ACDC 2020 and 2021 - Cancelled
Due to the COVID-19 situation, ACDC 2020 and 2021 have been cancelled, and the topic will be shifted to 2022.
Topic: Dynamics of the Global Water Cycle
Date: August/September 2022.
Location: Abisko Scientific Research Station, Abisko National Park, Sweden
Application: The next application round will open early 2022. More information can be found here.
Target: Advanced graduate students (PhDs).
One Ocean Field Course 2021
We are working on offering a field based alternative to the ACDC summer school for the fall semester 2021. This will take place onboard the sailing vessel Statsraad Lehmkuhl, as part of the One Ocean Expedition. The plan will be to sail from Curacao (Nov. 8th) via Kingston and Havana (Nov. 24th) with an option to continue to Nassau (Dec. 2nd).
As in the traditional ACDC courses, focus will be on climate dynamics including an interdisplinary group of students and lectures. Instead of traditional lectures, we will have weekly webinars starting in September 2021, followed by a 2-3 week field course onboard the tall ship which has been equipped with state of the art oceanographic and metereological instrumentation.
Focus will be on the UN Ocean Decade with projects relating to ocean climate, extreme weather, ocean pollution, sustainable fisheries and more. Details will be announced here and deadline for applicants will be 1st of May 2021. The number of participants is limited.
The Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses (ACDC) are a series of yearly summer/winter schools organized by the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (University of Bergen) and is a part of the partnership in climate between the Bjerknes Centre in Bergen, University of Washington in Seattle, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and is supported by ACER, a project funded by The Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education, and the Reseach Council of Norway.
For an introduction to the schools and the concept of ACDC please watch the video from our school on Greenland in 2014 (at the top of this page).
Organizational committe:
Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu (UiB/Bjerknes)
Øyvind Paasche (UiB/Bjerknes)
David Battisti (UWashington)
Patrick Heimbach (UTexas)
Jake Gebbie (WHOI)
Natalya Gomez (McGill University)
Partners in the summer school:
The University of Texas at Austin
University of Washington
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
McGill University
Scipps Institution of Oceanography
IBS Center for Climate Physics