Program for ACDC 2014
The program is now starting to take form. Below you can see a tentative schedule of what the program for summer school will approximately look like.
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Half of the students will arrive in Ilulissat, Greenland on Friday 15. August to conduct a research cruise in the fjord outside the Jakobshavn glacier. Some of the students will sleep onboard the boat while docked in Ilulissat, while the others will be lodged in the town of Ilulissat. The rest of the students will arrive on Saturday 16. to joint the others. On Sunday 17. everyone will travel to Disko Island, where the bulk of the summer school will be held. Everyone will travel back together to Ilulissat on Friday 29. August with departure to Iceland on Saturday 30. August.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW:
ARRIVAL:
Friday 15. of August arrival in Ilulissat. A boat will take us over to Disko Island early Sunday morning. For half of the group there will be field work Saturday and for the rest on Sunday onboard R/V Porsild in Icefjord adjacent to the Jakobshavn glacier (more info coming).
On Sunday evening there will be a social event/ice breaker.
FIRST WEEK:
Monday 19th - 24th of August: Fundamental lectures on key topics (2 core lecures per day followed by ample time for discussions/questions).
During the weekend we will have at least two full days (Saturday and Sunday) of field trip.
| Sunday 17th | Monday 18th | Tuesday 19th | Wednesday 20th | Thursday 21st | Friday 22nd | |
| Morning | Arriving | core | core | core | core | core |
| Afternoon | core | core | core | core | core | core |
Daily schedule for first week:
| 07:30-08:30 | Breakfast |
| 09:00-10:00 | Student summaries |
| 10:00-12:00 | Core lecture 1 |
| 12:00-15:00 | Lunch and hiking |
| 15:00-17:00 | Core lecture 2 |
| 17:00-18:00 | Student presentations |
| 18:30-19:30 | Dinner |
SECOND WEEK:
25th of August - 29th August: Advanced lectures on specialized topics (2 topical lectures per day followed by ample time for discussions/questions).
| Monday 25th | Tuesday 26th | Wednesday 27th | Thursday 28th | Friday 29th | ||
| Morning | topical | topical | topical | topical | summary | |
| Afternoon | topical | topical | topical | discussion | travel |
Daily schedule for second week:
| 07:30-08:30 | Breakfast |
| 09:00-10:00 | Student summaries |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee |
| 10:30-12:00 | Topical lecture 1 |
| 12:00-15:00 | Lunch and hiking |
| 15:00-16:30 | Topical lecture 2 |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee |
| 17:00-18:30 | Topical lecture 3 |
| 18:30-19:30 | Dinner |
GENERAL INFO:
Each day will start with summaries of the previous days lectures prepared by groups of students. This ensures that the main topics are understood and give the opportunity to pick up on any unanswered questions/topics.
In the first week we will also have time slots for short presentations by each student, where you can show a few slides describing your PhD work or current research topic.
Part of the time during the last two days of the summer school will be used to prepare a written summary/discussion of the main findings/conclusions of the summer school. This will later be submitted to an appropriate journal.
You can find all the daily summaries and the final submitted paper from previous summer schools on this www site.
DEPARTURE:
On the evening of Friday 29th of August we will take the boat to Ilulissat.
