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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dear
Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0.0001pt;"><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u2:p></u2:p>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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:place
u3:st="on"><st1:placetype u3:st="on"><st1:place u4:st="on"><st1:placetype
u4:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place></st1:placetype> of <st1:placename
w:st="on"><st1:placename u4:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on">Michigan</st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placetype></st1:place>’s
Biological Station (UMBS), an outstanding venue for courses, with
extensive
classroom, computing, and laboratory facilities. The <st1:placetype
w:st="on"><st1:placetype u3:st="on"><st1:placetype u5:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on"><st1:placename
u6:st="on">Michigan Biological Station</st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:placename>
is located
at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, on the south
shore of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:place
u3:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on"><st1:place u7:st="on"><st1:placename
u7:st="on">Douglas</st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placename> <st1:placename
w:st="on"><st1:placename u7:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on">Lake</st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placename></st1:place>.
The BART program offers two types of Short Courses:<o:p></o:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><u2:p></u2:p>Technical
Short Courses </span></font></b>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. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><u2:p></u2:p>Classroom
Based Short Courses </span></font></b>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.<u2:p></u2:p> <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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, <a href="mailto:bartumbs@umich.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true">bartumbs@umich.edu</a>, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on"><st1:city u3:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on">Ann Arbor</st1:place></st1:city></st1:city></st1:place>,
or visit our website at <a
href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/tech_short_courses/"
moz-do-not-send="true">www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/tech_short_courses/</a>
for
course flyers and syllabus descriptions. Please also pass this along to
any
colleagues or students who may be interested in our Short Courses.<u2:p></u2:p> <o:p></o:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">SHORT COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:</span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><i><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><u2:p></u2:p>Essentials
of
Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions </span></font></i></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><u2:p></u2:p>June
23rd-July 3rd,
2008
Register by May1<sup>st</sup> for Discounted Cost: $1725</span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u2:p></u2:p>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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:place
u8:st="on"><st1:placename u8:st="on">Western</st1:placename></st1:place>
<st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:placename u8:st="on">Michigan</st1:placename></st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:placetype u8:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:placetype><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></st1:placename></st1:place><b>.
</b></span>Topics
include:</font><b><font color="white" size="6"><span
style="font-size: 26pt; color: white; font-weight: bold;"> </span></font></b>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.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><i><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><u2:p></u2:p>Flux
Measurement Fundamentals</span></font></i>
</b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><u2:p></u2:p>July
7th-11th,
2008
Register by May 1<sup>st</sup> for Discounted Cost: $1500</span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u2:p></u2:p>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 <st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:placename
u3:st="on"><st1:placename u8:st="on">Indiana</st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:placetype u3:st="on"><st1:placetype
u8:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placetype>,
Dr. Alex Guenther, NCAR, and Dr. Brian Lamb of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename
w:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on"><st1:place
u8:st="on"><st1:placename u8:st="on">Washington</st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:placetype u8:st="on"><st1:placetype
u3:st="on">State</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placetype> <st1:placetype
w:st="on"><st1:placetype u8:st="on"><st1:placetype u3:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:place></st1:placename></st1:place><u2:p></u2:p> <o:p></o:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><i><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Methods
in Plant Physiological Ecology for
Climate Change Research </span></font></i> </b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><u2:p></u2:p>July-
14th-18th,
2008
Register by May 1<sup>st</sup> for Discounted Cost: $1500</span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u2:p></u2:p>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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:place
u3:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on"><st1:place u8:st="on"><st1:placename
u8:st="on">Ohio</st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placename> <st1:placetype
w:st="on"><st1:placetype u8:st="on"><st1:placetype u3:st="on">State</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placetype>
<st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:placetype u8:st="on"><st1:placetype
u3:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:placetype></st1:place></st1:placename></st1:place>.<b><u2:p></u2:p><span
style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><i><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ecosystem
Modeling </span></font></i></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><u2:p></u2:p>July
14th-18th,
2008
Register by May 1<sup>st</sup> for Discounted Cost: $1500</span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><em><i><font color="black"
face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><u2:p></u2:p>A technical
short course in </span></font></i></em>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 <st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:placetype u3:st="on"><st1:place
u8:st="on"><st1:placetype u8:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype
w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place></st1:placetype> of <st1:placename
w:st="on"><st1:placename u8:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on">Michigan</st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:place></st1:placetype></st1:place>.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><font color="black" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u2:p></u2:p>Anne
Fowler-Edin<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Biosphere-Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) Program<br>
<a href="http://www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/">bartumbs@umich.edu<br>
www.lsa.umich.edu/umbs/bart/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
June thru August<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:placetype
u3:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> of <st1:placename
w:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on">Michigan</st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:placetype></st1:place>
Biological Station<br>
<st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street u3:st="on"><st1:address
u3:st="on">9133 East State Street</st1:address></st1:street><br>
</st1:address></st1:street>Pellston MI 49769.<br>
231 539-8406<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">September
thru May<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:placetype
u3:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> of <st1:placename
w:st="on"><st1:placename u3:st="on">Michigan</st1:placename></st1:placename></st1:placetype></st1:place>
Biological Station<br>
930 N. University<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place u3:st="on"><st1:city
u3:st="on">Ann Arbor</st1:city></st1:place>, <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:state
u3:st="on">MI</st1:state></st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on"><st1:postalcode
u3:st="on">48109-1055</st1:postalcode></st1:postalcode><br>
</st1:city></st1:place>888-647-0536</span></font>
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