Faculty of Science

DAISY course
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5717-20-09-31
	Enrollment deadline: 01/08/2020

Place

Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences

Date and time

03.08.2020, at: 00:00 - 27.11.2020, at: 16:00

Regular seats

Activity Prices:

- Deltager/Participant from SCIENCE

0.00 kr.

- Deltager/participant enrolled at Danish Universities

0.00 kr.

- Deltager/Participant Others

9,000.00 kr.

Lecturers

Efstathios Diamantopoulos
Per Abrahamsen

ECTS credits

2.00

Contact person

Efstathios Diamantopoulos E-mail address: ed@plen.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser

Efstathios Diamantopoulos E-mail address: ed@plen.ku.dk

Written language

English

Teaching language

English

Semester/Block

Block 1

Block note

Starting one week before normal block start (24-28 Aug 2020)

Exam requirements

Exam registration requirements: Submission of the course report Thursday in the week before the exam.

Exam form

Oral examination, 30 minutes

Exam form

Course participation ; Writting assignment

Exam details

Initially, the students present their report with focus on system presentation and hypotheses, how the hypotheses are investigated, and the most important results and conclusions. The presentation leads to questions and discussions which may include in principle all aspects of Daisy modelling. No time is given for preparation.

Exam aids

All aids allowed

Grading scale

Passed / Not passed

Criteria for exam assessment

Criteria defining the perfect exam performance are specified under "Learning Outcome". To obtain the assessment "passed", the students must show both knowledge, skills, and competences without major weaknesses in more than two areas

Course workload

Course workload category	Hours
Practical exercises	14.00
Colloquia	10.00
Project work	80.00
Preparation	84.00

Sum	188.00

Content

It is divided into two parts:
Simple attendance NO EXAMINATION. 2 ECTS
Price for other PhD students DKK 3.725,-
A full time programme is arranged in the week just before block 1. This will include a series of short presentation, each followed by hands-on group exercises where the students learn how to use the Daisy agroecological simulation model and to analyse a simple, pre-defined system. Specifically they learn how to prepare data for the model, how to run the model, and how to extract and analyse output from the model.

Full attendance WRITING ASSIGNMENT AND ORAL EXAMINATION. 7,5 ECTS
Price for other PhD students DKK 9.000,-
In the second part of the course, this knowledge is used in more realistic system analyses. For master students there will be one or more-pre-defined scenarios to choose from, based on current research. PhD students will typically formulate a scenario based on their own thesis work. The students will individually or (for master students) in groups formulate hypothesis based on their chosen scenario and they will use the Daisy model to test these hypothesis. During this phase there will be no lectures, but consultations with teachers as per individual or group-agreement. The work will be documented in the form of an individual course report.

Learning outcome

Knowledge, skills and competences obtained during the course:

Knowledge: The students understand in outlines (can explain) how the Daisy model is built, i.e. the function of its major components and how these components act together. They also know how to find details on how the model works. Furthermore, they know how to prepare input data and to extract output for traditional model applications.

Skills: Students can apply the Daisy model for traditional agroecological system analyses including effects on the water cycle (e.g. evapotranspiration and runoff), the carbon cycle (e.g. crop production) and the nitrogen cycle (e.g. nitrate leaching). Furthermore, they can make use of the model for some more specialized analyses as for instance the leaching of pollutants like pesticides or natural toxins to ground water and surface waters.

Competences: Students can extract and analyze relevant figures from model simulations with Daisy, interpret the results of this analysis, and draw the right conclusions. They can apply the
Daisy model in testing the formulated hypotheses.

Literature

Knowledge, skills, and competences equivalent to what can be obtained from the master course Applied Agrohydrology I.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching in class room with active participation of students by means of exercises and real, targeted model work, discussions, group work, etc. The students must bring their own computers.

Lecturers

Contact person and enrolment handling/course organiser: Efstathios Diamantopoulos, e-mail ed@plen.ku.dk

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