Special Courses and Field Trips
- Limestone Coast 2004
October 10 - 16, 2004, Naracoorte Caves National Park, South Australia
- The workshop will pursue the overall concept of understanding the relationship between karst resources, the biotic environment and the human situation. It will emphasise the relationships between earth sciences and bio-sciences and between scientific understandings and human activities.
- Download a conference circular PDF (50kb)
Past Courses and Field Trips
- Teaching Biocomplexity in the Geosciences
April 2-5, 2003, Chico Hot Springs Resort
- This workshop was intended to provide the first steps towards addressing the questions of “where” and “how” are we teaching biocomplexity in the geoscience undergraduate curriculum? From instructional modules in introductory physical geology/geography or Earth system science courses to upper division courses or seminars, there is an increasing interest in integrating new advances in biocomplexity in the geoscience curriculum.
- GEOBIOLOGY 2004
June 11 - July 23, 2004, Catalina Island, Calif.
- An international training course, open to students and researchers at the graduate, postgraduate and professorial level, offered by the University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.
- The course offers intensive interactions between the fields of biology and earth sciences on an advanced level. Over a period of six weeks, the participants will be exposed to an in-depth treatment of how biology interacts with the environment and how these interactions have shaped the evolution of the earth. Participants will get hands-on experience on modern research methods in geobiology and participate in research groups solving current questions relevant to the field.
- Microbial Diversity Summer Course
June 12 - July 30, 2004, Woods Hole, Mass.
- An intensive six-and-a-half-week course at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole for graduate or postdoctoral students, as well as established investigators, who want to become competent in microbiological techniques for working with a broad range of microbes, and in approaches for recognizing the metabolic, phylogenetic, and genomic diversity of cultivated and as yet uncultivated bacteria.
- Deadline: February 2, 2004
- Nanogeoscience Workshop
June 14-16, 2002, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Read the NSF report (930KB PDF)
- Its goals were: (1) to identify major scientific opportunities in the emerging field of nanogeoscience and their relation to national needs, (2) to begin to identify and organize the community in this growing field, and (3) to identify major needs of this community and begin to develop a plan, with the help of the funding agencies, for programmatic support for both universities and national laboratories in this unique and challenging area of nanoscience.
- The NASA Astrobiology Institute Insight Courses
- Through a mix of classroom and field activities, these 5-day intensive courses will immerse researchers in learning the essential elements and terminology of these two fields. The course material is appropriate for professionals active in the field of astrobiology, including graduate students and post-docs. Attendance is not limited to NAI members only.
1. Introduction to Planetary Science (for non-planetary scientists)
2. Introduction to the Microbial World (for non-microbiologists)
- Application deadline: April 23, 2004
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