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Newsletter April 2017
30 March 2017 |
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Call for nominations: SENSE MSc Honours Programme 2017-2018 ›› |
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ERC Advanced Grant for Maarten Krol (WIMEK WU) ›› |
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Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation in The Netherlands ›› |
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Professor Joyeeta Gupta (UNESCO-IHE) meets Pope Francis ›› |
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Kees Klein Goldewijk (Copernicus Institute UU): Valorisation: Teaching primary schools kids about Global Trade and Globalisation ›› |
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Jetske Vaas (Copernicus Institute UU): Upon leaving Statia ›› |
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Overview of PhD graduations upcoming period ›› |
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SENSE-Reims Summer School on Exploring the land-water continuum: coastal zones, river deltas, islands and wetlands, 2-7 July ›› |
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Climate KIC-AMS-SENSE Summer School "Urban Transitions: Reshaping Urban Districts", 16-30 July ›› |
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Overview of PhD / postdoc courses April-June ›› |
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Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses ›› |
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Discussion group Landscape Dynamics: "Bike tour through the surroundings of Wageningen", 31 March ›› |
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Environmental Governance Seminar Series: "The Practice of Eating", 20 April ›› |
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BBOS spring symposium on energy meteorology: From model field to power yield, 11 May ›› |
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Overview of upcoming events ›› |
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Vacancies at SENSE Partners ›› |
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Other vacancies in the SENSE field ›› |
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Call for nominations: SENSE MSc Honours Programme 2017-2018 |
The SENSE MSc Honours Programme prepares MSc highly motivated students for an academic research career and gives the research groups the opportunity to supervise an excellent student with a high chance of obtaining a PhD candidate. The MSc honours students write a full PhD research proposal within the field of ‘Environmental and Sustainability Sciences’ under supervision of a coach and several professional trainers.
In total, 15 students can be admitted to the SENSE MSc Honours Programme. MSc student supervisors, teachers and MSc programme coordinators can nominate excellent students by sending in a recommendation letter, a motivation letter, exam results and CV of the MSc student. The nominations can be send to Monique Gulickx (monique.gulickx@wur.nl).
Nomination deadline: 1 June 2017
More information about the programme and the nomination procedure can be found on our website: http://www.sense.nl/honours
We look forward to the class of 2017-2018 with motivated and inventive MSc Honours students! |
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SENSE News |
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ERC Advanced Grant for Maarten Krol (WIMEK WU) |
Maarten Krol (WU, Meteorology and Air Quality) has just received a grant of 2.5 million euros for excellent science from the European Commission for his research proposal on carbonyl sulphide: new ways of observing the climate system. Our understanding of the atmospheric carbonyl sulphide budget is limited. The new research of Maarten Krol and his team from Wageningen University and the universities of Utrecht and Groningen could be a major step forward in our ability to understand atmospheric carbonyl sulphide and thus to diagnose photosynthetic CO2 uptake. |
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Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation in The Netherlands |
On February 6th the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment signed a Statement of Intent together with global partners of the new project 'Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation in The Netherlands'. UNESCO-IHE is one of the parties involved in the establishment of the Centre, aiming to contribute with its expertise in capacity development.
The SENSE Research School has also shown its interest in collaboration with GCEC and will be invited for a bilateral meeting to investigate the options for future collaboration. |
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Professor Joyeeta Gupta (UNESCO-IHE) meets Pope Francis |
Joyeeta Gupta, Professor of Law and Policy in Water Resources and Environment represented UNESCO-IHE at a seminar on ´Human Right to Water´ in the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican City. She gave a short talk on the importance of emphasizing the sanitation component in the human right to water. She also met Pope Francis and signed the Papal Declaration. |
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Kees Klein Goldewijk (Copernicus Institute UU): Valorisation: Teaching primary schools kids about Global Trade and Globalisation |
Once a while you get a chance to talk to a completely different public about your work, and I don’t mean in the pub or at birthday parties. In this case, I was given the opportunity to give a lecture to 12 year old kids from group 8. When the teacher once had dinner at our place we talked about the possibility to come over there and give a lecture about Global trade and Globalisation, which to my surprise, was an integral part of a new teaching system called IPC. The main feature of this system is that many topics are handled in so-called projects, and one of these projects was indeed about (fair) trade, globalisation, etc. |
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Jetske Vaas (Copernicus Institute UU): Upon leaving Statia |
Back in 2016, I arrived in Statia, aka The Golden Rock, aka The historic gem of the Caribbean. And today the time has come to pack up the suitcase that has contained my life for the past four months and head back to Holland. Two months in Statia were over before I knew it, and admittedly also before I got round to doing everything on my list. |
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Upcoming PhD Graduations |
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Overview of PhD graduations upcoming period |
- Mengmeng Li
Urban land use extraction from very high resolution remote sensing images
5 April 2017, University of Twente, Earth Observation Science
- Mona Liza Delos Reyes
Modernisation strategy for National Irrigation Systems in the Philippines. Balanac and Sta. Maria river irrigation systems
6 April 2017, UNESCO-IHE, Land and Water Development
- Long Hoàng Phi
The Mekong's future flows: Quantifying hydrological changes and developing adaptation options
12 April 2017, Wageningen University, Earth System Science
- Maria Leontaridou
An economic approach to non-animal toxicity testing for skin sensitisation
19 April 2017, Wageningen University, Environmental Economics and Natural Resources
- Lieke Melsen
Putting hydrological modelling practice to the test
19 April 2017, Wageningen University, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management
- Pau Rodenas Motos
Bioelectrochemical Metal Recovery with Microbial Fuel Cells
21 April 2017, Wageningen University, Environmental Technology
- João Bastos Sousa
Biotechnological application of microbial sulfidogenesis at haloalkaline conditions
21 April 2017, Wageningen University, Microbiology
- Meto Shapkalijevski
Turbulent exchange of energy, momentum and reactive gases between high vegetation and the atmospheric boundary layer
1 May 2017, Wageningen University, Earth System Science
- Guido Waajen
Eco-engineering for clarity. Clearing blue-green ponds and lakes in an urbanized area
3 May 2017, Wageningen University, Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management
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Upcoming Courses |
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SENSE-Reims Summer School on Exploring the land-water continuum: coastal zones, river deltas, islands and wetlands, 2-7 July |
The fourth edition of this successful Summer School focuses again on the governance of socio-ecological systems, which is a rapidly emerging issue in sustainability science. This edition specifically aims at bringing together scholars who integrate knowledge on both land and water centered socio-ecological systems, such as coastal zones, river deltas, islands and wetlands. Particular attention will be paid to the processes through which integrated policies are developed, implemented and evaluated. |
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Climate KIC-AMS-SENSE Summer School "Urban Transitions: Reshaping Urban Districts", 16-30 July |
Turn your research into practice with our two-week PhD summer school on improving Urban Districts. Two case studies in Amsterdam and Bologna will challenge multi-disciplinary participants to shape the urban landscape and its community. |
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Overview of PhD / postdoc courses April-June |
- The politics of Place: Spatial thinking in the social sciences
21 April - 9 May 2017, Wageningen
- Research in Environmental & Geo-Biotechnology
27-28 April 2017, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
- Master class Adoption of agricultural and conservation practices: Insights from behavioral theory and the decision making process (NEW)
2 May 2017, Wageningen
- Environmental Models and Bayesian Inference
2-5 May 2017, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
- Optimization Techniques
8-11 May 2017, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
- Introduction to R for statistical analysis
8-9 May 2017, Wageningen
- Basic Statistics
10, 11, 15, 16, 17 May 2017, Wageningen
- Introduction to Hydrological Processes, Water Resources Management, and Aquatic Ecosystems
15-18 May 2017, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
- 5-day training course on mapping and assessment of soils for soil and environmental scientists and professionals
15-19 May 2017, Wageningen
- STEPS Centre Summer School
15-26 May 2017, Brighton, UK
- Design of Experiments
19-23 May 2017, Wageningen
- Gender & Diversity in Sustainable Development
22 May - 16 June 2017, Wageningen
- Science Policy Interface
31 May - 2 June 2017, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
- The 2017 International Summer School of Applied and Integrated Stratigraphy: Cyclostratigraphy, Modelling and Stable Isotopes (NEW)
5-9 June 2017, UK
- Good Scientific Practice
7-8 June 2017, UFZ Leipzig, Germany
- Linear Models
7-9 June 2017, Wageningen
- The Art of Modelling
12-23 June 2017, Wageningen
- Advanced Course on Environmental Biotechnology
13-23 June 2017, Delft
- Summer School Political Ecologies in/of the Anthropocene: value, life and critique
21-27 June 2017, Wageningen
- Summer course The Precautionary Principle: Governance of Innovation and Innovations in Governance (NEW)
24-30 June 2017, Hungary
- BioBusiness Summer School
26-30 June 2017, Amsterdam
- 8th ESSA / SiLiCo Summer School in Social Simulation “Agent-based modelling for resilience”
26-30 June 2017, Wageningen
- Generalized Linear Models
26-27 June 2017, Wageningen
- NCK Summer School: Estuarine and Coastal Processes in relation to Coastal Zone Management
26 June - 7 July 2017, Texel
- Mixed Linear Models
29-30 June 2017, Wageningen
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Overview of recently announced PhD / postdoc courses |
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Discussion Groups |
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Discussion group Landscape Dynamics: "Bike tour through the surroundings of Wageningen", 31 March |
The landscape is shaped by interacting physical, chemical and biological processes. These range from tectonic processes over millions of years to extreme events which change the landscape in a matter of seconds. The impact of humans on the landscape can be direct but also indirect, by affecting the natural processes. Therefore, understanding the landscape dynamics requires an interdisciplinary view ranging over multiple spatial and temporal scales.
The discussion group ‘Landscape Dynamics’ focuses on the past, present and future dynamics of the physical landscape. During the proactive meetings, different themes will be introduced by a speaker and discussed using several propositions. Example of themes are feedbacks between soil, water, atmosphere and vegetation, the human factor in earth sciences or the issue of up- and downscaling in modelling natural processes. |
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Environmental Governance Seminar Series: "The Practice of Eating", 20 April |
In this series nationally and internationally renowned speakers will highlight a variety of recent topics in Environmental Governance. Lectures are open to the general public. You are warmly invited to attend the lectures.
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Upcoming Events |
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BBOS spring symposium on energy meteorology: From model field to power yield, 11 May |
This symposium is organised by SENSE PhD candidates Arjan Droste and Peter Kalverla (WU, Meteorology and Air Quality Group)
We would like to draw your attention to the Energy Meteorology Symposium organised on 11 May (2017) at Wageningen University. Both Dutch and international speakers will discuss a range of topics related to the role of meteorology in the (renewable) energy sector.
A symposium on renewable energy and the role of meteorology therein
Climate change, air quality issues, political instability and the exhaustive nature of fossil fuels all contribute to the notion that alternative energy sources should be exploited. Accordingly, governments have made appointments that are directed towards implementation of renewable energy systems. Over the past years, we have seen rooftops being covered with solar panels, and meadows populated with wind turbines. However, there is more to such a large transition than meets the eye. During this symposium, we hope to shed some light on the science and policy of renewable energy. We especially focus on the meteorology, that plays a key role in resource estimation, power prediction and load assessments. |
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Overview of upcoming events |
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- Luminescence dating of discontinuous geological archives - the power of high-resolution geochronological data sets
7 April 2017, Utrecht
- Springtij Energie- en Klimaatjury
19 April 2017, Den Haag
- Interconnections Conference: Between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Climate Agreement. Exploring the role of state, non-state and subnational actors
12-13 May 2017, Germany
- Symposium Frontiers in Ecology: The soil-plant interphase
17 May 2017, Wageningen
- IALE 2017 European Landscape Ecology Congress: From pattern and process to people and action
12-15 September 2017, Belgium
- Symposium The Ecosystem Services framework and the concept of Landscape: towards holistic territorial approaches linking pattern, processes and people across Europe
12-15 September 2017, Belgium
- Springtij 2017: Metamorfosen en de Vreemde Tijd
21-23 September 2017, Terschelling
- World Resources Forum 2017: Accelerating the Resource Revolution
24-25 October 2017, Switzerland
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Job vacancies |
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Vacancies at SENSE Partners |
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Other vacancies in the SENSE field |
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