It was again my pleasure to conduct the eleventh iteration of the annual Science Writing Workshop. With the assistance of generous volunteer faculty scientists, we read and discussed each of the twelve participants’ abstracts, introductions, and concluding matter. We devoted…
The CHESS workshop “From idea to project: Writing successful project proposals” was held on 1. – 2. June 2023. A total of 12 participants joined the workshop, coming from the universities of Bergen and Oslo. The main objective of the…
From May 8–12, 2023, eight students gathered at the University of Oslo to participate in “Fundamentals of Ocean/Atmosphere Data Analysis.” There were students from Oslo, Bergen, and Tromsø, as well as visitors from Gothenburg, the Netherlands, and London. Participants learned…
From the 29th to the 31st of May, 12 students from all over Norway gathered at GFI Bergen for a 3-day course on illustration for science. The course aimed to help the students become more effective at communicating their research…
20 students from 12 countries have been exploring different ways to monitor the cryosphere in the Semi-Arid Andes of Chile. This is an area where up to 80% of the streamflow is derived from the cryosphere, and has also…
The 6th course on “eScience tools in climate science: linking observations with modelling” was held from 31.10.-11.11.2022 in Tjärnö, Marine Laboratory, Sweden with 17 students from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Canada, South Africa and Australia. The course was held with…
From the 25th September to 1st October, the “TRIATLAS – TAPIOCA – CANEMS – UFPE Summer School and Workshop on the functioning of Tropical and South Atlantic marine ecosystems – from physics to top predators and fisheries” took place in…
Over the last week of September, the participants of the workshop did not only have the chance to experience Bergen’s proud meteorological palette, ranging from mild summer to stormy autumn – but also investigated the climate crisis…
The 2022 edition of the Advanced Climate Dynamics Course—more conveniently referred to as the ACDC summer school—was held between the 4th and the 16th of September in Rondane National Park, in the heart of the Norwegian mountains. The summer school…
The “Advanced Statistics Training for Climate Research” course took place at the Geophysics Institute at the University of Bergen from the 13-16 September 2022. The short course was delivered by…