<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear all interested in Climate and Earth Sciences,<div class=""><div class="">[Reminder email]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class="">This is a reminder to register for the Bolin Days 18-19 November</font></b></div><div class=""><span class=""><font class="">We have already over a hundred registered participants, and the limit for dinner guests is soon reached</font></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="">Please see the attachment for the detailed programme</span></li><li class=""><span class="">Please register to the Bolin Days</span><b class=""> </b></li><ul class=""><li class=""><span class=""><a href="http://www.bolin.su.se/bolindays2015" class="">www.bolin.su.se/bolindays2015</a></span></li><li class=""><span class="">Deadline:</span><span class=""> <font color="#f18630" class="" style="font-weight: bold;">16 November</font></span></li></ul></ul><div class=""><font color="#f18630" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Karin</div><div class="">Bolin Centre</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><b class="">______________________</b></div><div class=""><b class="" style="color: rgb(241, 134, 48);">Programme</b></div><div class=""><span class="">There will be interesting talks and posters by members of the Bolin Centre, discussions over fika, a PhD poster competition with refreshments and give-aways and a nice relaxed dinner with a Ceilidh dance. There are excellent opportunities to interact with the Bolin Centre External Science Advisory Group during the Bolin Days. The Bolin Centre are also hosting a seminar by the internationally renowned researcher in climate and the Earth system Will Steffen the day before the Bolin Days, see below.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="" style="color: rgb(241, 134, 48);"><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="" style="color: rgb(241, 134, 48);">Registration</b></div><div class="">If you are interested in Climate and the Earth Sciences, you are most welcome to the Bolin Days, whether you are a member of the Centre or not. If you would like to join the centre or get more information, see <a href="http://www.bolin.su.se/index.php/join-the-bolin-centre" class="">http://www.bolin.su.se/index.php/join-the-bolin-centre</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class="">Poster session</font></b></div><div class="">Posters from any registered participant are encouraged and most welcome!</div><div class=""><ul class="x_MailOutline"><li class="">The poster title must be registered at the Bolin Days registration form <span class=""><a href="http://www.bolin.su.se/bolindays2015" class="">www.bolin.su.se/bolindays2015</a></span></li><ul class=""><li class="">If you have registered already but change your mind and want to bring a poster, please register again</li></ul><li class="">There will be an oral poster presentation session as well as a poster viewing session with refreshments</li><ul class=""><li class="">The presentations are limited to 2 minutes</li><li class="">Please bring your own computer with your presentation</li><li class="">There will be a presentations in an alphabetic order</li></ul><li class="">The poster can be any size, but a portrait format is better than landscape</li><li class="">The posters should be hanged in room Y23 and the De Geer foyer, which is open from 8.30 on the 18 November</li><li class="">The posters should be removed before 18:30 on the 19 November, or they will meet the recycling bin</li><li class="">There will be a PhD student poster competition with a prize of <span class="">SEK 20 000</span> in research money</li><ul class=""><li class="">The poster title should be registered at the Bolin Days registration form</li><li class="">The PhD student(s) should be the poster designer(s)</li><li class="">The list of authors should start with the PhD student(s)</li><li class="">The PhD student(s) should do the oral poster presentation</li><li class="">The PhD student(s) should stand by the poster at the poster competition viewing on 18 November from 15:30 and explain their findings to the audience</li><li class="">If there are several PhD students involved in a winning poster, they share the prize</li><li class="">The winner is elected by the registered attendants of the Bolin Days at the poster viewing 18 November</li><li class="">The winner is announced at the Bolin Days dinner 19 November and later on at the Bolin web page</li></ul></ul></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><font color="#f18630" class=""><b class="">Information to speakers</b></font></div><div class="">Thank you for giving a talk at the Bolin Days!</div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><font class="">Please <span class="">register</span> at </font><span class=""><a href="http://www.bolin.su.se/bolindays2015" class="">www.bolin.su.se/bolindays2015</a></span></li><li class="">IMPORTANT: </li><ul class=""><li class="">Please make sure that your presentation is aimed at <b class="">non-experts</b>, i.e. people with a <b class="">general knowledge</b> of climate research</li><ul class=""><li class="">This is not the time to go into tricky details of your research – save that for the experts at your group seminars</li><li class="">A short and practical guide of how to make a successful presentation is included. Please have a look at it.</li></ul></ul></ul><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Please contact your chair for information about the length of your talk</li><ul class=""><li class="">Please do <b class="">not</b> overrun your time allowance. Everyone will give you the evil eye if you do.</li></ul><li class="">Please consider that the talk should be a few minutes less than the scheduled time to allow for questions</li><li class="">We would really appreciate it if you would use the Bolin Centre PPT template included in this email</li><li class="">Send your presentation to your chair so he/she can import that into his/her computer</li><li class="">Check that the presentation works as it should in the pause before the research area session</li></ul><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Speakers who are not members of the Bolin Center: </li><ul class=""><li class="">It is a nice thing to become a member if you are speaking at our internal conference!</li><li class="">Please follow the instructions at <a href="http://bolin.su.se/index.php/how-to-join-the-bolin-centre" class="">http://bolin.su.se/index.php/how-to-join-the-bolin-centre</a></li></ul></ul></div><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class="">Information to chairs</font></b></div><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class=""><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;">Thank you for chairing at the Bolin Days!</div></font></b></div><div class=""><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><font class="">Please <span class="">register</span> at </font><span class=""><a href="http://www.bolin.su.se/bolindays2015" class="">www.bolin.su.se/bolindays2015</a></span></li><li class="">Please contact the speakers in your group and make sure they know their time allowance, and that this includes time for questions</li><li class="">Please <span class="">bring a computer</span><b class=""> </b>to the Bolin Days with all your RA talks on it and make sure everything works with the presentations in the pause before your session</li><li class="">Please do <b class="">not</b> overrun your session</li></ul></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Please send the presentations to me after the Bolin Days</li><li class="">Some tips for the chair:</li><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">Please remind the speakers to use the clock above the audience as a reference</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">Give the speaker a very clear 3 minute warning</span></li><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">This allows the speaker to modify their talk if he/she is in danger of over-running</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">Make sure that you get eye contact with your speaker (some speakers are expert at avoiding eye contact with the chairperson!)</span></li></ul><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">If you feel that a speaker is not wrapping up towards the end of these three minutes, give him/her a 1 minute warning</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">Stand up and approach the speaker if he/she over-runs</span></li><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">Please do not feel shy about doing this and making it clear to a speaker that it is time to stop talking. This is fair game for a session chair. </span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">It is not fair for the following speakers or the audience to let the current speaker over-run</span></li></ul><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">If despite your efforts, a speaker has over-run, feel free to omit questions and go straight to the next speaker</span></li><ul class=""><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">You can use phrases such as “I am sure that NN would be delighted to take questions during the coffee break, but we are running out of time and need to move on …”</span></li></ul><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">Feel free to cut off someone in the audience if he/she is waffling and/or not asking a question</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;">Have confidence – this is your session!</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="text-indent: -24pt;"><br class=""></span></li></ul></ul><div class="" style="text-indent: -32px;"><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class="">The External Science Advisory Group visit the Bolin Days</font></b></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(45, 40, 41);">The Bolin Centre External Science Advisory Group (ESAG) will visit the Bolin Days to enjoy the presentations, participate in the social events and finally give some advice to the Bolin Centre. Here is a presentation of the External Science Advisory Group </span><a href="http://bolin.su.se/index.php/external-science-advisory-group" class="">http://bolin.su.se/index.php/external-science-advisory-group</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><b class=""><font color="#f18630" class="">Interesting seminar before the Bolin Days</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;">Professor Will Steffen will give a talk titled <i class="">The Anthropocene: Where on Earth are we going?</i> scheduled for 13:00 Tuesday 17 November at Nordenskiöld room, Geoscience building.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;">More information may be found here: <a href="http://bolin.su.se/index.php/component/jevents/icalrepeat.detail/2015/11/17/46/-/bg-atm-seminar-will-steffen?Itemid=1" class="">http://bolin.su.se/index.php/component/jevents/icalrepeat.detail/2015/11/17/46/-/bg-atm-seminar-will-steffen?Itemid=1</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yours faithfully,<br class="">Karin Jonsell<br class=""><br class=""><font color="#004072" class=""><b class="">Dr. Karin Jonsell</b><br class="">Scientific Coordinator<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Bolin Centre for Climate Research</b><br class="">Stockholm University<br class="">SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden<br class=""><br class="">Visiting address: Room S314, Geoscience Building at Frescati, Svante Arrhenius väg 8, Stockholm<br class="">Phone: +46 (0)8 674 75 97<br class="">Mobile: +46 (0)70 206 2445<br class="">E-mail: <a href="mailto:karin.jonsell@su.se" class="">karin.jonsell@su.se</a><br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.bolin.su.se" class="">www.bolin.su.se</a><br class=""><br class=""><i class="">The Bolin Centre for Climate Research is a collaboration between Stockholm University, KTH and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.</i></font></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#004072" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></font></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#004072" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></font></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#004072" class=""><i class=""></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>