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<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The course will be </span><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hosted
at the <strong>Université du Québec à Rimouski (Québec, Canada), March 4-10, 2017.</strong></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This Winter School, sponsored by the MEOPAR Prediction Core, is aimed at exposing young researchers to the broad spectrum of concepts, methods and challenges involved
in contemporary environmental prediction. Topics include ocean, sea ice, wave and biogeochemical modeling, real-time observational methods, data assimilation, operational forecasting and climate scenario development. Instructors from both academia and government
that are leaders in their field will share their expertise by giving lectures, but also by directing hands-on exercises using the best coding, documentation, version control and collaborative practices on the UQAR’s computational cluster.</span>
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The program also includes outdoor activities in the frozen landscape of Rimouski such as a visit to the Pointe-au-Père Maritime Historical Site, where high-frequency radar antennas are installed, an ice canoe outing, ice-fishing, a walk in the famous Bic National
Park and other social activities.
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 111, 201);"><strong>Eligibility</strong></span>
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</strong></font>We invite applications from early-career researchers engaged in general research activities (including work as a research assistants or technicans) at academic and non-academic institutions, as well those enrolled in graduate and/or post-doctoral
studies. Applicants are welcome from within or outside Canada, and do not need to have previous experience with the MEOPAR Network.
<div>Some background in numerical modeling is required, and familiarity with Linux is a plus but not mandatory.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">M</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ore information in the attached brochure or at </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the Winter School web page: </span><a href="http://meopar.ca/calendar/event/winterschool2017/" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://meopar.ca/calendar/event/winterschool2017/</a><br>
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<div><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To apply,</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">please send </strong><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">your
C/V and a 1 page letter of motivation </strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">stating your rationale for attending the Winter School to </span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ws2017[at]uqar.ca </strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">by </span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">December
19, 2016.</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For further information, please contact ws217[at]uqar.ca​<br>
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