PhD Summer School 2011
May 2011
PhD Summer School in Ecological modelling and Environmental Management – 3 ECTS
The PhD Summer School focuses on integration knowledge and models of land use in drainage basins, transport of nutrients to water bodies, biogeochemistry in freshwater and in marine ecosystems, fishery models and welfare economic models as a basis for the development of novel integrated ecosystem-based management models. During the Summer School, we will integrate and train new researchers to in a number of empirical and process-based models and management tools, further development into integrated management models cross traditional media and science-based decision support systems.
The PhD school is composed of a mixture of key-note speakers, round-table discussions, presentations and discussions of specific PhD projects/plans and social activities. The key-note speakers are presented by international distinguished scientists and they will also lead the planned round-table discussions. Each of the 16 PhD participants will have the possibility of presenting their own PhD project followed by a discussion lead by an opponent. The PhD presentations should be submitted to the opponent prior to the presentation.
Participating PhD scholarships have to 1) read a number of original research papers (10 to 15) before the Summer School, and 2) produce a short review report (5-10 pages, 25 hours work) that has to be accepted by the organizers.
Fee: There is no fee for MAFIA PhD scholars and post-docs. There is a 3,000 DKK fee for all other external PhD scholarships.
Registration: To Winnie Grynnerup (wig@dmu.dk) not later than 1 May 2011. Payment of fee should be made available prior to the PhD Summer School at Danske Bank, Registration no. 3001, account no. 4160 210 990, attention: 22-6061 MAFIA.
Agenda for the PhD Summer School 2011 (pdf-file)
The MAFIA Research Alliance - Integrated Management of Agriculture, Fishery, Environment and Economy - www.mafia-alliance.org
August 2011 (28/8 - 3/9)
PhD Summer School in Determination of priority pollutants, transformation products and transformation processes in the environment - 5 ECTS
The registration is now open:
Flyer:
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Course description:
Priority compounds (e.g. endocrine disrupting compounds, pharmaceuticals, biocides) may be found are in various environmental compartments such as water, soil, air. Many environmental processes are accompanied with environmental transformation reactions. This means that not only is it necessary to look for the parent compounds but their transformation products may be equally important to analyse.
Typical transformations include: biodegradation or biotransformation, photo-oxidation, chemical transformation, hydrolysis, formation of bound residues. All these process may occur or be used in technical processes such as soil cleaning, waste water treatment etc.
Analysis of the priority compounds is not trivial, nor is a prediction of the transformation products and transformation reactions.
This PhD course will address:
How to determine the respective compounds (extraction procedures, clean ups, detection methods with hands-on experience).
Which transformation reactions to be expected and how to determine transformation products (set op of experiments, determination, identification, verification)
How to determine transformation reactions (reaction kinetics, what to learn from them)
Instrumental techniques, demonstrated and used for exercises.
The course will be a mixture of lectures and seminars in combination with laboratory experiments and exercises.
Please contact: Kai Bester, kb@dmu.dk tel.: 4630 1243 or prioritypollutantsPhDcourse2011@dmu