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  • New paper on global ocean compound events under global warming [Link]
  • New paper on compound events in the equatorial and South Atlantic [Link]
  • New paper showing that record sea surface temperature jump in 2023/24 unlikely but not unexpected [Link]
  • New paper on the long-term impacts of global temperature stabilization and overshoot on exploited marine species [Link]
  • Carte Blanche über Deep-Sea Mining [Link]
  • New paper on emissions pathways, remaining budgets, and carbon cycle dynamics compatible with 1.5°C and 2°C global warming stabilization [Link]
  • New paper on marine heatwave impacts on sea-air CO2 fluxes [Link]
  • New paper on baselines in marine heatwave research [Link]
  • New review paper on marine heatwaves [Link]
  • Diskussion an der Oper unterm Dach - Bühnen Bern: Vom Untergang und der Hoffnung [Link]
  • Grosse Recherche zum Ozean und dessen Bedeutung im Magazin des Tagesanzeigers mit ein paar persönlichen Einschätzungen [Link]
  • New paper on persistent high latitude temperatures and sea level after temporary temperature overshoots [Link]
  • New paper on science priorites for improved Earth system change understanding [Link]
  • Podcast Beitrag: Heisszeit im Meer: Was sind die Folgen [Link]
  • A few thoughts on Hurrican Milton at SRF Tagesschau [Link]
  • New paper on overconfidence in temperature overshoot [Link]
  • Gastbeitrag zum Ozean: Was wäre wenn? [Link]
  • 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. 
  • Aug 2023: Short appearance in NANO [Link]
  • Aug 2023: New paper in Nature on the limited impact of bottom marine heatwaves on demersal fishes [Link]
  • Aug 2023: New paper out quantifying the drivers of surface ocean acidity extremes [Link]
  • Aug 2023: Portrait by the Swiss National Science Foundation [Deutsch][English][French]
  • Aug 2023: Explainer on the unprecedented ocean warming in summer 2023 [Deutsch] [English]
  • Aug 2023: New paper out showing that solar radiation mangement can not prevent the demise of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet [Link][Press release D E]
  • Aug 2023: Interview in wetter.de: Warum die hohen Meerestemperaturen katastrophal sind [Link]
  • July 2023: SRF4 Radio Interview on recent record SSTs in Mediterranean Sea [Link]
  • July 2023: Interview on recent record temperatures [Link]
  • July 2023: New paper on the anthropogenic attribution of the increasing seasonal amplitude in surface ocean pCO2 [Link]
  • July 2023: Article in die Wochenzeitung on marine heatwaves and fisheries [Link]
  • June 2023: Appearance on Swiss National TV talking about ENSO and record temperatures [Link]
  • June 2023: New report on the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining [Link]
  • June 2023: New paper on the impact of warming and deoxygenation on global marine species [Link]
  • June 2023: Article in Schweiz am Sonntag on North Atlantic heatwaves [Link]
  • June 2023: Interview on the recent global SST record [Link]
  • June 2023: Radio Interview on the environmental impacts of deep-sea mining [Link]
  • May 2023: Interview for Hessischer Rundfunk TV about ocean warming and compound event [Link]
  • May 2023: Interview about ocean compound extremes in Spektrum der Wissenschaft [pdf]
  • May 2023: SRF4 Radio Interview [Link]
  • May 2023: Morgengast beim SRF1 Radio zu der Rekordhitze in den Welmeeren [Link]
  • May 2023: Will be talking at the Pint of Science Festival in Bern [Link]
  • May 2023: Some quotes on the record global SST in die Wochenzeitung [pdf]
  • Apr 2023: Echo der ZEIT SRF Interview über die Rekordwärme in den Weltmeeren [Link]
  • Apr 2023: Some quotes on the recent global record in sea surface temperature in Le Mond [Link]
  • Mar 2023: Contributed to third party intervention for the European Court of Human Rights [Link] 
  • Mar 2023: New review paper on the use of satellite data to understand the ocean carbon cycle [Link]
  • Feb 2023: New paper on the role of TCRE and non-CO2 GHGs for future ocean acidification [Link]
  • Jan 2023: Presenting at CEP symposium on key knowledge gaps in ocean science.
  • Dec 2022: New paper shows that even small positive emissions may maintain zero warming [Link]
  • Dec 2022: New paper on hotspots and drivers of compound marine heatwaves and low net primary production extremes [Link]
  • Dec 2022: New paper describing a reliable tool for the emissions path to achieving the Paris temperature goal. [Link] [Press release german][Press release english]
  • 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]
  • Aug 2022: New paper on compound marine heatwaves and ocean acidity extremes published in Nature Communications [Link][Press release german][Press release english]
  • July 2022: Europas Meere in Gefahr: ARD Europamagazin Spezial inklusive Beitrag zu meiner Arbeit [Link]
  • July 2022: SRF4 Radio Interview about "Das Mittelmeer ist zu warm" 
  • July 2022: Severe heatwave in Mediterranean Sea for 70 days, mass mortalities in marine life expected 
  • July 2022: Interview in bluewin.ch [Link]
  • June 2022: Interview about marine heatwaves for NDR Wissen [Link]
  • June 2022: Attending the COMFORT GA
  • May 2022: Deliver invited talk on marine heatwaves at ocean decade co-design workshop.
  • May 2022: Presented the H2020 COMFORT findings in the policy brief as part of a policy event organized by EU [Link]
  • May 2022: Presenting at the Living Planet Symposium in Bonn.
  • May 2022: SRF Radio interview about 'Warum Klimaforschenden das Lachen nicht vergeht' [Link]
  • May 2022: New paper published on the local drivers of marine heatwaves in the global ocean [Link]
  • May 2022: Giving 'Festvortrag der Preisträger des Theodor Kocher Preis'
  • May 2022: Invited by the Parlament for the Dialog: "Trendwende Klima und Biodiversität" [Link][Report]
  • Apr 2022: Delivering Keynote at LCS [Link]
  • Apr 2022: Giving a seminar at ICCP Busan [Link]
  • Apr 2022: Talk at AtlantECO GA meeting
  • Apr 2022: Discussing my research with Daniel Probst in podcast 'Interessant' [Link]
  • Apr 2022: Giving seminar at Memorial University [Link]
  • Feb 2022: New study shows that severe lake heatwaves are directly linked to human-induced global warming [Link] [Press]
  • Feb 2022: Talking at ESA's ocean carbon from space workshop [Link]
  • Feb 2022: Talking at Jamin John's farewell symposium
  • Feb 2022: Giving seminar at NASA GMAO [Link]
  • Feb 2022: Giving symposium talk at GEOMAR
  • 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: TV Interview RTS in 19h30 [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: New paper in Sciences Advances on the Southern Ocean carbon sink.
  • April 2021: Radio Interview SRF3 on the World Ocean Assessment Report II [Link]
  • April 2021: Giving solicited talk at https://www.srf.ch/play/radio/wissenschaftsmagazin/audio/magic-mushrooms-gegen-depressionen?id=b683136d-dec5-46c9-a017-6f1c15fdee02&startTime=1159EGU 2021 on 'Emergent constrains on the Southern  Ocean anthropogenic carbon uptake'
  • 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: Two new papers on ocean extremes: (1) High impact marine heatwaves are attributable go global warming. (2) Ocean acidity extremes strongly increase under increasing atmospheric CO2.
  • Sep 2020: Talking about measuring ocean temperatures at Swiss Radio.
  • Sep 2020: Will be talking at the Young Physicist Forum.
  • 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 2019: Recipient of the Theodor Kocher Prize of University of Bern
  • 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 an outreach talk for UNIC AG.
  • 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: Interview with FAZ [Link]
  • 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]
  • Sep 2019: Talking at Rendez-vous Science [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)
  • July 2019: Going to speak at Innolab [Link]
  • June 2019: New ZECMIP documentation paper published in GMDD [Link]
  • May 2019: My recent AMS 2019 presentation about marine heatwaves highlighted in the March issue of BAMS [pdf]
  • May 2019: Giving a seminar at the Evolutionary Biology Institut of the University of Basel.
  • April 2019: Giving three outreach talks for Egger Holzbau, Kiwanis Solothurn and CVP Schlierbach
  • April 2019: Sitting on a panel to discuss proposal writing organized by EURESEARCH.
  • April 2019: Wrote a short summary/commentary about a recent paleo Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation study. Published today in Atlantico.fr.
  • April 2019: Mentioned in the news: Das passiert durch die Erderwärmung im Ozean [WDR/quarks.de]
  • April 2019: Two talks at EGU on Monday 16:15 and on Thursday 17:00.
  • March 2019: Talking about predictability of marine ecosystem drivers at C4MIP workshop in Barcelona
  • March 2019: Talking about marine heatwave at the CMIP6 analysis workshop.
  • March 2019: Talking about ocean under stress at Physik am Freitag at University of Bern.
  • March 2019: Talking about Climate Change to the Swiss Engineering Society in Baden.
  • March 2019: Attending the LAM4 of the IPCC SROCC in Kazan, Russia.
  • Jan 2019: New feature article in Science highlights our marine heatwave study
  • Jan 2019: Participating at expert workshop on remaining carbon budgets
  • Jan 2019: Presenting latest marine heatwave work at AMS 2019 and UBC Vancouver.
  • Nov 2018: Talking about climate change and the oceans at Berufsbildungszentrum Olten.
  • Nov 2018: Interview in Zeitung D'Region [pdf]
  • 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.
  • Full access (read only): here
  • Nature podcast (starts at 06:28): here
  • Nature News: here
  • Media release University of Bern: English, Deutsch 
  • Media coverage: Tagesanzeiger, Blick, SDA, NYTIMES, PHYS.ORG, Earther, Carbonbrief, AXIOS, Le Parisien, Correio Brasiliense, Klimareporter, Forbes, and others.
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