NERC 2016/17 ADVANCED TRAINING SHORT COURSES (ATSC)
Course Date
April 2016
May 2016
June 2016
June 2016
June 2016
July 2016
August 2016
August 2016
September
2016
September
2016
September
2016
September
2016
September
2016
September
2016
September
2016
Course Title
Advanced omic analyses in the natural
environment: a programme of workshops
provided by the NERC Biomolecular Analysis
Facility
Understanding and Communicating
Environmental Risk and Uncertainty
Software craftsmanship for environmental
scientists
Freshwater Taxonomy and Field
Identification Skills
Taxonomic skills and field techniques for
freshwater ecology and quality
An Introduction to Computed Tomography 3D Non-destructive Imaging for Taxonomy
A skills framework for delivering safe and
effective fieldwork in the polar regions
Practical use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(UAVs) for the Environmental Sciences
Multidisciplinary fieldwork and modelling
skills for the mining industry
Course Award Holder
Location
Contact Information
University of Liverpool
Steve Paterson
S.Paterson@liv.ac.uk
Cranfield University
University of Leeds
Bournemouth University
The Natural History
Museum
The Natural History
Museum
NERC British Antarctic
Survey
University of
Birmingham
NERC British Geological
Survey
Dirt Science: An introduction to soil systems
Cranfield University
Applied Plant Taxonomy, Identification and
Field Survey Skills
Taxonomic principles and tools in botanical
research
Environmental Field Techniques for Scaling
Ecophysiology from Leaf to Forest
Freshwater Bio-assessment and its
application in catchment management
Earth Observations for weather and climate
studies
Royal Botanic Gardens
Kew
The Natural History
Museum
September
2016
Learning how to parallelise code and exploit
emerging computing hardware
The University of
Manchester
September
2016
Fundamentals of EPMA - A graduate level
training course
University of Bristol
Environmental Genomics and Metabolomics
University of
Birmingham
November 2016
December 2016
January 2017
January 2017
January 2017
Ocean Gliders: autonomous monitoring of
the marine environment
Sampling the environment: design and
analysis for efficient and robust collection of
data.
Systematic review and meta-analysis for
environmental sciences
Python solutions for management of
continuous seismic data and ambient noise
interferometry
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
University of Reading
University of East Anglia
George Prpich
g.prpich@cranfield.ac.uk
Andrew Walker
a.walker@leeds.ac.uk
Genoveva Esteban
gesteban@bournemouth.ac.uk
Anne Dorothee Jungblut
a.jungblut@nhm.ac.uk
Farah Ahmed
f.ahmed@nhm.ac.uk
J Alistair Crame
jacr@bas.ac.uk
Rick Thomas
r.thomas@bham.ac.uk
Jonathan Naden
jna@bgs.ac.uk
Jacqueline Hannam
j.a.hannam@cranfield.ac.uk
Gemma Bramley
g.bramley@kew.org
Silvia Pressel
s.pressel@nhm.ac.uk
Howard Griffiths
hg230@cam.ac.uk
Nigel Willby
n.j.willby@stir.ac.uk
Christine Chiu
c.j.chiu@reading.ac.uk
Dr David Topping
david.topping@manchester.ac.uk
Stuart Kearns
stuart.kearns@bristol.ac.uk
John Colbourne
j.k.colbourne@bham.ac.uk
Karen J. Heywood
k.heywood@uea.ac.uk
NERC British Geological
Survey
Richard Lark
mlark@nerc.ac.uk
University of East Anglia
Elena Kulinskaya
e.kulinskaya@uea.ac.uk
University of Liverpool
Silvio De Angelis
silvioda@liverpool.ac.uk
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January 2017
January 2017
January 2017
January 2017
January 2017
January 2017
February 2017
February 2017
Tropical Soils: Environmental Problems and
Potential Solutions
UKCA Theory and Practice: Workshop on
Atmospheric Composition Modelling using
the UKCA Model
Taxonomy and stratigraphy of Cenozoic
planktonic foraminifera
Fieldwork skills in the tropics: vegetation
surveys, monitoring, and plant identification.
Statistical models for wildlife population
assessment and conservation
Quaternary Palaeoecology Advanced Training
Short Course
An introductory molecular phylogenetics
course: molecular diagnostics for species
identification and evolutionary analysis
Introduction to Mathematical Modelling for
the Environmental & Biological Sciences.
Lancaster University
Carly Stevens
c.stevens@lancaster.ac.uk
University of Cambridge
Nathan Luke Abraham
luke.abraham@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk
The Natural History
Museum
Royal Botanic Gardens
Edinburgh
The Natural History
Museum
Stephen Stukins
s.stukins@nhm.ac.uk
David Harris
d.harris@rbge.org.uk
Rachel Sara McCrea
r.s.mccrea@kent.ac.uk
Thomas Hill
thomas.hill@nhm.ac.uk
The Natural History
Museum
Suzanne Williams
s.williams@nhm.ac.uk
University of Stirling
Anthony O'Hare
anthony.ohare@stir.ac.uk
University of Kent
March 2016
NERC Numerical Earth Science Modelling
short course
Durham University
Jeroen van Hunen
jeroen.van-hunen@durham.ac.uk
March 2017
Integrating remote sensing into advanced
geomorphological mapping
Cranfield University
Robert Grabowski
r.c.grabowski@cranfield.ac.uk
March 2017
Insect Taxonomy and Field Sampling Skills
University of Oxford
Jocelyne Hughes
jocelyne.hughes@conted.ox.ac.uk
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