[Anthsoc] Fw: Summer School on Tectonics, Climate and Evolution in East Africa

[David Lubell]

Subject:
Summer School on Tectonics, Climate and Evolution in East Africa
From:
Martin Trauth <Martin.Trauth at GEO.UNI-POTSDAM.DE>
Date:
Fri, 9 Apr 2010 21:02:52 +0200

To:
QUATERNARY at CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA


Summer School on

Tectonics, Climate and Evolution in East Africa

Sep 19 -- Oct 10, 2010 and Sep -- Oct 2011

Two consecutive summer schools in the field of geo-biosciences in East Africa, including the disciplines of paleoclimatology, paleontology, paleoanthropology, evolutionary biology, structural geology and geophysics. The summer school focuses on the relationships between the development of extreme relief in the East African Rift system, superposed past climate changes and their influence on mammalian and hominin evolution. The transdisciplinary summer schools for students from the fields of geosciences and biosciences aim at intense training of the participants at the MSc, PhD and postdoctoral level to foster a better understanding of climate-biosphere interactions in a complex tectonic-topographic setting such as the Kenya and Tanzanian rift valley. This effort rests on team teaching and joint learning and will generate important synergies between researchers and graduate students. The acquired knowledge and understanding will help students define premier research topics to !
  study past geo-biosphere interactions, and it will ultimately provide the next generation of researchers and practitioners with the necessary background and scientific tools to evaluate and mitigate the effects of present-day and future environmental changes in the course of global change.

Download flyerhttp://www.geo.uni-potsdam.de/mitarbeiter/Trauth/summerschool_2010.pdf

Representatives of the Summer School

PD Dr. Martin Trauth, University of Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Eric Odada, University of Nairobi

Participating instructors

Prof. Dr. Ralph Tiedemann, University of Potsdam
Dr. Daniel O. Olago, University of Nairobi
Prof. Dr. Rainer Zahn, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Prof. Manfred R. Strecker, University of Potsdam
Prof. Dr. Frank Scherbaum, University of Potsdam
Geoffrey G. Muchemi, Geothermal Development Manager KenGen
Prof. Dr. Friedemann Schrenk, Senckenberg Frankfurt
Dr. Christine Hertler, ROCEEH Frankfurt
Lydia Olaka, MSc, University of Potsdam
Dr. Peter Omenda, Geothermal Exploration Geologist

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