Summer School on Earth Surface Dynamics 2018

We are pleased to announce two fully sponsored consecutive summer school sessions for 25 doctoral students from geosciences, environmental sciences and related fields such as biology, chemistry and physics.

These summer schools will be designed for doctoral students, aiming (1) to improve their skills to understand the complex interaction of the processes shaping the Earth's surface at different temporal and spatial scales, (2) to monitor, model and predict the results of these interactions, and (3) to identify and mitigate risks of natural and human-caused interference in these processes in an interdisciplinary and intercultural environment.

The two summer schools each comprise three modules with each module covering aweek, taking place at different locations in Germany. These locations are representative of typical settings for Earth surface processes, from the coast to lowlands and from continental rifts to high mountains.

The first set of modules will focus on types of signals and noise commonly encountered at the Earth's surface, and methods of acquiring, processing and analyzing data with non-destructive physical surveying methods. The second set of modules will be about the examination and modeling of the processes underlying the data collected at the Earth's surface.

The intense, multifaceted science training program of the summer school will help participants to acquire knowledge and understanding of the processes shaping the Earth's vulnerable skin and to define premier research topics to study processes at the Earth's dynamic surface.

Participants in the summer school are expected to form part of a new generation of researchers, practitioners and lecturers with the necessary background and scientific tools to evaluate and mitigate the effects of present-day and future environmental change.