The Summer School aims to teach the skills and knowledge of the many disciplines needed to understand the ocean and atmospheric processes involved in ocean deoxygenation and acidification with a focus on tropical marine systems. It will engage graduate, doctoral students, and early-career scientists to recent developments and methodologies in the study of biogeochemical and physical feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere in a changing environment, and how these affect marine ecosystems
Prerequisites
The GOOD-OARS Summer School is open to graduate and doctoral students, and early career scientists interested in interacting with world leading experts in the field in a friendly setting, and enhancing their understanding of the processes constraining the future state of the oceans and environmental risks to marine habitats and ecosystems.
Application procedure
Applications from MSc, PhD students and postgraduate early career scientists are welcome until January 10 2025. You application will be reviewed and you will receive a response by 7 February 2025.
Once submitted, your application will be sent to the Summer School scientific committee for review. At least two reviewers will assess your application and successful candidates will be contacted at a later date. The success of your application is not dependant on your funding circumstances.
We strongly advise successful participants to seek funding from their home institutions or foundations. If impossible, limited funding will be used to assist applicants, subject to the availabilty of these funds.
The total cost of attending the school is 700 USD (independent of flight costs), split between two payments. Successful applicants will be asked to pay an initial 400 USD registration fee in the month following notice of successful application to confirm their commitment to attend the school. The remaining 300 USD cost will be payable in the months before the school begins. For any problem or queries with application, please email [email protected]
Application Form
Fill the form here (https://forms.gle/mntguL1VUkajYxsd6) including the linked supplementary form.
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Contact [email protected] with any queries.
Payment
The payment portal will be made available during the application phase. There is no charge to submit an application.
Grant opportunities
The 2025 Summer School is sponsored by a variety of organisations and institutions.
Learning outcomes
The school will be implemented as follows: three days of lectures followed by three days of field work, practical workshops, and stakeholder engagement activities, concluding with a final two days of lectures, reporting on fieldwork, and presentations.
Lecture topics around the issues of ocean deoxygenation and acidification will include:
- Introductions to ocean deoxygenation and acidification
- Coastal and open ocean deoxygenation
- Biological responses to deoxygenation and acidification
- Observing systems for deoxygenation and acidification
- Physical and biological settings of the local marine environment of Penang
- Prediction and modeling of future deoxygenation and acidification
- Perspectives from paleoenvironments
- Data management of biogeochemical data
- Ecosystem modeling
- International coordination and frameworks
- Scientific communication with stakeholders
- Ethics in science
Poster sessions on days 2 and 3 will give students the chance to get to know each other and their individual research topics.
During the final day of the school, each student will give a 5 min presentation for all attendees as part of the Practical Workshop on Communication. We will deliver Rewards for the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation at the end of the School.
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