FIRST YESS Elections!!

The FIRST YESS elections are coming up!! YESS will have its first official elections this March. It is an exciting period for YESS and a lot has happened during the last months since the ESS Frontiers workshop at the German Weather Service in Offenbach. The YESS council developed a new structure for YESS, including working groups, […]

YESS / WMO Earth System Science Frontiers Workshop

During the last week of October 2015 an international and interdisciplinary group of around 30 active YESS members came together for a three day workshop in Offenbach at the German Weather service in Germany. The workshop was sponsored by the three research programmes of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the specialised UN-agency for Weather and Climate. […]

YESS @ IUGG in Prague

Several members of the YESS network international steering group attended IUGG in Prague this year, including Julia Keller, Vera Schemann, Kevin Reed, and Sarah Perkins. We first met with committee members of APECS and discussed over dinner some key tips and advice on how to successfully run a global early career network of scientific researchers. […]

YESS @ IUGG, Prague, and Young Scholar Forum, Nicosia

In the last few weeks we have had different activities and talks at the Young Scholar Forum in Nicosia during the EWACCS conference and at IUGG in Prague. In Prague, YESS members also participated in the APECS early career program. If you are interested in organizing YESS events at conferences that you participate in, please […]

YESS @ Young Scholar Forum, Cyprus Institute

The Cyprus institute has hosted a succesful young scholar forum for early career scientists from the MENA region (Middle East, Northern Africa) in June 2015. YESS has presented its idea of a global, integrating, interdiscplinary communication network and welcomes all new members from the region. We hope to use this event to further foster our […]

New Category “Resources”

We would like to introduce a new category called “RESOURCES”. It contains numerous relevant information for Young Earth System Scientists concerning upcoming events and jobs. “RESOURCES” consists of the following three parts that are all updated regularly: Conferences and workshops Courses and Schools Joblists   All these information are gathered for you, the YESS members! […]

YESS @ climate symposium

The climate symposium in Darmstadt was the attempt to map the ongoing research activities within WCRP on the projection of future space-based research. The double-logo “Climate Research and Earth Observations from Space” and “Climate information for decision making” captures both ideas of the workshop: to shape the future of space observations and at the same […]

YESS Workshop 2014

Workshop dedicated to the topic of communicating Earth System Science research to a general public and within different climate research communities. Date: 17. – 18. November 2014 YESSworkshop2014_flyer Topics of the workshop: 1) We applied and evaluated the “Earth System Science questionnaire”. This questionnaire was developed during the last YESS-retreat 2012 and aims to evaluate […]