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PE-RC Messages

 Number 1 - Year 2011

5 January 2011

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. Position Announcements

  6. Other news

  

 

1. PE-RC PhD courses       

2. Skills and competences courses organized by Wageningen Graduate School (WGS)  For more information please click here 

3. Others courses

  • GIS - Remote Sensing Applications for Environmental Sciences  (31 January –  5 February 2011) Coimbra Portugal.For more information please see announcement.
     

  • PCDI Postdoc Retreat: Your future, your choice! (16 - 18 February 2011) the Postdoc Career Development Initiative (PCDI) organizes the Postdoc Retreat. This annual event is specifically targeting final year PhD students and postdocs in the Life Sciences and focuses on personal, professional and career development. Goal of this 3-day course is to increase the awareness of the capacities and career possibilities of young scientists. For more information please click here or see poster.
     

  • WGS Moral Dilemmas in Daily Scientific Practices (15, 16 and 18 February 2011) Wageningen University. For more information please click here.
     

  • IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program (1 June-1 September 2011) Each summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located in Schloss Laxenburg near Vienna, Austria, hosts a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP).  For more information please click here.

4. Symposia, Lectures, Workshops and Seminars

  • Plant Sciences Seminar (11 January 2011- 16:00 h) Wageningen University - Large Meeting room- Radix West
     
  • Environmental Governance - Seminar Series: The “Designation Effect” of Marine Protected Areas: The case of Northern Canada - (19 January 2011)
    13h30 – 15h00 Mansholt room, Leeuwenborch building (Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen) For more information please click here.
     

  • Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (8 and 9 February 2011) Conference Centre De Werelt (Lunteren). The Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM) is a two-day event organised by NERN and NECOV (Dutch - Flemish Ecological Society) and supported by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This year the NAEM will be held in conjunction with the Darwin Days (7-8 February 2011) of the Darwin Centre for Biogeosciences. This means that the second Darwin Day is also the first day of the Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting. For more information please click here.
     
  • Modelling concepts in biogeomorphology (15 February 2011) Wageningen University Campus. For more information please click here. See poster
     

  • Global soil fertility: The role of next generation smart fertilizers (21 March 2011) Wageningen The Netherlands. For more information please click here.
     
  • Delivering a sustainable future for freshwater resources (13-18 March 2011) Rotorua, New Zealand. This is a ‘Call for Participants’ to take part in a five-day “Sandpit1” to look for new ways to characterise groundwater resources, and sustainably allocate freshwater in today’s society. Closing Date for applications: 6 January 2011 (5pm in applicant’s country) For more information please click here.
     
  • Conference on Spatial Statistics 2011 (23-25 March 2011), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
    The aim of the meeting is to present interdisciplinary research where applicability in other disciplines is a central core concept. For more information please click here.
     
  • Symposium “How to write a world class paper” (19 April 2011) Wageningen University. For more information please click here.
     
  • FoSW symposium ‘Ecosystem Services in soil and water research (7-10 June 2011) Ultuna campus of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden. For more information please go to the website.
     
  • 4th ESP1 conference "Integrating Science and Practice"  (4–7 October 2011), Wageningen, The Netherlands. For more information please click here.

5. Position Announcements

  • Two Phd position at the Terrestrial Ecology Unit – Ghent University
    Position 1: Evolution of dispersal and ecological consequences in artificial metapopulations. Position 2: Life history and dispersal evolution during range expansion dynamics. For more information please click here.
     
  • Position available at FiBL Switzerland (starting in February 2011) We are looking for a very enthusiastic candidate with a sound background in plant microbe symbiosis, plant nutrition and stress tolerance and experience in microbiology, molecular and analytic methods. For more information please click here.
     
  • PhD researcher (AIO) Arid Ecosystems - Environmental Sciences Group of the department of Innovation and Environmental Sciences - Faculteit Geowetenschappen . For more information please click here.
     
  • 2 PhD positions: Critical transitions and early-warning signals in spatial ecosystems. Project 1 with ecological emphasis the PhD will be appointed at Faculty Geosciences, Utrecht University. Project 2 with mathematical emphasis the PhD will be appointed at Faculty of Science, Leiden University. For more information please click here.

6. Other News

  • Call for abstracts of the first Wageningen Conference on Applied Soill Science: 'Soil Science in a Changing World' (18 -22  September 2011). For more information please click here, to submit your abstract click here.
     
  • Tijdschrift De Levende Natuur : is het tijdschrift voor Natuurbehoud en Natuurbeheer in Nederland en Vlaanderen. Voor meer informatie klick here
 
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