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ECORD Summer School 2013
"Deep-Sea Sediments: From Stratigraphy to Age Models"
9 - 20 September 2013
at the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and
the IODP Bremen Core Repository, University of Bremen, Germany
the IODP Bremen Core Repository, University of Bremen, Germany
1 The Aim
The major goal was to bring PhD students and young Postdocs in touch with IODP at an early stage of their career, inform them about the actual research within this international scientific program, and to prepare them for future participations in IODP expeditions. Such training will be achieved by taking the summer school participants on a “virtual ship” where they get familiarized with a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art analytical technologies and core description methods according to the high standards on IODP expeditions. Therefore the course was equally balanced, with half the time dedicated to lectures and discussions and the other half to laboratory exercises.
2 Location and Organisation
The ECORD Summer School on “Deep-Sea Sediments: From Stratigraphy to Age Models” 2013 was held September 9-20, 2012 at the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen University, Germany. It has been organized by Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln, Director of the Bremen International Graduate School for Marine Sciences (GLOMAR), by Prof. Dr. Michal Kucera, head of the group on Micropalaeontology - Paleoceanography at the University of Bremen, by Prof. Dr. Heiko Pälike, head of the group on Palaeoceanography at the University of Bremen, and by Dr. Ursula Röhl, head of the IODP Bremen Core Repository (BCR). GLOMAR, MARUM and BCR jointly offered the unique training possibilities used for this summer school by providing laboratory facilities and by providing a seminar room equipped with 20 laptops (internet access, MatLab etc.).
Additional funding to carry out the Summer School has been provided by the EU-project Earthtime.
Additional funding to carry out the Summer School has been provided by the EU-project Earthtime.
3 The Topic
Ocean sediment cores provide a powerful archive that enables us to reconstruct past environmental conditions including climate that are needed to understand Earth System processes on a wide range of scales in space and time. In this context, the temporal dimension of individual records, including issues like bio- and cyclostratigraphy, correlation among cores and assignment of absolute ages to sedimentary horizons is a key prerequisite for the interpretation of palaeoclimatic records.
4 Programme
This summer school will combine lab exercises on IODP-style shipboard methodologies ("virtual ship") as well as interactive lectures by world-leading scientists in the fields of stratigraphy and age modelling. Participation will prepare you for future involvement in IODP and for research work on the time scale of geological and palaeoclimatological processes. The summer school will take advantage of the unique and integrated facilities offered by the IODP Bremen Core Repository and the MARUM laboratories.
The weekend between the first and the second week gave the participants the possibility to join a field trip to the German Natural Oil Museum (Deutsches Erdölmuseum in Wietze) on Saturday 14 September 2013.
Lecturers
Name | Institute |
Steve Bohaty | University of Southampton |
Sarah Davies | University of Leicester |
Jochen Erbacher | BGR, Hannover |
Thomas Frederichs | MARUM, Bremen |
Walter Hale | MARUM, Bremen |
Oyvind Hammer | University of Oslo |
Dierk Hebbeln | MARUM, Bremen |
Martin Kölling | MARUM, Bremen |
Michal Kucera | MARUM, Bremen |
David Lazarus | Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin |
Gema Martinez-Mendez | MARUM |
Stephen Meyers | Wisconsin |
Heiko Pälike | MARUM, Bremen |
Isabella Raffi | University of Chieti |
Ursula Röhl | MARUM, Bremen |
Peter Sadler | UC Riverside |
Jeremy Shakun | Harvard University |
Rüdiger Stein | AWI, Bremerhaven |
Stephan Steinke | MARUM |
Richard Telford | University of Bergen |
Silke Voigt | Goethe University, Frankfurt |
Hans-Joachim Wallrabe-Adams | MARUM, Bremen |
Thomas Westerhold | MARUM, Bremen |
5 Participants
The 30 participants invited came from 14 different countries.
6 Feedbacks
Questionnaires collected at the end of the summer school recorded the overwhelming positive feedbacks from the participants. Some hints (more short breaks, more detailed personal introduction of participants, etc.) will be considered in the preparation of the Bremen ECORD Summer School 2014.
Report by a Participant
ECORD Newsletter # 21, Page 17
Organizers
- Michal Kucera
- Heiko Pälike
- Ulla Röhl
- Dierk Hebbeln