The following is a selection of upcoming courses. For an overview of all SENSE courses, please visit www.sense.nl/courses/list.html

S123 Nanotechnology for Water and Wastewater Treatment

6 - 9 April 2010
Coordinator(s): Piet Lens, Selda Akbal (UNESCO-IHE)
Link to the course: www.unesco-ihe.org/Education/Short-courses/Regular-short-courses/Nanotechnology-for-Water-Technology
Note: for SENSE PhD students the course fee is only EUR 250.

S123 Biological Processes for Resource Recovery in Environmental Technology (SENSE)

12 - 16 April 2010
3.0 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Tim Grotenhuis (ETE-WUR)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s123

S013E Multivariate Analysis (SENSE/PE&RC)

19 - 29 April 2010
1.5 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s013e

S010B Basic Statistics (SENSE/PE&RC)

26 May - 1 June 2010
1.5 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s010b

S010A1 Linear Models (SENSE/PE&RC)

14 - 16 June 2010
1.5 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s01a1

S210 Soil Ecology: Taking Global Issues Belowground (SENSE/PE&RC/NERN)

20 - 25 June 2010
2.0 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s210

S010A2 Mixed Linear Models (SENSE/PE&RC)

21 - 22 June 2010
0.6 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s01a2

S010A3 Generalized Linear Models (SENSE/PE&RC)

28 - 29 June 2010
0.6 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s01a3

S031 The Art of Modelling(SENSE/PE&RC)

23 August - 3 September 2010
3.0 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s031

Autumn School: 'Biogeochemistry and -physics of the lower atmosphere'(SENSE/IMPRS)

9 - 17 October 2010
Link to the course: www.atmosphere.mpg.de/enid/09a25884d0f553a19575c75a66a605e0,0/BGCP_2_ss_/Welcome_7dc.html

S010A4 Bayesian Statistics (SENSE/PE&RC)

21 - 22 October 2010
0.6 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/course/s01a4

Skills Courses

An updated overview of all skills courses at SENSE universities and institutes is available now at www.sense.nl/docs/2503.

The following is a selection of interesting external courses.

Publiceren met Word, tekstverwerking voor AIO's (RUG)

15 - 18 March 2010
Link to the course: www.rug.nl/cit/onderwijs/cursus/basispub

Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals (Tress & Tress)

16 - 18 March 2010
Link to the course: www.tress-tress.com/products/publishing/comprehensive-training.html

Roads to Success in Interdisciplinary Research (Tress & Tress)

19 March 2010
Link to the course: www.tress-tress.com/products/interdisciplinarity/interdisciplinary-research.html

Bioreactor Design and Operation (VLAG/WUR)

22 - 26 March 2010
Link to the course: www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/courses/reactor-design.htm

Publishing using Word for PhD students (RUG)

19 - 21 April 2010
Link to the course: www.rug.nl/cit/onderwijs/cursus/basispub?lang=en

Irreversibilities, Uncertainties, and Real Option Values (MG3S/WUR)

19 - 23 April 2010
Link to the course: www.mansholt.wur.nl/UK/education/courses/upcoming_ongoing/

Building an Innovation System for Sustainable Development (PE&RC/WUR)

19 - 23 April 2010
Link to the course: www.pe-rc.nl/database/Courses%20&%20Activities/PE&RC%20postgraduate%20courses/Building%20an%20innovation%20system%20for%20sustainable%20development.htm

Advanced LCA - Consequential Modelling, IO-LCA, and Land-use (Aalborg University)

11 - 12 May 2010
Link to the course: adm.aau.dk/fak-tekn/phd/kurser/s5_2.html

Mixed Effects Models in Ecology (University of Coimbra)

17 - 21 May 2010
Link to the course: www1.ci.uc.pt/imar/mixed_model/

Organization and Leadership for PhD Students (School of Governance, Utrecht University)

19 May, 2, 3, 14, 15, 16, 28, 29, 30 June 2010
Link to the course: www.pe-rc.nl/documents/PE&RC%20messages/FOLDER%20Organization%20and%20leadership%20PhD%20students%20spring%202010.pdf

Coping with the Challenges of a PhD Study (Tress & Tress)

31 May - 2 June 2010
Link to the course: www.tress-tress.com/products/phd-studies/phd-bootcamp.html

Understanding Peer-Reviewed Publishing (Tress & Tress)

3 June 2010
Link to the course: www.tress-tress.com/products/publishing/compact-training.html

Executive Education Course on Sustainable Development Diplomacy (Tufts University, WUR, LNV, SCF)

6 - 20 June 2010
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/articles/events/5771

Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals (Tress & Tress)

7 - 9 June 2010
Link to the course: www.tress-tress.com/products/publishing/comprehensive-training.html

Estuarine Ecology (RSEE)

14 - 18 June 2010
Link to the course: www.rug.nl/biologie/onderzoek/onderzoekscholen/rsee/phdCourses/estuarineEcology

Summer School Environmental Systems Analysis (EAWAG)

21 - 25 June 2010
Link to the course: www.eawag.ch/about/standorte/index_EN

6th International School of Conservation Biology (iSCB)

23 June - 1 July 2010
Link to the course: www.hbd1885.hr/iscb/

GEOSTAT 2010 Summer School (Plasencia, Spain)

27 June - 4 July 2010
Link to the course: geostat2010.info/flyer

Summer School: GISLERS - Bridging GIS, Landscape Ecology, and Remote Sensing for Landscape Planning

29 June - 9 July 2010
Link to the course: www.edu-zgis.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=347&Itemid=278⟨=en

Utrecht Summer School: Analysis of Variance using SPSS and R

12 - 15 July 2010
Link to the course: www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=S15

Coping with the Challenges of a PhD Study (Tress & Tress)

25 - 27 October 2010
Link to the course: www.tress-tress.com/products/phd-studies/phd-bootcamp.html

Miyuki Nagashima
Game-theoretic analysis of international climate agreements: The design of transfer schemes and the role of technological change
12 March 2010, 16.00 hrs, Wageningen

Alvaro Moreno
Climate change and tourism – Impacts and vulnerability in coastal Europe
19 March 2010, 12.00 hrs, Maastricht

Kirsten Steinbusch
Liquid biofuel production from volatile fatty acids
19 March 2010, 16.00 hrs, Wageningen

Carla Kruk
Morphology captures function in phytoplankton. A large-scale analysis of phytoplankton communities in relation to their environment
6 April 2010, 11.00 hrs, Wageningen

Gissell Lacerot
Effects of climate on size structure and functioning of aquatic food webs
6 April 2010, 13.30 hrs, Wageningen

Sarian Kosten
Aquatic ecosystems in hot water. Effects of climate on the functioning of shallow lakes
6 April 2010, 16.00 hrs, Wageningen

Marthe de Graaff
Resource recovery from black water
16 April 2010, 13.30 hrs, Wageningen

Jeroen Geurts
Restoration of fens and peat lakes: a biogeochemical approach
21 May 2010, 13.00 hrs, Nijmegen

Don't forget to announce your own graduation at www.sense.nl/graduations. Or send an email to renske.terhurne@wur.nl.

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Op 10 februari verscheen er namens 55 Nederlandse wetenschappers op het gebied van klimaatverandering, milieu en energie een open brief, waarin gereageerd werd op de ontstane discussie over het IPCC en de fouten in het Klimaatrapport 2007. Sinds het verschijnen van de brief hebben al meer dan 150 wetenschappers uit binnen- en buitenland hun steun betuigt aan de brief en er komen nog elke dag meer ondertekenaars bij.

De open brief is terug te vinden op www.sense.nl/openbrief. Hier vindt u ook de mogelijkheid om de adhesiebetuiging in te vullen. Dit kan nog tot 15 maart aanstaande.

A group of 55 Dutch scientists, working in the field of climate change, energy and the environment, published an open letter to respond to the ongoing discussion about the IPCC and the errors in the Climate Report 2007 on February 10. Since it's publication more than 150 scientists from countries all over the world have expressed their support for this letter and more signatories are added still.

You can find the open letter on www.sense.nl/openletter. Here you also have the possibility to express your support for the letter. This is possible until March 15.

Date: March 9, 2010
Location: Atlas 1 - 3, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Duration: all day.

During this symposium 10 PhD students will give presentations that cover the wide range of research on land, water and atmosphere interactions, carried out by the chair groups of the Centre for Water and Climate of Wageningen UR.

Date: April 1, 2010
Location: VU University, Amsterdam
Duration: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Each semester the department of Animal Ecology at the VU organises a journal club around a specific theme.

The coming period, the journal club will focus on a book: "Community Ecology, Processes, Models and Applications" (see: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199228980.do).

Date: April 13, 2010
Location: NWO, Den Haag
Duration: all day.

De NWO-Talent Classes zijn net als de NWO-Talentendag dagen waarop jonge onderzoekers contacten kunnen leggen en vaardigheden opdoen die een wetenschapper in zijn opleiding doorgaans niet meekrijgt, zoals netwerken, presenteren voor de media en succesvol publiceren.

Date: May 19, 2010
Location: Aula Congress Centre, TU Delft, Mekelweg 5, 2628 CC Delft
Duration: all day.

The second Remote Sensing Symposium (RSS) will be hosted by the Delft University of Technology. Following a successful first symposium organized by VU Amsterdam in 2009, this symposium seeks to stimulate the exchange of ideas among a community of PhD students and researchers on various fields of Remote Sensing techniques and their applications. During the symposium, PhD candidates from all over the Netherlands will present their research on the field of Remote Sensing, either through an oral presentation, or through a poster.

Date: June 21, 2010
Location: Dübendorf, Switerzerland
Duration: all day.

The course provides an introduction to model-based data analysis in the environmental sciences. It covers model construction, sensitivity analysis, frequentist and Bayesian inference, and estimation of model prediction uncertainty. As prediction in the environmental sciences usually requires the combination of prior knowledge with measured data, there is an emphasis on Bayesian techniques.

The course is targeted at researchers who are interested in analyzing their data with mathematical models. This includes PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, and senior research scientists. The course consists of lectures, 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.

The course will be very intensive to optimize the benefit of the participants.

Date: October 9, 2010
Location: Paphos branch of the Cyprus Institute, Cyprus.
Duration: all day.

We welcome you to a joint autumn school of the International Max Planck Research School for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (IMPRS), the Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE) and Wageningen University Environment Climate Research (WIMEK) in cooperation with the Cyprus Institute.
 
The research school focuses on the biogeochemical and -physical interactions between the Earth’s surface (land and ocean) and the lower atmosphere and addresses PhD students in Earth sciences. We offer a rich lecture program given by leading researches in their fields and complemented by basic modeling exercises.

Date: March 8, 2010
Location: Room T 0.07 at PBL, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
Duration: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Klimaat is de laatste tijd vaak in het nieuws (“hot”):  “Kloppen de uitkomsten van IPCC wel?”, “Is er überhaupt sprake van een klimaatprobleem”, “Komt er ooit nog een klimaatakkoord?”, en “Welke oplossingen zijn wel en niet toegestaan?”. In het seminar 'Hot Topics in the Climate Debate', georganiseerd door het Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (PBL), gaan drie vooraanstaande klimaatonderzoekers in op actuele onderwerpen in het klimaatdebat. Hierbij zal aansluitend ruimte zijn voor debat over de gepresenteerde onderwerpen en zal tevens worden gereflecteerd op de beste wijze om het PBL-onderzoek naar fouten in het werkgroep II rapport van IPCC (2007) uit te voeren.

Climate is a hot topic lately: “Are the outcomes of the IPCC correct?”, “Is there a problem with the climate at all?”, “Will there ever be a climate treaty?”, and “Which solutions are allowed?”. Three leading climate scientists will address these questions and related issues in the seminar ‘Hot topics in the Climate Debate’, organized by the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). There will also be time to debate about these issues and to discuss how PBL should carry out their study about the errors in the work group II report of the IPCC (2007).

Date: March 8, 2010
Location: het Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam
Duration: 12:00 PM to 5:15 PM

In een tijd waarin het maatschappelijk vertrouwen in de wetenschap steeds belangrijker wordt, is het van wezenlijk belang dat het wetenschappelijk onderzoek zelf beantwoordt aan de hoogste ethische normen, en dat schendingen van deze normen op een eerlijke en transparante wijze worden geïdentificeerd en behandeld.

Nederland lijkt met een wetenschappelijke gedragscode (VSNU), het Landelijk Orgaan voor Wetenschappelijke Integriteit (LOWI) en de gedragscode belangenverstrengeling van NWO de zaak goed op orde te hebben. Toch blijven er, mede op grond van de ervaringen van zowel het LOWI als de universiteiten en onderzoeksinstituten zelf nog tal van vragen onbeantwoord. Blijft bijvoorbeeld in Nederland nog veel wangedrag onopgemerkt? Is er in Nederland voldoende overeenstemming over de bevordering van wetenschappelijke integriteit?

Daar komt nog iets bij: steeds meer vindt onderzoek plaats in internationaal (bijvoorbeeld Europees) verband. Codes en regels in andere landen zijn anders, hebben soms een ad-hockarakter of ontbreken geheel. Met het oog op de internationale samenwerking is het van groot belang tot een betere internationale afstemming en harmonisatie te komen. Een ontworpen Europese Code of Conduct poogt een stap in deze richting te zetten.

De discussie tijdens de themabijeenkomst zal zich richten op ervaringen en vragen met betrekking tot wetenschappelijke integriteit en de behandeling van klachten in Nederland, maar ook zullen integriteitsproblemen in internationaal onderzoek aan de orde komen.

Date: May 21, 2010
Location: Hof van Wageningen, the Netherlands
Duration: all day.

Fisheries management is often perceived as a set of largely ecological and technological questions to determine the amount of fish that could be caught in a sustainable way and the number of fishing vessels that should be allowed on the sea.
During the symposium “The Future of Fisheries” we are presenting a number of lectures that will take a different angle on fisheries management where the focus is on developing an understanding of why fisheries management in Europe has resulted in the situation we find ourselves in and how the role of fishers and other stakeholders should change to achieve the long term sustainable exploitation that everybody is looking for.

Date: October 8, 2010
Location: Berlin, Germany
Duration: all day.

The 2010 Berlin Conference will be the 10th conference in the well established series of European Conferences on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. This year’s conference will adress the “Social dimensions of environmental change and governance”.

Date: November 10, 2010
Location: Hof van Wageningen / Forum building, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Duration: all day.

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.

The aim of conference is to discuss different perspectives on scaling and governance issues. The starting point is that scaling and governance deserve more attention as a combination, not just in separate studies. We look at this integration as a major challenge for both the social, economic and the natural sciences. In order to get to transdisciplinarity, that is to say, cooperation between scientists from different disciplines as well as policy makers and citizens, vigorous communication between scientists from the natural science and the humanities is needed.

The conference is organized by Wageningen UR. Participants of the conference are invited to discuss integrative concepts, methodologies, and case studies related to scaling and governance issues in complex land systems. Anticipated outcomes of the conference include an international research agenda and recommendations for scale-sensitive governance approaches.

The following list shows the SENSE Events Calendar for the next months, plus recently added events. Click on the title of an event for its full details.

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