Upcoming events

TRAINING COURSES: SAMPLING PROTOCOLS FOR ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH
ITALY, 20 – 24 MAY 2013 AND NETHERLANDS, 26-30 AUGUST
The ExpeER project is developing and integrating ecosystem research across Europe, by sharing methods, data, models and infrastructures. One of the strands is to develop a set of protocols for common ecological measurements, so that it becomes much easier to analyse ecological change across sites over time. The protocols include; leaf area index; soil biodiversity, structure and processes; land use and management; above-ground biomass, sap flow and evapotranspiration.
The ExpeER Work Package 2 team will be conducting training in these protocols at two courses during 2013. All protocols will be covered at each course, but the course in Italy will focus on forests, while the course in Netherlands will focus on grasslands. These courses are aimed at people who are involved in the collection of medium- and long-term ecological data in Europe who are not already supported by the ExpeER project.
All information and programme of the Italy courses.
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THIRD EUROSPEC SUMMER SCHOOL ON FIELD SPECTROSCOPY AND ECOLOGICAL MODELING
The University of Palermo and the Edmund Mach Foundation are pleased to announce the Third EUROSPEC Summer School on Field Spectroscopy and Ecological modeling, organized by the COST Action ES0903 "EUROSPEC".
The School will take place from 15 to 20th July at the University of Palermo (Italy) and applications must be sent by 25th May, 2013 !
The field activities will be carried out at the Castelvetrano olive groove Eddy Covariance site. The School is open to young researchers from across Europe, and it will be focused on (1) field spectroscopy with lectures, practical demos and optical/biophysical field measurements; (2) upscaling mass and energy fluxes; (3) biogeochemical modeling A field spectroscopy workshop will be carried out by Dr. Alasdair Mac Arthur (NERC-University of Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM). The upscaling and modeling lectures will be given by various other lecturers and coordinated by Dr. Enrico Tomelleri (Max Planck Insitute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, GERMANY).
You can find further information on the Action website.
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AGU CHAPMAN CONFERENCE
The Chapman Conference, organised by the AGU (American Geophysical Union) will run from October 21-24, 2013, with an optional field trip to the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson on Friday, October 25. More information and a preliminary agenda is presented here and on the website.