International PhD Course in Merging Measurements and Modeling in Soil Physics - 28.09.2010

Time: March 28 - April 3, 2011

Location: Aarhus University, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences - Research

Center Foulum, Denmark

Organizers: Lis Wollesen de Jonge, Aarhus University
Per Møldrup, Aalborg University  
Bo Vangsø Iversen, Aarhus University

 
Description: This course will present accepted and emerging concepts of key processes of water flow in unsaturated porous media. These concepts will be presented together with standard and novel methods to make the measurements necessary to describe these processes. The focus of the course is the need for a unified treatment of measurement and modeling in quantitative soil physics. Specifically, we will discuss how advancements in our understanding of soil physics should guide the design of measurement and monitoring efforts. Similarly, we will discuss how the interpretation of measurements made with emerging indirect methods should be made in the context of the soil physical model of interest.

Registration: Information on admission to the course will be forwarded shortly after. The total number of participants is limited to 25. PhD students are given first priority, but depending on the number of registrants we also welcome post-graduate participants and MSc students.

Deadline: Applicants are requested to submit the registration form no later than March 1, 2011.

Fee: The course is fee is 400 Euro for students enrolled in STAiR and 500 Euro for others. This covers course materials, housing, transportation during the course, and two course dinners.

Credits: Approximately 125 hours in total including the lectures and exercises during the course and preparatory reading before and during the course. The workload corresponds to 5 ECTS.

Further Information: Please contact the course organizers or STAiR and read the flyer of the course.