Ellen Viste

Photo: Bjørn Damsgård

In residence: March - April 2024

Ellen Viste lives in Bergen, where she works as a communication adviser at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Having a background as a meteorologist and climate researcher, she has also worked extensively with popular science writing on weather and climate. In 2023 she published the book Tales of the wind (Kolombia / Bonnier Norsk Forlag; in Norwegian). She holds a PhD in tropical meteorology from the University of Bergen, previously having studied there and at UNIS in Longyearbyen. Her Master thesis was about the distribution of precipitation on the glacier Austre Brøggerbreen, near Ny-Ålesund. On Svalbard she will explore the topic of temperature and how humans have adapted to life outside the tropics.