1) PhD Summer School
28 August- 9 September 2016
Vienna, Austria and Austrian Alps
2) International Permafrost/Natural Hazard Summer
Field School
1-20 August 2016
Yakutia, Russia
1) PhD Summer School
28 August- 9 September 2016
Vienna, Austria and Austrian Alps
The University of Vienna, in cooperation with the European University in
St. Petersburg is pleased to announce a call for applications for a PhD
summer school (VASS) that will take place in late summer 2016. The
course will take place in Vienna, Austria with a field trip to the
Austrian Alps.
The basic idea of VASS is to bring Arctic social science PhD students
from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to Vienna in order to
confront them with international state-of-the-art social science
approaches and methods applied outside the Arctic. At the same
time, VASS will confront Arctic students with lessons learned
from Alpine experience. VASS will provide its participants with
in-depth treatments of three areas: human-environmental interactions
in the Anthropocene, regimes of mobility and immobility, and the
study of the interrelationship of human and non-human actants in
technological and infrastructural settings.
VASS is designed for PhD students and younger researchers in the Arctic
social sciences. Organizers are inviting applications from students in
Arctic and non-Arctic countries. The total number of participants is
limited to 18.
Interested students should email the following application materials to
Ilja Steffelbauer (ilja.steffelbauer [at] univie.ac.at):
-a short letter of the student’s motivation to attend the summer school;
-a short Curriculum Vitae;
-a 1 page description of the applicant’s current research topic(s); and,
-non-native speakers of English should indicate their level of
English-language proficiency.
Application Deadline: 4 April 2016.
For more information, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/VASS-Call-fin.
2) International Permafrost/Natural Hazard Summer
Field School
1-20 August 2016
Yakutia, Russia
The University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Permafrost and Natural
Hazard announce a call for applications for an International Permafrost/
Natural Hazard Summer Field School in Yakutia, Russia on 1-20 August
2016. Senior bachelor and graduate students who are interested in
obtaining and overall knowledge about permafrost are encouraged to
apply.
The course will offer insights into:
-Permafrost history and its distribution globally.
-Permafrost related natural hazards and hydrological
problems.
-Permafrost temperatures in various parts of the World
climatic and other controls.
-Methods of permafrost observations, focusing on drilling,
coring and instrumentation.
-Permafrost databases and their use in permafrost analyses.
-How does permafrost affect local community infrastructure and
cultural life?
-Interaction between carbon and water in permafrost
landscapes.
-How sensitive are permafrost landforms towards climate
change?
Interested students should send a Curriculum Vitae and short motivation
letter (less than 1 page) to the field school
organizers (uarcticpermafrost [at] gmail.com).
Application Deadline: 25 April 2016.
For questions, please contact:
Kenji Yoshikawa
kyoshikawa [at] alaska.edu
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