I couldn`t believe it was really happening: an in-person Summer School during Covid-19 times. Yes, international lecturers had to be cancelled, flights were rescheduled and room sharing and seating arrangements were meticulously planned to allow distancing, but we pulled it…
The ninth annual CHESS Advanced Writing Course, 15—17 June 2020, was far from typical. COVID-19 forced us to conduct the workshop remotely. I deeply missed my visit to Bergen and the Institute, normally a highpoint of my year. The…
From May 11 to May 15, 2020, eighteen graduate students participated in the course “Fundamentals of Ocean/Atmosphere Data Analysis” held via Zoom. Students from four countries took part, with thirteen students from Norway, three from Italy, and one each…
From the 28th to 31st of January 2020, 18 doctoral and masters students came together in Bergen for a four day course on creating scientific illustrations with Pina Kingman, MScBMC. In this introductory course, students learnt the fundamentals of graphic…
The Nansen Tutu TRIATLAS Summer School on Ocean, Climate and Marine Ecosystem was held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, during 14-21 January, 2020. We brought together 28 Master and PhD students and early career researchers from physical…
The CHESS course “Writing successful project proposals” was held from 13-14 November 2019. A total of 15 participants joined the course. The main objective of the course was to enable early-career climate scientists to successfully apply for external funding of…
The third course on climate science at high latitudes: “eScience for linking Arctic measurements and modeling” was successfully held at Abisko Scientific Research Station 15–24th of October 2019. The main topic of the course was on aerosols in the Arctic,…
For two intense weeks (22 Sept-4 Oct 2019), 25 students and 9 lecturers from around the world gathered in the small town of Wawona, in the wild forest of Yosemite National Park to discuss climate science as part of the…
The “Advanced Statistics Training for Climate Research” course took place at the Geophysics Institute at the University of Bergen from the 19 to 22 August, 2019. The course was delivered by Prof. David Stephenson and Dr. Stefan Siegert from the…
From 22nd July to 2nd August, two whole weeks of courses on Data Assimilation and its various applications in forecasting, risk assessment and decision-making were given at the University of Timișoara, Romania. A total of no less than 20 speakers…