[Proflist] Biosphere-Atmosphere Research & Training (BART) IGERT
Program Short Courses
Michelle Flores
michelle at ucar.edu
Wed Mar 12 12:26:58 MDT 2008
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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