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),…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
All supervisor and student members are invited to propose an activity for our community. If you carry an idea for a course, a workshop or a summer/winter school with a topic relevant to CHESS PhD students, and would like to…
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…