Earth System Science Summer School 2012
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General Information
Dates: 18th - 30th March 2012
Location: Holiday Inn Southampton, NOC Southampton. The Holiday Inn hotel sits on the edge of Southampton Water and is only a 15 minute walk from NOC Southampton where lectures and activities will take place.
The Earth System Science Spring School (ES4) 2012 will take place in Southampton between 18th and 30th March. ES4 provides PhD students and early-career researchers* with a broad foundation in earth system science and its applications. The school is managed by NCAS and involves several major UK research institutes allowing access to the knowledge and expertise of renowned scientists. ES4 will deliver an intensive programme including earth, marine, terrestrial, atmospheric and polar science.
*ES4 is open to NERC funded PhD students and researchers in the first instance.
NOC Southampton (taken from http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/nocs/about.php)
Course details
ES4 2012 Preliminary Timetable
The Earth System Science Spring School provides students with a background in Earth systems and how they interact. A wider knowledge of the Earth's systems allows students to place their research into context and encourages collaborations across disciplines. A mixture of lectures and practical sessions are used to deliver the course content, providing both scientific knowledge and hands-on experience. As well as formal learning, students will get experience of field work; one day will be spent on the Isle of Wight looking at how changes in the environment are recorded in the rocks and students will get an introduction to oceanography on the NOC research vessel the RV Callista. Students will also present their own work, allowing them a relaxed environment to practice presentation skills and to learn about each other’s work. During the course there will be a strong emphasis on student participation and community building, with the intention to create lasting networks.
This year the school is based at the National Oceanographic Centre in Southampton (http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/nocs/about.php). The course will include lectures on meteorology, atmospheric circulation, oceanography, atmospheric composition, climate and climate change economics and policy. Researchers and students from the NERC Long Term Co-evolution of Planet and Life programme will be joining us for the second week of the course and will be running a day of lectures on Earth history, paleoclimatology and ecological evolution. A half day introduction to oceanography will take place on the RV Callista which provides an excellent opportunity to see what it is like to work on a research ship as we cruise across Southampton Water taking biological, physical, chemical and environmental data. The British Geological Survey will run a field trip to the Isle of Wight to look at how changes in the environment are recorded in the rock. Activities will take place at the chalk cliffs of Freshwater Bay and looking for evidence of the Paloecene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the sands and clays at Alum Bay.
Cost: £300 per person for NERC funded students/researchers. This includes accommodation, meals, internet access during course, and the field trips to the Isle of Wight and on the RV Callista. Travel to and from Southampton is not included. We recommend that participants arrive by train.
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General Information
The Earth System Science Spring School (ES4) takes place at a different location every year. ES4 provides NERC-funded PhD students, NERC staff currently working towards their PhD, and early-career NERC researchers with a broad foundation in earth system science and its applications. The school is managed by NCAS, in partnership with a number of UK research facilities. This partnership provides a wide-ranging knowledge base on which to draw to create a comprehensive and world-class curriculum.
Course details
The Earth System Science Spring School provides students with a background in Earth systems and how they interact. A wider knowledge of the Earth's systems allows students to place their research into context and encourages collaborations across disciplines. A mixture of lectures and practical sessions are used to deliver the course content, providing both scientific knowledge and hands-on experience. As well as formal learning, students will get experience of field work with a day spent in the field looking at geological aspects of the earth. Students will also present their own work, allowing them a relaxed environment to practice presentation skills and to learn about each other's work.
Partners involved in ES4 are:
- British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
- British Geological Survey (BGS)
- Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP)
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
- Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge
- Dept of Physics, Imperial College
- NCAS Climate University of Reading
- NCAS Composition University of York
- NCAS Weather
- National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO)
- National Oceanographic Centre (NOC)
The School covers topics in atmospheric, earth, ecologic, hydrologic, marine, oceanographic and polar sciences, as well as climate change economics and policy. An extensive range of current research topics are taught in a number of formats, including formal lectures, workshops, group work, presentations, field observations and practical exercises.