INTERFACE Discussion Forum

2012 Radiocarbon Short Course

Jeffrey Dukes — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:18:19 +0000

Radiocarbon in Ecology and Earth System Science

July 16-21, 2012

Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

http://www.imprs-gbgc.de/index.php/RadiocarbonSchool/Overview

Please note: the 2012 course will be held in Jena, Germany while the 2013 course will be held at UC Irvine as in the past.

This course will expose students and postdocs to the uses of radiocarbon in ecology and earth system science, especially in relation to ecosystem and global carbon cycling. The course design is modeled after the stable isotope class at the University of Utah. There will be morning lectures on the theory of radiocarbon by various instructors, followed by exercises in data interpretationand modeling and laboratory experience with preparing samples for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry analysis in the afternoon.

We seek participants with broad interests in ecology and earth system science who are planning on, or are currently, using radiocarbon techniques as part of their research, and wish to expand their understanding of this important and useful tool.

The application form for the class can be found here: http://www.imprs-gbgc.de/index.php/RadiocarbonSchool/Application.

Applications should be submitted by April 30, 2012 and we will inform participants shortly thereafter.

Students will be responsible for their own transportation costs to and from Jena, Germany, and for their own food and lodging costs (we will attempt to minimize these by arranging for shared housing; costs will range from about 40-70 Euro per night. Housing reservations will be handled by the course organizers. In addition, there is a lab fee of 500 Euro.

You can find additional information about course logistics and an overview on the website.

Course Organizers:

Ted Schuur (tschuur@ufl.edu)

Susan Trumbore (trumbore@bgc-jena.mpg.de)

Century/DayCent model training workshop

Jeffrey Dukes — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:12:49 +0000

We are pleased to announce that we have selected a date for the next Century/DayCent model training. We will conducting the workshop the week of July 23-27, 2012 at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. Depending on the number of individuals who register for the workshop the charge will be between $2,000.00 and $600.00 (U.S. dollars) for the weeklong model training. This cost covers the workshop only, individuals who attend the workshop are responsible for making their own travel, lodging, and meal arrangements. Please keep in mind that there will be a limited number of slots available for the training workshop and these will be assigned on a first come first served basis. For more information, contact Cindy Keough, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499 (cindy.keough@colostate.edu)

The 5th Annual Summer Course in Flux Measurements and Advanced Modeling

Jeffrey Dukes — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:05:03 +0000

The 5th Annual Summer Course in Flux Measurements and Advanced Modeling, July 16-27, 2012, University of Colorado Mountain Research Station, near Boulder, Colorado, USA

Application deadline: 30 March 2012

All information at:

http://www.ileaps.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=244&Itemid=112&year=2012&month=07&day=16&title=5th-annual-summer-course-in-flux-measurements-and-advanced-modeling&

Student Collaborative Exchange Program

Jeffrey Dukes — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:15:34 +0000

To further facilitate collaboration in the research community, INTERFACE plans to sponsor a limited number of “collaborative exchanges” for US-based graduate students, in which students who primarily work with models spend a brief period (up to one month) working in an experimental setting, or students who primarily work on global change experiments spend a brief period (up to one month) working in an ecosystem or Earth system modeling setting. These exchanges should ideally allow the student to continue working on a similar topic, but from a different perspective. Interested graduate students should identify a laboratory in which they would like to work, and should secure approvals from their advisor and the exchange lab’s PI. To apply, students should submit as a single PDF file: (1) a two-page proposal explicitly stating the questions being addressed and why the collaboration will facilitate answering them, (2) an NSF-style CV, (3) a one-page budget justification, and (4) letters of support from the advisor and the PI of the lab the student will visit. Applications should be sent to Aimée Classen . Applications will be reviewed at two times each year, starting on the fourth Monday of April and the fourth Monday of October, through the end of 2014. Allowable expenses include airfare, meals while traveling to and from the exchange location, and housing. These funds cannot be used to cover classes at the host institution or student/ PI salary. Exchanges may be partially or fully sponsored by INTERFACE.

Welcome to the INTERFACE discussion forum!

Jeffrey Dukes — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:13:48 +0000

This site is designed to provide terrestrial global change researchers with an international forum for discussion. In particular, we hope this site will facilitate communication among those measuring and modeling ecosystem processes, across scales. For instance, if you model ecosystem processes and need to find a certain kind of data, you can use this forum to post a question to the observational and experimental community. If you are an experimentalist (manipulator?) and have a question for the modeling community, post it here! To participate in the discussion, please register with INTERFACE and then log in here using your INTERFACE username and password. You can keep track of ongoing discussions by using the RSS feed.

(Incidentally, if you have an idea for a better place or way to establish a forum like this, post that idea as well! If there’s a better way to do this, we should!)