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This year's Golden Owl for the Department of Environmental Systems Science goes to Kris McNeill. Every year the students decide who is given this award to honour lecturers of each department for their excellent teaching ablilties.  

Marine heatwaves can irreversibly damage ecosystems and, therefore, also present a threat to fishing. As a team led by physicist Thomas Frölicher from Bern showed in a study just published in the journal Nature, the number of marine heatwaves has increased dramatically in past decades. This trend will further intensify as a result of climate change.