Oeschger Newsletter September 2026

General News

• News from the OCCR Board
• New OCCR Research Groups approved
• Funding for OCCR Clusters approved
• Accreditation of UniBE to UNFCCC underway
• OCCR in the media
• Antarctica’s Coastal Blind Spots Complicate Sea-Level Projections
• SNSF Grant for ECO-ICE
• OCCR Social Media Crash Course

Past Events

• OCCR Plenary Fall Meeting 2026
• Swiss Climate Summer School 2026
• Beat the Heat 2026
• Second Swiss Ocean Day

Upcoming Events - save the dates

• OCCR Young Researchers Apéro, Fall edition 2026: 18 November 2026, hosted by the PhDs and PostDocs of the Climate epidemiology and public health group
• Conference with Naomi Oreskes as part of the conference „Angriffe auf Historiker:innen und die Krise der Demokratie“: 4 December 2026
• OCCR Plenary Meeting Spring 2027: 3 February 2027, 14 – 17 h, followed by an aperitif
• Young Researchers Meeting 2027: 10 and 11 June 2027, Hotel Meielisalp above Lake Thun
• Summer Schools 2027 and 2028:
  • 29 August to 3 September 2027, Monte Verità, Ticino. The call for participation will be launched in October 2026.
  • 27 August to 1 September 2028, Grindelwald

People

• Gunter Stober promoted to Associate Professor
• UniBE Inno Grant for OCCR researcher Patrick Kallabis
• Swiss team wins balloon race with support from OCCR researcher Killian Brennan
• Angelina Favre: First a Master Degree, then the Olympics
• Researchers who have recently joined the OCCR
• Researchers who have recently left the OCCR

Publications

• Recent journal publications by OCCR members