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We鈥檙e assembling a well-qualified, experienced and creative team of researchers, and setting up project infrastructure.In Bergen we鈥檝e hired PhD candidate Elisabeth Sch酶yen Jensen and Project Support Sissel Sm氓land Aasheim, with Ms. Mari Knudsen taking care of the accounts. And on the Coromandel Peninsula we鈥檝e just engaged Dr.Paul Schneider as a post-doctoral fellow, to lead the work there. Paul鈥檚 first job will be to help us find a PhD candidate in New Zealand to complete the team. One of the team鈥檚 strengths is its interdisiplinarity and diversity of backgrounds, which you can read about on the website under the person 丑别补诲颈苍驳.听

We鈥檝e started exciting work on how climate change is influencing institutional cultures. In February we were invited to submit a chapter to the 鈥淗ow climate change disrupts nations of natural hazard risk in institutional cultures鈥�, co-authored by Dr.Scott Bremer, Dr.Paul Schneider and Prof.Bruce Glavovic. This manuscript uses examples from Bangladesh, New Zealand and Norway to show how ideas of climate change are reframing institutions鈥� understanding of natural hazards like floods, and how they manage these risks; through drastically over-engineered solutions for example.
In parallel, Dr. Bremer is writing with others about how climate change is emerging as a 鈥榤atter of concern鈥� that pervades Bergen鈥檚 public spheres, giving it an identity as a 鈥榗limate city鈥�. This manuscript will be presented by Dr.Bremer at the conference in Lisbon on the 30th of May. It will also be one of nine papers comprising a special issue of open access journal Climate Risk Management on 鈥楴arratives of Change鈥�, which Dr. Bremer is guest editing. The special issue looks at how a focus on place-based stories of change can make climate research more meaningful for people living in these places.聽

Meanwhile, CALENDARS is impacting on how people think about climate in Bergen. We鈥檙e building on an ongoing 鈥榗itizen science鈥� initiative of the CoCliServ project 鈥� where people in Bergen build and set up their own weather stations 鈥� to help people reflect on changes in seasons. On the 12th of June we will give a presentation at a public event at Bergen鈥檚 Media City on the future of meteorology, followed by a workshop where 40 citizens will build their own sensor. Looking further ahead, on the 20-21 September, CALENDARS will have a stand at the University of Bergen鈥檚 (Public Research Marketplace), attended by several thousand school children each year. Visitors to the stand will be confronted with a traditional 鈥榩rimstav鈥� - a plank carved with the agricultural seasons 鈥� and a futuristic primstav showing projected changes in Bergen鈥檚 seasons. Visitors will also be able to voice what the seasons mean for them.

Finally, from 20-25 October, the CALENDARS project is co-organizing an intensive Autumn school for PhD and masters students on 鈥楥o-producing climate adaptation research鈥�. The school is based on CALENDARS research, and other inputs from invited instructors. The 31st July is the deadline for applying to participate in the Autumn school.聽