Graduate Student Opportunity
Marine Ecosystems and Climate:
Modeling and Analysis of Observed Variability
The National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado
2-14 August 2009
Application Deadline: Tuesday, 31 March 2009
For further information and to apply, please go to:
http://www.asp.ucar.edu/colloquium/2009/cgd/index.php
The Advanced Study Program (ASP) at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR), announces a graduate student colloquium, Marine
Ecosystems and Climate: Modeling and Analysis of Observed Variability.
The colloquium will be held 2-14 August 2009, in Boulder, Colorado, and
is intended to provide climate and marine ecosystem graduate students
with a comprehensive introduction to issues surrounding the development
of and hands-on experience with observational datasets and
state-of-the-art marine ecosystem modeling approaches in the context of
climate models and the techniques of testing models verses existing
datasets.
The colloquium will focus on interactions between climate and marine
ecosystems. It will include graduate student participants in
approximately equal numbers from both the marine ecosystem and climate
communities. It will feature lectures from more than one dozen
international experts on observed variability and change in both climate
and marine ecosystems, including the influence of climate on benthic,
coastal and open-ocean ecosystems. Lectures will also be given on modes
of tropical and extra-tropical climate variability, statistical analysis
techniques, earth system modeling, regional ocean models, fisheries,
marine protected areas and other socio-economic issues. Tutorials and
computer based exercises will also enable students to gain an in-depth
understanding of the models and analysis tools available to tackle
cross-disciplinary research problems.
The Advanced Study Program will fund travel and living expenses for
about 25 graduate student participants during the summer colloquium. The
application deadline is Tuesday, 31 March 2009. For further information
and to apply, please go to:
http://www.asp.ucar.edu/colloquium/2009/cgd/index.php.