The Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) is a leading institution for climate research, it carries out interdisciplinary research that is at the forefront of climate science. The OCCR brings together researchers from 17 institutes and 5 faculties. It was founded in 2007 and is named after Hans Oeschger (1927-1998), a pioneer of modern climate research.
The OCCR has built up a unique interdisciplinary research environment focusing on climate change, one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. At the interface between physics, geography, biology, chemistry, history, economy, political sciences and philosophy, approximately 330 researchers are investigating the effects of these unprecedented changes on humans and ecosystems.
Climate litigation
OCCR member Charlotte Blattner helped collate scientific and legal evidence to advise the European Court of Human Rights on the “climate senior citizens” case. She has now published an article in Nature on the consequences of this judgment.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the OCCR had provided scientific evidence and legal advice to the Court.
Paleoecology
Researchers from the OCCR played a key role in securing an environmental archive.
Ice core drilling
The third drilling season of Beyond EPICA in the Antarctic has come to an end.
Social tipping points
Economist and philosopher, Philippe Colo, analyses social tipping points. He says that a project like this is only possible in an interdisciplinary environment such as the Oeschger Centre, which uniquely supports and thrives on interdisciplinary collaboration.
Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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.
European Geosciences Union prize
This prestigious prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of ice research.
uniAKTUELL web journal
Researchers get to the heart of current developments in their field in video statements.
Paper of the month
An interdisciplinary study co-authored by several OCCR researchers investigates the the impacts of agrarian modernisation on Central European ecosystems. The publication in the journal Vegetation History and Archaeobotany presents a multi-proxy palaeoecological study from Egelsee lake in the city of Bern, Switzerland. The interdisciplinary approach provides new insights into how agricultural innovations affected vegetation and ecosystems during the past 500 years.
05. June 2024
until 08. June 2024
University of Bern, UniS, Room 003, Switzerland
Conference
Researchers from history, archaeology, environmental and climate sciences of the Universities of Bern and Yale organize the conference ‘Climate of the past and societal responses to environmental changes.’ It takes place 5 – 8 June 2024 in Bern.
Climpast 2024
20. June 2024
University of Bern, Exakte Wissenschaften Room 099, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
01. September 2024
until 06. September 2024
Grindelwald, Switzerland
Summer School
Hochschulstrasse 4 3rd floor WEST 3012 Bern
Phone: +41 31 684 31 45