PhD courses at EMG
Here we provide a preliminary schedule for PhD courses organized at EMG. More information about the courses is given here (recurrent courses). Courses are also organized by the KBC-reserach school and the Center for teaching and learning (UPC).
Schedule
2012
March - Understanding your science (26-30/3)
September - Using R
September-October - Introduction course
October - Statistics
December-January - Writing post-doc application
2013
February - Presentation techniques
March - Publishing
September-October - Introduction course
Nov-Dec - Mathematics and Modeling Ecological and Evolutionary Processes
Scheduled literature courses
(Content, Course organizer, Time)
2012
Global ecology and ecosystem management – Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship, Chapin, Fofinas and Folke (eds), Course organizer Jon Moen, December 2011-February 2012.
Physical Geography - Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology, Schaetzl & Anderson, Course organizer Jonathan Klaminder, Start Jan 18.
Terrestrial Ecology – Citation classics in terrestrial ecology, selected readings of articles, Course organizer Ellen Dorrepaal, March-May.
Environmental Science - Biogeochemistry: an analysis of global change, Schlesinger, Course organizer Richard Bindler, Start April (4 meetings planned over 4 weeks).
Evolutionary and ecology and genetics – Evolution, Barton, N. H. et al., Course organizer Pelle Ingvarsson, Spring 2012.
Selected readings in Population and Community Ecology - Course organizer Sebastian Diehl and Lennart Persson, September-November.
Macroecology – Brown, Course organizer Göran Englund, Oct-Nov.
Selected readings in Landscape Ecology – Course organizer Per-Anders Essen, Nov-Dec.
Note that students and supervisors are free to organize courses around any book that is relevant for the PhD-studies.
