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Fall Class Series - Living with Permafrost
Cold Climate Housing Research Center
2 and 16 November, and 7 December 2016
Fairbanks, AlaskaPh.D. Course in Marine Sustainability
Future Earth Norway
27 February 5 March 2017
Bodo and Tromso, Norway
- Fall Class Series - Living with Permafrost
Cold Climate Housing Research Center
2 and 16 November, and 7 December 2016
Fairbanks, Alaska
The Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) announces a call for
registration for a series of classes entitled, "Living with Permafrost."
All courses will be held at the Cold Climate Housing Research Center in
Fairbanks, Alaska.
This series consists of three classes on permafrost, from learning the
basics of frozen soils to discovering a few best practices for building
and maintaining homes on permafrost:
- Introduction to Permafrost: Wednesday, 2 November 2016, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
- Permafrost Foundations: Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
- Climate Change and Permafrost: Wednesday, 7 December 2016, 5:30-7:30
p.m.
The first class, Introduction to Permafrost, will provide an overview of
permafrost. It will discuss what to look for when deciding to build in a
certain location and will provide some suggestions for how to go about
building with permafrost. This course will be taught by Kevin Bjella of
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab on Wednesday, 2 November 2016.
The second class, Permafrost Foundations, will provide tools to help
deal with building on permafrost and will describe a step-by-step way of
evaluating permafrost, developing ways to build on it, and mitigating
problems caused by permafrost. This course will be led by Bruno Grunau
of CCHRC on Wednesday, 16 November 2016.
The third class in the series, Climate Change and Permafrost, will be
taught by Vladimir Romanovsky of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This course will show how a warming climate will affect permafrost and
further understanding of what is happening under existing structures on
permafrost. The goal is to help people to make informed decisions about
whether to build in certain permafrost location. This class will convene
on Wednesday, 7 December 2016.
Registration deadline: open until limited space is filled.
For information about registration fees and to register, contact:
Robbin Garber-Slaght
Email: robbin [at] cchrc.org
Phone: 907-450-1774
- PhD Course in Marine Sustainability
Future Earth Norway
27 February 5 March 2017
Bodo and Tromso, Norway
Future Earth Norway, Nord University, and the University of Tromso (UiT)
announce a call for applications for a week-long interdisciplinary PhD
course in marine sustainability. The course will convene in Bodo on 27
February and conclude on 5 March 2017 in Tromso, Norway.
Participants will begin with lectures and a fieldtrip in Bodo, Norway
before boarding the ship, the Hurtigruten. Aboard the ship, students
will make stops along the Lofoten Islands and have the opportunity to
speak with stakeholders as they travel from Bodo to Tromso. The course
will conclude in Tromso with lectures and group work.
PhD students working in any field relevant to healthy oceans and the
sustainable utilization of their resources, both from the natural and
social sciences, including law, humanities, business, and economics are
invited to apply.
Class size is limited to 20-25 students.
Registration is open to PhD students with interests related to
sustainable ocean use under climate change, who want to improve their
understanding of the oceans across disciplines and develop the skills to
co-produce and co-design research.
Registration deadlines for PhD candidates outside UiT: 1 December 2016.
For more information on course format, objectives, costs, and
application procedure, go to:
http://tinyurl.com/Marine-Sustain-PhD-Course.
For further questions, contact:
Leonie Goodwin
Email: l.j.goodwin [at] sosgeo.uio.no
Phone: +47 960 17 446
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