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

Summer School on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (ALTER-Net)

5 - 17 September 2009
Coordinator(s): Sabine Lütkemeier (PIK)
Link to the course: www.pik-potsdam.de/alter-net

S242E Life History Theory (CEES/RUG)

20 - 25 September 2009
2.5 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Corine Eising, Joost Tinbergen (CEES/RUG)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/460.html

Bayesian statistics (WU/PE&RC/SENSE)

29 - 30 October 2009
0.6 ECTS
Coordinator(s): Gerrit Gort
Link to the course: www.pe-rc.nl

S460 Winter School on Earth System Governance (SENSE/IVM)

24 November - 4 December 2009
Coordinator(s): Philipp Pattberg (IVM-VU)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/articles/4380

S217E Land Dynamics: Getting to the Bottom of Mount Kenya (PE&RC/SENSE/MG3S/CERES)

7 - 18 December 2009
Coordinator(s): Claudius van de Vijver (PE&RC)
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/courses/539.html
You can also have a look at the course flyer.

The following is a selection of interesting external courses.

RECETO PhD Summer School (RECETO, Denmark)

26 - 31 July< 2009br />Link to the course: www.receto.dk

International Summer School on Environmental Signalling (Utrecht University)

24 - 26 August 2009
Link to the course: www.bio.uu.nl/EPS-summerschool

Roads to success in interdisciplinary research (Tress & Tress)

6 October 2009
Link to the course: www.tress-tress.com/products/interdisciplinarity/interdisciplinary-research.html

Climate impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (by Focus on Soils & Water)

21 October - 09 December 2009
5 ECTS
Link to the course: www.vpe.slu.se/ShowPage.cfm?OrgenhetSida_ID=11330

Food Risk Analysis (Mansholt/WUR)

2 November - 06 November 2009
3 ECTS
Link to the course: www.sense.nl/articles/events/5383

Competence & Skills Courses Wageningen Graduate Schools (WU)

Courses this autumn: e.g. Interpersonal Communication, Presentation Skills, Writing Grant Proposals
Link to the course website: www.wageningenuniversiteit.nl/UK/education/programmes/PhD+programmes/General+Courses

Information Technology Courses (RUG)

Year round
Link to the course website: www.rug.nl/cit/onderwijs/cursusaanbod/index?lang=en

Erik Ansink
Game-theoretic models of water allocation in transboundary river basins
29 September, 11.00 hrs, Wageningen

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

Early 2009, the SENSE Research School started 14 research clusters. They have been installed to sharpen the focus of the four overarching research themes of SENSE by creating smaller research teams that bring together researchers and PhD students from different SENSE partner institutions.

Research clusters aim to establish a platform/network for SENSE PhD-students and SENSE researchers that work on related topics or themes. Such a platform/network enables information exchange and common activities, such as organizing:

• PhD meetings/presentations;
• workshops;
• expert meetings;
• Summer Schools / international PhD courses;
• discussion meetings;
• literature study meetings;
• review of draft articles, poster presentations; etc.

SENSE Researcher Marten Scheffer (WIMEK) receives NWO Spinoza Prize.

A direct weblink to the English press release may be found HERE.

Nominations for the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship can be send in now.

This fellowship is meant to encourage leading figures working in the Netherlands to pursue a research project during a residential fellowship at NIAS that culminates in an international interdisciplinary workshop.

Date: September 24, 2009
Location: Forum Building, Droevendaalsesteeg 2 [Building 102], 6708 PB Wageningen
Duration: all day.

The study of regime shifts developed independently in the freshwater and marine realms; with studies of freshwater regime shifts having a resource-based focus while in marine systems, research concentrates on higher trophic levels. Do these distinct approaches reflect fundamental differences in the drivers of the abrupt changes or is it simply a reflection of a parallel development towards one unifiable body of theory?

The announcement poster can be downloaded here.

Information: Kristina.Raab@wur.nl, Reinier.HilleRisLambers@wur.nl, Andrea.Downing@wur.nl

Registration: email Andrea.Downing@wur.nl before September 7th, specifying whether you will present a poster or talk (and include any dietary requirements).

Oral presentations: If you want to present a talk, please also send an abstract of no more than 200 words (font size 12). Remember to include the title (font size 14), authors and affiliations (both font size 10), all in Times New Roman font.

Poster presentations: For posters, please send the only title, authors and affiliations in the same format as described above.

Date: December 1, 2009
Location: Volendam (Van der Valk hotel, Katwoude)
Duration: all day.

Find all information at: http://www.sense.nl/climateproofingcities

Travel instructions to Venue are available for download HERE .

The next SENSE symposium will be held on 1 December 2009 in Volendam and is organized around the theme 'Climate Proofing Cities'. The symposium takes place in Van der Valk hotel Katwoude, which is also the venue of the Amsterdam Conference 2009 (which takes place on 2, 3 and 4 December -- see also: http://www.sense.nl/articles/events/4341).

Register for this symposium now! Please click here and follow the instructions (there you will find that the registration facility for this specific symposium is in fact a separate functionality of the Amsterdam Conference registration facility).

Including 35 workshop presentations and plenary Keynote Speakers:
Michele Betsill, Chris Zevenbergen and Pier Vellinga

Graduate Junction, the international online network for young scientists, is now organizing a poster competition. Every young researcher can join the competition and win a fancy prize... Perhaps you have the winning poster!?

Date: September 18, 2009
Location: The Trippenhuis, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Amsterdam
Duration: all day.

The 15th edition of the Current Themes in Ecology symposium series will take place on the 18th of September. This year the symposium is about 'Revolution in Evolution? Epigenetics in Ecology and Evolution'.

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.

Would you like to suggest any event for publication in this calendar?
Please feel free to use the online form on our website ... thanks in advance!

The Faculty of Science of Utrecht University is currently looking for a Professor on International Nature Conservation at the Prince Bernhard Chair for International Nature Conservation.