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PE&RC Messages

 Number 5 - Year 2010

31 May 2010

Contents

1. PE&RC PhD courses

2. Skills and competences courses organized by Wageningen Graduate School (WGS)
3. Other courses

4. Symposia, Lectures, Workshops. Seminars and other activities

5. Other news

1. PE&RC PhD courses       

• Linear Models (14 June - 16 June 2010)

• Mixed Linear Models (21 - 22 June 2010)

• Soil Ecology: Taking global issues underground (20-25 June 2010) Hotel De Wageningsche Berg - Wageningen - The Netherlands     See Poster

• Generalized Linear Models (28 - 29 June 2010)

• Human induced Soil Degradation in the Tropics (1-13 Augustus 2010) - Preparation meeting 7 June 2010 -   See Poster
  Bayesian Statistics (21- 22 October 2010)

• Geostatistics (25-29 October 2010)

• Transforum Innovation for Sustainability (1 - 5 November 2010)

   

   

2. Skills and competences courses organized by Wageningen Graduate School (WGS) 

• PhD Competence Assessment   (individual meeting 22, 23 or 24 June)

• Information Literacy  (15 and 16 June) 

         For more information please click here

3. Others courses  

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• Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: Intervision and Communication Skills ( 3, 10 and 17 June 2010)  Dr. E. Cocheret de la Morinière  organized by  Wageningen Graduate Schools (WGS) and CERES. For more information please go to this website.
   
• new Plant Nutrients in Terrestrial Ecosystems - Acquisition and Turnover (7 to 18 June 2010) Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. For more information please see brochure
   
• 6th International School of Conservation Biology (iSCB) (23 June - 1 July 2010) Rovinj, Croatia. For graduate and post-graduate students interested in the field of Conservation Biology. Registration is opened and available on-line at: www.hbd1885.hr/iscb . For more information please contact T.Hengl.
   
• new  Biogeology: How to use Fossils to Reconstruct the Past. (05 to 16 July 2010) Utrecht, The Netherlands -  A general introduction on the use of fossils to reconstruct time (biostratigraphy) will be followed by lectures on marine invertebrate paleontology, micropaleontology, vertebrate paleontology and plant remains. An important part of the course will consist of hands-on exercises where you will learn how to use fossils for age determination and for environmental reconstruction.  For more information please click here
   
• new Summer Course Geo-ecological Data Analysis 12-16 July 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This course uses the book Mapping species distributions - Spatial inference and prediction by Janet Franklin (2009, Cambridge university press) as a theoretical basis. The focus is on selecting data, understanding data processing and analysis steps for diverse taxa and work-flows for interpreting model results, rather than computer skills. Notwithstanding this emphasis, a number of software tools are used and explained, such as GIS software to process environmental and species occurrence data and the R environment for SDM. The course combines short lectures with participant discussions and predominantly hands-on (computer)work. Also data and problems brought in by participants will be analysed. Participants working with their own data are recommended, and will be supported, to publish their data online through the infrastructure of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The course is coordinated by Emiel van Loon (Computational Geo-Ecology, UvA) and Cees Hof (the coordinator of NLBIF, the Dutch national GBIF-node) and brings in international expertise in different fields. See poster
   
• GEOSTAT 2010 Summer School, (27 June - 4 July 2010) - University of Plasencia, Spain. For more information please click here.
   
• Integrated Assessment of Agricultural Systems (IAAS) for a Sustainable Development  (5 - 10 September 2010) , Montpellier, France - Organized by: CIHEAM-IAMM (France), Montpellier Supagro (France) and SEAMLESS the Association (The Netherlands) Chairs: Hatem Belhouchette (IAMM), Jacques Wery (Montpellier SupAgro) and Martin van Ittersum (SEAMLESS Association, Wageningen University). For more information click here

4. Symposia, Lectures, Workshops and Seminars, 

• Changing the traditional way of doing science to realise scientific breakthroughs Tuesday 1 June 2010, (15.00 – 17.00) Hofstee Room (C64), Leeuwenborch,  Hollandseweg 1,  Wageningen . For more information please see poster.
   

• NEW Mini-symposium “The role of organic resources in soil fertility management for sustainable agricultural intensification, rural poverty alleviation and risk mitigation across social-ecological contexts in Sub Saharan Africa” Friday 11 June, Wageningen University - Atlas building - Wageningen 11 a.m – 14.45 p.m., Atlas 1+2   See programme here.
   

• NEW NOVA agroecology PhD-course "Farming and food systems as social-ecological systems: integrated assessment for resilience and adaptive capacity" 
  13-19 June 2010 Findland  For more information please go to: NOVA- web page   See programme.
  

• Environmental Systems Analysis (June 21– 25, 2010), Eawag Dübendorf, Switzerland, The Eawag Summer School “Environmental Systems Analysis” provides an introduction to model-based data analysis in the environmental sciences. It covers model construction, sensitivity analysis, frequentist and Bayesian inference, and stimation of model prediction uncertainty. The course consists of lectures covering the underlying theory, practice sessions based on didactical exercises, and discussion of problems of the participants. The participants are encouraged to bring their data sets and models to start working on their own problems during the course.  More Information.
   
• Vierde symposium Waddenacademie 24 juni 2010 in het Biologisch Centrum van de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN HAREN. See brochure
   
• Workshop "Wildlife surveillance using GPS: From movement tracking to behavior recognition " at the Measuring Behavior conference (24 - 27 August 2010)  Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
  For registration and further information, please go to: http://www.measuringbehavior.org/mb2010/workshops .
   
• 13th ISBE meeting  (26 September 2010) Perth - Australia. The congress is hosted by the Centre for Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Western Australia For more information please click here.
   
• Scaling and Governance Conference 2010 (10 - 12 Nov. 2010)  Hof van Wageningen, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  Policies have many impacts on environmental and human processes at different spatial and temporal scales. Climate change, biodiversity, energy consumption, water resource management, and food security are a few of the many examples illustrating the complex multi-scale interactions within and between environmental and human processes. This observation fits well within a long history of disappointments in policy and management related to our environment and indicates that scale sensitive governance approaches are required.
  
  Wageningen University invites participants of the conference to discuss integrative concepts, methodologies, and case studies related to scaling and governance issues in complex systems. Anticipated outcomes of the conference include an international research agenda and recommendations for scale-sensitive governance approaches. Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2010. 
  For more information please click here.

5. Others news

• Symposium and Farewell address upon retiring Prof. Dr. J.C. van Lenteren - Entomology /Wageningen University  "How Sciences Inspires Biological Pest Control" (10 June 2010) (12.45 - 19.00 hrs.) Aula Wageningen University, General Foulkesweg 1, Wageningen  For more information click here for registration please send an email to : office.ento@wur.nl

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