News
3 July 2019
e-learning: From historical climate data to hazard maps
Stefan Brönnimann from the PALAEO-RA project of the Institute of Geography (palaeo-ra.unibe.ch) has released an e-learning tool for weather reconstructions. On www.weather-reconstruction.org, students and anyone interested can learn step-by-step how historical manuscript data can eventually lead to complex climate information such as hazard maps. The tool focuses on sources of uncertainty and the application of reanalysis data and other data products in a meaningful way. Data can be downloaded for analyses in statistical software and visualization tools. The sections Climate Data, Global Reanalyses and Downscaling and Applications each starts with a very short text and the video followed by 2–4 subsections, typically with an exercise.
In addition, introduction videos give a concise overview of each section:
16. Juli 2019
9th EARSeL workshop on Land Ice and Snow
You are cordially invited to submit your paper to the 9th Workshop on "Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere: Monitor what is vanishing", which will be held at the Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland, from 03 - 05 February 2020.
25 July 2019
Award for Carolin Schurr and Elisabeth Militz
Carolin Schurr and Elisabeth Militz have been awarded the Ashby prize for the most innovative papers published in the EPA: Economy and Space journal in the calendar year 2018 for their paper “The affective economy of transnational surrogacy.”
30 July 2019
The climate is warming faster than it has in the last 2,000 years
In contrast to pre-industrial climate fluctuations, current, anthropogenic climate change is occurring across the whole world at the same time. In addition, the speed of global warming is higher than it has been in at least 2,000 years. That’s according to two studies led by Raphael Neukom from the Institute of Geography. A third paper from a team from the Institute of Geography shows that volcanoes shaped global climate before the onset of the anthropogenic influence. The three papers appeared simultaneously in «Nature» and «Nature Geoscience», respectively, and led to media response at a global scale.
2 October 2019
Presentation: «Modelling of urban climates»
Jan Remund (Meteotest)
Colloquium in Climatology, Climate Impact and Remote Sensing
(14:15 – 15:15, seminar room 324, Mittelstrasse 43 / University Mittelstrasse)
3 October 2019
Presentation of results from the study on the Slow University at the GIUB
Dr. Patricia Felber
GIUB Commission for equal opportunities
(14:00 – 15:30, room 302, GIUB)
29 October 2019
Das «smart home» als ökologisches Wohnexperiment
Nadine Marquardt (University of Bonn)
Berner Humangeographisches Kolloquium
«DIGITAL GEOGRAPHIES»
(12:15 – 13:45, room 002, GIUB)