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Newsletter July/August
03 July 2014 |
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SENSE PhD researcher Akshay Patel starts company SustAnalyze to help solving sustainability issues |
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Hunanity's overall environmental footprint is not sustainable |
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Overview of PhD graduations July and August 2014 |
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SENSE Writing Week, 3-7 November 2014 |
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Overview of upcoming PhD / postdoc courses |
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Deltas in times of climate change II - International conference, 24-26 September, Rotterdam |
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SENSE Summer Academy 2014, 1 October, Delft : "Sustainable cities: Clever techniques, clever people" |
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Overview of upcoming events |
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Vacancy Docent Conservation Biology, CML, Universiteit Leiden |
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Full Professor in Sustainable Energy Supply Systems, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Editorial |
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| A fresh start with a new website and a new e-News |
We are very pleased with the launch of the new SENSE website on 30 June, with a brand new look-and-feel.
In the past some web visitors had problems to identify the links. Therefore our designer has chosen for a strongly contrasting link colour, that should be easily detectable also for people with colour blindness.
Apart from the modernisation of the visual design, we also reorganised the site structure, to improve the findability of the information. For instance, it is now possible to search courses by keyword and/or category.
Within the upcoming months we will implement new modules that will make the website still more informative, such as a searchable dissertation overview with links to the full text of the dissertation.
Furthermore, we will launch the online SENSE portal, which contains a.o.:
- The PhD Roadmap (an online tool to guide PhD candidates throughout their PhD project)
- SENSE Research Clusters (replacing the SENSE Moodle site)
- SENSE courses
Some of the PhD candidates among you might want to download their iTSP from the old SENSE website. To that purpose we will keep the old SENSE website available during July at www.intrasense.nl. For your iTSP, please, go to your iTSP form, click on print and then print as pdf. If you are not able to do so for some reason, please let us know and we will help you. All documents are carefully stored for you and we can always send you the file later on as well.
We are very interested in your opinion, so please let us know what you like about the new site and where we can make improvements to be at better service to you! |
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| SENSE Summer Academy 2014 |
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On 1 October 2014 the third SENSE Summer Academy will take place. This time the Summer Academy will be hosted by UNESCO-IHE in Delft.
The morning program focuses on " Sustainable cities: Clever techniques, clever people".
In the afternoon there is a workshop programma, and in the evening we will have a SENSE dinner and party.
The SENSE Summer Academy is free to all SENSE members. We hoop to see you all at this network event!
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| SENSE News |
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| SENSE PhD researcher Akshay Patel starts company SustAnalyze to help solving sustainability issues |
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Already before his PhD graduation Akshay Patel took part in the ScienceInc programme, to bring his scientific finding to the market. On 30 June he held his final presentation about his new company SustAnalyze, an online tool to analyse chemical processes.
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| Hunanity's overall environmental footprint is not sustainable |
| This is the conclusion of SENSE member Arjen Hoekstra, professor of Water Management at the University of Twente, in his article in Science of 6 June. |
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| Upcoming PhD Graduations |
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| Overview of PhD graduations July 2014 |
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Nora Sutton
Microbiological and Geochemical Dynamics of the Subsurface: chemical oxidation and bioremediation of organic contaminants
4 July 2014, 13.30 hrs, Wageningen
Laura Golsteijn
Enhancing toxic impact modeling in life cycle assessment
7 July 2014, 16.30 hrs, Nijmegen
Akshay Patel
Towards Sustainable Fuels & Chemicals: Integrating sustainability assessment in the development of biobased production processes at early stage
29 August 2014, 10:30 hrs, Utrecht
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Upcoming Courses |
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| SENSE Writing Week, 3-7 November 2014 |
Would you like to develop your writing skills and improve your current piece of work for a publication? Or do you want to start one without the daily distractions? Well… this is your opportunity!!
During this week you can fully concentrate on writing an article without the distraction of every day practice. The writing week will take place in a comfortable environment where you can spend the night. The presence of other PhD students will provide motivation, support and social contacts. Additionally, an English writing coach will guide us through the writing process with tips&tricks, feedback sessions and individual advice. Each participant will receive information on how to prepare. |
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| Overview of PhD / postdoc courses July - mid-September |
- What Ecology can learn from natural and human-induced disturbances: A cross-system view
7-18 July 2014, Barcelona, Spain
- Basic Modelling
7-18 July 2014, Wageningen
- Summer School 2014: Biofuels powering a green, bio-based economy?
7-18 July 2014, Utrecht
- Human induced Soil Degradation
14-18 July 2014, Wageningen (NL) and Bonn (Germany)
- WCRP-ICTP 2014 Summer school on Attribution and Prediction of Extremes Events
21 July - 1 August 2014, Trieste, Italy
- Uncertainty in climate change research: An integrated approach
21 July - 6 August 2014, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Radboud Summer School Water, Health, and Sustainable Development
4-15 August 2014, Nijmegen
- Radboud Summer School Entrepreneurship and Global Sustainability
17-23 August 2014, Nijmegen
- Ecotoxicology
18-29 August 2014, Utrecht & Wageningen
- Bugs at your service - Fundamentals and application of arthropod-mediated ecosystem services
31 August - 5 September 2014, Wageningen
- Td Summer School 2014 : Transdisciplinary Research at the Science | Society Interface
1-9 September 2014, Lüneburg, Germany
- ALTER-Net Summer School on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
3-13 September 2014, Peyresq, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France
- PCDI course Employability Outside Academia
9 September - 25 November 2014, Utrecht
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| Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses |
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Upcoming Events |
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| Deltas in times of climate change II - International conference, 24-26 September, Rotterdam |
The accent of the conference is on planning and investment in times of climate change. Themes to be discussed are: flood risk management, salt intrusion and fresh water supply, adaptation in rural areas, climate proofing of cities, infrastructure and networks, climate projections, governance, decision support tools and cooperation.
There will also be a PhD workshop in the field of Flood risk management. |
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| SENSE Summer Academy 2014, 1 October, Delft |
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The Research School for the Environment SENSE proudly presents its third SENSE Summer Academy, 1 October 2014, at UNESCO-IHE in Delft.
The morning program focuses on "Sustainable cities: Clever techniques, clever people" PhD candidates present pitches on Sustainable City Infrastructure and Sustainable City Governance, followed by comments from senior staff and discussions. In the afternoon, several workshops invite PhD candidates, SENSE Alumni and SENSE researchers alike. Moreover, you are cordially invited to join the SENSE party and dinner in Delft.
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| Overview of upcoming events |
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Inauguration Prof. Dr. Lars Hein
Ecosystem services and environmental change: from ecosystem accounting to environmental management
3 July 2014, 16-18 hrs, Wageningen
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| Vacancies |
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| Vacancy Docent Conservation Biology, CML, Universiteit Leiden |
Deadline: 20 juli 2014
Het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen (CML) van de Universiteit van Leiden werkt aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek en onderwijs op het gebied van duurzame ontwikkeling en van natuurlijke hulpbronnen, ecologie, milieukwaliteit en biodiversiteit. Het CML bestaat uit twee onderdelen: Industrial Ecology (CML-IE) en Conservation Biology (CML-CB). Bij het CML werken circa 40 wetenschappers en een ondersteunende staf.
Voor de afdeling Conservation Biology van het CML zijn wij, voor versterking van het onderwijs, op zoek naar een docent Conservation Biology (32 uur p/w). |
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| Full Professor in Sustainable Energy Supply Systems, Universiteit Utrecht |
Application deadline: 5 September 2014
Het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen (CML) van de Universiteit van Leiden werkt aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek en onderwijs op het gebied van duurzame ontwikkeling en van natuurlijke hulpbronnen, ecologie, milieukwaliteit en biodiversiteit. Het CML bestaat uit twee onderdelen: Industrial Ecology (CML-IE) en Conservation Biology (CML-CB). Bij het CML werken circa 40 wetenschappers en een ondersteunende staf.
Voor de afdeling Conservation Biology van het CML zijn wij, voor versterking van het onderwijs, op zoek naar een docent Conservation Biology (32 uur p/w). |
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