Category: News

Bornö Summer School report

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…

Science writing workshop with Dallas Murphy

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…

Crash Course on Data Assimilation

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…

Call for CHESS Activities 2018 is open until 5 August!

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…

Arctic Glacier Field Course on Disko Island

  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…

Science Communication course report

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…

“Writing successful project proposal” course report

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…

Report on Scientific Writing Course with Daniel Soule

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,…