The “Advanced Statistics Training for Climate Research” course took place at the Geophysics Institute at the University of Bergen from 26-29 October 2021. The course was delivered by Prof. David Stephenson and Dr. Stefan Siegert from the Department of Mathematics…
While it is possible to directly measure parameters related to the climate of today, we cannot do so for the past. In order to reconstruct paleoclimate, we rely on multiple different methods to indirectly investigate past conditions. One tool in…
CHESS is training the climate scientists of tomorrow, iEarth is changing teaching culture in Norwegian geosciences. Naturally, PhD students from both centers have a lot to talk about, and that they are coming at it from different angles makes it…
2nd Call for CHESS Activities is open now! All PhD students and supervisors affiliated with CHESS are invited to submit proposals for courses, workshops, or summer/winter schools. The budget of the call is 650 kNOK, resulting in 4-6 CHESS activities…
The CHESS course “Integral projection models (IPM): From population ecology to climate change studies” was held from Monday 30th of August to Friday 3rd of September 2021 in a semi-virtual and in-person format. There was a total of 4 main…
As part of the One Ocean field course which is co-sponsored by CHESS, a series of open seminars will be organized. All seminars will be on zoom starting at 16:00 CET (4 pm Bergen time) and last for 45 min,…
To my disappointment, we had to meet remotely again this year; I miss Bergen and the fine people at the Institute. Eleven students joined the workshop, submitting papers in a wide range of scientific disciplines. We read and discussed each…
The CHESS Annual Meeting 2021 from 7-9 June was successfully concluded. This was the second time we had the meeting in hybrid format, combining remote access with regional hubs in Bergen, Oslo, and Tromsø for local participants to meet physically.…
Last Friday, nearly 30 Bjerknes-PhD students met in Nygårdsparken and scared away the rain. For more than two years now, Sonja, Elina, and Maaike have run the PhD Forum with great motivation and commitment – but time has come for…
Congratulations to our supervisors who will get funding from CHESS for their proposed activities! We received 6 proposals for the 1st “Call for CHESS Activities” and 5 of them were successful. Two proposed activities will be carried out this year…