Before Easter 15 phd-students from 10 different nationalities participated in an Arctic field course organized by the CHESS research school. The course was held at the Danish arctic research station on Disko Island, located on the west coast of…
We concluded our annual CHESS All Staff Meeting from 14 – 16 March at the hotel on the “Summer Island” (Sommarøy) with great success. The 3-day meeting was attended by a historic record number of 67 participants, consisting of 44…
26 PhD students, among them 8 from CHESS, gathered at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Bergen for a 3-day Science Communication course. The course was organized the first time by the Norwegian Research School network. This network consists…
The CHESS course “Writing successful project proposals” was held from 20th to 21st November 2017. A total of 14 participants and 3 observers joined the course. The observers were research advisors from the Medical Faculty and the UIB Central Administration…
19 doctoral students gathered at the University of Bergen’s Geophysical Institute for an interactive three-day (23-25 October) scientific writing workshop with Dr. Daniel Soule. The course took a holistic approach to research writing, considering not only the demands of scientific style, structure and editing,…
Congratulations to the four supervisors who had submitted their proposals for Call for CHESS activities 2017. Want to find out what courses will be offered? Read more.
The CHESS Land Surface Modeling course was held 2-6 October in Bergen. Total of 11 students mostly from Bergen and Oslo and 9 guest lecturers joined the course. The main objective of the course was to educate and train theories…
During the period 10-22. September 25 students and 10 lecturers travelled to Rondvassbu in Norway to join this years Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses (ACDC). The purpose of the summer school was to explore the role of the seasonal cycle…
The Bornö Summer School in Oceanography took place from July 31—August 11, 2017, on the island of Storo Bornö, in the Gullmarn Fjord on the west coast of Sweden. The school, sponsored by CHESS, was a collaborative project between the…
The “Advanced Statistics Training for Climate Research” course, organised by CHESS, took place at the Geophysics Institute at the University of Bergen from 22-25 August, 2017. The course was delivered by Prof. David Stephenson and Dr. Stefan Siegert from the…