[Oppslist] Biosphere-Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) IGERT Program Short Courses

[Michelle Flores]

Dear Colleagues,

The Biosphere-Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) IGERT Program will 
be offering four short courses during the summer of 2008. 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. For more 
information, contact the BART office at 888-647-0536, bartumbs at umich.edu 
<mailto:bartumbs at umich.edu>, in Ann Arbor, or visit our website at 
www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/tech_short_courses/ 
<http://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. 

*SHORT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:*

*/Essentials of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions /*

*June 23rd-July 3rd, 2008              Register by May1^st for 
Discounted Cost: $1725*

This largely 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 and Physics, Plant Physiology, Forest 
Ecophysiology, Aquatic Ecology, Global Biogeochemical Processes, 
Plant-Atmosphere Interactions, Water-Atmosphere Interactions, and 
Soil-Atmosphere Interactions. Some topics will include field components.

*/Flux Measurement Fundamentals/ *

*July 7th-11th, 2008                         Register by May 1^st for 
Discounted Cost: $1500*

A technical short course in the use of micrometeorological methods to 
obtain and analyze fluxes of momentum, heat, and chemical species by 
eddy-covariance, eddy accumulation and related techniques. Topics 
covered include theory of turbulent exchange measurements, flux 
measurement techniques, installation and operation of an EC and energy 
balance measurement site, and QA/QC. The course will be team taught by 
Dr. Hans Peter Schmid of Indiana University, Dr. Alex Guenther, NCAR, 
and Dr. Brian Lamb of Washington State University 

*/Methods in Plant Physiological Ecology for Climate Change Research / *

*July- 14th-18th, 2008                     Register by May 1^st 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.* *

*/Ecosystem  Modeling /*

*July 14th-18th, 2008                      Register by May 1^st for 
Discounted Cost: $1500*

/A technical short course in /Ecosystem modeling that combines facets of 
ecosystem ecology, population and community ecology, and dynamic-systems 
modeling theory and techniques.  The course addresses the manner in 
which biotic communities both drive, and are constrained by, 
ecosystem-level flows of carbon, nutrients, water, and energy.  Students 
will work in an interactive, hands-on, combined lecture-laboratory 
format. Students will learn the Stella dynamic systems modeling language 
(no prior Stella experience is needed).  The class will work through one 
extended case study:  building a process-based model of forest 
succession, including production and decomposition, and linked to flows 
and storage of carbon and nitrogen.  Students will then have time either 
to improve on this model in a creative way or to work on the development 
of their own separate model with the help of the instructor. Course 
taught by Dr. William Currie of the University of Michigan.

Anne Fowler-Edin
Program Coordinator
Biosphere-Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) Program
bartumbs at umich.edu
www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/ <http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/>

 
June thru August
University of Michigan Biological Station
9133 East State Street
Pellston MI 49769.
231 539-8406
 

September thru May
University of Michigan Biological Station
930 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055
888-647-0536

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