The summer school is designed to provide participants with high-level teaching activities given by internationally known scientists. The summer school will target Ph.D students and young Post-docs working with biogeochemical cycles and end to end food webs. For each topic shown below, a combination of theoretical courses and practical workshops will be given. The Discussion and Poster Sessions will be organized to stimulate interaction between student and also between students and the lecturers.
Themes of scientific lectures
- Lecture series on “Main processes controlling marine food webs”
1) Fundamentals of food web structure and functioning and biogeochemical cycles: processes and parameterisations
2) Trophic cascades: depletion of top predator fishes (top-down), change in small pelagic stock (wasp-waist), enrichment of the system (bottom-up).
3) Climate-induced controls through
* temperature >metabolic rates
* stratification> nutrient fluxes > phytoplankton community structure
* Habitat modification> transport- optimal vs realized habitats
* turbulence (turbulence-avoidance strategy vs reduction in pursuit success and capture ability)
- Lecture series on “Advances in end-to-end food web modeling”
1) Coupled physical-biogeochemical models (including optics)
2) Plankton functional type models: ecology vs biogeochemisty, aggregation
3) IBMs and their coupling with lower trophic level models
4) Model skill assessments
Other activities
Hands on practices on the use of modeling tools. Debates on hot topics pertinent to end-to-end ecosystem research. Poster presentations from participants.
Lecturers
Icarus Allen, Temel Oguz, Mike St John, Jing Zhang - Further details
The schedule
The schedule will follow the normal morning-afternoon timetable based on lectures and practical workshops. A basic day will comprise 4 lectures. Each lecture lasts for 1.5 hours with 1.0 hour formal lecturing and 30 minutes discussion/debate on the lecture topic to favor interactions between students and lecturers. Poster sessions will also be organized during the Summer School. The best student poster award will be announced at the end of the Summer School. English will be the official language.