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…
The Bornö Summer School took place from July 29—August 9, 2019, on the island of Storo Bornö, in the Gullmarnsfjord on the west coast of Sweden. The school was a collaborative project between the Universities of Copenhagen, Hamburg, Oslo and…
From its origins eight years ago, it has been my pleasure to conduct, with Dr. Thomas Spengler, the annual CHESS Advanced Writing Course. This session, 17—21 June 2019 was no exception. We had eleven enrollees from a wide range of…
From June 3 to June 7, 2019, a dozen graduate students participated in the course “Fundamentals of Ocean/Atmosphere Data Analysis” held at Oslo’s Science Park. Students from four countries took part, with six from Norway, four from Germany, and…
The training course on the theory, analytics and interpretation of stable water isotopes in the coupled Earth System at University of Bergen from 12-14 June 2019 provided an in-depth introduction to understanding the principles and applications of stable water isotopes across different…
The course was held in the Oslo Science Park in week 13 (25-29 March) and week 19 (6-10 May). There were several PhD students attending the course in Oslo, and (for the first time) several following the course remotely (from…
To give CHESS PhDs further guidance about their career choices within and outside academia, we organized the first CHESS Career Development Workshop on 13-14 May. A total of 15 PhDs and 3 postdocs have attended the first day workshop, which…
On 3-8 March, 29 participants and 10 expert lecturers attended a winter school at Kvalheim Fritid on Radøy near Bergen. The attendees came from several different countries and continents and lived in shared cabins and houses at the venue, providing…