Author: Mandy Kong

Bjerknes PhD forum summer barbeque

In what has become tradition, the Bjerknes PhD forum gathered one last time before the summer holidays for a nice barbeque. With more than 25 fellow PhDs, we met in the GFI garden, recapped the last year, welcomed new students…

short report for the data analysis course 2022

During June 20–24, four graduate students and a postdoctoral researcher from around Norway took part in the weeklong intensive “Fundamentals of Ocean/Atmosphere Data Analysis” with instructor Jonathan Lilly from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. Participants learned simple yet…

CHESS Science-Writing Course Report 2022

We met in person, and it was delightful. This, our 13th annual writing workshop, was over-booked, and so expanded to two weeks, 7-17 June, with some 19 participants. With long experience conducting these workshops in Bergen and elsewhere, I don’t…

Report on “CHESS Lagrangian modelling course”

The CHESS Lagrangian modelling course took place at the University of Bergen from 07th to 10th of June 2022. PhD students and early career researchers working in the fields of oceanography, environmental and atmospheric sciences from Tromsø, Oslo and Bergen…

“Writing successful project proposal” workshop report

The CHESS workshop “Writing successful project proposals” was held from 2-3 May 2022 at GFI/Bjerknessenter in Bergen. A total of 17 participants joined the workshop. The main objective of the course was to enable early-career climate scientists to successfully apply…

Snow, sun and shovels – Ice Finse field course

The 20th of April, 14 students and a lecture team took the train to Finse to spend a week at the Alpine Research Center for the IceFinse course. Here they practised glacier safety and got an introduction to glaciological field…