The “Advanced Statistics Training for Climate Research” course took place at the Geophysics Institute at the University of Bergen from 13-16 August, 2018. The course was delivered by Prof. David Stephenson and Dr. Stefan Siegert from the Department of Mathematics…
The Bornö Summer School in Oceanography took place from 30 July to 10 August, 2018, on the island of Storo Bornö, in the Gullmarn Fjord on the west coast of Sweden. The course was part-sponsored by CHESS but was also…
It was again my pleasure to conduct, with Dr. Thomas Spengler, the annual CHESS Advanced Writing Course 25-29 June 2018. This year we had fourteen enrollees, a range of nationalities and scientific disciplines. We successfully confronted the near universal writing…
The second Crash Course on Data Assimilation has been held at NERSC, Bergen from the 22nd to the 25th of May 2018. It was co-organized with Iris, CHESS and the COST action EOS (Evaluation of Ocean Syntheses) and gathered 35…
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…
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,…