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Projects and events Summer Courses Climate Change and Marine Ecosystems

Programme

  • 30 June — 6 July 2019

Past

1st Day
2nd Day
09:00 — 09:10
Opening ceremony
09:10 — 09:20
Group photo
09:20 — 10:40
Self introduction by students
10:40 — 11:00
Break
11:00 — 12:20
Lecture 1. Overview/motivation for studying climate change effects on marine ecosystems (Susanne Menden-Deuer)
12:20 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:30
Lecture 2. Patterns and controls of phytoplankton community structure in the contemporary ocean (Michael Landry)
15:30 — 17:00
Lecture 3. The epipelagic marine nitrogen cycle and New Production (Michael Stukel)
17:00 — 18:30
Lecture 4. Major nutrient cycles in a warming and acidifying ocean (David Hutchins)
18:30 — 20:00
Welcome party
3rd Day
09:00 — 10:40
Lecture 5. Microbial food web dynamics and carbon flows (Landry)
10:40 — 12:20
Lecture 6. Metabolic Theory of Ecology and its application in plankton dynamics (Bingzhang Chen)
12:20 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:30
Lecture 7. Data-based analyses of food web fluxes with inverse models (Stukel)
15:30 — 17:00
Group interaction - students select instructor(s) to work with * Hands-on tutorial on food web flux modeling (Stukel)
17:00 — 18:30
Lecture 8. The role of intra-specific variability in driving plankton distributions and diversity (Menden-Deuer)
18:30 — 20:00
Dinner
4th Day
09:00 — 10:40
Lecture 9. Ocean trace metal biogeochemistry in a changing world (Hutchins)
10:40 — 12:20
Lecture 10. Introduction to numerical modeling in R and Fortran (Chen)
12:20 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:30
Group interaction – continuing student-instructor interactions * Hands-on tutorial on numerical modeling (Chen)
15:30 — 20:30
Poster session
5th Day
09:00 — 10:40
Lecture 11. The biological pump: Sinking particles, diel vertical migration and subduction (Stukel)
10:40 — 12:20
Lecture 12. When temperature is and is not the master trait (Menden-Deuer)
12:20 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 15:30
Lecture 13. Challenges and opportunities for modeling plankton dynamics in a changing environment (Chen)
15:30 — 18:30
Free Time (Lab Tour, further discussions with instructors)
18:30 — 20:00
Dinner
6th Day
09:00 — 10:40
Lecture 14. Harmful algal blooms and global change (Hutchins)
10:40 — 12:20
Lecture 15. Food web impacts on higher level consumers in a changing ocean (Landry)
12:20 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 16:00
Student-Instructor interactions
16:00 — 19:00
Best poster award ceremony and course evaluation and opinion sharing
19:00 — 20:30
Closing banquet
7th Day

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