Events

We are pleased to confirm that our BioCrystal Kickoff Meeting will take place on Tuesday, 22 September, from 12:00 to 15:00. Lunch will be provided, so please reserve this time in your calendar.

Further details, including the meeting room and agenda, will be shared later.

We look forward to meeting everyone and officially launching the project together.

Have a nice weekend.

Best regards,

Shuang & Jöran

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Program:

10:00-10:20 RA1: Ramdane Alkama (EPOC/INRAE, online): From large-scale climate signals to regional decadal predictability

10:20-10:40 RA2: Lu Zhou (NUIST/NERSC): Data-driven Tropical Climate Modeling for ENSO Predictions

10:40-11:00 RA3: Kaiyan Yao (UiB): title TBD

11:00-11:20 RA4: Sara Moreno (visiting PhD student from BSC): title TBD

11:20-11:40: Helene Langehaug (NERSC): A webpage with marine heatwave predictions from NorCPM

11:40- Lunch, Mingling and Open Agenda (for those who wish to share or discuss)

*RA stands for Research Area

This informal discussion space is open to all Bjerknes members and guests.

Please feel free to join us and we welcome contributions from all.

Dear all, 

As part of our Bjerknes Proposal Writing Class, we invite the whole BCCR community to a special seminar: "How to succeed with your project proposal - successful applicants share their experience". It is taking place on 13th October 2026, 10:30 – 12:00, the programme and the meeting link are below. 

We hope that many of you will join!

Cheers

Cat and Nadine 

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Invited speakers:   

Neda Gilannejad, Senior Researcher, Aquaculture and Marine Biodiversity Group, NORCE

Successful Proposals: Researcher Project for Early Career Scientists, Research Council of Norway (2026): CopeFISH: Copepod-based Feeds for Improved Salmon Health and Aquaculture Sustainability, and Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (2025): Zinc-SAFE: Optimizing Zinc Supplementation in Salmon Feed for Improved Bioavailability, Fish Health, and Reduced Environmental Impacts

Sebastian Wolf, Researcher, Department of Earth Science, UiB

Successful proposals: Trond Mohn Research Starting Grant (2026) - ICICLE 

Our invited speakers will answer the following questions, as well as additional questions from the audience: 

1. Why do you think that your proposal was successful? What made the trick, compared to other excellent proposals?  

2. Did you submit unsuccessful proposals during your career?

3. How can we be successful?  

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Microsoft Teams meeting 

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/379539299579761?p=6EZdYPqsgKytwKYUUt 

Meeting ID: 379 539 299 579 761 

Passcode: er2SB2n9 

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