Course Instructor:
Prof. Birgit Schneider and Dr. Malte Heinemann, Kiel University
Target Audience:
This module is open to Master students in interdisciplinary marine studies from SEA-EU member universities.
Prerequisites:
- A bachelor’s degree in a biological, geological, physical or chemical discipline.
- In terms of virtual teaching: Functioning camera and microphone for online interaction.
- Preparation time prior to the course dates.
Location:
Online / hybrid. A link will be sent prior to the start of the module.
Module Objectives:
The seminar is divided into interactive lectures connected to a student part with presentations and exercises. The student part includes studying and presenting recent articles on modern aspects of carbon in the climate-system. Within teams the students should learn to analyse and discuss scientific papers and IPCC chapters in more detail. Finally, a synthesis paper will be developed by all participants together.
Content Description:
This interdisciplinary seminar offers an introduction to the role of carbon (including the greenhouse gases CO2 and methane) in the climate-system, with a focus on the coupling of atmosphere, ocean and solid earth. The seminar will teach the basics of the earth’s climate history, with an emphasis on the cycling of carbon through atmosphere, ocean, sediments and biosphere. Climate change issues will be discussed interactively with the students along the current IPCC assessment.
Click here to download the official module description from Kiel University as well as a detailed list of topics and the schedule overview.
Reading List:
John Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, Cambridge University Press
Additional literature and lecture notes will be distributed.
Examination:
Oral presentation of literature (graded).
Number of ECTS: 5
ECTS recognition: 5 ECTS / 150 hours ECTS can be recognized in the electives section of your curriculum. For confirmation of this recognition please contact your study programme advisor beforehand! You can also take a module as an additional output. It will be listed in your official academic transcript of records.
Schedule:
The module will be taught as a block course from 20 to 24 May 2024. However, between April and May you will be asked to prepare a selected course topic in consultation with the teaching scientists.
While live lectures/seminars/exercises will actually only be held in the period from 21 to 23 May 2024, the Monday, 20 May 2024 is reserved for asynchronous self-study preparing for the live sessions and on Friday, 24 May an excursion is scheduled for those available in Kiel.
Day 1, 20 May 2024:
Online preparation: recorded lectures for self-study. The material will be available 1 week prior to the course dates.
Day 2 to Day 4:
09:00 – 16:00 h CEST; including coffee break (10:30-11:00 CEST) and lunch break (12:00-13:00 CEST)D
Day 5, 24 May 2024:
Excursion day – not possible (and not necessary) for online participants outside of Kiel!
Registration:
In order to register for “New aspects of meteorology and oceanography: Carbon Cycling in a Changing Climate” please fill in the corresponding registration form by clicking here
The Application Deadline is 25th March 2024.
Limit: Places for SEA-EU international participants are limited and will be attributed on geographical balance and on a “first-come-first-served-basis”.
Please note:
Each person who is granted a place will receive an e-mail from the SEA-EU team with further instructions by the end of March. A first mandatory meeting with the teaching scientist (topic selection) will follow thereafter! Without a confirmation e-mail you are not allowed to participate in the module.
All further registrations will be put on a waiting list. As soon as a place becomes available in the module, you will receive a message from us. If you have not received a message by the date the module starts, you have not been allocated a place on this module.
Conditions of enrolment:
- The module offers are meant for SEA-EU Alliance Universities’ master students in marine and maritime sciences: Registration is only considered if made with a valid institutional email address.
- By applying to any of the modules you agree that your data (name, affiliation, email) will be passed on to the module instructor, the corresponding universities’ entity and the SEA-EU coordination in case your application is confirmed.
- For confirmation of ECTS recognition, please contact your study programme advisor beforehand. You can also take a module as an additional output. It will be listed in your official academic transcript of records.
- A certificate of participation including ECTS will be issued, upon successful examination of the module.
- Registration is binding; if you received a place in a module and change your mind, please inform us asap about your cancellation (!!!) so that other applicants can get the chance to participate.
Downloads:
Click here to download the official module description from Kiel University as well as a detailed list of topics and the schedule overview.