Past Conferences

”Beating the Heat” Conference 2024

11 September 2024, Hochschulzentrum VonRoll, Fabrikstrasse 6 / 2e, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

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1st Swiss Ocean Day - The conference for the Swiss ocean community

20 June 2024, 9 - 18h, University of Bern, Exakte Wissenschaften Room 099, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

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Symposium on „Climate Activism and Policymaking“

19th June 2024 from 15.15h-17h, University of Bern, UniS Room A022, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern

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Climate of the past and societal responses to environmental changes

5 – 8 June 2024, University of Bern, UniS, Room 003, Switzerland

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Mobiliar Lab Lecture 2023

Rapid Mapping - Geodaten für die Bewältigung und Dokumention von Naturereignissen

22 November 2023, 16:30 - 17:45, room 114, University of Bern, main building, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

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Mini symposium: Global Climate of the Past Six Centuries

10 November 2023 from 14:00 to 18:00, lecture hall 001 of the Institute of Geography, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

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Klimaschutz und Subventionen: Braucht es Reformen?

20 Octobre 2023, UniS, Room S003, University of Bern, Switzerland

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12th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference

Mountains and Plains: Past, present and future environmental and climatic entanglements

22 - 26 August 2023, University of Bern, Switzerland

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3rd Swiss Social Science and Humanities Energy Workshop (SSH Energy)

2 June 2023, HESSO building, Sion (VS), Switzerland

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PAGES Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) 5th Workshop

“Moving forward by looking back”

22nd-24th May 2023, University of Bern, Switzerland and online

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Tropical Atlantic basin hydroclimate change: learning from long instrumental records

16-17 May 2023, University of Bern, Switzerland, and online

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10th EARSeL workshop on Land Ice and Snow

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: methods and applications from regional to global scale

06 - 08 February 2023, Bern, Switzerland

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Digital Archaeology

Advancing open research into the next decade

International Colloquium on Digital Archaeology in Bern

1st - 3rd February 2023, University of Bern, Switzerland

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IPICS 2022 

3rd Open Science Conference of the International Partnerships for Ice Core Sciences (IPICS)

2 - 7 Octobre 2022, Centre de Congrès Le Régent, Route des Mélèzes 28, 3963 Crans-Montana, Switzerland

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“Beating the Heat” Conference 2022

16 September 2022, University of Bern, Switzerland

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2nd Swiss Social Science and Humanities Energy Workshop (SSH Energy)

15 / 16 September 2022, Murten/Muntelier (FR), Switzerland

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1st Swiss Social Science Energy Workshop

30 June / 1 July 2022, Martigny/Lac des Toules, Switzerland

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Workshop on survey design and social network analysis in climate policy

Tuesday, June 28th 2022, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Bern Energy Economics Workshop

25 - 26 August 2021, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Workshop “Integrated History and Philosophy of Climate Data” 

 25 - 27 August 2021, University of Bern, Switzerland 

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ContaSed2021: online conference (2020 CoV postponed)

2nd International Conference on Contaminated Sediments

New dates: 9 – 11 June 2021, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Centenary Palaeoecology Symposium (cancelled)

From the past to the future: 100 years of Palaeoecology in Bern (1920-2020)

New dates: 7 – 8 June 2021 / 9 June 2021 Excursion, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Workshop on Compound Weather and Climate Events

12 - 15 January 2021, hosted online by the University of Bern, Switzerland

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VAO (Virtual Alpine Observatory) Symposium

04 ‐ 06 February 2020, University of Bern, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Lecture hall EG16, Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

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Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Monitor what is vanishing

03 ‐ 05 February 2020, University of Bern, Institute of Geography, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern

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2019 Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks (COMPON) workshop

22 – 25 October 2019, Bern, Switzerland

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Mobiliar Lab Lecture 2019

Vom Labor in die Praxis - Überlegungen zu einer erfolgreichen Umsetzung wissenschaftlicher Ergebnisse in die Praxis

Prof. Dr. Peter Knoepfel, Uni Lausanne

Dienstag, 19. März 2019

Geographisches Institut, Universität Bern, Halllerstrasse 12, Raum 001

18:15-19:30 Uhr, anschliessend Apéro

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Digital Archaeology

Quantitative approaches, spatial statistics and socioecological modelling

International Colloquium on Digital Archaeology in Bern

4th - 6th February 2019, University of Bern, Switzerland

Organizing Committee: Maria Elena Castiello, Julian Laabs and Martin Hinz / Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Univ. Bern

Submission and registration for the workshop are closed.

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Climate Adapdation, Finance, and Crowding in Cooperative Behavior

An afternoon of talks and discussions with Edella Schlager,
University of Arizona, and Jesse M. Keenan, Harvard University
10 December 2018, 15:00 – 18:00, room F-023, Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern

Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies (CRIAS)

1st Workshop: Methods and interdisciplinary communication in historical climatology

1 – 2 October 2018, University of Bern, Switzerland
Organizing Committee: Chantal Camenisch, Sam White, Martin Bauch, Qing Pei and Christian Rohr

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Early Instrumental Meteorological Series

18 - 21 June 2018 (conference and workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland
Contact: Stefan Brönnimann, Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre, University of Bern & Christian Rohr, Institute of History and Oeschger Centre, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Mobiliar Lab Lecture 2018

Climate Change and resilience

The Mobiliar Lab Lecture 2018 will be held by David Bresch, professor for weather and climate risks at ETH Zurich. The lecture will take place at the University of Bern's main building on 13 March 2018 at 17:15. David Bresch will examine the usefulness of a resilience approach in the field of natural risks and climate change. The term resilience describes the ability to survive or adapt successfully in the the view of change and uncertainty. Hence, resilience provides a useful concept for anticipation and prevention of risks in general.

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A festive event for Gunter Stephan

On 7 February 2018, the OCCR will organize a colloquium in the honour of the climate and environmental economist Gunter Stephan. His history with the Oeschger Centre is a very long, diverse and successful one. We would therefore like to accompany his becoming a Professor Emeritus with a festive event.

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1st Bern Workshop on Radiocarbon Analyses with the MIni-CArbon-DAting System (MICADAS)

13. - 15. September 2017 (2-day workshop and one-day hands-on practical), University of Bern
Contact: Dr. Julia Gottschalk, Institute of Geology & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland

10th International Carbon Dioxide Conference

21 – 25 August 2017
Contact: Prof. Dr. Fortunat Joos, Oeschger Centre, University of Bern, Switzerland

In 2017, the OCCR organised the tenth International Carbon Dioxide Conference (ICDC 10) in Interlaken, Switzerland. The anniversary event provided participants with an integrated, interdisciplinary view of the global carbon cycle and its perturbation by humans.

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Symposium ad memoriam Dr. Alias Bretscher

Monday, 19. Juni 2017, 15.15 – 17.00
Contact: Martin Grosjean, Oeschger Centre, University of Bern

2nd European Hail Workshop

19 -21 April 2017
Contact: Olivia Romppainen, Oeschger Centre, University of Bern, Switzerland

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Workshop: Lessons learnt from paleoscience on a possible 1.5 –  2°C warmer world in the future

05 - 07 April 2017, University of Bern, Switzerland
Contact: Hubertus Fischer, PAGES & University of Bern, Switzerland

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STREIT UMS WASSER
Fischer, Gemüsebauern oder Golfer – wer sitzt bei Wasserknappheit am längeren Hebel?

2. März 2017, 19 Uhr, Alpines Museum der Schweiz, Bern
Podiumsdiskussion unter anderem mit OCCR Forschern

Alpines Museum_Streit ums Wasser_Veranstaltung 02.03.17.pdf (PDF, 490KB)

8th EARSeL LISSIG workshop

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Past - Present - Future

7. - 9. February 2017, Institute of Geography, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern

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Hans Sigrist Symposium 2016

The Human Fingerprint on the Earth System

2 December 2016
Contact: Martin Grosjean, Oeschger Centre, University of Bern, Switzerland

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1st Swiss SCOSTEP workshop

4 -5 October 2016, University of Bern, Switzerland

Contact:
Marina Battaglia Hochschule für Technik Institut für 4D-Technologien, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
Brönnimann, Stefan Insititute of Geography and Oeschger Centre (OCCR), U. Bern, Switzerland

Risikobasiertes Naturgefahren-Management

Bedeutung und Grenzen ökonomischer Daten  

Tagung / Workshop Naturgefahrenprävention

12. – 13. September 2016
UniTobler, Universität Bern und Exkursion Berner Matte

Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Oeschger-Zentrums, des Mobilar Labs für Naturrisiken, des Helmholtz Zentrums für Umweltforschung UFZ, der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, der Präventionsstiftungen der Kantonalen Gebäudeversicherungen und von alpS.

5th Workshop on European Storms

31 August – 2 September 2015, University of Bern, Switzerland
Contact: PD Dr. Christoph Raible, Physics Insititute and Oeschger Centre (OCCR), University of Bern, Switzerland

Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption

7 – 10 April 2015
Contact: Prof. Dr. Stefan Brönnimann, Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre, University of Bern