ADVANCED CLIMATE DYNAMICS COURSE (ACDC) 2010 on ICE-SHEET OCEAN INTERACTIONS
which will take place 8-19 June, 2010 at the MIT FabLab, Lyngen, northern Norway.
Detailed information is available online at: http://www.bccr.no/acdc/
Advanced graduate students and early post-docs are encouraged to apply.
The application deadline is 1 March 2010.
The main focus of this year's course will be on the interaction between ice sheets, ice shelves and the ocean based on theory, models, observations, and proxy data. The course aims to provide an environment for engaging discussions between all participants (students and lecturers), exchange of concepts and ideas between oceanography, paleoclimate and glaciology, and identification of key scientific challenges.
The list of lecturers includes:
David Battisti (U. Washington), Tore Furevik (BCCR/U. Bergen), Jake Gebbie (Harvard U.), Patrick Heimbach (MIT), Richard Hindmarsh (BAS), Adrian Jenkins (BAS), Jesse Johnson (U. Montana), Kerim Nisancioglu (BCCR/U. Bergen), Ole Anders Nøst (NPolar, Tromsø), Svein Osterhus (BCCR/U. Bergen), Olga Sergienko (GFDL/Princeton U.), Fiamma Straneo (WHOI), Andreas Vieli (U. Durham).
The course is sponsored by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU), the Research Council of Norway, the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (UNI and UiB), University of Washington, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The organizers
David Battisti (U. Washington)
Tore Furevik (BCCR/UiB)
Jake Gebbie (Harvard University)
Patrick Heimbach (MIT)
Kerim Nisancioglu (BCCR/UNI)
