Author: Mandy Kong

Report on the Ocean/Atmosphere Time Series Analysis course

The “Ocean/Atmosphere Time Series Analysis: Theory and Practice” course took place during the two weeks of 15-26. October, 2018. The course was taught by oceanographer Jonathan Lilly (Theiss Research, La Jolla, California), and held at the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven,…

ACDC–Summer school 2018 at Finse

During 14 intense days (17-28 September), 23 students and 9 lecturers from worldwide have explored the asymmetries and symmetries in the climate system with prime examples from the oceans, the cryosphere, the atmosphere and the terrestrial domain. The summer school…

CHESS Annual Meeting 2019

SAVE THE DATES! Our coming CHESS Annual Meeting will be held on 13 – 15 March 2019. This time we will meet at the Voksenåsen Kultur og Konferansehotell in Oslo. Our annual meeting is an excellent opportunity for all members…

Bornö Summer School report

The Bornö Summer School in Oceanography took place from 30 July to 10 August, 2018, on the island of Storo Bornö, in the Gullmarn Fjord on the west coast of Sweden. The course was part-sponsored by CHESS but was also…

Science writing workshop with Dallas Murphy

It was again my pleasure to conduct, with Dr. Thomas Spengler, the annual CHESS Advanced Writing Course 25-29 June 2018.  This year we had fourteen enrollees, a range of nationalities and scientific disciplines.  We successfully confronted the near universal writing…

Crash Course on Data Assimilation

The second Crash Course on Data Assimilation has been held at NERSC, Bergen from the 22nd to the 25th of May 2018. It was co-organized with Iris, CHESS and the COST action EOS (Evaluation of Ocean Syntheses) and gathered 35…

Call for CHESS Activities 2018 is open until 5 August!

All PhD students and supervisors affiliated with CHESS are invited to submit proposals for courses, workshops, or summer/winter schools. The total budget of the call this year is 600 kNOK, resulting in 4-6 CHESS activities with 50-150 kNOK each. If…