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Atmosphere, Climate and Life on Early Earth and Exoplanets
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5907-19-11-31 
Enrollment deadline: 01/08/2019
Date and time06.10.2019, at: 00:00 - 11.10.2019, at: 00:00
[antalgange]6
Regular seats20
ECTS credits2.50
Contact personJulie Meier    E-mail address: juliemh@nbi.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPeter Ditlevsen    E-mail address: pditlev@nbi.ku.dk
Course workload
Course workload categoryHours
Lectures15.00
Exercise(s)10.00
Preparation / Self-Study10.00
Project work15.00
Presentation4.00
Sum54.00
Content
The school will be centered around a series of themes:
- What governs planetary climate and habitability
- Climate on the Early Earth: Evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere
- Understanding the mechanisms behind Snowball earth and the faint young suns paradox
- Life and development of continents
- Gaia and mechanisms of self regulation
- Life and climate on exoplanets

Learning outcome
The learning outcome will be a general overview of the subject of the school and the specific research competences attained through the group work and the final report/paper.

Literature
Combination of research papers and textbook chapters (will be specified later).

Teaching and learning methods
The school will be structured such that there will be 2h/day in-depth lectures in the morning, with literature for preparation/orientation sent to the students prior to the school. The lectures will be mixed with exercises (2h/day) specific to the subject. In the afternoon, the students will be working in groups on a larger project related to one of the topics above (3h/day). Each group will be under guidance of one assigned teacher. The end product of that is a presentation on the last day of the school and a small report/paper. In late afternoon, the teachers present the pre-dinner inspirational scientific seminar (1h/day) followed by scientific discussion. The assessment of the students is formative and based on the presentation and report from the group project.

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Venue: Bornø Institute for Ocean and Climate Studies (http://www.bornoinstitute.o.se/ENGELSKA.HTM)

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