Understanding climate
for the benefit of society

Glacier lecture
Being a Bjerknes member gives you various opportunities, like giving a glacier lecture to high school students. Photo: Ellen Viste

 

Essential information for members of the
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

This page will give you a short overview of our services for you, our collaborational activities, opportunities, your obligations and how you can contribute to the community.
 

More information on the BCCR organisational boards and history is to be found in the "about us" section.
 

For logo and templates - find them here 

 “The aim of the Bjerknes Centre is to understand climate for the benefit of society”

We are a research collaboration investigating our Earth's climate system

The Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research gather climate researchers from four partners: 

  • Institute of Marine research (IMR)
  • Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC)
  • NORCE Climate (NORCE)
  • University of Bergen (UiB)

The four partners have agreed to: 

  1. Build robust academic communities and research groups of high standards through common strategic processes.
  2. Be competitive in national and international application arenas.
  3. Be an important provider of research based climate knowledge for the benefit of society.

Our strategic goals for the next four years:

  1. Deepen are excellence in climate research
  2. Engaging and communicating with society
  3. Secure structural and organizational sustainability

Please find our  Five Year Strategy Plan 2022-2026 here

On this site, please scroll down to find information on: 

  • Partner info and Strategy Plan
  • Research themes 
  • Strategic & Synthesis projects 
  • Fast track Initiatives
  • Bjerknes Visiting Fellows
  • Modelling activities
  • Phd. Forum and Early Career Forum
  • Bjerknes Climate Data Centre
  • Outreach and Communication 
  • Rights and Obligations as a Bjerknes member
  • BCCR in publications
  • logo and templates (located on top of this paragraph) 

 

Smiling Bjerknes members and Vilhelm Bjerknes himself

 

 

 

The research theme - where you can collaborate on your research

 

The research themes are the place to go for discussions and updates from ongoing research by your fellow bjerknesians. 

 

The members in the theme might come from another department or institute, or discipline, and can hopefully give valuable new insights to your own research. Many of the themes have sub-groups for more specific research interests. 

 

The theme groups gather approx every 2. month, except from the global theme who are mainly organized through sub-groups. 

 

oversikt over fire forskningstema

 

Group photo of research leaders at Bjerknes

 

What happens in the Bjerknes Community?

Funding supporting collaboration 

 

The success of the Bjerknes Centre comes from the struggle to get people to know each other across disciplines and institutions. To acheive this goal, we have several programs, strategic projects and an administration. 

 

Today, our activities are partially funded by a grant to the Centre for Climate Dynamics (SKD) from the Ministry of Education and Research for the period 2010-2026. 

 

If you stumble over the abbreviation SKD, (like "the SKD strategic projects") it mainly refers to our funding!

 

The funding goes through the UiB, our host institution. This is why the UiB is the employer of our director, the four theme leaders and the administration. 

 

The funding is shared among our four institutions and the funding for BCCR strategic projects, collaborational acitivities and administration.


Bjerknes Centre members together with the prime minister
We have members from around 40 nations. Here are some of them together with the Norwegian prime minister, Erna Solberg, in 2017. Photo: Paul Amundsen

 

 

The crosscutting activities 

 

In addition to our four research themes, we have four crosscutting activities: 

Research training
Research training at Finse. Photo: Øyvind Paasche

 

Your rights and obligations when being a member of the BCCR

When being a member of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research you have 

 

RIGHTS TO: 

  • Participate in all activities organised and funded by BCCR, as listed above.
  • Apply for support through strategic projects, Bjerknes Visiting Fellow programme and Fast Track Initiatives

OBLIGATIONS TO: 

  • Conduct Bjerknes relevant research.
  • Be an active member in (at least) one Research Theme, e.g. attend meetings and activities organised within the relevant Research Theme.
  • Considering climate relevant projects as 'Bjerknes projects' and informing RT leaders of their existence and budget, this way they will become part of the Bjerknes research portfolio.
  • Using Bjerknes templates for presentations and posters when presenting Bjerknes research. These are available here: http://www.bjerknes.uib.no/om/ressurser
  • Attributing Bjerknes in addition to home institution when disseminating relevant activities to policy makers, general public and media.
  • Including Bjerknes in addition to formal employer as affiliation in Bjerknes relevant scientific publications. How to do this? Click here
Bjerknes members
Ilker Fer, Yongbiao Weng and Anaís Bretones. Photo: Gudrun Sylte / Ellen Viste

 

Feeding the dog
Be kind to all crew members! Photo: Henriette Linge

 

Logo and templates 

...have you scrolled all the way down here looking for the templates? 
The link was also in top - please find them right here