Bente Lilja Bye:
Landsat 8 launch - important Earth observation event!
Landsat 8 launch - important Earth observation event!
Snakes in space
Another big earthquake generates a tsunami in the Pacific. Facts and numbers + animation and other resources.
Stylish Saturn - A seldom image taken by the Cassini-Huygens satellite where Saturn is backlit by the Sun, revealing new details about this gorgeous planet.
Quasars are fab'
Algeria - 'Land of Terror' - here you can learn more about the geography of this troubled North-African land. We just experienced a terror attack on one of our Norwegian oil fields in the middle of the Saharan desert.
Orion Bullets - as sharp as you ever have seen them! A side-effect of star birth in the Orion Nebula.
This is an exquisite collection of Earth observation (satellite images) from 2012. Enjoy!
30% of the Earth surface is covered by forests. There are many different kinds of forests and what may look like a rainforest to an untrained and ignorant eye just isnt... :-)
Our Global Capacity To Observe Earth 窶" Too Much Or Too Little?
How about valsing into work again - after Easter vacation? Well, Sarah-Erin can help you do that...:-)
Nice Jupiter and Venus picture!
Mesmerized by the sky! Lost her mind. hehe
A wonderful performance by Sarah-Erin Bye playing Prokofiev, Violin Sonata No 2. :-)
Watch this video and learn about the idea behind the Climate & Classical performance I and violinist Sarah-Erin have created.
More about Climate & Classical here: http://www.klimaogklassisk.no
Merry Christmas! I am very often in San Francisco just before Christmas and the way they prepare the holidays there has sort of become a tradition for me as well. The last part of this video shows SF in its Christmas dress...:-)
The charming Dr. Evi Nomikou talks about her discovery of volcanic vents close to the Greek island Santorini - where she actually comes from. :-)
I do care about my planet - but one could argue that humans as a whole do not in fact care since we fail to act. It is just an observation and a matter of fact.
Or is it this simple? I'm not sure, to be honest. And this is one of my concerns - there is no room for uncertainty or doubts in the discussions about climate change.
I'm in San Francisco with 'a couple' of other scientists....:-)
Extreme Geohazards - what are they?
An introduction to the Fantastic Four: earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis.