Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR)

OCCR News

Film off for Climate Master

29 September 2024

The Graduate School of Climate Sciences at the OCCR is promoting its Master's programme with a new video. Current and former students play the leading role in the short film.

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SNFS Consolidator Grant

26 August 2024

OCCR member and palaeoecologist Christoph Schwörer is supported by the SNSF for his innovative project ‘Assessment of past and future responses of forests to the effects of climate change using ancient DNA (ARIaDNA)’.

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Nitrogen emissions influence climate change

5 August 2024

Qing Sun, a Postdoc in the Earth System Modelling - Biogeochemical Cycles group, has been involved in an international study on the influence of nitrogen on the climate. The online magazine uniAKTUEll dedicates an article to her work.

“At an international level, climate research in Bern is a brand”

18 June 2024

Thomas Stocker, the long-serving President of the Oeschger Centre, is retiring and thus also relinquishing his position at the head of the OCCR. In an interview, he looks back on his extraordinary career.

Successful rescue operation

19 March 2024

An important environmental archive in the canton of Bern was recently placed under protection as a geotope. Researchers from the OCCR played a key role in securing this unique research site.

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Success in the Antarctic

31 January 2024

The third drilling season of the European research project Beyond EPICA in the Antarctic has come to an end. After two months of hard fieldwork, the team, which also included researchers from the Oeschger Centre, has reached a depth of 1836 metres in the ice sheet. The University of Bern is a key partner in this project, which aims to look back 1.5 million years into the climate of the past with the help of ice cores.

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programme Einstein on the Swiss public television station SRF

Are we ready for the forces of nature?

15 January 2024

OCCR member Olivia Romppainen is part of the TV documentary "Mudslide to flood: Are we ready for the forces of nature?", which was recently shown on the renowned science programme Einstein on the Swiss public television station SRF.

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High honour for OCCR researchers

10 January 2024

OCCR President Thomas Stocker and Jakob Schwander, a former OCCR member, have been honoured with one of the most important and highly endowed science prizes in Europe, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. They are being honoured in particular for their work with ice cores from the Antarctic.