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Report of GLOMAR PhD student James Collins about his participation in the 8th NCCR Climate Summer School in Grindelwald, Switzerland, 30 August - 4 September 2009
The 8th NCCR Climate Summer School took place between 30th August and 4th September 2009 in Grindelwald, Switzerland. I was lucky enough to attend this summer school thanks to financial support provided by Glomar.
The theme of the conference was ‘Climate variability, forcings, feedbacks and responses: the long-term perspective’. The general theme was therefore on past climate (millennial to monthly timescales), but there was also a strong focus throughout towards global warming and future climate change.
Each day, there were two lectures, broken up with poster sessions (each student presented a poster), workshops (which were practical/exercise based), group work (discussing fundamental issues, such as ‘limitations of climate reconstructions’) and also a half-day field trip up to the glacier.
There were a total of 70 participants (PhD students and Post-docs) from all over the world. These people included modellers and proxy data people spanning a wide range of topics and timescales. Although the wide range of topics meant that not everyone was necessarily interested in your work, it was useful to discuss results with some of the participants and particularly, for me, with some of the famous lecturers such as Bette Otto-Bliesner.
The theme of the summer school changes every year. Next year it will be ‘Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change’ (http://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/summer_school/2010/index_en.html) which I think is certainly relevant to some of the members of Glomar.
Overall the summer school was very well organised and informative and I would recommend students to apply in the future (note the deadline of Dec 19th).
The theme of the conference was ‘Climate variability, forcings, feedbacks and responses: the long-term perspective’. The general theme was therefore on past climate (millennial to monthly timescales), but there was also a strong focus throughout towards global warming and future climate change.
Each day, there were two lectures, broken up with poster sessions (each student presented a poster), workshops (which were practical/exercise based), group work (discussing fundamental issues, such as ‘limitations of climate reconstructions’) and also a half-day field trip up to the glacier.
There were a total of 70 participants (PhD students and Post-docs) from all over the world. These people included modellers and proxy data people spanning a wide range of topics and timescales. Although the wide range of topics meant that not everyone was necessarily interested in your work, it was useful to discuss results with some of the participants and particularly, for me, with some of the famous lecturers such as Bette Otto-Bliesner.
The theme of the summer school changes every year. Next year it will be ‘Adaptation and Mitigation: Responses to Climate Change’ (http://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/summer_school/2010/index_en.html) which I think is certainly relevant to some of the members of Glomar.
Overall the summer school was very well organised and informative and I would recommend students to apply in the future (note the deadline of Dec 19th).
