Faculty of Science

Biogenic Volatiles - Exchange at Different Scales and Interactions with Ecosystem Processes
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5091-21-09-31
	Enrollment deadline: 07/10/2021

Date and time

01.11.2021, at: 09:00 - 05.11.2021, at: 16:00

Regular seats

ECTS credits

3.00

Contact person

Riikka Rinnan E-mail address: riikkar@bio.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser

Riikka Rinnan E-mail address: riikkar@bio.ku.dk

Written language

English

Teaching language

English

Course workload

Course workload category	Hours
Preparation / Self-Study	40.00
Course hours	40.00
Evaluation / reporting	2.00

Sum	82.00

Content

• Subject area:

Terrestrial ecology, ecosystem-atmosphere interactions, environmental biology.

• Scientific content:
The course focuses on the exchange of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere across scales. The themes will include production/release (plant leaf-level), uptake/deposition (soil/plants), canopy-scale processes, and regional scale (ecosystem models). Focus is given to the interactions between BVOC exchange and other ecosystem processes, which will make the course relevant also for PhD students working with soil respiration/soil microbial communities, photosynthesis and plant physiology, ecosystem carbon exchange etc.

In addition to interactive lectures covering recent advances within the topic, the course will include demonstrations in laboratory focusing on the state-of-the-art methods in BVOC measurements and relevant data analyses. The participants will make projects in groups, discussing and identifying knowledge gaps as well as designing experiments. Each group will present their work at the end of the course.

Learning outcome

The course participants will be able to discuss BVOC exchange across the scales as well as contrast and compare the related processes to other ecosystem processes. The participants will be able to select suitable methods for laboratory or field studies on BVOC exchange including experimental design, sampling, chemical analysis and data analysis.

Lecturers

Professor Jaana Bäck
University of Helsinki, Finland

Professor Alex B. Guenther
University of California, Irvine, USA

Researcher Jing Tang
Lund University, Sweden

Professor Riikka Rinnan
Dept. Biology, UCPH

Associate professor Guy Schurgers
Dept. Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, UCPH

Assistant professor Roger Seco
Dept. Biology, UCPH

Remarks

If you would like to participate, please:

1) Click on Apply.

2) In addition, please send a brief description of your motivation to participate in this course including a 1-page CV to Riikka Rinnan, riikkar@bio.ku.dk

The course is provided free of charge, but you are expected to arrange your travel to and accommodation in Copenhagen.

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