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…
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ACDC summer school – 10 year anniversary
Read more here: https://www.bjerknes.uib.no/en/article/acdc-summer-school-10-year-anniversary
Successful CHESS Annual Meeting 2019 at Voksenåsen!
Our CHESS Annual Meeting from 13 – 15 March 2019 was successfully concluded at the splendid Voksenåsen Hotel in Oslo. The meeting was attended by 53 participants including the five International Evaluation Board members. It was well balanced with 30 PhD…
Report on Python programming course for climate scientists
From 23rd-25th of January, 21 students attended a Python course for climate scientists in the Bjerknes auditorium at Jahnebakken 5 in Bergen. The course was taught by Clemens Spensberger (an atmospheric scientist) and Albin Severinsson (a computer science PhD student),…
Improve your writing with SciSnack
SciSnack (previously ClimateSnack) is an international and inter-disciplinary community sponsored by CHESS where early career scientists interact in order to improve their writing and communication skills. Over 7 years, SciSnack has published over 160 snacks (blog posts) posted by 90…
Congratulations to the supervisors and PhDs who were granted funding from CHESS!
9 out of a total of 14 submitted proposals during this year’s Call for CHESS activities were granted funding. The successful supervisors and PhD candidates will carry out their proposed activities within 2019. Want to find out what activities will…
Invitation to our Annual Meeting 2019
All CHESS members are warmly invited to our Annual Meeting 2019, which will take place on 13-15 March at Voksenåsen Kultur og Konferansehotell in Oslo. The meeting is an excellent opportunity for all members to get together for scientific discussions,…
“Writing successful project proposal” course report -2018
The CHESS course “Writing successful project proposals” was held from 21st to 22nd November 2018. A total of 14 participants and 2 observers joined the course. The observers were research advisors from the Institute of Physics and the UIB Central Administration…
Scientific Writing Course with Daniel Soule – 2018
On 22nd to 24th October 2018, doctoral students came together at the University of Bergen’s Geophysical Institute for an interactive three-day scientific writing workshop with Dr. Daniel Soule. The course considered all aspects of writing a scientific paper, from style,…
Report from the second Nordic course on e-science tools for climate research
Our second 10-day course on e-science tools for climate research has successfully been held at the Andøya Space Center in northern Norway ( 22nd of October – 2nd of November 2018). The course ”Climate science at high latitudes: Modeling and…