The course will gather experts in modelling of different ecosystems (agricultural systems, wetlands, forests) and at different scales (site scale, catchment scale, global scale). With a combination of lectures, student presentations on students’ individual PhD projects, discussion groups, group exercises and plenary discussions, we will compare and contrast the different approaches and will obtain a broad understanding of how these interactions are represented in models, how these interactions can be scaled to large-scale models, and how these can be used in accounting of greenhouse gas balances.

Detailed information on the programme and teachers will be published here Global Wetland Center – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk) 

Requirements for signing up:
Short biosketch (max 1,000 char)
Short description of your PhD project (max 1,000 char)

Please send your biosketch and description to Tania Fredborg Nielsen, tn@ign.ku.dk.

Participants will be informed by email about acceptance for the course by 15 November 2024, after which they will receive information for formal registration and payment.

Knowledge:

• Role of hydrological processes on plant and soil greenhouse gas exchange
• Representation of hydrological processes in 1-dimensional and 3-dimensional models at different scales
• Representation of biogeochemical processes in models at different scales

Skills:

• Describing feedbacks between hydrology and ecosystem processes
  

Competences:

• Ability to describe dependencies between hydrological processes and greenhouse gas exchange in quantitative relationships
• Critical assessment of the dependencies used to describe hydrology and biogeochemistry in models at different scales and of the uncertainties and limitations related to this

PhD students in the fields of geography/geosciences, environmental sciences, ecology/biology, nature management/natural resources.

Recommended Academic Qualifications
MSc in geography, geosciences, environmental sciences, soil science, ecology, biology, nature management or similar.

The course will be taught with lectures by experts. These will form the basis for further discussion in discussion groups and plenary discussion.

In addition to this, the students will give short presentations of their individual PhD projects, focusing on the role of hydrology and biogeochemistry in these.

Course fee DKK 1,500, which covers participation in the course and coffee/tea and lunch during the five course days.

Participants cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.