Applications are invited to attend the 2016 Advanced Climate Dynamics Course – this will be the 8th in a series of very exiting summer schools focusing on climate dynamics and aiming to mix students and faculty from different backgrounds to exchange and discuss current topics in the field.
Topic: Role of High Latitudes in Centennial to Millennial Scale Climate Variability
Date: August 8th – August 20th, 2016
Where: Bonne Bay Research Station on Newfoundland
Goal: To mix students and lecturers with empirical/proxy and dynamical training within climate science and focus on 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.
Confirmed lecturers:
David Battisti – University of Washington
Anne Jennings – Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Ray Bradley – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alan Condron – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Julie Bringham Grette – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tore Furevik – University of Bergen
Jake Gebbie – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Patrick Heimbach – The University of Texas at Austin / Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kerim H. Nisancioglu – University of Bergen
Øyvind Paasche – University of Bergen
Lev Tarasov – Memorial University of Newfoundland
Applications:
deadline is the 10th of March and we aim to send decision letters by early April. The application form is found here: http://www.resclim.no/2158.aspx
For further details of this (and info on earlier) summer courses, go to:
Note that local expenses will be covered by the summer school. There will also be an opportunity to apply for a travel grant, which will cover part of the costs of travel to Newfoundland. If you have any questions, please contact: acdc@uib.no
PS! Flyer: http://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/acdc2016flyer_0.pdf