The Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research, in cooperation with the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Nansen ScientificSociety, and the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS), invites applications to a summer school program entitled "Impact of climate change on resources, maritime transport, and geopolitics in the Arctic and the Svalbard area." The summer school takes place 21-28 August 2011 at the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research and UNIS.
The program will accept applications from 20 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the fields of arctic climate, arctic resources, maritime transport, and geopolitics. The summer school will provide air travel from Oslo to Longyearbyen, Svalbard on Sunday morning, 21 August, and the return trip on 28 August. Accommodation and food will also be provided.

Application deadline: Friday, 24 June 2011.

For further information, please click here.

Or contact: Ola M. Johannessen
Email: ola.johannessen@nersc.no

A Summer School on the topic "Science and Society" will be organised within the INTRAMIF project  (INitial TRAining network in Mass Independent Fractionation ) at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France from the 22nd to the 26th of August 2011.

Some of you might be interested to attend and for more information, please look at the following link:

http://www.phys.uu.nl/~intramif/INTRAMIFsummerschool2011.php

Deadline for submission of applications is Friday 27 May 2011.

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