C.T. De Wit Graduate School

Production Ecology and Resources Conservation - PE-RC

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 Number 3 - Year 2011

  4 April  2011

Contents

  

  1. PE-RC PhD courses

  2. PE-RC Weekend

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

  4. Other courses

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

  6. Position Announcements

  7. Others

  

1. PE-RC PhD courses   

    

2. PE-RC Weekend (15-17 April 2011)

The idea of this weekend is to make PhD students more familiar with the Graduate School and to give them an idea of what to expect during the PhD track and how to avoid major catastrophes and disappointments. Focus will be on the pit-falls you can encounter during the PhD and what the criteria are for a successful PhD within 4 years. For more information click here.

 

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

4. Others courses

  • Summerschool Climate KIC - Call for application is now open - deadline 30 April 2011. For more information to the webpage.
  • Organization and leadership for PhD students - May 2011 - Utrecht University. For more information please click here.

  • Executive Education Course on Sustainable Development Diplomacy (10 to 19 June 2011) The Netherlands. Please note that there are scholarships available for Wageningen University students. For more information please click here.
  • Modeling and Mapping Species Distributions’ voor PhD students (21 - 24 June 2011) Amsterdam. For more information please click here.
  • GISLERS - Summer School 2011 on "Bridging GIS, Landscape Ecology and Remote Sensing for Landscape Planning" (June 27 - July 8, 2011) Salzburg, Austria. For more information please click here.
  • International PhD Summerschool on Environmental Signaling  (22-24 August 2011)  This is a low costs school aimed primarily at PhD students and post-docs. Usually about 100 young researchers participate, half of which come from abroad. For more information please click here.

  • ALTER-Net Summer School  "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" (7-16 September 2011) Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France.  Please download the application form and send it back to us till 15 April 2011. Successful participants will be notified by 15 June 2011. For more informaiton please click here

5. Symposia, Lectures, Workshops and Seminars

  • Conference "Next generation insights into geosciences and ecology" (12-13 May 2011) Tartu, Estonia. For more information/registration please click here. Late registration closes 29 April 2011

  • Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene - Presentation:Frank Biermann Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (7 April 2011 10h30 – 12h00)  Mansholt room, Leeuwenborch building (Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen). For more information please click here.
  •  Botanical Microscopy conference (16-21 April 2011) Wageningen, The Netherlands  For more information please click here.
  • Cheetahs - Racing to extinction/Conservation biologist, founder and director of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia Dr. Laurie Marker -  (Monday 18 April, 14:00)  Atlas 2/3 Wageningen University Campus.   The meeting is open to all people interested. For more information on the Ecological Theory - Application discussion group please click here.  For more information on dr. Laurie Marker please visit www.cheetah.org. 
  • 12th Swiss Global Change Day (19 April 2011) For more information plase click here or go to his website. Deadline for registration is 8 April 2011.
  • 8th APGC Symposium: 'Plant Functioning in a Changing Global and Polluted Environment' (5-9 June 2011) Hampshire Hotel - Plaza, Groningen, The Netherlands.  See Programme. For more information please click here.
  • 4th. Ecogenomics Day - University of Amsterdam (16 June 2011) For more information please click here.
  • Darwin Summer School on Biogeosciences: Perturbation of the hlobal carbon cycle (4 - 15 July 2011) Utrecht and Texel/The Netherlands. Scholarship available/ Application deadline 1 June 2011  click here.
  • Grassland in a global context - Symposium Celebrating 30 years of research at the Konza Prairie Biological Station and the LTER Program  (12-14 Septermber 2011) Kasnsas, USA.For more information please click here. or go to the site.
  • Challenges and opportunities for agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of Sub-Saharan Africa  (24-27 October 2011)  For more information please click here.

6. Position Announcements

  • Soil science PostDoc to work on nutrient management in rice-based systems with reduced tillage, at IRRI.  For more information please click here.
  • PhD position (F/M), Insect-resistance of plants in the context of multiple stresses - Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Entomology .
     For more information please click here.
  • Professor in Organic Farming Systems at Wageningen University   For more information please click here  .
    I    nf    ormation about the vacancy can also be found at     www.jobsat.wur.nl under vacancy number WU-2011-HL002. The deadline for application is April 20, 2011
  • PhD candidate in the field of plant ecology/biodiversity research - Biodiversity-Effects in Subtropical Forest -  For more information about the position please click here. For Further information about the research project and our group please click here. Research project "BEF-China":

7. Others

When you have information that you want to have included in PE-RC messages please send this information to: Claudius.vandeVijver@wur.nl