]
Jan. 16: Good start into the new year! Paper about 'Structural uncertainty in projecting global fisheries catches under climate change' has been accepted for publication in Ecological
Modelling.
Dec 2015: New paper about 'Sources of uncertainties in 21st century projections of potential marine ecosystem stressors' submitted.
Nov 2015: New paper about "Building confidence in projection of the response of living marine resources to climate change" has been accepted for publication in ICES Journal Marine
Science.
Nov 2015: New Southern Ocean heat/carbon CLIVAR newsletter published. Here it is.
Oct 2015: Paper about radiative forcing, ocean heat uptake and climate sensitivity just published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere. Check it out.
Aug 2015: Great Ars Technica article about our recent ERL paper. Thanks Scott Johnson!
Aug 2015: Paper entitled: Sensitivity of radiative forcing, ocean heat uptake and climate feedbacks to changes in anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols" accepted
and online available.
July 2015: Reply to comment to our Physics Today Southern Ocean paper published.
Apr 2014: BEST PAPER AWARD: The paper 'Ongoing global warming after CO2 emissions
stoppage' has received the Best Paper award of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University.