During June 20–24, four graduate students and a postdoctoral researcher from around Norway took part in the weeklong intensive “Fundamentals of Ocean/Atmosphere Data Analysis” with instructor Jonathan Lilly from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. Participants learned simple yet…
We met in person, and it was delightful. This, our 13th annual writing workshop, was over-booked, and so expanded to two weeks, 7-17 June, with some 19 participants. With long experience conducting these workshops in Bergen and elsewhere, I don’t…
The CHESS Lagrangian modelling course took place at the University of Bergen from 07th to 10th of June 2022. PhD students and early career researchers working in the fields of oceanography, environmental and atmospheric sciences from Tromsø, Oslo and Bergen…
In the first week of May, 31 international Ph.D. students in polar climate science got the opportunity to learn about atmosphere-ice-ocean interaction and experience the polar climate on Svalbard. Due to the diversity of lecturers in this winter school, both…
The CHESS workshop “Writing successful project proposals” was held from 2-3 May 2022 at GFI/Bjerknessenter in Bergen. A total of 17 participants joined the workshop. The main objective of the course was to enable early-career climate scientists to successfully apply…
The 20th of April, 14 students and a lecture team took the train to Finse to spend a week at the Alpine Research Center for the IceFinse course. Here they practised glacier safety and got an introduction to glaciological field…
In March, 16 PhD students of UiB, UiT and UiO attended a 5-day course on scientific illustration taught by Pina Kingman at GFI in Bergen. We studied design principles, color theory and the use of illustration software such as Adobe…
In the month of November 2021 around 30 students and lecturers attended the ACDC/CHESS One Ocean field course in the Caribbean onboard the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl. Our voyage started in Curaçao with a stop in Jamaica and ended in…
With the present-day remarkable computing speeds used in the Earth system models and super-sensitive measurement techniques for collecting observational data, it is the need of the hour to combine both these in a way that they complement and improve each…
The “Advanced Statistics Training for Climate Research” course took place at the Geophysics Institute at the University of Bergen from 26-29 October 2021. The course was delivered by Prof. David Stephenson and Dr. Stefan Siegert from the Department of Mathematics…