[Oppslist] Still time to registar for the BART Short Courses!

[Michelle Flores]

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*Biosphere-Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) *

*Short Course Information --Summer 2008*

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Dear Colleagues,

There is still time to register for the Biosphere-Atmosphere Research 
and Training (BART) IGERT short courses. The BART 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. An application form 
has been attached to this email. 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 May23rd 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.

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*/Flux Measurement Fundamentals/** *

*July 7th-11th, 2008                         Register by May 23rd^t 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 23rd^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.

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*/Ecosystem  Modeling /*

*July 14th-18th, 2008                      Register by May 23rd^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 <mailto: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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