[Oppslist] Biosphere-Atmosphere Research and Training Short Courses

[Michelle Flores]

Dear Colleagues,

The Biosphere-Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) IGERT Program will
be offering four short courses during the summer of 2007. Short courses
will be offered at the University of Michigan's Biological Station
(UMBS), an outstanding venue for courses, with extensive classroom,
computing, and laboratory facilities. The University of Michigan
Biological Station is located at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula
of Michigan, on the south shore of Douglas Lake. The BART program offers
two types of Short Courses:

Technical Short Courses will provide hands-on technical training to
graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty members, and
scientists.  Each course will provide participants with the tools
necessary to conduct research in a particular sub-discipline of
biosphere-atmosphere interactions.  

 

Classroom Based Short Courses provide classroom based instruction and
discussion for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and scientists.
Courses are led by multiple instructors lecturing on their area of
expertise.

 

The cost for the Short Courses includes lodging and dining and facility
fees as well as a non-refundable $50 processing fee. An application form
has been attached to this email. For more information, contact the BART
office at 888-647-0536, bartumbs at umich.edu, in Ann Arbor. or visit our
website at www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/tech_short_courses/ for course
flyers and syllabus descriptions. Please also pass this along to any
colleagues or students who may be interested in our Short Courses. We
apologize if you have already received this notice.

 

SHORT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:

Essentials of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions 

June 25th-July 3rd, 2007              Register by May 1st for Discounted
Cost: $1725

This classroom based course is team-taught by experienced
biosphere-atmosphere researchers and coordinated by Dr. Steven Bertman
and Dr. David Karowe, both of Western Michigan University. Topics
include: Global Climate Change, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Atmospheric
Chemistry, Plant Physiology, Forest Ecophysiology, Aquatic Ecology,
Global Biogeochemical Processes, Plant-Atmosphere Interactions,
Water-Atmosphere Interactions, and Soil-Atmosphere Interactions.

 

Methods in Plant Physiological Ecology for Climate Change Research  

July- 9th-13th, 2007                       Register by May 1st for
Discounted Cost: $1500

A technical short course in key ecophysical methods, predicated on the
concept that plants mediate aspects of mass and energy exchanges between
ecosystems and the atmosphere.  Topics covered include gas exchange,
water relations, root dynamics, and stable isotopes. The course will be
taught by Dr. Peter Curtis from Ohio State University.


Anne Fowler-Edin
Program Coordinator
Biosphere-Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) Program
University of Michigan Biological Station
930 N. University 
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055
888-647-0536
bartumbs at umich.edu
www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/