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From idea to project: Writing successful project proposals workshop

This workshop will enable you to apply for external funding of your own research. You will learn how to prepare a draft for a successful research project proposal.

Using own research ideas, you will train:

• how to present a project idea shortly and concisely (pitch presentation)

• how to plan and structure a draft proposal

• how to develop the different components of the draft proposal

• how to draft a project budget

• where you can apply for funding

BCCR Cross theme seminar: Machine learning

The seminar will take place in person – the room will be announced in the reminder on Monday. In addition, there will be the possibility to join on zoom.

The cross-theme seminar will feature three separate talks:

• Francine Schevenhoven: Improving predictions by training of supermodels
• Meike Becker: Using Random Forest regressions in CO2 flux mapping
• Yue (Michael) Ying: Using optical flows to reduce feature position errors in geophysical models
• Ashbin Jaison: Storm damage relations for Norway: Damage function approach

Symposium on Changing Seasonality

The CALENDARS project team warmly invite you to a symposium on Changing Seasonality to be held on Thursday the 5th of May from 09.00 - 15.30. Save the date

The symposium starts from seasons as cultural frameworks societies use to give meaning to annual cycles and organise activities over the year. It asks what happens to these seasonal frameworks in changeable times, and whether societies can transform their seasonal calendars to better fit shifting conditions. More information here: https://www.uib.no/kalenders-prosjektet/152342/‘changing-seasonality’-symposium-rethinking-what-seasons-mean-changeable

In addition to talks from an international, interdisciplinary team of scholars - including Barbara Adam, Michelle Bastian, Gordon Walker and David Macauley - the symposium will showcase some of the work in the CALENDARS project including a space for participants to experience art-science collaborative tools being developed, from documentary film to virtual reality simulations or re-making primstavs.

Places are limited and lunch and refreshments will be served, so please register on the website. Note that this webpage will be updated with a detailed programme and venue over the next two weeks. The symposium will be held in English.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The CALENDARS team.

BCCR workshop on tropical climate

Lea, Shunya and Nele are organizing a workshop on tropical climate on May 5th. 

Constraints on global warming meeting

For the Constraints meeting Friday 6 May, 12-13, in U1 (or you may join online), Johanna will set the topic for discussion by presenting her preliminary Pacific deep-ocean clumped isotope temperatures of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (~ 50 - 52 Ma).

Seminar talk: Seasonal and decadal changes to Arctic Ocean stratification in climate models and observations

Name of speaker: Erica Rosenblum. Affiliation: University of Manitoba

Seminar talk: Emit now, mitigate later? Simulating the response of the Earth system to zero and negative emissions

Speaker: Jörg Schwinger, NORCE. Please find abstract via link.

Constraints on global warming meeting

“Observation-based long-term trends of Sea Surface Temperature in Atlantic Large Marine Ecosystems”

We will meet again this Friday, 20th May, 12- 13, in U1 (or online). Augustin will set the topic for discussion.

I hope you will join!

Bjørg

Seminar talk: The importance of Canadian Arctic Gateways for glacial expansion in Scandinavia

Name of speaker: Marcus Lofverstrom. Affiliation: University of Arizona