Course: Climate change (Seville, Spain) ~ Bioblogia.net

21 de mayo de 2014

Course: Climate change (Seville, Spain)

The Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) (Sevilla, Spain) invites applications for its
fifth international course on climate change entitled ‘Ecological Consequences of
Climate Change: Integrating Research Approaches’ taking place from 22 September
to 3 October 2014 in the heart of Doñana National Park. The course is open to
students at the early postdoc, PhD and Master/advanced Diploma levels who are
involved in global-change research. Its aim is to provide a synthetic overview upon
different research perspectives ranging from paleoecology to population genetics,
ecophysiology and bioclimatic modeling. The course will include lectures and
practical exercises provided by an international panel of high-profile researchers, as
well as field trips within the National Park.

Invited teachers:

Isabelle Chuine, CEFE (CNRS), Montpellier, France.
Solomon Dobrowski, University of Montana, USA.
Mary Edwards, University of Southampton, UK.
Arndt Hampe, UMR1202 BIOGECO (INRA), Cestas, France.
Montserrat Vila, Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain.
Juan Sanz, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Fernando Valladares, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Organizers: Juan José Negro, director of Estación Biológica de Doñana, and Arndt
Hampe.

The course language will be English. Support from the Gas Natural Chair ‘Biodiversity
Conservation under Climate Change’, enables us to limit registration fees to 100
Euros and to cover all costs for transportation between Sevilla and Doñana National
Park, accommodation and meals during the 2-weeks course. Applicants should
provide a brief CV (max. two pages) as well as a statement (max. 500 words) about
their research interests/current projects and why they would like to attend to the
course. Application deadline is 8 June. Please send applications in a single pdf file
and any related questions to Begoña Arrizabalaga (ebd_agcm@ebd.csic.es).

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