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ADVANCED CLIMATE DYNAMICS COURSE (ACDC) 2010
on ICE-SHEET OCEAN INTERACTIONS

Will take place 8-19 June, 2010 at the MIT FabLab, Lyngen, northern Norway.

Detailed information is available online at: http://www.bccr.no/acdc/

We would appreciate if you could post a flyer at your institution which you may download at: http://www.bccr.no/filer/318.BYQIEx.pdf

The main focus of this year's course will be on the interaction between ice sheets, ice shelves and the ocean based on theory, models, observations, and proxy data. The course aims to provide an environment for engaging discussions between all participants (students and lecturers), exchange of concepts and ideas between oceanography, paleoclimate and glaciology, and identification of key scientific challenges.

A tentative list of lecturers includes: David Battisti (U. Washington), Tore Furevik (BCCR/U. Bergen), Jake Gebbie (Harvard U.), Patrick Heimbach (MIT), Richard Hindmarsh (BAS), Christina Hulbe (PSU), Adrian Jenkins (BAS), Jesse Johnson (U. Montana), Kerim Nisancioglu (BCCR/U. Bergen), Svein Osterhus (BCCR/U. Bergen), Olga Sergienko (GFDL/Princeton U.), Fiamma Straneo (WHOI), Andreas Vieli (U. Durham).

Advanced graduate students and early post-docs are encouraged to apply. The application deadline is 1 March 2010.

The course is sponsored by the Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU), the Research Council of Norway, the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (UiB and Unifob), University of Washington, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The organizers are:

• David Battisti (U. Washington)
• Tore Furevik (BCCR/U. Bergen)
• Jake Gebbie (Harvard University)
• Patrick Heimbach (MIT)
• Kerim Nisancioglu (BCCR/U. Bergen)