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Fig. 3 Overview of the travel destinations (both ESSReS and third party funded) of ESSReS
group II students including conferences, meetings or summer schools (red), fieldwork (green), RV
Polarstern tracks/Polar aircraft routes (black) or research visits to a foreign lab (blue). The home
countries of the students were marked in yellow
3.3 Invited Guest Scientists
Both ESSReS PhD students and supervisors had the opportunity to invite external
experts from academia or industry to the research school. One of the guests was an
expert in risk management modeling who gave a valuable insight into the
field of
Catastrophe Modeling
and the students got insights into how their work may be
implemented outside academia. Another guest of ESSReS gave a series of scienti
c
lectures on
and was available for
consultation by the PhD students, which was used frequently. Finally, ESSReS has
invited a senior editor of the scienti
Spectral methods for time series analysis
c journal Nature to inform the PhD students
about the internal and external challenges in science publishing. Exclusively for the
PhD students the every-day work of an editor and possible future career options at a
scienti
c publisher were presented.
4 Progress Assessments
ESSReS developed and established a Progress Assessment Form for both, PhD students
and supervisors. This was done to evaluate the individual progress of the PhD students
'
projects. The form was
filled-out independently by PhD students and supervisors in
order to identify different perceptions of progress and the PhD timeline. Apart from this
intermediate assessment, the PhD students were asked to set up bi-annual PhD com-
mitteemeetings on a regular basis, duringwhich the PhD students were asked to present
a progress report of the last months and the goals for the upcoming months, discuss
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