Ice2Ice team went to the ACDC summerschool in Newfoundland

The 8th Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses – ACDC summer school took place from 8^th to 19^th August 2016 in Norris Point, Newfoundland. The topic of this year’s ACDC was understanding the basic principles and dynamics behind centennial to millennial scale climate variability and their link to past, present and future changes to high latitude climate.

ACDC 2016 group picture on Tablelands. Photo by Ryan Love.

Fun in the sunset light on the top of Tablelands mountain plateau. Photo by Ryan Love.

27 European, Canadian and US-based master, PhD students and PostDocs joined lectures of climate science with both fundamental lectures on core topics and topical lectures in the two weeks. The diverse background of the students and lecturers reflected the interdisciplinary nature of topics, combining all fields from atmosphere, oceanography, glaciology to geology, from proxy analysis to climate modelling. The course was well structured with both lectures, discussions, field trips and group projects. We ended the summer school by presented the group projects to the class, which topics were all from ice modelling, ocean modelling, lake sediments and icebergs.

Coring sediment cores from a small lake in Gros Morne National Park. Photo by Marie Kapsch

Bonfire on the beach. Photo by Iben Koldtoft.

The school was based at Bonne Bay Marine Station in Gros Morne National Park, which provided a unique location for field excursions and sightseeing. During our stay we therefore visited several locations to study the local climate, glaciological and geological history. Especially the hike during the weekend to Tablelands, a mountain plateau on the other side of the bay, was a really informative and fun field trip.

Hiking on the top of Tablelands. Photo by Kerim Nisancioglu

Enjoying the view during a break in the glacier formed valley. Photo by Benoit Lecavalier

In the two weeks the weather was unbelievably good, which provided great conditions for being outside exploring the area by hiking, kayaking and bonfire on the beach.

Several people involved in the ice2ice project were presented at the summer school, namely Kerim Nisancioglu (Professor UiB), Jonathan Rheinlænder (PhD student UiB), Andreas Plach (PhD student UiB), Nadine Steiger (MSc UiB), Søren Borg Nielsen (PhD student UCPH) and Iben Koldtoft (PhD student DMI and UCPH).

Ice2Ice people on the way to Tablelands with the local boat. Photo by Kerim Nisancioglu.

We strongly recommend this summer school to all our colleagues working within the fields of climate science.

Want to see more pictures from the 2 weeks? Search for the #acdcsummerschool on both Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Written on behalf of the ice2ice PhD students by Iben Koldtoft.