Welcome to the Oeschger Centre!
The Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research is the centre of excellence for climate research of the University of Bern. It focuses on interdisciplinary research in the fields of natural, human and social sciences as well as economics and law.
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The Oeschger Centre does not only conduct research of high international standard, but also runs the Graduate School of Climate Sciences offering a specialised, internationally oriented Master's and Ph.D. programme in climate sciences.
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News
5 December 2011: A research team of the Oeschger Centre found evidence that damp climate
occurred in the Arabian desert several times over the past 130,000 years.
These spells allowed modern humans to track across the Arabian Peninsula
to spread to other continents from its origin in Africa.
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Open Call
15 December 2011: The Oeschger Centre and the NCCR Climate are planning a climate impact study
for Switzerland based on quantitative analyses using the new CH2011
climate scenarios. All interested research groups are invited to
respond to the open call to contribute to CH2014 – Impacts. The deadline for short proposals is the 31 January 2012.
call (pdf, 420 kB)
Application Form (docx, 18 kB)
Profile
In Search of Algae on the Other Side of the Globe
In 2010, about 150 junior researchers applied for an Ambizione grant with
the Swiss National Science Foundation. Only a third of the research projects
made the grade. One of them was by Rixt de Jong, a postdoc researcher
at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research. She aims to reconstruct climate in Chile.
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