The ACDC summer school, or Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses, will be held for the fifth time this year. Around 25 PhD-students and early Post Docs will gather in Nyksund in Vesterålen in Norway from 18th to 31st of August. In addition there will be about 15 lecturers.
- This year’s theme is «Dynamics of the last deglaciation», and we will focus on basic principles and the dynamics of the deglaciation from the last ice age, which we can observe from paleoclimate archives, both marine, terrestrial and from ice cores, scientist Iselin Medhaug at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research says.
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| This is the fifth year ACDC will be held. Here from the introduction course at Snøhetta last year. |
Brings together climate researchers
The summer school is coordinated by Resclim, a national training environment for PhD candidates in Climate Dynamics.
It is organized by the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research at the University of Bergen in collaboration with the University of Washington and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- The goal is to bring together students and scientists with different backgrounds, but all working on climate related issues, to create an interdisciplinary environment for all the participants, Medhaug says.
Also social activities
The summer school is sponsored by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU), the Research Council of Norway, the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (UiB and UNI-Research), University of Washington, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
New partners for period 2013-2016 are University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Memorial University of Newfoundland.
- We go on field trips, looking for traces of the last ice age. We also have social activities so that the participants can get to know each other better.
Networking!
- Why should people join the summer school?
- Networking! It is a unique possibility to bridge different disciplines and different institutions and get new partners, sea Norway and learn more about climate dynamics, Medhaug says.
More information about the summer school can be found here . Registration for ACDC2013 is open, with deadline on 28th of February 2013.