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Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate Environment and Society
(PERICLES)
1. Signature of the application and of endorsement letters
2. CVs of the main actors
3. Part E: Implementation of the joint program
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Please note that Chancellor of the University of Cape Town has only a role of representation. The legual authority is the Vice President.
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CVs of the main actors
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Matthieu Roy-Barman
Coordinator and UVSQ representative
Name: Matthieu Roy-Barman Address: LSCE, Avenue de la Terrasse - 91198 – Gif sur Yvette, France E-mail: [email protected] Position: Professor at the University of Versailles-Saint Quentin
Previous employment: ● 2005-today : Professor at Versailles-Saint Quentin University and LSCE ● 2002-2005: Lecturer at Versailles-Saint Quentin University and LSCE ● 1995-2002: Lecturer at Toulouse III University and LEGOS ● 1993-1995: Post-doctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology ● 1989-1993: Doctorate in Fundamental Geochemistry, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Experience and expertise: My present research interests focus on marine geochemistry and more particularly on the use of isotopic tracers (Pa-Th isotopes, Nd isotopes) and trace elements to constrain the fluxes of dissolved and particulate matter in the ocean. My work contributes to a better understanding of the present and past oceanic carbon cycle. For example, the determination of the sediment trap efficiency with Th isotopes puts strong constrains on the biological pump of carbon. I am involved in the french programs KEOPS , BONUS-GOOD HOPE, ISOFLORE (PI) and in international program GEOTRACES. In the past I have studied the mantle/crust differentiation through the use of the 187Re-187Os isotopic pair. I also keep an activity in isotope geochemistry applied to polution tracing on continents. Over the years, I have developped a strong expertize in clean chemistry fo trace elements and mass spectrometry.
I teach at licence ald master of university level courses in Marine Biogeochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, Earth and environmental sciences. With collaboration of L. Labeyrie and D. Paillard I have created the Master “Interaction Climat-Environnement and Remote Sensing” (www.ice.uvsq.fr) in 2004 and I direct it since its beginning.
Selected recent referee publications:
M. Roy-Barman, C. Lemaître, Ayrault, S., C. Jeandel, M. Souhaut, J.-C. Miquel (2009) The influence of particle composition on Thorium scavenging in the Mediterranean Sea. Submited to EPSL.(in revision) J-C Dutay, F Lacan, M. Roy Barman, L. Bopp (2009) Study of the influence of the particles’ size and type on the simulation of 231Pa and 230Th with a global coupled biogeochemical- ocean general circulation model. G-cubed, doi:10.1029/2008GC002291 C. Venchiarutti, C. Jeandel, M. Roy-Barman (2008) Particle dynamics in the wake of Kerguelen Island traced by thorium isotopes (Southern Ocean, KEOPS program). Deep Sea Research I 55 , 1343-1363. L. Coppola, M. Roy-Barman, S. Mulsow, P. Povinec, C. Jeandel (2006) Thorium isotopes as tracers of particles dynamics in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. Marine Chemistry 100, 299- 313. Savoye N., Benitez-Nelson C., Burd A., Cochran J. K., Charette M., Jackson G., Roy- Barman M. & S. Schmidt (2006). An overview of techniques used to model 234Th in the water column. Marine Chemistry, 100, 234-249. M. Roy-Barman, M., C. Jeandel, M. Souhaut, R. Freydier, M. Rutgers van der Loeff, I. Voege, N. Leblond (2005) The influence of particle composition on thorium scavenging in the NE Atlantic ocean (POMME experiment). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 240, 681– 693.
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Ulysses S. Ninnemann
UoB Representative
Name: Ulysses S. Ninnemann
Address: Department of Earth Science & BCCR University of Bergen Allegaten 55, 5007 Bergen, Norway E-mail: [email protected] Position: Associate Professor
Previous employment: Appointments ● 2002-current Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science, UoB ● 1999-2002 Postdoctoral Scholar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia U. ● 1996-1998 ARCS Graduate Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ● 1993-1996 Graduate Student Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Experience and expertise: Education 1999 Ph.D. Earth Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, USA. 1992 B.A. Geology, Rice University, USA. Research interest: Using satble isotopes to constrain the past climate system variability (in particular on the millennial-scale) Facilities Head of mass spectrometry lab for measurement of light stable istotopes (C, N, O, H, etc) in geological and marine samples. The facility contains four Finnigan mass spectrometers (Delta, MAT 251, MAT 252, MAT 253), two Kiel carbonate devices, two EA’s, a GasBench, an online GC, and an equilibration bench for d18O water analysis. Teatching in enviromental sciences, paleoclimatology, climate variability.
Selected recent referee publications: Jean Lynch-Stieglitz et al., Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum, , Science, 316, 66 (2007), DOI: 10.1126/science.1137127. Lynch-Stieglitz, J., W. B. Curry, D. W. Oppo, U. S. Ninneman, C. D. Charles, and J. Munson, Meridional overturning circulation in the South Atlantic at the last glacial maximum, G3, 7, (2006), doi:10.1029/2005GC001226. Olsen, A., A. Omar, R. Bellerby, T. Johannessen, U. Ninnemann, K. Brown, K. Olsson, J. Olafsson, G. Nondal, C. Kivimäe, S. Kringstad, C. Neill, S. Olafsdottir, Magnitude and Origin of the Anthropogenic CO2 Increase and 13C Suess Effect in the Nordic Seas Since 1981, Glob. Biogeo. Cycles, VOL. 20, 2006, doi:10.1029/2005GB002669. Lamy, F, Kaiser, K, Ninnemann, U, Hebbeln, D, Arz, H, and J. Stoner, Antarctic timing of millennial-scale changes in ocean surface water conditions and Patagonian ice sheet extent between 8 and 50 kyr B.P. off southern Chile, Science. 304, 1959-1962, 2004. Ninnemann, U.S., and C.D. Charles, Changes in the Mode of Southern Ocean Circulation Over the Last Glacial Cycle Revealed by Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Variability, EPSL, 201, 383-396, 2002. Kanfoush, S.L., D.A. Hodell, C.D. Charles, T.P Guilderson, P.G Mortyn, and U.S. Ninnemann, Millennial-scale Instability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Last Glaciation, Science, vol. 288, 1815-1818, 2000. .
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Mary M Elliot UoE Representative
Name: Mary M Elliot Address: School of GeoScience, Edinburgh University, West Mains Road, EH9 3JW, Edinburgh E-mail: [email protected] Position: Lecturer in Paleoclimate Paleoceans.
Previous employment: ● 2002-today Lecturer The University of Edinburgh ● 2001-2002 Post-doctoral fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia ● 1999-2001 Post-doctoral fellow, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, US ● 1995-1999 Ph.D. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Gif / Yvette France.
Experience and expertise: My research focuses on reconstructions of paleoclimates and paleoenvironments in order to underrstand the mechanisms of abrupt climate change. I measure stable isotope and trace element tracers on biogenic carbonate to quantify past changes in ocean salinity and temperature. The results I obtain serve to reconstruct past changes in ocean circulation and climate change. I have used two types of fossil records: - Ocean sediment deposits which provide records of past changes in ocean hydrology and deep water circulation with centennial to millennial resolutions. I focused particularly on understanding the role of North Atlantic Ocean circulation patterns in the mechanisms of abrupt climate change. - Marine bivalves which provide paleorecords with seasonal resolutions at high and low latitudes.
I teach at all levels: 1st and 2nd year courses in oceanography and global environmental processes. 3rd year course in quaternary environmental changes and 4th year courses in global environmental change. I provide basic quantitative tools in the field of environmental geoscience and incorporate recent progress of research at 3rd and 4th year level. I supervise two PhD students and co-supervise 2 PhD students. I also supervise several 4th year honours/masters level student research projects per year. Since 2006, I am the Environmental Geoscience degree programme coordinator and participate in several research and teaching based committees in the School of GeoSciences.
Selected recent publications in prep and published:
Elliot, M.; K. Welsh; J. Chappell & M. McCulloch Profiles of Ba/Ca derived from giant long-lived bivalves (Tridacna gigas) a proxy for past sea surface productivity. Submitted to Paleoceanography. Elliot, M., Welsh; C. Chilcott; Gagan, M.; M. McCulloch; Cabioch G.; Corrège, T. Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca and stable isotope profiles derived from a modern long-lived Tridacna bivalve from New Caledonia: role of pH, Growth Patterns and Environmental Factors, Submitted to Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta. Elliot, M., P. deMenocal, B. Linsley, & S.S. Howe, Environmental controls on the seasonal isotopic records of M. mercenaria and potential application to paleo-environmental studies, Geochem Geoph Geosyst, 4 (7), 2003. Elliot M.; L Labeyrie & J.C. Duplessy. Changes in North Atlantic Deep -Water formation associated with the Dansgaard-Oeschger temperature oscillations (10-60ka). Quat. Sci. Rev., 21, 1153-1165, 2002. Elliot M.; L Labeyrie; T. Dokken & S. Manthé. Coherent patterns of ice rafted debris deposits in the Nordic regions during the last glacial (10-60 ka). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 194, 151-163. 2001. Bond G.; W. Showers; M. Elliot; M. Evans; R. Lotti & S. Johnson. Tracing the North Atlantic’s ~ 1.5kyr Climate Cycle to 80,000 Years B.P.- Relation to Heinrich Events, Dansgaard /Oeschger Cycles, and the Little Ice Age. "Mechanisms of millennial-scale climate change", edited by P.U. Clark, R.S. Webb & L.D. Keigwin, AGU Geophysical Monograph 112, 35-58, 1999.
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Bruce Hewitson UCT Representative
Name: Bruce Hewitson Address: University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa E-mail: [email protected] Position: Professor, and DST National Research Chair in Climate change
Previous employment: ● 2005-today : Professor at the University of Cape Town ● 2000-2004: Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town ● 1995-1999: Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town ● 1993-1994: Lecturer at the University of Cape Town ● 1992-1992 Research Associate, Pennsylvania State University ● 1991-1991 Doctorate in climatology, Pennsylvania State University ● 1989-1990 Masters in climatology, Pennsylvania State University
Experience and expertise: My key expertise is in regional climate change, climate modeling, downscaling and regional climate change projections, as well as a broad range of issues pertaining to these topics. This includes mentoring and training in capacity building activities, engaging with stakeholder communities on climate change issues across Africa, and serving the international climate change research activities through the IPCC and a number of related international agencies. My research output represents the only resource of tailored regional climate change projections for Africa and has a large user base. Through these activities extensive experience has been gained in working with stakeholders and other scientists across Africa, and I regularly host interns from Africa on climate change. In addition, as director of the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG – www.csag.uct.ac.za), extensive experience has been accumulated in project proposals, project management, and fund generation. The projects encompass a broad range of disciplines, including multidisciplinary projects spanning both physical science and extending into the adaptation and policy arenas. I currently host Africa scientists on visiting fellowships, supervise 10 PhD students on a range of climate topics, as well as four post-docs on climate modeling and climate change.
Selected recent refereed publications: MacKellar NC, Tadross MA, Hewitson BC, 2008: Synoptic-based evaluation of climatic response to vegetation change over southern Africa, online early view in International Journal of Climatology Wilby RL, Troni J, Biot CL, Tedd C, Hewitson BC, Smithe M, Sutton RT, 2008: A review of climate risk information for adaptation and development planning, online early view in Int. J. of Climatology Reusch DB, Alley RB, Hewitson BC, 2007: North Atlantic climate variability from a self-organizing map perspective, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112 Mackellar, N.C., Hewitson B.C., Tadross M.A., 2007: Namaqualand's climate: recent historical changes and future scenarios. Journal of Arid Environments, in press. Christensen, J., Hewitson, B.C., et al., 2007: Regional Climate Projections, in IPCC Fourth Assessment Report "Climate Change 2007: The Scientific Basis" (Solomon et al., eds.), Cambridge University Press Hewitson, B.C., and Crane, R.G., 2006: Consensus between GCM climate change projections with empirical downscaling, Int. J. of Climatology, 26: 1315–1337. Tadross, M.A., Gutowski W.J. Jr., Hewitson B.C., Jack C.J., New M., 2006: MM5 simulations of interannual change and the diurnal cycle of southern African regional climate. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 86, 63-80. DOI 10.1007/s00704-005-0208-2. New M., Hewitson, B., et al. 2006, Evidence of trends in daily climate extremes over southern and West Africa, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D14102, doi:10.1029/2005JD006289.
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Zhimin JIAN Tongji University Representative
Name: Zhimin Jian Address: State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, SipingRoad1239, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China E-mail: [email protected] Position: University Professor, Tongji University
Education: z 1990-1993: Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Tongji University; Ph.D. z 1987-1990: Department of Marine Geology, Tongji University, China; Master degree; z 1983-1987: Department of Geology, Peking University, China; Bachelor degree
Professional Experiences z 1999-today : Professor, Dept. of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China z 1999-2001: Alexander von Humboldt scholar, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24118 Kiel, Germany z 1996-1999: Associate professor, Dept. of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China z 1995-1996 Visiting scholar, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24118 Kiel, Germany z 1993-1995 Lecturer, Dept. of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Selected Publications: Jian, Z., Tian, J., Sun, X., 2009. Upper Water Structure and Paleo-Monsoon. In: Wang, P., Li, Q. (eds.), The South China Sea: Paleoceanography and Sedimentology. Berlin: Springer Publishing, 297-394. Jian, Z.., Yu, Y., Li, B., Wang, J., Zhang, X., Zhou, Z., 2006. Phased evolution of the south-north hydrographic gradient in the South China Sea since the middle Miocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 230: 251-263. Jian, Z.., Zhao, Q., Cheng, X., Wang, J., Wang, P., Su, X., 2003. Pliocene-Pleistocene stable isotope and paleoceanographic changes in the northern South China Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 193: 425-442. Jian, Z., Huang, B., Lin, H., Kuhnt, W., 2001. Late Quaternary upwelling intensity and East Asian
monsoon forcing in the South China Sea. Quaternary Research, 55: 363-370.
Jian, Z., Wang, P., Chen, M.-P., Li, B., Zhao, Q., Bühring, C., Laj, C., Lin, H.-L., Pflaumann, U., Bian, Y., Wang, R., Cheng, X., 2000. Foraminiferal responses to major Pleistocene paleoceanographic changes in the southern South China Sea. Paleoceanography, 15(2): 229- 243. Jian, Z., Wang, P., Saito, Y., Wang, J., Oba, T., Cheng, X., 2000. Holocene variability of the Kuroshio Current in the Okinawa Trough, northwestern Pacific Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 184(1): 305-319. Jian, Z.., Wang, L., Kienast, M., Sarnthein, M., Kuhnt, W., Lin, H., Wang, P., 1999. Benthic foraminiferal paleoceanography of the South China Sea over the last 40,000 years. Marine Geology, 156(1-4): 159-186. Jian, Z., Wang, L., 1997. Late Quaternary benthic foraminifera and deepwater paleoceanography in the South China Sea. Marine Micropaleontolgy, 32(1/2): 127-154.
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Patricia ORDUY-REY
Name: Patricia ORDUY-REY Address: Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 55 avenue de Paris 78035 Versailles cedex E-mail: [email protected] Position: Head of the International Relations Office and Erasmus Institutional Coordinator of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
Experience and expertise: ● 2009 - Present: Erasmus institutional Coordinator (Co-responsible for the renewal of the Erasmus University Charter ; In charge of yearly progress report and final report ; Erasmus contact at UVSQ for national structure/contact point ; Signatory of bilateral agreements in the framework of the Lifelong Leraning Program: Erasmus) ● 2006 - Present: Head of the International relations Office (Responsible for implementing and following-up the international policy at the university ; Responsible for implementing and folowing-up the operating budget ; In charge of the scholarships for students in exchange programs – more than 400.000 euros ; In charge of the development and the management of cooperation agreements with foreign universities ; Responsible for welcoming international exchange students – more than 123 students in 2008-2009 and sending UVSQ students abroad – more than 160 in 2008- 2009)
Education: ● 2000-2001: Master of International Management (MIM), University of saint-Thomas – USA (Marketing, international management, finance, economics, human resources, logistics) ● 1999-2000: DESS Franco-Américain d’Affaires Internationales, Institut d’Administration des Entreprises – Caen (International business, marketing, management, law, fiance and economics) ● 1998-1999: Maîtrise Langues Etrangères Appliquées (LEA), option affaires et commerce, Université de Caen (International business, marketing, economics, management, law)
Languages: French: mother tongue English: fluent Spanish: good working level German: basic conversation
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A. ERASMUS MUNDUS MASTERS COURSES (EMMC) A.1 Course content (25% of the max. score) Under this criterion applicants should specify/describe/justify, A.1.1 the needs analysis (including in socio-economic terms) of the joint programme taking into account the current state of the art in the field(s) concerned; and; The aim of the PERICLES (Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate Environment and Society) is to provide a high level multidisciplinary training on climate changes and on their environmental and societal impacts for future graduate students and experts within an exceptional research environment. The unequivocal warming of the climate system represents one of the greatest environmental, social and economic threats facing the human society for the next decades. The EU and its Member States are committed to limit the global average temperature increase to 2° Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels, the point beyond which the impact of climatic change is believed to increase dramatically. However, many short and long term impacts of this warming on the climatic system itself (eg: impact on the global carbon cycle, on the hydrologic cycle, on monsoons, vulnerability of the ocean carbon sink and the implications for climate stabilisation scenarios…) and most importantly implications for society (eg: on water resources, land uses, food security, air quality, health, displacement, disruption of social relations and social cohesion, cultural change…) remain poorly understood. Understanding, quantifying and mitigating these impacts requires the development of new research on the climatic system. Outcomes can then be used to predict implications for society as described by environmental and human sciences, for instance as indicated by the first draft of the ongoing 7th Framework Programme (FP7) call for projects, e.g.: - Atmospheric chemistry and climate change interactions (ENV.2010.1.1.2.1.); - Changes in CO2 uptake by oceans in a changing climate (ENV.2010.1.1.3.1.); - Explore climate policy scenarios and mitigation options in cooperation with key developing countries and/or emerging economies (ENV.2010.1.1.6.2.) - Quantifying costs of climate change through coupling of climate and economic models (ENV.2010.1.1.6.3.). Such research is particularly important to establish the future “post-Kyoto” initiatives on the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the FP7 programme notes that “in the context of emerging measured impacts of climate change, the demand for climate services is growing” (ENV.2010.1.1.4.1.), implying the appearance of new job opportunities. The challenge of living with Global Climate Change will require education of postgraduate students, scientists and engineers to develop research on the climate system and all its complex interactions including the human dimensions. This, in turn, will necessitate the formation of graduated students with extensive knowledge on the climatic system but who will interact also with human sciences. This multidisciplinary approach is emerging at the research level but not at post-graduate level due to the lack of suitable programmes and cross disciplinary educational platforms. Climate sciences are based on physics, but also on Earth sciences. Tools involve data acquisition, data analysis and integration of the complex Earth system. Classical mono- or bi-disciplinary training does not produce the adequate combination of high level knowledge in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Environmental and Earth Sciences necessary for high level research in climate change science. The United Nations “International Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC)” has also demonstrated the need for much better assessment of climate changes impacts on humanity, its environment, and on biodiversity. This requires knowledge of human and social sciences at a level sufficient enough to permit efficient communication between the traditionally different communities of the “hard” and “soft” sciences studying climate change and its impacts. As a consequence, the field lacks sufficient top quality scientists and experts. The necessary education must be provided after acquisition of disciplinary bases (at licence/bachelor level), but prior to the beginning of graduate research (Doctorate/PhD) level, thus within a Master degree. Studying Climate Change involves many disciplines (thus many specialised teachers), but it also requires strong focus, awareness of the varying international context and readiness to work internationally and cross-disciplinary. Arctic warming, water availability in the tropics, melting glaciers, sea level rise, atmospheric CO2 mitigation, acidification of the oceans and their impacts are some of the critical aspects of climate change, but the necessary theoretical bases tend to be only partially covered in individual universities. To our knowledge, only Princeton, Columbia and Harvard in the USA have access to full multidisciplinary training in climate change, economy and society in their Masters programmes. Although Europe plays a key role in climate change research, with “Climate and Energy” one of its research priorities, the high level multidisciplinary training we propose does not yet exist at Master’s level. Several individual European Universities include part of such training within a more general curriculum (in particular the Universities associated within the present programme), but such broader programmes do not allow the full development of expertise we believe is necessary. European scientists are very active in future climate change and its impact on environment, economy and society. The strong development of fundamental and applied research on the domain of climate and environmental changes and of the associated financing of Doctoral studies (including through EU financing) means that excellent students have generally no difficulties in carrying out Doctoral and post-doctoral research in Europe. However, the existing masters do not cover the need for excellent students in multidisciplinary climate sciences at the European scale. With the increasing
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A.1.2 the objectives of the EMMC and its possible contribution to European university excellence and European competitiveness; its added value compared with courses that already exist in the same field at national and international level The analysis presented in the previous section forms the basis of the PERICLES programme: a focused European Masters degree for training in Climate Change Science, within the frame of the Interactions between Climate, Environment and Society within an exceptional research environment. Its objectives are: 1) to provide a high level masters teaching on mechanism and impacts of climate change. We will provide very strong bases in maths, physics, chemistry and environmental sciences and a large opening to human and social sciences in the context of climate and environmental impacts (see section A.1.3 for more details on the program). This teaching and the integrated research project are supported by an exceptional research environment and an international network that will promote students mobility and opening to other research/societal/cultural/economic systems. In the optic of the “post-Kyoto” discussions, this international experience and cultural opening is an integral part of the education of the student. 2) to attract the best students worldwide and to prepare them for doctorate/PhD research in the field of climate change and related impacts in world leading laboratories including those of the PERICLES consortium or to work in public institutions or companies/organisms dealing with climate and environmental changes by giving them sufficient transferable skills (see section A.1.3 for more details on the programme and A.1.4 for professional perspectives). 3) to create a worldwide academic network on climate change based on leading research institutions. This is essential considering the number of environmental, social and economical issues that have to be covered by the courses and the research projects. 4) to put European training at the forefront, to obtain sufficient internationally trained students to face one of the biggest societal problems in the next 50-100 years.
The universities Versailles-St Quentin France (UVSQ), of Bergen Norway (UiB) and of Edinburgh UK (UoE) have teamed up to reach theses objectives: 1 - France, the Université Versailles-St- Quentin has developed a large Observatory (OVSQ) that gathers 4 laboratories (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Centre d'Economie et d'Ethique pour l'Environnement et le Développement , laboratoire d'épidémiologie) and more than 250 academic staff involved in research and teaching on climate change and its environmental, social and health impacts. UVSQ has developed a vast area of expertise within the 15 Master programmes they offer, focussing on challenges of understanding the decisions and actions surrounding sustainable development. Among these specialties, ICE (Interactions Climat Environnement et télédétection) is a precursor to this PERICLES project covering the study of the climate system with Earth observation, paleoclimate tools, modelling on various time scales as well as societal aspects. However, at present, most courses are given in French so that it is accessible to all foreign students. 2 - Norway: The Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen: The University of Bergen has built a strong collaborative environment for climate research and education between the department of Earth Science (host institute) the Geophysical institute and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate research. The Earth Science department is a leading center for earth system and climate research-a recent Science Watch ranking placed UiB geosciences as top in Europe in "citation impact" (and 6th globally) over the period 1996-2007. The Geophysical Institute is the largest Norwegian university department of meteorology and oceanography and has a storied history in climate research tracing back to the early 20th century with Wilhelm Bjerknes, while the Bjerknes Centre is the largest climate research centre in the Nordic countries and is recognized as a Norwegian national centre of excellence. These institutes collaborate closely on climate education and have recently established a national research school in Climate Dynamics (coordinated by the Geophysical Institute)-an ideal complement to the PERICLES program. In addition, development is one of the strategic research field of University of Bergen(together with climate and oceanography). 3 - Scotland UK. The School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh contains over 100 academic and research specialists and some of the best geoscientific analytic infrastructure in the UK. The recent Research Assessment Exercise classified the School of GeoSciences as the best research institute in the UK for Earth and environmental science. The School’s overarching aims are to explore the factors and forces that shape our world and environments in which we live. The School’s research activities are driven by major research groups, which are Global Change, Earth Observation, Environmental Change & Sustainability, Earth & Planetary Science, and Human
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Geography. The first three have the aim to understand the interaction between the Earth's surface, atmosphere, oceans and biosphere and the human impacts and responses. A central approach is that of Earth System Dynamics, led by a Centre of that name within the Global Change Group.
The 3 universities already have masters courses on climate and related disciplines and they are strongly committed to improving training at masters and undergraduate level and to conduct research on climate changes. They have a long history of collaboration through scientific collaborations (including European programs), doctorate co- direction, masters students moving to another university for their research project. Furthermore, their association creates a consortium with a much wider teaching and research potential than each individual university, with strong complement of their research fields of excellence (coupled global climate modelling, biogeochemical cycles and paleoclimate for UVSQ, High latitude processes for UiB, Mid and low latitude processes for UoE). All three are associated with large research institutes focussing on this domain. Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (UVSQ and UPMC for the Paris area), the Bjerknes Center (Bergen), and the School of GeoSciences in Edinburgh play a leading role in scientific programmes related to the United Nation International Panel on Climate Changes, as well as on many European research projects. These institutes are at the forefront of international research on climate change and they have been associated with the work of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which jointly won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize (for their efforts in compiling and disseminating greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and in laying the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change). These institutes combined contain more than 400 scientists in relevant fields, many of whom will be directly involved in research training of the masters students. This ensemble has no equivalent in Europe or anywhere else in the world. Therefore, it will strongly contribute to the European university excellence.
It will be further enhanced by the inclusion of University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa and the Tongji University (TU) in Shanghai, China as third-country partners of the consortium that will promote long-term collaborative research and teaching with these institutions. o The University of Cape Town (UCT) is the leading university in South Africa. The Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) at UCT is the largest climate research group on the continent with a dedicated focus on multi-disciplinary research on climate change. It is the leading provider of climate change information to developing nations in Africa. o The Tongji University (TU) is one of the leading universities directly under the State Ministry of Education in China. In TU, the State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments and carries out projects including Earth system sciences, paleoceanography, past global climate changes, deep-sea biogeochemistry. As the base of IODP-China Office and IMAGES China Office, the Laboratory has a tradition in broad international collaborations.. The detailed added value brought by the third-country to the Consortium is given in section A.1.3.. The creation of PERICLES will enhance the international profile of the consortium Universities in climate-related training. It will strongly promote their visibility, their excellence and their competitiveness.
PERICLES will contribute to European competitiveness in several ways: o creating an internationally recognised masters will enhance the attractiveness of the European universities. o attracting the best and most enthusiastic students world wide and will contribute, through this masters and possible subsequent doctorate to sustaining the EU’s position at the forefront of research on climate change issues. o training climate change experts that will work in the economic sector. o by contributing to the EU leading position in the climate change research, PERICLES will contribute to strengthen the EU for: ● determining EU policy of mitigation and adaptation to climate changes; ● International negotiations for a post-Kyoto agreement; ● providing EU expertise and mitigation technology to other countries.
PERICLES has a very strong added value compared to existing courses at national and international level: At the national level: Masters courses related to climate change/environmental sciences are generally mono or bi-disciplinary (master of ocean and atmosphere physics, master of marine biology and chemistry, master of continental hydrology, master of glaciology…), but do not cover adequately the whole spectrum of discipline (including human aspects), tools and issues related to climate change studies. The PERICLES consortium gathers a wide spectrum of expertise providing state of the art courses on an extended range of climate change issues in the world. While many climate- related masters offer an optional mobility to a limited number of their students through internship in foreign countries, this mobility is neither mandatory nor as extensive as proposed in PERICLES. This is one of the added values of making a joint program instead of running individual national programs.
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At the international level: As explained in the need analysis section (A.1.1), the PERICLES master programme has no equivalent in Europe and, to our knowledge, only Princeton, Columbia and Harvard in the USA proposes full multidisciplinary training in climate changes, economy and society in their Masters programmes. One Erasmus Mundus Masters, MESPOM (Masters course in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management), gives an introduction to climate change impacts. Nevertheless, it does not have the strong quantitative approach of PERICLES (with a strong component in Earth system modelling for future predictions) so that these 2 masters are complementary rather than competing. Many traditional science disciplines are not attractive nowadays to many well qualified young students who prefer not to choose scientific routes. An integrated programme such as PERICLES offers a powerful means of motivating such students at an early stage of their careers by exposing them to research and field studies in an area that is crucial to the future of modern society.
A.1.3 the academic quality (including the quality of the teaching staff) and structure of the EMMC and in particular the appropriateness and added value of the mandatory mobility periods for the students; if applicable, the added value of the third-country organisations to the EMMC objectives and content;
The structure of the EMMC is designed so that all students follow the same mobility track during the 3 first semesters (year 1: September -December France UVSQ, January-June Norway UiB; Year 2 September –December Scotland UoE, January-June dissertation in any of the Institutes). This structure ensures a progressive acquisition of knowledge and competences as each semester build up on the previous ones. For example, the course on climate modelling (semester 3) will build up the courses describing physical processes and biogeochemical cycle in the climate system (semester 1 and semester 2 for polar areas), the climate variability (semester 2) and mathematical tools (semester 1 and semester2). The remote sensing course will benefit from the courses data analysis (S2) and on the knowledge (semester 1, semester 2) of the objects (ocean, atmosphere, ice sheets, gas, aerosols…) observed by remote sensing. The Human dimension is introduced through the epistemology course on the relation between science and society (semester 1) and a refection on development challenges (semester 2) before studying more applied issues of impacts of environmental changes on society. All courses will be given in English (standard language at UoE and UiB for master courses, adaptation of the courses in UVSQ: see section A2.1. for the courses integration). Examination language will be also English.
In addition each semester focuses on some field of excellence of each university (Coupled global climate
25 PERICLES application to Erasmus Mundus / final version 30/4/09 system and Biogeochemical cycles for UVSQ, High latitude processes for UiB, Mid and low latitude processes for UoE with additional contribution of Cape Town university). For Semester 4), the students will be distributed between the University centres of the consortium (including University of Cape Town and Tongji University) for their Master Research Thesis. . Course outlines (a detailed description of the different modules is given in table Appendix A).
SEMESTER 1 : UVSQ: This semester will focus on the theoretical bases needed for understanding climate change processes. The main courses are in large part derived from courses taught in French during the first and second year or the UVSQ Master Speciality ICE, but also from courses taught in Master Specialities of University of ParisVI and Paris XI which will be taught by scholars from these universities.
Module 1: Fundamentals in physics and mathematical tools for Earth fluid envelops - 9 ECTS. (R. Modolo, F. Ravetta) This course reviews important mathematical tools used in climate dynamics: vector analysis, differential equations, numerical methods applied to earth-fluid dynamics (concepts taught at licence levels will be checked and, if necessary, updated by students from specialized treaties and tutoring). Then it focuses on the thermodynamics, the structure and the dynamics of the atmosphere and of the ocean (Ekman layer, geostrophy, vorticity. turbulence, waves)
Module 2: Functional principles of the coupled Earth Climate System- 12 ECTS. (D. Paillard, P.Bousquet) Building on the previous course, the first part of the course describes physical behaviour of the climate system and the interactions between atmosphere, ocean, ice and continental surfaces. Feedbacks, multiple equilibria, oscillations will be presented using simple conceptual models..The second part of the course will focuss on major global biogeochemical cycles (C/N/H2O/ O3/Tracers) in the atmosphere, the ocean, the continental biosphere and their coupling with the global climate system, with concepts, observational methods and simple models.
Module 3 — Science and Society -9 ECTS- Roy-Barman, Vanderlinden. Interactions between science and society are studied through both epistemology and cases studies. Practical projects will allow students to follow the link between science and society from the from practical data acquisition to decision. Critical reading of scientific article and conferences will train students to develop a critical approach of the scientific literature particularly when it interferes with societal issues. This module will particularly benefit from the participation of scholars supported by Erasmus Mundus.
SEMESTER 2 : Norway Bergen UiB , with a focus on high latitude processes and data analysis
Module 4: Polar climatology and oceanography - 10 ECTS : (P.M. Haughan) The course is derived from the existing course on polar Oceanography (GEOF335), with lectures on circulation and dynamics of the polar oceans with a comparison between the Arctic and the Antarctic. Processes and topics connected to thermodynamics of cold sea water, diffusion mechanisms and boundary layer processes, sea ice formation, heat budgets of the Arctic and Antarctic and models for deep water formation and climate variability will be covered.
Module 5: Climate variability and teleconnections Past present future - 10 ECTS (U. Ninneman). This newly developed course will provide an overview of climate variability on various time scales, from the multi-millennial changes recorded in paleoclimatic archives, to those documented in instrumental records. The role of high latitude processes will be highlighted. It be will be completed by individual short research projects associated with an oceanographic cruise or field trips under the control of individual scientific tutors.
Module 6: Environmental methodology and data analysis – 5 ECTS. (T. Furevik) This course introduces basic tools and statistical methods relevant for geophysical problems. This includes descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, probability distribution, and extreme analysis. Moreover, the course contains frequency analysis and filtering of time series and methods for identifying spatial coherences such as linear regressions, correlation analysis and empirical orthogonal functions. This module will also teach students important computing tools of Matlab, LaTeX and Fortran.
Summer school - 5 ECTS. At the end of the semester, the students will attend the Bergen Summer Research School on Global Development Challenges (http://www.bsrs.no). The programme promote dialogue across academic disciplines, the private sector, government, civil society organizations and to raise awareness and incentives for all those sectors. It offers truly interdisciplinary approaches.
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SEMESTER 3 : Edinburgh , with a focus on low latitude processes, Climate modelling and remote sensing
Module 7: Earth System Modelling past, present and future 10 ECTS (S. Tett, G. Hergel, M. Elliot ). Predictions of future climate change rely on modelling experiments. This course will 1) explain the methods and techniques used to produce climate models, 2) introduce the different types of climate models and 3) provide examples of their applications for future predictions and paleoclimate reconstructions. The course will build particularly on the previous module on the Basic physics of the climate system of semester 1 and Climate variability of semester 2.
Module 8: Earth Observations 10 ECTS (C. Merchant, P. Palmer, G. Patenaude, I. Woodhouse). This course will focus on the modern evolution of the Earth System and introduce the methods used to monitor the full range of environmental variables and in particular Remote Sensing. This course will focus on measurements of 1) changes in ocean properties 2) the atmosphere’s chemical composition and physical characteristics, 3) the biosphere and 4) the cryosphere. This course will follow up on the content of the Bergen course: Environmental data analysis
Module 9: Human dimensions of environmental changes : 10 ECTS (M. Rounsevell, H. Lovell, D. Reay, S. Russell) This will provide the background to understand the policies, politics, governance and ethics, and the human decision processes that underpin environmental changes. The course covers issues such as: climate change and energy, globalisation and world trade, land use and land cover change, biodiversity, urban development and sustainable cities, water resources... Analysis will include European and international policy agreements and organisations.
SEMESTER 4: Research project (M. Roy-Barman, U. Ninneman, M. Elliot) 30 ECTS. The research project allows the student to plunge in the research world and to personalize her or his master. This 5 months research project will take place in one of the laboratory associated to the consortium in Europe or in one of the third country partners. Visits of the laboratories associated to UVSQ, UiB and UoE will be organized. At the beginning of the third year, a list of research project will be proposed to the students or they can build their own subject helped by the teaching teams (with the need of a final approval by the agreement with the executive board). The final choice will be done in October, after discussion with potential project supervisors and agreement of the PERICLES executive board on the basis of student motivation and final ranking at the end of the first year of the program. Research project in third country will be co-tutored by a researcher of the hosting lab and a researcher of the consortium. A student will not do the research project his/her home country. Third-country students will not spend more than 3 months in UCT and/or TU. The evaluation of the research project will be based on a written report submitted at the end of May, an oral defence in June and the evaluation of the tutor(s).
Academic quality of the EMMC The partnership established through the PERICLES consortium (including the 3rd country partner) represents a unique combination of expertise, research and teaching capacity that will allow reaching the objectives of the PERICLES EMMC. The international level of the laboratories associated to the project guaranties that the courses will be fuelled with cutting edge research of the highest quality and taught by high quality teaching staffs. The academic staffs involved in the project will teach in their fields of expertise. They all conduct active research in the field of climate and environmental changes and publish in international journals. Many of them are directly involved in the IPCC report production. The programme of each semester takes into account the fields of expertise of each university. The third country scholars will bring their expertise on issues relevant for their country/continent. A list of the main teaching staffs is given in Appendix B and CVs are given in appendix C. All the listed staff members are full time employees of one of the 3 university centres, or of an associated research laboratory. Among the teaching staff, most scholars have a very strong and valuable teaching experience at master level. They will share there experience with recently hired assistant professors through the existence of strong pedagogic teams. For example, substantial effort will be put on table and computer exercises and practical work, that will allow an in-depth understanding of the information provided during lectures. This pedagogic strategy is built on the experience acquired by the partner universities within their existing programme on climate change. Teaching staffs will be available to help PERICLES students that will have there e-mail and phone list.. The laboratories associated with the consortium also provide a unique research environment where the research project will be conducted in excellent conditions with high level research equipments, technical support and frequent simulating discussion with research staffs of the research teams.
Numerous exchange and visits among the academics involved in the project (similar to the meeting of academics and administrative staffs from the 3 universities of the consortium organized in November 2008) will build and maintain a
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strong and motivated group around the master project. This cohesion will be strengthened by the research and pedagogic projects emerging from interactions within the consortium.
Appropriateness and added value of the mandatory mobility periods for the students As explained above, the student mobility is fully included in the structure of the program, with all students doing their first semester in UVSQ, doing their second semester in Bergen and their third semester in Edinburgh. During the 4th semester, students are distributed between Edinburgh, Bergen, Versailles, Cape Town and Tongji University. Student will not do their research project in their home country. These mobility periods will allow students 1) to have theoretical and practical teaching with leading experts and relevant facilities (see objectives and courses description), 2) to experience different system of teaching and cultures giving them a very strong international experience that will increase their attractiveness for employers, 3) to build a great contact network..
Climate change is a global problem with different impacts and mitigation issues all over the world. It will require a strong intercultural dialog and mutual understanding both at governmental level (post-Kyoto discussions) and at local level to promote the acceptability of mitigation and adaptation processes by the concerned populations. Establishing a strong partnership with the UCT and TU will allow an opening of both scholars and students to the African and Asian perspective on environmental and human issues created by global warming outside Europe. This partnership will strengthen the European Consortium of the PERICLES master course and to open it to diverse approaches and impacts of the climate change. More specifically, the added value of the third-country organisations will come from: o The partnership with the UCT, through the Climate system analysis group, brings unique perspectives to the program, specifically around regional climate change, climate change impacts, tropical meteorology, and especially a developing nation context. Specific elements include regional climate modelling, climate downscaling and tailored climate change projections, the relationships between natural climate variability and change, and issues of uncertainty and complexity in the climate system. Additional aspects could include a focus on the science-society interface and the communication of climate science. For the 4th semester research project (30 ECTS) that will be hosted in UCT, CSAG will propose subjects from the above topics that will include interpretation and application of climate information in adaptation studies, bridging the science-society divide, and all contextualized with reference to developing nation issues. O The partnership with the TU through the State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology brings unique perspectives on the role of tropical carbon cycle and boundary currents of the West Pacific in global climate evolution and its impact on China. TU could play an active and specific role in PERICLES by: 1) receiving 1-2 PERICLES students for a 5-month research project on the study the Asian monsoon evolution and variability by comparing the land-ocean sedimentary records, specifically based on the paleoenvironmental records from the unique Chinese loess plateau/speleothems and deep sea sediments in the South China Sea; 2) sending several world-renowned scientists to Europe to teach Master courses on global monsoon, paleoceanography of the western Pacific, and land-ocean climate-environmental interactions; 3) sending 1-2 students to participate in the Master program. O enhancing PERICLES students’ mobility, allowing them to do conduct research studies on very specific climatological environments contexts and to give European students an opportunity to experience a non european academic environment and culture. o Third country scholars (including those of the 3rd country partners) will participate to the teaching in European institutions by giving new courses or seminars during their stay in the European institution (potentially one “visiting course or seminar” will be given each semester), with a particular emphasis on climate change problematic of their continent (desertification, water resource shortage, El Nino, monsoon, adaptation to climate and environmental change impacts in different culture and societies …) o to prevent the criticism that in some EM courses, problems are seen only from the European/western point of view with no concern for eastern/southern countries (as reported in “Mundus course assessment in students’ perception” erasmusmundus.org.pl/files/uam_chapter2.pdf). o increasing the diffusion of information on the PERICLES and Erasmus Mundus programmes (China playing an important role on the student flow to Erasmus Mundus), o enhancing the skills and the mobility of European staffs involved in PERICLES, strengthening academic exchange through the set up of common research project and sharing teaching methods between the European and third-country partners, and to encourage future development such as the development of common courses.
A.1.4 the quality and relevance of the learning outcomes, acquired competencies and professional outcomes in the perspective of the students' future academic and/or professional careers; The strong link between the top quality research laboratories and the master and the strong involvement of the researchers in the conception and the realisation of the project guarantee up to date learning outcomes fully relevant for an academic career. Strong links also exist between the laboratories and the economic sector (e.g.: instrumental
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Learning outcomes: o Top quality theoretical basis relevant to climate system with strong emphasis on quantitative methods. o Interactions and feed-back of the different components of the climate system. o Fundamental understanding of the climate variability o In depth understanding of the greenhouse gas cycle and of the anthropogenic impacts o Understanding of the logic, construction and operation of climate/earth system models and the construction of modelling experiments and tests. o In depth understanding and practice of computational languages (Matlab, Fortran). o Understanding of the acquisition, analysis and integration of data (geochemical data obtained in laboratory, remote sensing data…) o Understanding of the underlying social, economic and political issues of climate and environmental changes. o Understanding of the methodological challenges posed by collaborative work across natural and social and human sciences. o Knowledge and practice of research at top level during the internship o Learning and practice of the host country languages (see section A.4.3) o Opening to other societies and cultures.
Transferable skills (acquired competences) o Addressing and analysing complex processes and interactions in the climate system o Observation, quantification and modelling of climate change and its impacts on the environment and the society o Computer programming skills o Designing and conducting experimental work (sample collection and analysis) o Designing and conducting modelling experiments o Performing data analysis and database management o Sound interpretation of experimental data and of model outputs o fast reading and critical analysis of scientific articles and reports o Writing scientific proposals and reports o Strong oral presentations skills o capacity to express complex science in simple ways for public engagement and policymakers; o Capacity to work across the natural science/social science boundary. o Capacity to be autonomous, to interact with other persons and to work in a team o capacity of adaptation to work in foreign country, with different languages and cultures. o Practice of project management
Professional openings: These learning outcomes and competences open different career to the students: o One of the logical follow up of the PERICLES master is a doctorate/PhD degree for preparation a scientific carrier. With the outstanding research capacity of the PERICLES consortium, the students are in contact with top level scientists and they can have openings to do doctorate/PhD in top level laboratories in or out of the consortium. After the doctorate (and depending on the Doctorate subject), students find job opportunities in the universities, in fundamental or applied research, in companies or NGOs in charge of environmental control. o After the master the students can also find job opportunities in companies, local or national agencies in charge of the environment by using his acquired transferable skills towards the non academic/professional world. For example, the remote sensing course and the data analysis course as well as the skills acquired in these domains during an internship on the subject open possibilities of working in spatial agencies or related companies dealing with remote sensing data. Understanding of climate modelling and of societal issues will allow the PERICLES students to work in companies with strong links with the climate change issues (insurance, energy distributor…).
Examples of job opportunities obtained by former students of our research masters without doctorate: (main transferable skills/competences in brackets): o Research associate for the application of the Kyoto protocol in governmental agency (Competence in global warming, human dimension, scientific communication)
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o project manager in Earth environment observing programmes for the European Space Agency (Competence in remote sensing, data analysis) o engineer in charge of remote sensing data analysis for crop characterisation (Competence in remote sensing, data analysis, project management) o Research associate on inventory of greenhouse gas emission in a French regional agency (Statistics, greenhouse gas cycle) o “Buisness associate” for clean-room equipment and air quality control. (atmospheric chemistry, research project on atmospheric dust measurement by LIDAR) o senior research technical staff at climate Bjerknes research centre (Technical skills acquired during research project, competence in climate system) o Climate masters students are sought after in public sector positions (eg: Urban planning office, Bergen, Norway) and Numerous in Oil exploration and research centers (Shell research center, Statiol-Hydro, etc.)
A.1.5 the joint programme interaction with the professional (/economic/scientific/cultural) sectors concerned and, if applicable, the role of associated members in this respect; if applicable, reference should be made to work placements arrangements and/or research activities in the field; Link with research As developed earlier, links with high level research and research training are critical for the PERICLES programme because one of its aim is to train students to become top quality scientists in the realm of climate changes. Interaction with scientists will be facilitated all along the programme, with short laboratory research projects each of the first 3 semesters and a full master thesis the fourth semester, all individually tutored by high level scientists. From its start, the programme has been defined between European University and associated laboratories and institutes among the most highly involved in climate research, with the best European specialists of the domain:
1. for UVSQ: as explained previously several UVSQ laboratories are involved in PERICLES (LSCE and LATMOS for environmental sciences and C3ED for the human dimension). In addition LSCE and LATMOS belong to IPSL, a federation of 6 laboratories with complementary research themes that represent 30% of the French research in the field of Earth fluid envelopes ad climate and that strongly support the PERICLES project (letter of support in appendix D.).In addition, UVSQ belongs to the “PRES Universud” that groups several universities, graduate schools and research laboratories with one of the priority being Climate-environnement and sustainable development (letter of support in appendix D).
2. for UiB: the Bjerkness Center for Climate Research (BCCR) In 2002 it was awarded the status of a national Center of Excellence by the Research Council of Norway (letter of support in in appendix D).)
3. for UoE: the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience Environment and Society programme (SAGES): In the UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) the School’s "Earth Systems and Environmental Science" was ranked first in terms of the volume of international and world leading research.
More details on these laboratories and institutes are given in appendix E). . The quality of the consortium in term of research and its contribution to the European excellence can be seen trough the numerous programmes in the domain of climate changes and environment which have been supported by EU during FP4 to FP7 in the participating Institutes. Examples of programmes is given in appendix F..
All these laboratories, will be willing to attract PERICLES student for their research master project and for doctorate Recruiting high level student and preparing them for Doctorate research is essential for the research laboratories involved in the consortium. The courses and the master research project will create strong links between the students and the researchers facilitating the integration of the student towards a doctorate preparation. It will develop their research skills and will help the students determine if a research career is for them. The laboratories of the consortium alone represent an annual flow of 60 new doctoral students per year (supported by all types of financing: ministry of higher education, industrial financing, regional financing, space agency…). Of course, with their high level education, their international experience and the international contacts of the researchers of the consortium, PERICLES students will also be very competitive candidates for worldwide doctoral programmes. The strong development of fundamental and applied research on the domain of climate and environmental changes and of the associated financing of Doctorate studies, makes that high level students have generally no difficulties in finding a doctorate/PhD and post- doctoral funding in Europe (provided that he has some geographical mobility and a reasonable thematic opening). The doctorate/PhD may be a step forward towards an academic career or a first “3 year employment experience and
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Link with the Economic sector The PERICLES master will benefit of the strong links that have been established between the consortium universities and the economic sector, particularly through existing masters. For example, in UVSQ, the professional master Qualub is associated with all economic sectors involved in air quality control and pollutant emissions. The creation of an industrial chair in eco-innovation will strengthen the links of the university with the industrial sector. In UoE, Professional existing masters that link with the industry have the following themes useful for the Pericles students: carbon capture storage, carbon trading, and ecology. There is a strong link with the Meteorology Office, particularly concerning climate modelling. In addition, many links exist between the laboratories associated to the universities and industrial/service partners: Doctorates/research programs (co-)financed by insurances, energy agencies, remote sensing related services. For example, the French space agency co-finances many PhD thesis in LATMOS and LSCE in the field of remote sensing. This agency is also going to co-fund a high level academic staff position in UVSQ. Contract for applied studies also exist with companies working in the field of remote sensing (Noveltis). University of Bergen has strong links with the energy sector within Norway and Europe. See letters of support of the Meteorology Office (UK), EDF (French Electricity Compagny with interest fo extreme events) and Climpact (climate business intelligence compagny working for many different sectors: Distribution,, food supply, industry, services, health …).
Link with the Cultural sector Although it is not the main target of PERICLES, strong links emerge with the cultural sector. For example: the CARBOREAL project under the responsibility of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre studies the link between climate change and the cultural patrimony in Yakoutia (Russian Federation) and involves the LSCE and the UVSQ professional master SACIM program. It further evidenced the need for climate change experts in all society’s sectors.
A.2 Course integration (25% of the max. score) Under this criterion applicants should specify/describe/justify, A.2.1 the extent to which the joint programme is truly integrated (i.e. based on a jointly developed curriculum or composed of modules developed and delivered separately but fully recognised by all the consortium partners) and fully recognised (please refer to section 4.2.2 of the Programme Guide and provide, for each of the degree awarding organisations, a description of the degree recognition/accreditation process and, if applicable, a date by which this process should be concluded);
Integration of the programme The PERICLES project is the result of several years of preparation and discussion among leading climate scientists and University scholars from many European countries. It has always received high support. Many of the interested universities proposed a flexible network with students taking existing courses. But the teaching tracks are so different from one University to another (including the distribution of courses along the 4 semesters of the Master degree) that such system would have created both many redundancies and insufficient coverage of some necessary fields. Finally, an agreement was reached between three universities: Université Versailles-St Quentin France (UVSQ), University of Bergen Norway (UiB) and University of Edinburgh UK (UoE) to build jointly the PERICLES Master program. All three Universities have already high level master courses on climate and related disciplines. Some courses are already taught in existing Master courses other are being created for PERICLES. Relatively small adaptations will be needed to insure the continuity between courses. This continuity between will be eased as teachers of the different semesters will exchange their lecture notes and will control that they uses similar names and symbols in their courses. The development of the new integrated programme gives however the occasion to create a small number of new courses specially adapted to the formation for Climate Change studies. In France, most courses proposed for PERICLES are derived from courses in French. As the French scholars involved in PERICLES will teach in their field of expertise for which they currently work in English (post-doc in the US, collaborations, use of English book as teaching basis…), it will be natural for them to convert or adapt their existing courses or produce new courses in English. Master courses taught in English are standard at UoE and UiB. Master courses taught in English are standard at UoE and UiB. TU and UCT integration will be natural thanks to the long collaboration history between UTC and UoE research staffs and TU and LSCE research staffs. PERICLES will allow extending this collaboration to teaching aspects. TU already invites a LSCE researcher to come and give lectures 1 month per year for 5 years. The possibility that PERICLES would give to finance scholar exchanges would strongly amplify this collaboration. The teaching proposed by the visiting scholars of UCT and TU will be easily integrated in the curriculum (eg: module 7
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for B. Hewitson; module 2 or 5 for Wang and Yan) due to their strong expertise in important regional issues (Asian and African climate variability) that will be natural complements of the courses by EU scholars.
Recognition of the programme Name of Title of degree awarded Date and reference of formal approval of degree institution by the institution
UVSQ Master SETE, UVS The Master degree Sciences de l’Environnement, du Territoire et de la Société Versailles speciality ICE (SETE), spécialité Interaction Climat-Environnement et teledétection (ICE) is approved until July 2010 by the French Ministère de l'Education Supérieure (decision 20/12/06). A renewal of the agreement has been submitted in September 2008 for the continuation of the programme over the period September 2010/July 2014. Formal decision by the Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur should be given before October 2009. UiB Master of Earth Science On November 24, 2005, according to the Act related to Norwegian Universities and Bergen – climate studies University Colleges, the University of Bergen Board decided to academically accredit the (PERICLES) basic programmes for Master degrees. Approval of a joint degree awarded by University of Bergen and partner institutions must follow the ENQA-standards, and will be reviewed for formal approval by the University Board should the Erasmus Mundus application be accepted. Most modules provided by the University of Bergen in the PERICLES programme have already been academically accredited by the University Board. The letter of endorsement, signed by the rector of the University of Bergen, is to be considered as the university's strong intent to approve the proposed degree once all relevant information has been presented to the University Board. UoE Master of Sciences University of Edinburgh: The University has the right to give degrees through its Royal Edinburgh Charter. The Universities Scotland Act makes the University Senate the final authority in determining what degrees may be conferred. The degree was approved by Senatus Academicus on April, 2009. There is no end date for UoE degree, but each new programme is reviewed by the School after 3 years.
A.2.2 the type of degree(s) awarded and, if applicable, the measure taken or envisaged by the consortium to deliver a fully accredited and recognised joint degree (i.e. recognition/accreditation process in the countries concerned and date by which this process should be concluded); The students who obtain the total of 120 ECTS after the 4 semesters of Pericles will be given multiple degrees which include the following existing diplomas (see A.2.1): • “Master Sciences de l’Environnement, du Territoire et de la Société (SETE), spécialité « Interactions Climat Environnement.et télédétection » for UVSQ, • Master of Earth Science – climate studies (PERICLES) for UiB • Master of Sciences for UoE. UCT and TU will not deliver the diploma.
In France, Norway and UK, universities have the possibility to deliver joint degrees. The aim of the 3 universities is to go towards the delivery of a joint European Degree. This requires different approval from institutions councils and cohabilited institutions at the national level. In UK and Norway, the joint degree delivery is of the responsibility of the universities. In France, the degree can be delivered prior to formal approval of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research but requires an approval of the “Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires” wich is partner of UVSQ in the master. Therefore, it might be possible to deliver a joined diploma in 2012. Should the the PERICLES application to Erasmus Mundus be accepted, it will be a priority for us to get all agreement for a joint degree delivery.
UiB has already been awarded one joint degree. In addition UiB takes part in different projects working on establishing good European routines and practices on joint degree management, amongst them the EU financed project under the framework of LLP/Erasmus/structural network. The University also has both national Bologna experts and a national tuning expert who participate in different European networks.
A.2.3 the extent to which ECTS mechanisms (including the “grading scale”) or other built-in mechanisms for the recognition of study periods based on or compatible with the ECTS are fully used; The Master follows the Bologna system, with attribution of 30 ECTS per successful semester and full recognition of already acquired ECTS from the other partner Universities. UVSQ and UiB fully use and recognize the ECTS. UoE uses
32 PERICLES application to Erasmus Mundus / final version 30/4/09 credits (1 ECTS = 2 UoE credits). UVSQ, UiB and UoE have agreed to recognise the semesters achieved in their partner institutions. Each semester of the PERICLES programme corresponds to 30 ECTS. A student successful at the 4 semesters of the master will validate 120 ECTS. The ECTS for the PERICLES programme will be acquired under the control of a joint jury formed by the 3 University centres. An equivalence for grading scales has been established between the 3 institutions and is described in appendix G. Cooperating partners will work on developing common understanding and practices, for example by cross participation of academic staffs in to the partner jury. The external academic reviewer (see section A.5.2) and the comments of the students obtained through internal examination (see section A.5.1) will be also used to homogenise the grading among institutes.
A.2.4 the extent to which the Diploma Supplement will be used and issued on behalf of the consortium (If possible, under the form of a Joint Diploma Supplement); The UVSQ, UiB and UoE already offer Diploma Supplement for all degrees. The Diploma supplement will be delivered by each university in English (the most useful for an international career) and in French or Norwegian upon request. When the Joined Diploma will be delivered (See A2.2), a joined supplement to the Diploma will be delivered on behalf of the 3 universities. Standardization of the diploma Supplement will be eased by the use of standard European forms.
A.2.5 the common standards and mechanisms developed by the consortium for the application, selection, admission and examination of students (European and Third-Country); the extent to which these mechanisms are transparent, fair and objective; the provisions to take into account the equity issues, exploring alternative ways of recruitment and considering the LLL requirements; Student applications will be made during the final year of the licence/bachelor degree. Application deadline for European will be in May of each year, and in January for non Europeans in phase with the Erasmus Mundus agency timetable. A common on-line application system (based on the system existing at UoE) will be available on the web, so that application will be submitted electronically. For students having no access to the web, a paper application form (equivalent to the on line-system) will be provided upon request (see Appendix H).
Admission Criteria : The admission criteria include: Excellent prior academic performances, adequacy of the licence/bachelor formation, capacity of following a master in english, letter of motivation and professional project, 2 recommendations letters. In addition, Erasmus Mundus criteria on the nationality diversity among the students will be applied. Admission to the programme will demand a complete licence/bachelor degree in Science (mainly Mathematics, Physics, Geophysics). Students with majors in earth science, biology or chemistry are acceptable if strongly motivated to acquire the necessary bases in mathematics and physics. Prior performance in mathematics and natural science subjects will be an important condition of admission. If necessary, the quality of the student’s home institution and the local grading scale will be obtained from colleagues working in/collaborating with the institution/the country or from education service of embassies. High proficiency in English, both written and oral, is a requirement (student originating from English speaking country or having received their 1st degree in English or demonstrating their proficiency in English: ELTS - 6.5; TOEFL - 580 (paper-based) or 237 (computer-based) or 88 (internet-based); Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) or Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) - A580 (paper-based) or 237 (computer-based) or 88 (internet-based).). Students with lower performance in English but outstanding academic record and motivation may be accepted.
Admission process : The executive board will meet in January to select the third country candidates and in May for the European candidates. When necessary a telephonic/teleconference interview of some candidates will be organized. A supplemental list (ranked) of qualified students will be established to allow possible dropouts. Students on the supplemental list who are eventually not awarded an Erasmus Mundus grant but who are able to sustain the course fees by other means can be accepted in the master. Candidates are ranked in the main or in supplemental list independently of the possibility that they have (or have not) to sustain the cost of studies without Erasmus Mundus grants. Conditional offers of admission will be confirmed as degree results become available.
Student examination : The structure of the integrated programme facilitates the examination arrangements, as all students are following simultaneously the same courses and exams, each semester within one University centre. Courses may be assessed in a variety of ways depending on the form of teaching. The main methods of examination are: written or oral examinations, tests during modules (continuous control), written reports, oral presentations. At the beginning of each module, the teacher will present the mode and the criteria of examination. Equivalence for the grading
33 PERICLES application to Erasmus Mundus / final version 30/4/09 scales based on ECTS common to the 3 universities is presented in appendix D. Common criteria for evaluation between the consortiums universities will be checked by having representative from the other Universities to the local juries. Each local jury will attribute ECTS for the semester, and ranks the student on the base of their results. A written report will be established for each student, which will serve as base to check the evolution of the students during the following semester and as reference for the diploma supplement. For each semester ECTS attribution will be evaluated and validated according to the local regulation and all accepted by all partners. Access to following semesters will be automatic if the required 30 ECTS have been acquired. The students are expected to have achieved 60 ECTS before they arrive at the University of Edinburgh. To meet the UoE criteria of Quality control, the Master research dissertation will undergo a double marking and a moderator will oversee potential large differences in the allocated marks.
Third country scholar admission: Climate change is a global problem. Thus, it is critical for PERICLES to attract top level scholars from all over the world to participate to the teaching particularly to treat specific (regional aspects, specific methods…) aspects of climate change. Besides these responsibilities, scholars will be guests of the research laboratories and Institutes associated with the programme for the length of their stay. Each fall, a search for scholars’ applicants will be advertised and widely communicated through our research networks and advertisements. Applications will have to be sent to the Programme coordinator by the end of December. It must contain a letter of motivation, a CV, and 2 reference lettres from 2 different countries. The Executive board will select the 4 best candidates (and ranked potential replacements) in January, on the basis of academic and scientific qualities, with the necessity to keep a general equity between the component disciplines and the Universities and research centres.
A.2.6 The way tuition fees and other participations costs in the joint programme have been calculated (for Third-Country students and European students) and how they will be distributed among the participating institutions; Tuition fees will include registration fees, Insurance fees, specific teaching costs, specific logistic costs and secretary costs at UVSQ. They are calculated and distributed among partners as indicated in the next table. Theses fees do not exceed the limit given by Erasmus mundus for European and non European grantees. They will be similar for students who do not benefit of Erasmus Mundus Scholarships. Fees and costs are different from one university to the other. In order to simplify the fees payment, we have calculated the total fees over the whole master (2 years) and calculated this yearly fees by dividing the total amount by 2.
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Costs for Non EU Comments the student EU student student Fees UVSQ €250 €250 normal masters fees per year Fees UiB per 0 0 Nil (normal masters fees) year Fees UoE per € 5550 € 1850 normal UoE masters fees are: £4,850 per year for EU students year £14,750 per year for non EU students UoE accepts a partial tuition fee for the effective time spent by students in Edinburgh. All students will spend the 3rd semester in UoE, and ~1/3 of them will do their research project during the 4th semester. As students must pay the same fees regardless of the research project location, we charge 1/3 of a semester to all students to obtain an equivalent amount of money. Therefore, UoE charges total 1850€ per year (EU rate) or 5550€ per year (overseas rate) (subject to inflationary change in subsequent years). Insurance per €620 €550 550 € per student and per year is charged for social security and insurance coverage (see year section A4.2 for details). For non UE students, 70 extra euros are budgeted to cover the compulsory medical visit for long stay of overseas students. Teaching €600 €600 distributed equally among UVSQ and UoE to cover special teaching expenses due to Costs PERICLES programme activities (contribution to field trips, consumable for practical work, per year tutoring) Logistical €250 €250 Contribution to cover expenses resulting from the organisation of PERICLES programme costs (e.g.:, cost of attending PERICLES meetings and transportation of consortium members to per year these meetings, but not students transportation for teaching purposes). Secretarial €450 €450 Contribution towards the salary of an administrative bilingual person to assist the staff of the assistance international office on all tasks concerning students and invited scholars (student fellowships, In UVSQ scholar expenses and travels, personal problems management for both categories as visa, per year lodging, bank accounts, social insertion...) and towards the Pericles coordination activity. Totat cost for € 7720 € 3950 The difference between EU and non EU students is due to the different registration fees in student UK for EU and non EU students. per year Totat cost for €15440 €7900 for 2 years
A.3 Course Management, visibility and sustainability measures (20% of the max. score) Under this criterion applicants should specify/describe/justify,
A.3.1 the nature and quality of the cooperation mechanisms established within the consortium (including the degree of institutionalisation, existence of an “EMMC agreement” between the partner, clearly defined and active role of all partners, established feed-back system, participation of external actors to the supervision boards, etc.); The collaboration rules between the partners will be defined in a consortium agreement (a project version (not final) is appended in Appendix I. It will be the basis for the consortium agreement that will be approved and signed by the universities, should PERICLES be selected by Erasmus Mundus). The coordinating institution is University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. The coordination structure will be composed of:
Æ a programme coordinator of the consortium is designated by the coordinating university (UVSQ) among its academic staffs participating to the programme: Pr M. Roy-Barman
ÆProgramme representatives: Each of the non-coordinating universities of the consortium (UiB, UoE, CTU and TU) designate a program representative among heir academic staffs involved in the programme (Dr Ulysses Ninnermann for UiB, Dr. M. Elliot for UoE, Prof B. Hewitson for CTU and Prof. J. Zhimin for TU).
Æ an executive board composed of the consortium coordinator (Pr M. Roy-Barman) and the programme representatives of UiB and UoE. This executive board of only 3 members will allow an easy communication and rapid decisions. The executive board members will communicate mostly by mail and phone but will also meet regularly (see
35 PERICLES application to Erasmus Mundus / final version 30/4/09 consortium meetings below). The executive board will have authority on all decisions within the integrated program (it includes students and visiting scholars selection, determination of the target number of students for each cohorts, supervision of the choice of the research project by the students, internal and external evaluation organisation, publicity organisation, implementation of the curriculum evolution proposed by the steering committee, preparation the intermediate and final reports on the progress of the integrated programme to University authorities and to Erasmus Mundus). Of course the decisions/actions of the executive board are bounded by the rules of the universities and may requires the approval of the Educational Audiovisual and Cultural Executive Agency (EACEA) as indicated in the Administrative Handbook of the EACEA.
The programme representatives of the University of Cape Town and Tongji University will be regularly informed of the work of the executive board (they will be on the executive board mailing list and will receive all reports). The executive board will be open to UCT and/or TU representatives (or to mandated persons) for decisions concerning directly the third country partners (research project organisation, student selection for research project in their institutions…). The UCT and TU representatives (or mandated persons) are members of the supervision committee.
Æ A supervision committee composed of: • the coordinator (UVSQ) • the programme representatives of the UoE, UiB, UCT and TU • Administrative staff representatives from UVSQ, UoE and UiB, • 2 student representatives (one per promotion) and at least 2 external members • the external academic reviewer (see section A5.2) • a member of the economic world concerned by the climate change issue
Other competent personalities can be invited by the executive board to this committee (eg: invited scholars). At the end of each academic year (after the research project defence and jury), the supervision committee meets to discuss academic and administrative problems encountered during the year, the results of the internal and external evaluations (see section A5.A and A5.2). It proposes solutions for the problems encountered during the academic year and discuss the strategic orientations of the programme. The recommendations of the supervision committee are the basis of the future action of the executive committee. The work of the supervision committee contributes to the preparation of the final report of the programme to the Educational Audiovisual and Cultural Executive Agency that must be submitted in September.
Æ Administrative Coordination will consist of the administrative support representatives of the universities and will work under the guidance of the administrative representative of the Co-ordinator (Annex xx). It will provide administration support and will treat all administrative questions and problems and will be in charge of practical issues such as arrival and registration of students, administrative tasks concerning study progress, collecting the marks of students, organisation of the selection procedure, organisation of meetings of the managing bodies, communication, financial reporting and report writing. It will provide the Consortium Committee with financial information on a regular basis.
Æ Pedagogic Coordination: the pedagogic coordination between the semesters is organized by the executive board under the control of the supervising committee During PERICLES preparation, thematic groups have been organized across the partner university to check the consistency and logical succession of the teaching for given theme (climate physics and modelling, Earth observation from field data to remote sensing, human dimension). These groups will remain active, will integrate new teachers and will interact with the executive board For each semester ECTS attribution will be evaluated and validated according to the local regulation and all accepted by all partners. The executive board will encourage the choice of common criteria for the different semester juries..
B: Consortium meetings: Each year, the executive board will meet in January and May for the selection of the third country students and scholars applications and in may for the selection of the European students. In June, a meeting will be organized under the responsibility of one of the University centres (on a rotating basis) at the occasion oral defenses of the Master thesis coupled with the supervision committee meeting.
A.3.2 the way the scholarship scheme will be managed among the partners and in particular the financial management of individual grants;
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Within the consortium, the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines will be in charge of the management of the Erasmus Mundus funds. These funds will be placed on a specific account by the "Agence Comptable" of UVSQ, labelled and reserved for the PERICLES Consortium. On request of the UVSQ International Relations Office (SRI), the "Agence Comptable" will credit the counts of the grantees as follows: o Prior to grantees arrival, a bank account will be “pre-opened” for them by UVSQ so that they just have to sign the opening form at their arrival to benefit from their account. o the annual scholar fees have to be paid at the beginning of each year. For the Erasmus Mundus students, they will be directly taken from the student scholarship fund dedicated to the EMMC participation costs. o the monthly allowance will be credited on the student bank account a few days before the beginning of each month (similarly to staff salary), except for the first payment that will depend on the date of opening of the bank account. o for category A scholarship holders, the contribution to installation/travel costs (4000 euros/y) will be paid at the beginning of each university year. o for category B scholarship holders, the contribution for travel to a third country partner (€ 3000) will be paid during the third semester, when the research project location is decided in agreement with the executive board.
The Scholar grant will be paid by UVSQ in one payment for scholar visiting for less than a month and on a monthly basis for scholars staying for a longer period. Scholarships payment implies full-time study and work (see section A4.4 on student agreement). The participation of the student to the academic programme will be checked regularly (contact points with scholars, list to be signed during courses and practical work…). Students’ participation in the Master course will be defined by their participation to the previous semester’s exams and admission to the ongoing semester (on the base of the acquired 30 ECTS). Scholar participation will be guaranteed by the local member of the Executive board.
A.3.3 the level and quality of human, financial and other types of support provided by the consortium partners to the content-related and administrative aspects of the joint programme; The development of the PERICLES Programme is a priority at UVSQ, UoE and UiB due to their very strong commitment for the development of high level courses in the field of environmental science and climate change, so that all the necessary support will be given to the program. The administrative staffing and organization of the master courses in each of the participating institutions will follow the standard rules for each University. Administration and proper staffing will be insured by local programme committees and University departments, in direct link with the University representative for the integrated programme PERICLES. The staffing and organisation will be funded through the University’s normal funding mechanisms, supported by a mixture of Government funding and fees. More specifically: UVSQ will support a teaching and administrative charge equivalent to 1 full time professor service and service 1 full time assistant professor service, 20% of an administrative person at the International relation service and 20% of an administrative person in the science division. An assistant professor is being recruited with PERICLES as its main teaching objective. A high level administrative staff is being recruited to work for the international office. The corresponding financings will be obtained from governmental support. UoE employs a new academic staff (Prof. S. Tett) since 2 years with the objective of strongly contributing to PERICLES. An administrative staff is recruited to support PERICLES. UiB will support the PERICLES through the Geophysical Institute staffs and the governmental funding. The department of Earth Science (host department, UiB) provides additional support for students to conduct project related field work (maximum 20000 nKr; 2250 euros), and attend scientific meetings (up to 5000 nKr; ~570 euros). Applications must be submitted in advance of travelling and with agreement of the academic supervisor. Support for attending summer schools can also be provided. In addition, funding opportunities are available within Bergen and at a national level in order to host invited scholars for either short term or extended visits.
In all the partner institutions, students will have access to high level research facilities of the partners and they will benefit of the support and mentorship of academic and technical staffs during the research project. Students will have full access to computer labs of the universities. They will have full access to the classical and online libraries of the Universities. At UVSQ, in order to provide students an extensive and up to date documentation fully in English, 4500 euros of books are being bought and will add up to the numerous books in English already available on climate related topics. The UoE Library, students have access to around three million printed volumes within the University’s 21 sites, as well as electronic data through the University network. Support by international relation services is detailed in section A.4.1. At the University of Bergen Students are automatically members of the Student Welfare Organisation (SiB). They become members upon payment of the compulsory semester fee (appr. 50 EUR), which is also required in order to register for exams. SiB's main task is to contribute to students well-being during their time as a student in Bergen: SiB organises nursery schools, counselling, a mental health service, canteens, student accommodation and sports activities, to mention a few. It is all organised through their three departments, the Housing Department, the Catering Department
37 PERICLES application to Erasmus Mundus / final version 30/4/09 and the Welfare Department.. All international students will be proposed housing as long as they apply within given deadlines. This is taken care of by the Division of Academic Affairs.
A.3.4 the nature and quality of the course promotion measures taken by the consortium to ensure the appropriate visibility of the EMMC and reach out to potentially interested candidates (students and scholars); We will create a web site dedicated to PERICLES, with frequent updates and large cross referencing with partner universities and research centres so that PERICLES site appears in the first page for google search when pertinent general key words are used for search (eg: “master environmental sciences”) and not just when specific terms are asked (“erasmus mundus master in climate change”). We will favour the cross-referencing of the PERICLES site by educational and environmental sites. The partner institutions will use their web site to promote PERICLES. The recruitment of students and scholars will be done first using the network of collaborations developed within Joint research programs on climate changes and impacts, or other international collaborations and that concerns most universities involved in climate change studies in developed, developing and third world countries. We will build upon these links to promote the PERICLES master. These links are fundamental because they are the most efficient way to reach students interested by climate changes. The PERICLES programme has been already presented at numerous meetings, and got everywhere very good support and marks of interest. In addition, we will evidently advertise PERICLES in specialized journals. The international reputation of our research institutes and the originality of the programme will attract the best scholars and students. Former students and scholars themselves will form a network that will contribute to the international visibility of the master.
Finally, as explained in section A1.2, PERICLES is a formidable opportunity to attract students from other discipline towards our thematics. Therefore, we will also develop a communication towards a larger public: * Advertisements (general information, link to the PERICLES Web-site, ready to print posters) will be sent to all the institutions having partnership with the PERICLES consortium. * advertisement will be published in large diffusion journals (eg: new scientist) read by students * information will be sent to the educational service of our embassies including to specialize services such as CEF (centre pour les etudes en France).
A.3.5 the consortium development and sustainability plan designed to ensure the proper implementation and continuity of the joint programme beyond Community funding (including implementation timeline, enrolment projections, mid and long term potential benefits for the institutions involved, etc.); the way this plan involves not only the consortium members but also other public and/or private organisations in the countries concerned (and in particular associated members); Development plan o For the first PERICLES promotion with Erasmus Mundus financing, we expect 20-25 students: 17 students with Erasmus Mundus funding and a few (3-7) students without Erasmus Mundus fundings. By year 2012, we expect to maintain the number of students constant or slightly rising. After 2012, more constraining “post-Kyoto” regulations will start to be enforced so that there will be an increasing number of job opportunity for climate experts that will support an increasing number of student in the PERICLES Promotion (knowing that the number of Erasmus Mundus scholarships will decrease). o On the long term, we expect promotions of 30-40 students oriented either on fundamental or applied issues.
Sustainability plan In France the extra-funding necessary for the continuity of the PERICLES programme beyond EC funding will be obtained through special funding request at the national level (Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche) and at the regional level (an international master Programme such as Pericles would be considered very positively for the university visibility and attractivity). This support will benefit from the development at that time of the emerging pole “Environnement, Climat Energie” (involving UVSQ and IPSL) which is a national priority. Funding of scholarships from foundations will be prospected. We will also obtain financing through the development in-service training for professionals based on the courses developed for PERICLES. The UoE’s Scholarships and Student Finance Office offers guidance on sources of grants, scholarships and other funding opportunities. PERICLES students wishing to study beyond EC funding will be advised of suitable sources of funds. An on-line searchable database is available from the Scholarships website to help students with their funding search. Likewise, at UoB students are offered guidance on sources of grants, scholarships, and loan support from the student consultant administration.
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A.3.6 the sources and extent of complementary funding provided to the scholarship scheme (through additional part of full scholarships and, if applicable, the provision of funds to top up the difference between the joint programme fees and the maximum programme contribution to these fees; o Tongji students wishing to follow PERICLES will have the possibility to apply for financing by Tongji with a reasonable possibility to obtain 1 (maybe 2) scholarship per year. o Student wishing to follow PERICLES with the project of working in the economic sector will have the possibility to apply to a financing by the French programme EGIDE (ministry of foreign affairs). o for UVSQ, students can have partial financing of their study from the regional council mostly to finance research projects in foreign countries. o For the mobility of European scholars, we will use the possibility offered by the Erasmus programme. For invitation of European and 3rd country scholars, we will use the possibility offered by the UVSQ to provide several months of salary to invited scholars. O UiB and UoE are offered guidance on source of grants, scholarships and loan possibilities.
A.4 Students’ services and Facilities (15% of the max. score) Under this criterion applicants should specify/describe/justify, A.4.1 the nature and quality of the services provided by the consortium to host students / scholars (e.g. existence of an “international office”, housing facilities, coaching, activities aiming at social integration and networking, assistance with visas for third-country students/scholars); the extent to which specific services are available for grantees with a family or with special needs Each of the University centres has an established international office. 2200 foreign students are registered at UVSQ. In 2008, the UVSQ International relations office has received 130 Erasmus students and 150 UVSQ students have studied in Europe through Pericles. It corresponds to tha managing of a 400000 euros. UiB and UoE IR services are already in charge of Erasmus Mundus students. By example, UiB reserves lodging at its student hotel for registered international students. UoE has a dedicated accommodation service capable of helping students find accommodation to suit their needs. Services of welcome at the airport, coaching and counselling, help to find lodging is supported by well experienced students fluent in foreign language. UiB will make reservation for students housing. UVSQ is planning to obtain a new bilingual administrative agent whose main responsibility will be the administrative and third country student support for the PERICLES program, in narrow collaboration with P. Orduy-Rey, administrative responsible for the international office. She (he) will be responsible for the administrative relationships: handling of the accounting for student fellowships and travels of scholars (under supervision of the University accounting department), interactions for visas, support measures... Additional help will be provided by organizing a discussion group between new and former students (section A.4.5). All three University centres have a tradition and are well organized to develop activities for social integration (cultural visits, concerts and theatres....). UiB will provide relevant introductory information, assistance regarding issues concerning Student Resident Permit, and Norwegian courses if applicable. UiB also offers international students an Introductory programme at the beginning of each semester, this includes all necessary practical information as well as social events and lectures on Norwegian culture. The students will also be able to use all the facilities offered by the student welfare organisation, these include among others the health services, mental health services, dentist services, sports facilities, restaurants. Some of the services have additional charges. EM students with special needs will also be able to use all the services offered to Norwegian students with special needs. In addition, PERICLES will adopt for the 3 University centres the tutoring system developed in UoE: Each teacher will be in charge of a small number of students, and available by e-mail, telephone, and direct encounters, as an help to resolve any personal or educational problem. Similarly, each scholar will have a colleague from the University or associated research laboratory to help him to resolve eventual problems. In UVSQ, the “Science Accueil” association is specialized in the assistance to foreign scholars. In UoE, scholars will benefit from advice and support from the International Office, Accommodation Services, Disability Office, Welfare services, a Health and Medical Centre and active Student Union. The CTU has well established procedures and facilities for international students including options for study abroad programs, customized short term international programs, as well as support for housing, students with disabilities, social networking, and assistance with international visitor procedures The State Laboratory of Marine Geology at Tongji University provide frees access to large park of analytic instruments (including ICPMS, stable isotopes MS…), library, and office space for the students. Assistance is given to foreign students and scholars to deal with the practical life and housing. For disabled students and scholars, please see section A.5.3.
A.4.2 the nature and coverage extent of the insurance scheme in place to appropriately cover the to EM students against health and accident risks;
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PERICLES student will be registered as UVSQ students during their 2 years of master. As such, they are entitled to benefit of the student social security (200 euro per year) and student “mutual” coverage. (350 euros per year for a high coverage student ”mutuelle”). These costs will be included in the registration fees. The student “mutual” coverage also include covergage for civil responsibility (necessary for research projects in the laboratories…) and coverage in foreign countries. The insurance for Housing (compulsory to rent a flat in France) will be directly associated (for 1 euro) to the opening of a bank account with negotiated preferential conditions (See section A.4.1). This assurance coverage correspond to the 550 euros/y budgeted in the EMMC costs for each student. It does not include the potential coverage for spouse/husband and children of the student. PERICLES students are automatically covered under UoE insurance once registered on the UoE system. Insurance cost is included in the tuition fee charged to the student.
A.4.3 the way the linguistic aspects of students’ mobility have been addressed (e.g. training facilities, mentorship, local language learning, etc.) and the specific language policy in place in the joint programme (e.g. integration, availability, costs coverage, recognition of the language courses in the joint programme); the way the consortium intends to meet the objective to offer students the possibility to use at least two different European language; All teaching of will be in English, as well as examinations, dissertations and learning support. Therefore, PERICLES is a recognised 'English speaking degrees' that can ease students’ mobility/career opportunities after they graduate. Courses will be available to improve English level in all UVSQ and UoE University centres. The second language will be spoken French in UVSQ-Versailles: Students will attend French language courses (FLE -Français Langue Etrangère) at the CEREL (Centre de Ressources et Espace Langues) and get a 3 levels certification (beginner, intermediate and advanced). Those classes will help students integrate to their new environment. In an equivalent way, students will have the possibility on an individual basis to follow basic courses of spoken Norwegian while in Bergen.
A.4.4 the nature and comprehensiveness of the Student Agreement defining the joint course implementation rules and mechanisms as well as the mutual rights, obligations and responsibilities of the two parties for what concerns the academic, administrative and financial aspects of the student’s participation in the joint programme; At its arrival in UVSQ, the student and the coordinator will have to sign the student agreement. A draft version of the student agreement is given in appendix J. We prepared it by comparing several Erasmus Mundus students agreements and adapting them to PERICLES. In addition, a student Handbook will be prepared to provide to students a more extensive information on their study and practical life during the master.
A.4.5 the measures taken to facilitate networking among the Erasmus Mundus students and between these students and other students from the partner institutions Networking among Erasmus Mundus Students: o A particularity of the PERICLES programme is that all the students follow the same mobility track during the 3 first semesters. This will create a very strong cohesion of the group that will be the foundation of a long term networking. o An alumni association will be created. A web page dedicated to this association will be accessible from the PERICLES web site. The site will be managed by volunteer PERICLES students. o New students will join a web forum where they can communicate with each other before the courses start and with 2nd year and former students on issues from visas, lodging, to e/job opportunities (as developed by MESPOM master) o Students will also join the Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA)
Networking with other students from partner universities: o In the 3 universities, some parts of courses (in English) will be common to Erasmus Mundus and local students. Discussions with EM coordinators convinced us that it is positive for both Erasmus Mundus and local students. o Contact with other students will also occur during the research project in laboratories. o Different social events are open to Erasmus Mundus and other students. For example, in UVSQ, a formal opening day gathers all the students following master programs related to the environment. o Contacts can also occur through the students associations (sports training…) o Erasmus Mundus students will be member of the Alumni association that is being created in UVSQ.
A.5 Quality Assurance and evaluation (15% of the max. score) Under this criterion applicants should specify/describe/justify, A.5.1 the nature of the internal evaluation (by the institutions themselves, through student/scholars feedback systems, etc.)
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Quality assessment is mandatory for the all partner universities but they use different systems. We will standardize the quality assessment of PERICLES for the different partners. It will be equivalent or exceed the minimum requirements of the 3 universities). For the internal evaluation, we will take advantage of the experience of Erasmus Mundus master Euro Aquae that by adapting their internal evaluation procedure to us). o Students are invited to complete questionnaires on course quality and administrative/personal issues at the end of each semester. Each module will be evaluated by the students. The results will be used as input in the executive board annual report of the master’s programme as well as continuous evaluation of the modules. In addition, an open discussion is organized between the students (or their representatives) and the coordinator of the semester on the way to improve the semester. o The evaluation of the courses and of the programme by the academic staffs will be done through questionnaires and discussion of the pedagogic comity open to the administrative staff. o The evaluation of the programme by administrative staffs will be done through questionnaires and discussion with the executive board members. o Questionnaires and discussion synthesis is included in the evaluation report submitted to the supervision committee that include Academic and administrative staff and students.
A.5.2 the nature and extent of the external quality assurance (by e.g. national, international or professional bodies) envisaged; including, if applicable, the extent to which associated members are participating in this evaluation exercise (for what concerns both content and structure of the EMMC); We will use the external quality control developed in UoE: a recognized external academic staff (external academic reviewer) reviews each semester the courses content, the examination questions and each exam results, completed by the individual interview of all students. He will attend the research project defences and Jury. After the defences, he participates to the meeting of the supervision committee. The discussions will include problems highlighted by the whole evaluation process, the way to solve them as well as the possible improvement/evolution of the courses and of the organisation of the master. The external examination will occur every year. The reviews will be appointed for ~5 years so that he can check the evolution of the master over this period. In addition to the internal and external evaluation, former student careers and demand of future employers will be strongly considered. Reports will be available to the Universities, and the Governing and pedagogic committees of the program. They will have full power to modify structure, the content of the courses to insure in depth acquisition of fundamentals, creative reflection on acquired knowledge, and continuity between the teaching of the 3 University centres. Conclusions will be made available on the web to all the consortium participants (including students).
A.5.3 the concrete measure taken by the EMMC consortium to ensure a balanced gender participation and to facilitate access to the course, access to disadvantaged students and to students/scholars with disabilities or special needs. Balanced genders: The student selection is based on their academic excellence regardless of their gender. As it is already the case at UVSQ, UiB and UoE, male and female scholars will participate to the jury of selection (as well as to courses and examination jury). The UoE is committed to Equality of Opportunity for all its students (initiatives have included the development of a Harassment Code of Practice, family-friendly initiatives and positive action programmes for women staff)..
Disadvantage students: Although the selection is based on merit only, we will pay attention to promote the programme widely so that disadvantaged students have an opportunity to benefit of the scholarship. Online application is the preferred way of application for logistical reasons, but paper application forms will be provided to students having a difficult access to the internet (see example on appendix H). A student selected for an EM scholarship but having financial difficulties can contact UVSQ for particular arrangements (eg: pre-paid ticket from his country to UVSQ as an advance on the mobility grant).
Disabled students/scholar: In UVSQ, students affected by a permanent or temporary handicap or suffering from an invalidating or evolutionary chronic pathology can benefit of various accompaniments and arrangements allowing to improve there conditions of study (help for transport, particular conditions for exams, notes takers…). The UoE has undertaken a number of equal opportunities initiatives producing successful work in the relation to disabled students and long-established and equally successful schemes for widening participation. The University of Cape Town has specific policies to respond to those with disabilities and remove barriers that might prevent student from achieving their potential. Full details of the policies and the range of support offered by the Universities Disability Service are available online at http://www.uct.ac.za/services/disability . The Key State Laboratory of Marine Geology at Tongji University has no particular arrangements for disabled persons.
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Appendix A : detailed programme of the PERICLES Master
Teaching and examination language will be English.
SEMESTER 1 (UVSQ) This semester will focus on the theoretical bases needed for understanding climate change processes.
The main courses are in large part derived from courses taught in French during the first and second year or the UVSQ Master Speciality ICE, but also from courses taught in Master Specialities of University Pierre et Marie Curie - ParisVI. Scholars from these masters will participate to the courses. .
Module 1 — Fundamentals in physics and mathematical tools for Earth fluid envelops (9 ECTS). (F. Ravetta, with H. Brogniez and R. Smets)
Part I. Mathematical tools and numerical analysis : 3 ECTS (Roch Smets). This course reviews the important mathematical tools used in climate dynamics: - vector analysis, - differential equations, - numerical methods applied to earth-fluid dynamics. Concepts taught at Licence levels will be checked by exercise and, if necessary, updated by students from specialized treaties and tutoring..
Part II. Physics of fluid envelopes : 6 ECTS (F. Ravetta). This course focuses on the dynamics of the atmosphere and of the ocean. Concept such as geostrophic equilibrium, Ekman layer, turbulence, vorticity, waves... will be introduced. The thermodynamics of the ocean and of the atmosphere as well as there structure will be presented.
A) Fluid envelopes dynamics - Primitive equations - Geostrophic equilibrium and thermal wind; - Vorticity; - Turbulence and Ekman layer; - Oceanic and atmospheric waves (gravity, planetary); - Quasi-geostrophic equilibrium (shallow water model).
B) Thermodynamics - Structure, composition and equation of state of the fluid envelopes (mostly atmosphere); - Atmospheric humidity and nucleation processes; - Potential temperature, aerologic diagram; - Static stability in the ocean and the atmosphere;
Module 2 — Functional principles of the coupled Earth Climate System (12 ECTS). Part I. The geophysical climate world. (D.Paillard, B. Legras, P. Braconnot). Part I. The biogeochemical climate world. – (P. Bousquet, A. Saliot, M. Lévi, J. Gasghai and N Viovy) 6 ECTS. for the three
The concepts presented in this module will be applied during assisted computer exercises and lab work. Part I. The geophysical climate world : 6 ECTS ~ 60 h., (D.Paillard, B. Legras, P. Braconnot)* Building on the Physics of fluid envelope course, this course will describe physical behaviour of the climate system and the interactions between atmosphere, ocean, ice and continental surfaces. Concepts of feedbacks, multiple equilibria, oscillations or chaotic behaviours will be presented using simple conceptual models.
A) Earth as a physical system: an overview
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The objectives of this part is to give a global overview of the earth system. Details on each topic will be given in other courses afterwards 1 – General circulation in the ocean and the atmosphere ; 2 – Radiative Transfert ; 3 – Radiative balance of the Earth ; 4 – Masse, energy and movement quantity balance ; 5 – Climate dynamics.
B) The different components of the "climatic" system and their interactions (D. Paillard & B. Legras) The physical definition of a "climatic" system strongly depends of the timescales of interest, from an atmosphere-only model, to a whole "Earth system model". This will be illustrated by examples taken from dynamical couplings between the atmosphere, the ocean, the ice-sheets, the vegetation and the long-term carbon cycle. These examples will be based on past, present and future climatic phenomena, where negative and positive feedbacks are producing multiple equilibria, oscillations or chaotic behaviours, using simple conceptual models. 1 – The many possible definitions of a "climate system" - Climate vs. Weather, not only a question of time scales. - Is climate deterministic or stochastic ? What are climate models ? - Observations vs. models of climate changes. 2 – The fundamentals - The Sun : orbital parameters from seasons to glacial cycles. - Is the "solar constant" constant ? Faint young Sun, Snowball Earth, ... - Life, carbon and climate: How is climate regulated through geological times ? The Walker retroaction. Carbonate geochemistry. The time constant of the anthropogenic perturbation... 3 – Dynamical system theory - Bifurcations in non-linear systems - The rotating annulus and Rossby waves - Deterministic chaos and predictability 4 – Some examples of dynamical behaviours - Stommel and Welander models: ocean multiple equilibria or oscillations ? - Ice-sheet millenial oscillations: a forcing or a response of climate change ? - Some retroactions of vegetation: albedo or carbon effects ? - Glacial - interglacial cycles: a forced or an internal oscillation ? One or two associated computer sessions with a simplified climate model (see III).
C) Practical computer work The concepts presented in the above lectures will be applied during assisted computer exercises.
Part II. Biogeochemical cycles : 6 ECTS (P. Bousquet, A. Saliot, M. Lévi, J. Gasghai and N Viovy). This course will focus on major global biogeochemical cycles (C/N/H2O/ O3/Tracers) in the atmosphère, the ocean and the continental biosphere, with concepts, observational methods and simple models.
A) Soil-plant-atmosphere continuum Principles of Energy and mass exchange in continental ecosystems : soil-atmosphere interface, Energy budgets, climate factors (wind, temperature, humidity).
1 – Processes : (i) Photosynthesis : Photosynthetic CO2 assimilation (comparison between C3, C4 and CAM plants), leaf resistance to CO2 diffusion from ambient air to the carboxylation sites in the chloroplasts, Farquhar’s model, stomatal and non-stomatal limitation of photosynthesis. (ii) Use of stable isotopes in ecological studies : Basics on stable isotopes (isotope ratio, isotope effects, isotope fractionation), mechanisms of photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination (Farquhar’s models for C3 and C4 plants), oxygen isotope fractionation during physiological processes at leaf level, use of stable isotopes for partitioning photosynthetic and respiratory fluxes at ecosystem level, potential impact or respiratory carbon isotope discrimination (state of art). (iii) Soils : structure, functioning, environmental functions, and pollutions
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2 – Measurements : in-situ measurements of energy and mass fluxes, satellite airborne retrievals of surface properties visit of Eddy Flux tower to observe TDLS functioning at ESE site in Barbeau Forest (near Fontainebleau), visit of technological platform to observe the IRMS functioning.
3 – Modelling : photosynthesis, hydrological budget.
B) Marine Biochemistry Principles of Energy and mass exchange in marine ecosystems : Energy transfer, dissolved/particulate organic/inorganic matters, limitations (light, mixing, nutrients), dynamic of the water column, ocean water masses formation and evolution, dynamical scales and control. 1 – Processes : primary production, trophic chain, recycling, export, sedimentation, solubility, air-sea exchange, modelling marine biochemistry. 2 – Measurements : Sampling various reservoirs from the sea surface microlayer to the sediments ; measurements of pigments by HPLC ; quantitative analysis of organic tracers by GC/MS, Satellite retrievals of water color. 3 – Modelling : coupling dynamic, chemistry and biology in marine sciences.
C) Global Biogeochemical Cycles 1 - Carbon cycle : natural and perturbed carbon cycle, CO2 (atmospheric evolution emissions, sinks, budgets, uncertainties), CH4, CO, others short-lived compounds. Coupling with the oxygen cycle. Land use changes. Carbon-climate feedbacks 2 - Nitrogen cycle : natural exchanges, anthropic influence, N atmospheric species interactions. 3 - Sulfur cycle : DMS, SO2 4 - Introduction to tropospheric chemistry : oxidation of CH4, OH modelling, forward and inverse modelling of sources and sinks of trace gases, ozone production, chemical regimes in air quality.
Conferences Four conferences showing recent advances in oceanography, atmospheric sciences and land sciences. Suggestions : - Recent results of the IPSL climate coupled model : influence biochemical feedbacks - The use of lipid tracers and their use in the reconstruction of ecosystems, with case studies examples - The use of satellites to infer ocean phytoplankton composition - Carbonator : a full carbon cycle data assimilation system
Lab work or project Suggestions : - Possibility to follow an experiment on the role of nutrients in the dynamics of a culture of phytoplankton using the direct fixation of nitrogen. - Measurement of atmospheric composition.
Module 3 — Science and Society (9 ECTS) This course has 3 components: Part I: Interactions between science and society (J.P. Vanderlinden) This course explores the links between Science and Society by combining an epistemological approach and practical case studies. It will tackle questions such as: - What are the relationships between society and environmental sciences? How can we explore them? - How to use Agenda 21 as an analysis framework? - How to include citizen’s participation in the decision process? - Integration of traditional forms of knowledge in environmental questions
Part I/: Environmental change impacts on society (Carrasco, M. Chiriaco, E. Pons-Branchu)
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Students will work on small groups on problems of environmental changes affecting society by combining both field measurements, data modelling and decision making. The topic treated will include air quality, river pollution … Part II/ : Critical reading of scientific article and conferences (M. Roy-Barman) Students read, present and discuss a series of recent papers (generally from Nature and Sciences and often in conflict against each other) concerning climate change and its impacts. It gives students a view of how science progresses and how scientific issues interfere with societal issues on “hot topics”. Example of subject treated: - the solar variability controversy - Ocean acidification … Conferences on climate change related issues will be organized (Peak Oil, Geological storage of CO2, extreme events and insurances…). This module will particularly benefit from the participation of scholars supported by Erasmus Mundus.
SEMESTER 2 (Norway Bergen UiB) This semester will focus on high latitude processes and data analysis.
Module 4: Polar climatology and oceanography - 10 ECTS : (Christoph Heinze, Peter Haugen) The course provides an understanding of the role of polar oceans in large-scale deep ocean circulation and climate variability. The course provides lectures on circulation and dynamics as well as the biogeochemistry of the polar oceans including the Norwegian and Greenland Seas. Climatic fields are discussed with a comparison between the Arctic and the Antarctic. Special processes and topics connected to thermodynamics of cold sea water, theory for diffusion mechanisms and boundary layer processes, sea ice formation, heat budgets of the Arctic and Antarctic and models for deep water formation and climate variability will be covered. The specific features of matter cycling in high latitude oceans will be presented. These include the chemical properties of seawater, air-sea gas exchange, and the distribution of oceanic tracers with particular emphasis on tracers for deep ventilation of the ocean, such as tritium and CFCs. The pivotal role of high latitude oceans in the global carbon cycle past, present, and future is discussed (glacial/interglacial, anthropogenic carbon, ocean acidification). The role of the Southern Ocean (HNLC region) in the global nutrient cycling and silicon cycling and its potential sensitivity to climate change is discussed. The role of the Labrador Sea/Nordic Seas/Arctic versus the Southern Ocean in setting preformed tracers values and as important key transformer stations within the global conveyor belt circulation are covered.
Module 5: Climate variability and teleconnections, Past and Future - 10 ECTS (U. Ninnemann). This newly developed course will be tailored to suite PERICLES objectives and will complement and bridge Modules 4 and 5. It will provide an overview of climate variability on various time scales, from the multi-millennial changes recorded in paleoclimatic archives, to decadal-scale changes documented in instrumental records. The methods for quantifying changes (current and past) and their uncertainty will be covered. A special focus will be given to understanding the sensitivity of the climate system to different forcings (earths orbit, sun, green house gases), as well as the physical and feedback mechanisms involved in climate change. The variability and the importance/impacts of high latitude processes (meridional overturning circulation, North Atlantic Oscillation, sea ice) will be highlighted. The course will be completed by individual short research projects associated with an oceanographic cruise, field trips, and scientific project related to the course themes and under the direction of individual scientific tutors.
Module 6: Environmental methodology and data analysis– 5 ECTS. (T. Furevik, N. Kvamsto) This course gives a broad introduction to basic methodologies and tools relevant to implementation of theoretical and observational studies including statistical methods relevant for climate change problems. This includes descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, probability distribution, and extreme analysis. Moreover, the course contains frequency analysis and filtering of time series and methods for identifying spatial coherences such as linear regressions, correlation analysis and empirical orthogonal functions. This module will also teach students important computing tools of Matlab, LaTeX and Fortran.
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Part 1 Introduction to climate-ocean methodologies (2 ECTS)—The course provides an introduction to the basal methodology that are relevant to the implementation of theoretical and field-based studies, eg. use of data tools (Matlab, Latex, Fortran).
Part 2 Data analysis (3 ECTS)—gives an introduction to basic statistical methods relevant for geophysical problems. Examples include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, probability distribution, and extreme analysis. Moreover, the course contains frequency analysis and filtering of time series and methods for identifying spatial coherences such as linear regressions, correlation analysis and empirical orthogonal functions. The course is integrated with Module 6 where the students will be used to apply these techniques to real world problems and datasets.
Bergen Summer Research School (BSRS) on Global Development Challenges (http://www.bsrs.no) - 5 ECTS. At the end of the semester, the students will attend a summer school on global challenges related to climate change. The programme aims to promote dialogue across academic disciplines, the private sector, government, civil society organizations and to raise awareness and incentives for all those sectors. It offers truly interdisciplinary approaches. The theme developed in 2009 will be “Climate, Environment and Energy”. PERICLES will organize a component course each year as part of this wider international research school focused on social impacts and human dimensions of climate change with a particular attention on the global arena.
SEMESTER 3 (Edinburgh UoE) This semester will focus on low latitude processes, Earth System modelling and remote sensing.
Module 7 — Earth System Modelling past, present and future : 10 ECTS. (S. Tett, G. Hergel, M. Williams, R. Essery, D. Stevenson, N. Hulton, T. Crowley, D. Kroon, R. Ganeshram, M. Elliot, S. Tudhope, S. Jung). Predictions of future climate change rely on modelling the Earth System while understanding the causes of recent climate change relies on a comparison between such models and observations of climate change. This course aims to 1) introduce the different components of earth system models 2) explain the methods and techniques used to model them, 3) provide examples of their applications for future predictions, observed changes and paleoclimate reconstructions. 4) provide tools for the statistical analysis of model and observational data. The course will be interdisciplinary and aims to describe and quantify the interactions between the different components of the Earth System: the ocean, the atmosphere, the cryosphere and the biosphere. The course builds on the courses taught at UVQ in semester 1 and the “Data analysis” course taught in Bergen in semester 2.
The course will meet once a week for 12 weeks. Each session will last four hours and be a mixture of lecture, seminar and practical work. The practical work will use computer exercises and paper based exercises. Some practical work, both computer and paper based, will be given for assessment purposes. Students are expected to spend about 10 hours/week on self-study, a further 40 hours on the project work and 20 hours in revision.
Twelve sessions of 4 hours (one per week) + 6 hours/week of self-study :
W1: Introduction to Earth System Modelling (Tett). This session would describe the individual components of the Earth system and how they interact. It will provide a conceptual model & framework for future sessions. Part of the session will allow the students to use simple models of the Earth system to see how future climate might change. W2: Using simple models to understand the effects of CO2 in Pliocene to Quaternary world transition (Crowley). In this session the students will learn about the effects of CO2 on long time scales. W3: Modelling the large-scale ocean and atmospheric flow (Tett). This session would introduce different approaches to the simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations on a rotating sphere for both the atmosphere and the ocean. It would also introduce the concept of chaos and how it leads to uncertainty in the evolution of the atmosphere or the ocean. W4: Atmospheric parameterisation – modelling the sub-grid effects (Essery)
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W5: The El Nino/Southern Oscillation: Modelling and past behaviour (Elliot and Tudhope) The students will learn about general functioning of the ENSO system and evidence for changes in the paleoclimate records from corals and large bivalves W6: Modelling the terrestrial carbon cycle (Williams) Assessed exercise 1: Using simple models to understand complex earth system models. This will be a computing exercise which will get the students to build a simple model of the Earth system based on the material in weeks 1 to 6 and apply it to understand results from a range of more complex Earth system models. W7: The deep ocean circulation (Jung. Ganeshram and Kroon) The students will learn concepts about deep sea circulation coupled with biogeochemical implications, model outcomes and paleorecords of deep sea circulation W8: Modelling atmospheric chemistry (Stevenson) W9: Modelling the ice sheets (Hulton). In this session students will learn the basic approaches used to model large ice sheets, and how the different techniques that can be used to couple them to atmosphere-ocean models. This will include the modelling of ice as thermodynamic visco-elastic medium to represent ice deformation, glacial sliding mechanisms and snow/ice mass balance exchanges at the surface and ice bed. A practical exercise that implements a 2-D flowline ice sheet model for Greenland and Antarctica in Excel (GRANTISM) will be undertaken as part of the session. W10: Modelling the Last Glacial Maximum (Crowley) The students will learn basic concepts of ice sheet behaviour, ocean circulation and CO2 during the glacial world W11: Introduction to statistical climatology- properties of climate datasets, and climate reconstructions, estimating uncertainties in model fingerprints and observations. The role of “Chaos” or climate variability in uncertainty. (Hegerl) W12: Identifying fingerprints from forcing in observations (fingerprint methods, optimal fingerprinting, generalized regression) (Hegerl) Assessed exercise 2: Statistical analysis of a simulated and/or observed record. This exercise will develop and test the students ability to apply the statistical tools they have learnt in sessions 8 & 9.
Pre-requisites : - Knowledge of PDE’s.(module 1) - Exposure to atmospheric or oceanographic dynamics.(module 1, 2 and 4) - Basic statistical analysis and EOFs. (module 5)
Assessment The course will be assessed on a combination of coursework (40%) and an exam (60%).
Module 8 — Earth observation : 10 ECTS (C. Merchant, P. Palmer, G. Patenaude, I. Woodhouse, C. Nicol, T. Malthus). This course addresses the means by which Earth's system is observed on a global scale, by use of remote sensing observations integrated with in situ measurements. This interdisciplinary course will be taught by internationally recognized experts in the observation and understanding of components of Earth's natural environments. This interdisciplinary course covers : A) Fundamentals The principles of electromagnetic radiation and how information about Earth is imprinted on electromagnetic spectra; satellite orbits -- possibilities and limitations on observing patterns; image processing techniques and practice.
B) Atmosphere The "cutting edge science" of measurement of its composition and how this relates to issues of human health (air pollution) and biogeochemical cycles including CO2.
C) Oceans Surface temperature, sea surface height, salinity and ecology -- techniques and challenges.
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How hyperspectral, imager and radar techniques are complementary for observing plants from space on a global scale; challenges to integrating observations at satellite scales with knowledge of plant physiology and small scale variability.
E) Cryosphere How satellite observations are crucial to understanding current and future changes in sea ice and ice caps.
Pre-requisites : - Statistical analysis and signal treatment. (module 5) - Exposure to atmosphere and ocean dynamics, biogeochemical cycles.(module 1, 2 and 4) - Module 9 — Human dimensions of environmental changes : 10 ECTS (Prof. Mark Rounsevell, Heather Lovell, Dave Reay, Stewart Russell). The course will provide an introduction to a range of important environmental change issues from a human and societal perspective. This will provide students with the necessary background to understanding the policies, politics, governance and ethics, and the human decision processes that underpin environmental change. The course will adopt a thematic approach covering the following issues such as climate change and energy, globalisation and world trade, land use and land cover change, agriculture, ecosystems and biodiversity, land degradation and desertification, urban development and sustainable cities, water resources and quality.
The themes will provide the context for an exploration of the sustainability issues that surround different challenges for society. Case studies will be used as much as possible. Analysis will include international policy agreements and organisations such as the UNFCCC, the IPCC, the WTO and the CBD, as well as European policy such as the CAP and WFD. Students will be encouraged to enhance their capacity to critically appraise conflicting arguments in the sustainability debate. The course will be founded on a series of lectures/seminars given by experts in each environmental change issue drawn from across the School of Geosciences and the University. There will also be an opportunity for students to work together in small discussion groups and to communicate their findings to others through seminars.
SEMESTER 4 Research project in one of the lab of the PERICLES consortium (M. Roy-Barman, U. Ninneman, M. Elliot) 30 ECTS. The research project allows the student to plunge in the research world and to personalize its formation. This 5 months research project will take place in one of the laboratory associated to the consortium in Europe or in one of the third country partners/associates. During their stay in UVSQ, UiB and UoE, visits of the associated laboratories will be organized. At the beginning of the third year, a list of research project will be proposed to the students or they can build their own subject helped by the pedagogic teams (with the need of a final approval by the agreement with the executive board). This final choice will be done in October, after discussion with potential project supervisors and agreement of the PERICLES executive board on the basis of student motivation and final ranking at the end of the first year of the program. His choice constrains their location the fourth semester. Research project in third country will be co-tutored by a researcher of the hosting lab and a researcher of the consortium. A student will not do the research project his/her home country. Third-country students will not spend more than 3 months in UCT and/or TU. The evaluation of the research project will be based on a written report submitted at the end of May, an oral defence in june and the evaluation of the tutor(s). The language of the dissertation and of the defence is English.
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Appendix B : Presentation of some of the teaching staffs or PERICLES
We give below a list of the main scholar that will contribute to the teaching extended CVs are given in Appendix XX.
For Université Versailles Saint-Quentin (UVSQ) :
Professor Matthieu Roy-Barman (UVSQ and LSCE) is an expert in isotopic geochemistry with focus on the use of Uranium and of its daughters as tracers for marine particle transport and deep ocean circulations. He co- developed and directs the master speciality Interactions Climat-Environment, and has a well demonstrated experience of teaching environmental sciences and marine geochemistry. Professor Didier Paillard (CEA-INSTN and LSCE) is a physicist, well known specialist on climate change simple and intermediate complexity models. He is head of the LSCE climate model team, which focus on the glacial- interglacial changes in the interactions between atmosphere, ocean and ice sheets. He co-developed and co- directs the Master ICE and has a long experience of teaching climate changes at licence and master levels. Professor Philippe Bousquet (UVSQ and LSCE) is an atmospheric chemist, specialist of the forward and inverse modelling of Biogeochemical cycles of greenhouse gases. He is co-director of OVSQ and of the doctoral school of environment for the Paris region. He teaches at Licence and Master level on atmospheric physics and chemistry, air pollution, biogeochemical cycles and fluid mechanics Professor Laurent Labeyrie (UVSQ, Institut Universitaire de France and LSCE) is a well recognized specialist of climate change studies and paleoceanography. He has built an informal large scale international network of specialists on past climate changes, through his past responsibilities as Chair of the international IMAGES (International Marine Global Change Studies) program, and vice president of the Scientific Committee on Ocean Research. He is the initiator of the PERICLES program.
Scholars participating to PERICLES through IPSL and PRES Universud Ass. Professor François Ravetta (LATMOS/IPSL) : He is an ozone and aerosol lidar specialist with focuses on atmospheric composition, dynamical processes and radiative forcing at the mesoscale. He has developed master courses on atmospheric chemistry and environmental physics in different institutes to attract students from various disciplines to climate sciences. Dr Bernard Legras (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL). Director of Research in CNRS, physicist, he is a specialist in theoretical characterization of fluids and atmosphere dynamics. He is former Head of Teaching for the Earth Science Department of the Ecole Normale Superieur (ENS-Ulm) and has a long experience of teaching at Master and PhD level. Professor Alain Saliot (LOCEAN/IPSL) is a long standing and international recognized marine chemist and oceanographer (with more than 40 years research experience). He is presently responsible for the courses on Marine Chemistry in the UPMC Master speciality Oceanography and Environment. Associate Professor Jaleh Ghashghaie (PRES Universud, Université Paris XI) is the leader of group “Photosynthesis and environment” in the laboratoire “Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution” ESE (Orsay). She has a 20-year experience in mechanisms of plant adaptative responses to drought stress (mainly photosynthetic mechanisms, stomatal response and plant water relations). She has also a 10-year experience in the use of stable isotopes in studying plant carbon metabolism.
University of Bergen (UiB)
Associate Professor Ulysses Ninnemann (UoB and BCCR). Specialist in isotopic geochemistry, paleoceanographer and climatologist. He got his PhD at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San Diego) and started his career in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of the Columbia University. He joined the UoB in 2002, and since has been very active in teaching in the Geophysical Department. He is developing a new course on climate variability for PERICLES. Professor Peter M. Haughan (UoB and Bjerkness Centre for Climate Research BCCR): He is a well recognized field oceanographer, specialist in polar oceanography, carbon cycling and carbon storage. He has taught for more than 10 years in polar oceanography, air-sea interactions and dynamical oceanography. He is head of the Geophysical department at the Geophysical Institute, UoB.
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Professor Christoph Heinze (UoB and BCCR) Christoph Heinze is a chemical oceanographer at the Geophysical Institute and leader of the research group on biogeochemical cycles at the Bjerknes Centre. He coordinates the EU FP6 Integrated Project CarboOcean (Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment) including 35 partners from Europe, Morocco, and North America. His speciality is the simulation of marine biogeochemical cycles with 3-D models. Professor Tore Furevik (UoB and BCCR) Physical Oceanographer, he has been central in the development of the Bergen Climate model. He has developed a national PhD-level research school in climate dynamics at UoB and is vice-Director of the Bjerknes Centre and president of the Norwegian Geophysical Society. He mainly teaches climatology and climate change, air-sea-ice interaction, polar oceanography and ocean and atmospheric dynamics at masters and PhD levels. He has also been responsible for several PhD level summer schools. Associate Professor Asuncion Lera St.Clair (Sociology-UiB/CROP) Head of the Bergen Summer Research School Global Development Challenges, and Scientific Director of the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) a key research network of the International Social Science Council (ISSC); Major research interests are focused on critical poverty studies, climate change, ethics, environmental and global justice and integrative perspectives on all these issues.
University of Edinburgh.
Prof. Dick Kroon is the Regius Chair of Geology in the School of GeoScience. He is an internationally recognised leader in paleo-oceanography, particularly in low latitudes, palaeoclimatology, paleoenvironments and the use of stable isotopes on marine micro-organisms. Dr Mary Elliot is an isotopic geochemist for carbon and oxygen in bio-carbonates. She develops these tracers for paleoclimatic studies. Her research focuses on understanding past abrupt climate changes. She coordinates the curriculum coverage in the Department of Geosciences, and will be the UoE representative for PERICLES Prof. Simon Tett holds the Chair in Earth System Dynamics. He directs the Centre for Earth System Dynamics which studies the complex interactions between the atmosphere, ocean, biosphere and landscape evolution. Dr Gabi Hegerl was coordinating lead author of the chapter on understanding and attributing climate change and a member of the writing team for the summary for policymakers in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC. Her interests include detection and attribution of climate change, particularly extreme events, and the use of proxies to study climate variability during the last millennium. Dr Chris Merchant directs the MSc programmes in Remote Sensing and Image Programming, Quantitative Earth Observation (by research) and GeoScience and Remote Sensing. His research focuses on satellite meteorology and climatology; air-sea fluxes. Dr Ian Woodhouse researches on Radar Remote Sensing; Polar Decomposition Methods for Visualising SAR Data; Novel Visualisation Techniques for the Analysis of Multichannel Remote Sensing Data; DEM Generation and Regional Scale Geomorphology; Synergistic Remote Sensing of Vegetation; Macroecology and Telemacroscopics. Prof. Tom Crowley is the Director of the Scottish Alliance for Geoscience Environment and Society programme (SAGES). He researches history and modelling of past climates: effect of climate change on the biosphere; utilisation of palaeoclimate data to validate climate models and as a reference scale for future climate change projections; climate projections for nuclear waste disposal sites; effect of sea level rise on coastal processes. Prof. Sandy Tudhope is the Head of the Global Change research group. He researches Tropical climate variability and change; growth of coral reefs; stable isotopes and trace elements in corals; Quaternary palaeoenvironments. Prof. Mark Rounsevell is the David Kinloch Michie Chair and Director of the Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS).
University of Cape Town.
Prof. Bruce Hewitson is director of the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG – www.csag.uct.ac.za). His key expertise concerns regional climate change, climate modelling, downscaling and regional climate change projections, as well as a broad range of issues pertaining to these topics. This includes mentoring and training in capacity building activities, engaging with stakeholder communities on climate change issues across Africa, and serving the international climate change research activities through the IPCC. His research output represents the only resource of tailored regional climate change projections for Africa and has a large user base. Dr Daithi Stone is a Research Associate at the Climate Systems and Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town. He is working on detection and attribution of climate change and on multi-model techniques. Daithi has previously been a postdoc at Oxford University, he has close research ties to the University of Edinburgh team.
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Dr Mark Tadross. He is a Senior Research Associate. After completing a PhD in remote sensing of arctic sea ice at the University of Cambridge, he has been working at the Climate Systems Analysis Group at the University of Cape Town since 2000, where he currently undertakes research into seasonal forecasting and climate change, particularly focussing on impacts within the southern African agricultural sector. He has contributed to climate vulnerability and risk assessments for the Namibian 2nd communication to the UNFCCC, to the South African long term mitigation study and as part of World Bank organised assistance to projects in Madagascar and the Philippines.
Tongji University.
Prof. Zhimin JIAN is director of the department of Marine Geology and Geophysics of Tongji University. His research interests focus on paleo-oceanography of the western Pacific with a particular interest on the past variability of the Kuroshio current and its climatic impact. Prof. WANG Pinxian is Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests focus the global monsoon system and the past variability of the Monsoon. Prof. LIU Zhifei is a sedimentologist using geochemical, mineralogical, and isotopic tools to study the land-ocean climate-environmental interactions and their past evolution,.
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Appendix C : CVs of the most involved scholars
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Matthieu Roy-Barman Coordinator and UVSQ representative
Name: Matthieu Roy-Barman Address: LSCE, Avenue de la Terrasse - 91198 – Gif sur Yvette, France E-mail: [email protected] Position: Professor at the University of Versailles-Saint Quentin
Previous employment: ● 2005-today : Professor at Versailles-Saint Quentin University and LSCE ● 2002-2005: Lecturer at Versailles-Saint Quentin University and LSCE ● 1995-2002: Lecturer at Toulouse III University and LEGOS ● 1993-1995: Post-doctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology ● 1989-1993: Doctorate in Fundamental Geochemistry, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Experience and expertise: My present research interests focus on marine geochemistry and more particularly on the use of isotopic tracers (Pa-Th isotopes, Nd isotopes) and trace elements to constrain the fluxes of dissolved and particulate matter in the ocean. My work contributes to a better understanding of the present and past oceanic carbon cycle. For example, the determination of the sediment trap efficiency with Th isotopes puts strong constrains on the biological pump of carbon. I am involved in the french programs KEOPS , BONUS-GOOD HOPE, ISOFLORE (PI) and in international program GEOTRACES. In the past I have studied the mantle/crust differentiation through the use of the 187Re-187Os isotopic pair. I also keep an activity in isotope geochemistry applied to polution tracing on continents. Over the years, I have developped a strong expertize in clean chemistry fo trace elements and mass spectrometry.
I teach at licence ald master of university level courses in Marine Biogeochemistry, Isotope Geochemistry, Earth and environmental sciences. With collaboration of L. Labeyrie and D. Paillard I have created the Master “Interaction Climat-Environnement and Remote Sensing” (www.ice.uvsq.fr) in 2004 and I direct it since its beginning.
Selected recent referee publications:
M. Roy-Barman, C. Lemaître, Ayrault, S., C. Jeandel, M. Souhaut, J.-C. Miquel (2009) The influence of particle composition on Thorium scavenging in the Mediterranean Sea. Submited to EPSL.(in revision) J-C Dutay, F Lacan, M. Roy Barman, L. Bopp (2009) Study of the influence of the particles’ size and type on the simulation of 231Pa and 230Th with a global coupled biogeochemical- ocean general circulation model. G-cubed, doi:10.1029/2008GC002291 C. Venchiarutti, C. Jeandel, M. Roy-Barman (2008) Particle dynamics in the wake of Kerguelen Island traced by thorium isotopes (Southern Ocean, KEOPS program). Deep Sea Research I 55 , 1343-1363. L. Coppola, M. Roy-Barman, S. Mulsow, P. Povinec, C. Jeandel (2006) Thorium isotopes as tracers of particles dynamics in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. Marine Chemistry 100, 299- 313. Savoye N., Benitez-Nelson C., Burd A., Cochran J. K., Charette M., Jackson G., Roy- Barman M. & S. Schmidt (2006). An overview of techniques used to model 234Th in the water column. Marine Chemistry, 100, 234-249. M. Roy-Barman, M., C. Jeandel, M. Souhaut, R. Freydier, M. Rutgers van der Loeff, I. Voege, N. Leblond (2005) The influence of particle composition on thorium scavenging in the NE Atlantic ocean (POMME experiment). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 240, 681– 693.
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Ulysses S. Ninnemann
UoB Representative
Name: Ulysses S. Ninnemann
Address: Department of Earth Science & BCCR University of Bergen Allegaten 55, 5007 Bergen, Norway E-mail: [email protected] Position: Associate Professor
Previous employment: Appointments ● 2002-current Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science, UoB ● 1999-2002 Postdoctoral Scholar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia U. ● 1996-1998 ARCS Graduate Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ● 1993-1996 Graduate Student Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Experience and expertise: Education 1999 Ph.D. Earth Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, USA. 1992 B.A. Geology, Rice University, USA. Research interest: Using satble isotopes to constrain the past climate system variability (in particular on the millennial-scale) Facilities Head of mass spectrometry lab for measurement of light stable istotopes (C, N, O, H, etc) in geological and marine samples. The facility contains four Finnigan mass spectrometers (Delta, MAT 251, MAT 252, MAT 253), two Kiel carbonate devices, two EA’s, a GasBench, an online GC, and an equilibration bench for d18O water analysis. Teatching in enviromental sciences, paleoclimatology, climate variability.
Selected recent referee publications: Jean Lynch-Stieglitz et al., Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum, , Science, 316, 66 (2007), DOI: 10.1126/science.1137127. Lynch-Stieglitz, J., W. B. Curry, D. W. Oppo, U. S. Ninneman, C. D. Charles, and J. Munson, Meridional overturning circulation in the South Atlantic at the last glacial maximum, G3, 7, (2006), doi:10.1029/2005GC001226. Olsen, A., A. Omar, R. Bellerby, T. Johannessen, U. Ninnemann, K. Brown, K. Olsson, J. Olafsson, G. Nondal, C. Kivimäe, S. Kringstad, C. Neill, S. Olafsdottir, Magnitude and Origin of the Anthropogenic CO2 Increase and 13C Suess Effect in the Nordic Seas Since 1981, Glob. Biogeo. Cycles, VOL. 20, 2006, doi:10.1029/2005GB002669. Lamy, F, Kaiser, K, Ninnemann, U, Hebbeln, D, Arz, H, and J. Stoner, Antarctic timing of millennial-scale changes in ocean surface water conditions and Patagonian ice sheet extent between 8 and 50 kyr B.P. off southern Chile, Science. 304, 1959-1962, 2004. Ninnemann, U.S., and C.D. Charles, Changes in the Mode of Southern Ocean Circulation Over the Last Glacial Cycle Revealed by Foraminiferal Stable Isotope Variability, EPSL, 201, 383-396, 2002. Kanfoush, S.L., D.A. Hodell, C.D. Charles, T.P Guilderson, P.G Mortyn, and U.S. Ninnemann, Millennial-scale Instability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Last Glaciation, Science, vol. 288, 1815-1818, 2000. .
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Mary M Elliot UoE Representative
Name: Mary M Elliot Address: School of GeoScience, Edinburgh University, West Mains Road, EH9 3JW, Edinburgh E-mail: [email protected] Position: Lecturer in Paleoclimate Paleoceans.
Previous employment: ● 2002-today Lecturer The University of Edinburgh ● 2001-2002 Post-doctoral fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia ● 1999-2001 Post-doctoral fellow, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, US ● 1995-1999 Ph.D. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Gif / Yvette France.
Experience and expertise: My research focuses on reconstructions of paleoclimates and paleoenvironments in order to underrstand the mechanisms of abrupt climate change. I measure stable isotope and trace element tracers on biogenic carbonate to quantify past changes in ocean salinity and temperature. The results I obtain serve to reconstruct past changes in ocean circulation and climate change. I have used two types of fossil records: - Ocean sediment deposits which provide records of past changes in ocean hydrology and deep water circulation with centennial to millennial resolutions. I focused particularly on understanding the role of North Atlantic Ocean circulation patterns in the mechanisms of abrupt climate change. - Marine bivalves which provide paleorecords with seasonal resolutions at high and low latitudes.
I teach at all levels: 1st and 2nd year courses in oceanography and global environmental processes. 3rd year course in quaternary environmental changes and 4th year courses in global environmental change. I provide basic quantitative tools in the field of environmental geoscience and incorporate recent progress of research at 3rd and 4th year level. I supervise two PhD students and co-supervise 2 PhD students. I also supervise several 4th year honours/masters level student research projects per year. Since 2006, I am the Environmental Geoscience degree programme coordinator and participate in several research and teaching based committees in the School of GeoSciences.
Selected recent publications in prep and published:
Elliot, M.; K. Welsh; J. Chappell & M. McCulloch Profiles of Ba/Ca derived from giant long-lived bivalves (Tridacna gigas) a proxy for past sea surface productivity. Submitted to Paleoceanography. Elliot, M., Welsh; C. Chilcott; Gagan, M.; M. McCulloch; Cabioch G.; Corrège, T. Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca and stable isotope profiles derived from a modern long-lived Tridacna bivalve from New Caledonia: role of pH, Growth Patterns and Environmental Factors, Submitted to Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta. Elliot, M., P. deMenocal, B. Linsley, & S.S. Howe, Environmental controls on the seasonal isotopic records of M. mercenaria and potential application to paleo-environmental studies, Geochem Geoph Geosyst, 4 (7), 2003. Elliot M.; L Labeyrie & J.C. Duplessy. Changes in North Atlantic Deep -Water formation associated with the Dansgaard-Oeschger temperature oscillations (10-60ka). Quat. Sci. Rev., 21, 1153-1165, 2002. Elliot M.; L Labeyrie; T. Dokken & S. Manthé. Coherent patterns of ice rafted debris deposits in the Nordic regions during the last glacial (10-60 ka). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 194, 151-163. 2001. Bond G.; W. Showers; M. Elliot; M. Evans; R. Lotti & S. Johnson. Tracing the North Atlantic’s ~ 1.5kyr Climate Cycle to 80,000 Years B.P.- Relation to Heinrich Events, Dansgaard /Oeschger Cycles, and the Little Ice Age. "Mechanisms of millennial-scale climate change", edited by P.U. Clark, R.S. Webb & L.D. Keigwin, AGU Geophysical Monograph 112, 35-58, 1999.
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Bruce Hewitson UCT Representative
Name: Bruce Hewitson Address: University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa E-mail: [email protected] Position: Professor, and DST National Research Chair in Climate change
Previous employment: ● 2005-today : Professor at the University of Cape Town ● 2000-2004: Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town ● 1995-1999: Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town ● 1993-1994: Lecturer at the University of Cape Town ● 1992-1992 Research Associate, Pennsylvania State University ● 1991-1991 Doctorate in climatology, Pennsylvania State University ● 1989-1990 Masters in climatology, Pennsylvania State University
Experience and expertise: My key expertise is in regional climate change, climate modeling, downscaling and regional climate change projections, as well as a broad range of issues pertaining to these topics. This includes mentoring and training in capacity building activities, engaging with stakeholder communities on climate change issues across Africa, and serving the international climate change research activities through the IPCC and a number of related international agencies. My research output represents the only resource of tailored regional climate change projections for Africa and has a large user base. Through these activities extensive experience has been gained in working with stakeholders and other scientists across Africa, and I regularly host interns from Africa on climate change. In addition, as director of the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG – www.csag.uct.ac.za), extensive experience has been accumulated in project proposals, project management, and fund generation. The projects encompass a broad range of disciplines, including multidisciplinary projects spanning both physical science and extending into the adaptation and policy arenas. I currently host Africa scientists on visiting fellowships, supervise 10 PhD students on a range of climate topics, as well as four post-docs on climate modeling and climate change.
Selected recent refereed publications: MacKellar NC, Tadross MA, Hewitson BC, 2008: Synoptic-based evaluation of climatic response to vegetation change over southern Africa, online early view in International Journal of Climatology Wilby RL, Troni J, Biot CL, Tedd C, Hewitson BC, Smithe M, Sutton RT, 2008: A review of climate risk information for adaptation and development planning, online early view in Int. J. of Climatology Reusch DB, Alley RB, Hewitson BC, 2007: North Atlantic climate variability from a self-organizing map perspective, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112 Mackellar, N.C., Hewitson B.C., Tadross M.A., 2007: Namaqualand's climate: recent historical changes and future scenarios. Journal of Arid Environments, in press. Christensen, J., Hewitson, B.C., et al., 2007: Regional Climate Projections, in IPCC Fourth Assessment Report "Climate Change 2007: The Scientific Basis" (Solomon et al., eds.), Cambridge University Press Hewitson, B.C., and Crane, R.G., 2006: Consensus between GCM climate change projections with empirical downscaling, Int. J. of Climatology, 26: 1315–1337. Tadross, M.A., Gutowski W.J. Jr., Hewitson B.C., Jack C.J., New M., 2006: MM5 simulations of interannual change and the diurnal cycle of southern African regional climate. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 86, 63-80. DOI 10.1007/s00704-005-0208-2. New M., Hewitson, B., et al. 2006, Evidence of trends in daily climate extremes over southern and West Africa, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D14102, doi:10.1029/2005JD006289.
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Zhimin JIAN Tongji University Representative
Name: Zhimin Jian Address: State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, SipingRoad1239, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China E-mail: [email protected] Position: University Professor, Tongji University
Education: z 1990-1993: Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Tongji University; Ph.D. z 1987-1990: Department of Marine Geology, Tongji University, China; Master degree; z 1983-1987: Department of Geology, Peking University, China; Bachelor degree
Professional Experiences z 1999-today : Professor, Dept. of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China z 1999-2001: Alexander von Humboldt scholar, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24118 Kiel, Germany z 1996-1999: Associate professor, Dept. of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China z 1995-1996 Visiting scholar, Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Universität Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24118 Kiel, Germany z 1993-1995 Lecturer, Dept. of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Selected Publications: Jian, Z., Tian, J., Sun, X., 2009. Upper Water Structure and Paleo-Monsoon. In: Wang, P., Li, Q. (eds.), The South China Sea: Paleoceanography and Sedimentology. Berlin: Springer Publishing, 297-394. Jian, Z.., Yu, Y., Li, B., Wang, J., Zhang, X., Zhou, Z., 2006. Phased evolution of the south-north hydrographic gradient in the South China Sea since the middle Miocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 230: 251-263. Jian, Z.., Zhao, Q., Cheng, X., Wang, J., Wang, P., Su, X., 2003. Pliocene-Pleistocene stable isotope and paleoceanographic changes in the northern South China Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 193: 425-442. Jian, Z., Huang, B., Lin, H., Kuhnt, W., 2001. Late Quaternary upwelling intensity and East Asian
monsoon forcing in the South China Sea. Quaternary Research, 55: 363-370.
Jian, Z., Wang, P., Chen, M.-P., Li, B., Zhao, Q., Bühring, C., Laj, C., Lin, H.-L., Pflaumann, U., Bian, Y., Wang, R., Cheng, X., 2000. Foraminiferal responses to major Pleistocene paleoceanographic changes in the southern South China Sea. Paleoceanography, 15(2): 229- 243. Jian, Z., Wang, P., Saito, Y., Wang, J., Oba, T., Cheng, X., 2000. Holocene variability of the Kuroshio Current in the Okinawa Trough, northwestern Pacific Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 184(1): 305-319. Jian, Z.., Wang, L., Kienast, M., Sarnthein, M., Kuhnt, W., Lin, H., Wang, P., 1999. Benthic foraminiferal paleoceanography of the South China Sea over the last 40,000 years. Marine Geology, 156(1-4): 159-186. Jian, Z., Wang, L., 1997. Late Quaternary benthic foraminifera and deepwater paleoceanography in the South China Sea. Marine Micropaleontolgy, 32(1/2): 127-154.
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1 page CV – Patricia ORDUY-REY
Name: Patricia ORDUY-REY Address: Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 55 avenue de Paris 78035 Versailles cedex E-mail: [email protected] Position: Head of the International Relations Office and Erasmus Institutional Coordinator of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
Experience and expertise: ● 2009 - Present: Erasmus institutional Coordinator (Co-responsible for the renewal of the Erasmus University Charter ; In charge of yearly progress report and final report ; Erasmus contact at UVSQ for national structure/contact point ; Signatory of bilateral agreements in the framework of the Lifelong Leraning Program: Erasmus) ● 2006 - Present: Head of the International relations Office (Responsible for implementing and following-up the international policy at the university ; Responsible for implementing and folowing-up the operating budget ; In charge of the scholarships for students in exchange programs – more than 400.000 euros ; In charge of the development and the management of cooperation agreements with foreign universities ; Responsible for welcoming international exchange students – more than 123 students in 2008-2009 and sending UVSQ students abroad – more than 160 in 2008- 2009)
Education: ● 2000-2001: Master of International Management (MIM), University of saint-Thomas – USA (Marketing, international management, finance, economics, human resources, logistics) ● 1999-2000: DESS Franco-Américain d’Affaires Internationales, Institut d’Administration des Entreprises – Caen (International business, marketing, management, law, fiance and economics) ● 1998-1999: Maîtrise Langues Etrangères Appliquées (LEA), option affaires et commerce, Université de Caen (International business, marketing, economics, management, law)
Languages: French: mother language English: fluent Spanish: good working level German: basic conversation
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Didier Paillard
Name: Didier Paillard French, Male, born 15 June 1965 Address: LSCE, Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France E-mail: [email protected] Position: Head of the climate modelling group at LSCE, Associate Professor at INSTN.
Previous employment: Researcher at LSCE.
Experience and expertise: Initial training in Theoretical Physics. One year training in Germany (1988), two years research in the United States (1990 and 1995). Expertise in climate and paleoclimate modelling. A special scientific interest in the abrupt climatic changes that occurred during the Quaternary, linked to the dynamics of the thermohaline circulation, and also in the problem of glacial-interglacial oscillations that appear to be controlled largely by climate-carbon interactions. Elaboration of simplified climate models for the long term evolution of climate. Teaching courses in climate modelling and in paleoclimatology. Associate coordination of the ICE Master cursus at the University of Versailles-St-Quentin. Supervising of 2 PhD students since 1998. Involved in the coordination of the EU project BIOCLIM (FP5) and in the RTN NICE (2007-2010). Associate editor of the AGU journal Paleoceanography. Reviewer for many scientific journals (Nature, Science, Paleoceanography, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, ...) and proposals (US National Science Foundation, European Science Foundation, French national programs,...)
Selected recent referee publications: Charbit, S. Paillard, D., Ramstein, G., 2008: Amount of CO2 emissions irreversibly leading to the total melting of Greenland. Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 35 (12) pp. L12503 Paillard, D. 2006. What Drives the Ice Age Cycle ? Science 313, 455-456. Cane, M. A., Braconnot, P., Clement, A., Gildor, H., Joussaume, S., Kageyama, M., Khodri, M., Paillard, D., Tett, S., and Zorita, E. (2006). Progress in Paleoclimate Modeling. Journal of Climate 19, 5031-5057. Paillard, D. and F. Parrenin, 2004, The Antarctic ice-sheet and the trigerring of deglaciations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 227, p. 263-271. Roche D., D. Paillard, E. Cortijo, 2004, Abrupt climate change: a direct comparison of data and model simulations during Heinrich event 4, Nature, v. 432, p. 379-382. Waelbroeck, C., Duplessy, J.-C., Michel, E., Labeyrie, L., Paillard, D., and Duprat, J. (2001). The timing of the last deglaciation in North Atlantic climate records. Nature 412, 724- 727. Paillard, D., 2001: Glacial cycles: Toward a new paradigm. Reviews of Geophysics, 39, 325- 346. Paillard, D., 2001: Glacial hiccups. Nature, 409, 147-148.
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Jean-Paul Vanderlinden
Name: Jean-Paul Vanderlinden Address: C3ED, UFR-SSH, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 47 Boulevard Vauban, 78280, Guyancourt, France E-mail: [email protected] Position: University Professor, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Previous employment: ● 2006-today : Professor of economics, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France ● 1999-2006: Professor of environemental studies, Université de Moncton, Canada ● 1998-1999: Scientist, Université de Moncton ● 1996-1998: Gaduate fellow, International Livestock Research Institute, Niamey, Niger. ● 1995-1996: Teaching assistant, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Yrok Univrsity, Canada. ● 1994-1995: Resercher, Groupe Communication Plus inc., Moncton, Canada. ● 1990-1994: Project director, International Association for Community Development, Gisenyi, Rawanda and Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
Experience and expertise: My current research interest lies into the facilitation and analysis of science and policy integration and of interdisciplinary object oriented science. Within this context my main focus lies into participatory approaches to science and issue based governance with a particular emphasis on climate change and on coastal zone management.
I teach at master’s level in an interdispclinary master program that I direct. I am also director of our university interdisciplnary doctoral school.
Selected recent refereed publications: Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2000a). Conflict and cooperation over the commons: a conceptual and methodological framework for assessing the role of local institutions. In N. McCarthy, B. Swallow, M. Kirk, et P. Hazell (Eds.), Property Rights, Risk and Livestock Development in Africa (pp. 276 - 296). Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. Vanderlinden, J.-P. (2001a). Environnement institutionnel local et gestion des terres de parcours dans la région agro-pastorale du sud-ouest du Niger. In E. Tielkes, E. Schlecht, et P. Hiernaux (dir), Élevage et gestion de parcours au Sahel, implications pour le développement (pp. 155- 163). Stuttgart: Verlag Ulrich E. Grauer. McCarthy, N., et Vanderlinden J.-P. (2004). Resource Management under Climatic Risk: A Case Study from Niger. Journal of Development Studies, 40 (5), 120-142. Vanderlinden, J.-P., Chouinard, O., Forgues, É., et Desjardins, P.-M. (2005). Apprentissages mutuels et dynamiques communautaires autour d'un projet aquicole sur la côte est du Nouveau- Brunswick. In A. Amintas, A. Gouzien et P. Perrot, Les chantiers de l’économie sociale et solidaire (pp. 265-272). Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Vanderlinden, J.-P., Chouinard, O, Friolet, R. et Audet, M. (2006). De la parole actes : le défi de la mise en œuvre de la gestion intégrée pour le bureau régional du Golfe de Pêches et Océans Canada. In Magord, Adaptation et innovation : expériences acadiennes. Berne : P. Lang., pp. 207-219. Bastien-Daigle, S., Vanderlinden, J.-P., & Chouinard, O. (2008). Learning the ropes: Lessons in integrated management of coastal resources in Canada's Maritime Provinces. Ocean and Coastal Management, 51, pp. 96-125.
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Philippe Bousquet
Name: Philippe Bousquet Address: Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines (UVSQ), 45 av. des Etats- Unis, F-78035, Versailles E-mail: [email protected] Position: Professor at UVSQ. Also affiliated et Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’environnement (IPSL/LSCE) for research.
Previous employment: ● Since 2008 : Professor in environmental sciences ● 1998-2008: Assistant professor in environmental sciences. ● 1994-1997: PHD student ● 2002-2005: Research PI of French procject FLAMENCO2 on air-sea CO2 fluxes ● 2003-present Research participant to several EU-project on greenhouse gas cycles (see below)
Experience and expertise: Forward and inverse modelling of Biogeochemical cycles, focused on greenhouse gases and precursors : CO2, CH4, N2O, H2, CFCs. Teatching at university : Atmospheric physics and chemistry, air pollution, biogeochemical cycles, fluid mechanics. Reviewer for international journals (Science, JGR, ACP, …). Participant or PI of several EU project: NOCES, AEROCARB, GEMS, CARBOEUROPE, NITROEUROPE, GEOMON, HYMN.
Selected recent referee publications: Pison, I., F. Chevallier, P. Bousquet, S. Szopa, and D. Hauglustaine (2008), Multi-species inverse system to estilmate CH4, CO and H2 surface emissions : methodology and test cas for year 2004, ACPD, 8, 20687-20722. Bousquet, P., P. Ciais, J. B. Miller, E. J. Dlugokencky, D. A. Hauglustaine, C. Prigent, G. R. Van der Werf, P. Peylin, E. G. Brunke, C. Carouge, R. L. Langenfelds, J. Lathiere, F. Papa, M. Ramonet, M. Schmidt, L. P. Steele, S. C. Tyler, and J. White (2006), Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability, Nature, 443, 439-443.
Bousquet, P., D. A. Hauglustaine, P. Peylin, C. Carouge, and P. Ciais (2005), Two decades of OH variability as inferred by an inversion of atmospheric transport and chemistry of methyl chloroform, Atmos Chem Phys, 5, 2635-2656.
Bousquet, P., P. Peylin, P. Ciais, C. Le Quere, P. Friedlingstein, and P.P. Tans, Regional changes in carbon dioxide fluxes of land and oceans since 1980, Science, 290 (5495), 1342-1346, 2000.
Bousquet, P., P. Peylin, P. Ciais, M. Ramonet, and P. Monfray, Inverse modeling of annual atmospheric CO2 sources and sinks 2. Sensitivity study, J. Geophys. Res.-atmos., 104 (D21), 26179-26193, 1999.
Gurney, K.R., R.M. Law, A.S. Denning, P.J. Rayner, D. Baker, P. Bousquet, L. Bruhwiler, Y.H. Chen, P. Ciais, S. Fan, I.Y. Fung, M. Gloor, M. Heimann, K. Higuchi, J. John, T. Maki, S. Maksyutov, K. Masarie, P. Peylin, M. Prather, B.C. Pak, J. Randerson, J. Sarmiento, S. Taguchi, T. Takahashi, and C.W. Yuen, Towards robust regional estimates of CO2 sources and sinks using atmospheric transport models, Nature, 415 (6872), 626-630, 2002.
Peylin, P., P. Bousquet, C. Le Quere, S. Sitch, P. Friedlingstein, G. McKinley, N. Gruber, P.
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Hélène Brogniez
Name: Hélène Brogniez Address: Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) 10-12 avenue de l’Europe, 78140 Velizy-Villacoublay, France E-mail: [email protected] Position: Maître de Conférence at LATMOS, Université de Versailles St Quentin-en- Yvelines (www.uvsq.fr).
Previous employment: ● 2004-2006: Research associate at the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago ● 2001-2004: PhD thesis (Physics of Remote Sensing) “Free Tropospheric Humidity over Africa: Elaboration of a METEOSAT archive, climatic analysis and assessment of climate models”, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (IPSL/CNRS) / University of Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie.
Experience and expertise: Research interests focus on remote sensing of tropospheric water vapor (infrared, microwave radiometers), on processes that drive water vapor distribution and variability in the tropical belt, and on climate models evaluation. Present projects include mainly the Franco-Indian satellite MeghaTropiques (http://meghatropiques.ipsl.polytechnique.fr) planned for launch early 2010, and the West African monsoon campaign (http://amma.mediasfrance.org/index).
Selected recent referee publications: Brogniez H., R. Roca and L. Picon, 2009: A study of the free tropospheric humidity interannual variability using Meteosat data and an advection-condensation transport model. Accepted to J. Clim. Brogniez H. and R.T. Pierrehumbert, 2006: Using microwave observations to assess large- scale control of the free tropospheric water vapor in the mid-latitudes. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L14801, doi:10.1029/2006GL026240. Brogniez H., R. Roca and L. Picon, 2006: A clear sky radiances archive from METEOSAT "water vapor" observations. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D21109, doi:10.1029/2006JD007238. Pierrehumbert R.T., H. Brogniez, and R. Roca, 2006: On the relative humidity of the Earth's atmosphere. In The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere: Phenomena, Theory, Challenges, T. Schneider and A. Sodel Eds. Princeton University Press (to appear). Brogniez H., R. Roca and L. Picon, 2005: Evaluation of the tropical free tropospheric Humidity in AMIP-2 simulations using METEOSAT Water Vapor channel data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL024341.
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Christophe Colin
Name: Christophe Colin Address: IDES, Université de Paris XI - BAT. 504, 91405 Orsay Cedex, FRANCE E-mail: [email protected] Position: Research assistant professor at the laboratory of IDES from the University of Paris-XI (Orsay).
Previous employment: 1994-97 Thesis at the "Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement" (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette (France) Since 1998 Research assistant professor at the laboratory of IDES from the University of Paris-XI (Orsay).
Experience and expertise: Mineralogy and geochemistry field work in the south China Sea, indian ocan and North Atlantic since 1998. Supervising 7 master and 4 PhD students since 1999. Teaching of university level courses in geochemistry (major and trace lements and radiogenic isotopes Sr-Nd), paloclimatology, marine sedimentation since 1996, including extensive field courses in South of France. Research topic follows two main objectives : 1. reconstruction of the North Atlantic circulations using the Nd isotopic composition of deep-sea corals ; 2. relationships between Asian monson variation and erosion of the Himalayas-Tibet complex.
Selected recent referee publications:
Colin C., Turpin L., Blamart D., Frank N. et S. Duchamp (2006) - Evolution of weathering patterns in the Himalayas and Indo-Burman ranges over the last 280 kyr : effects of sediment provenance on 87Sr/86Sr ratios tracers, Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems, 7, Q03007, doi:10.1029/2005GC000962.
Ballini M., Kissel C., Colin C., Richter T. et T. Dokken (2006) - Deep-water mass source and dynamic associated to rapid climatic variations during the last glacial stage in North Atlantic: a multi-proxy investigation of the detrital fraction of deep-sea sediments, Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems, 7, Q02N01, doi:10.1029/2005GC001070.
Frank N., Turpin L., Cabioch G., Blamart D., Tressens-Fedou M., Colin C., Bonhomme P. et P. Jean-Baptiste (2006) - Open System U-series ages of corals from a subsiding reef in New Caledonia : Implications for sea-level changes, and subsidence rate, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 249, 274-289.
Liu Z., Colin C., Huang W., Le K., Tong S., Chen Z. et A. Trentesaux (in presse) - Climatic and tectonic controls on weathering in South China and Indochina Peninsula: clay mineralogical and geochemical investigations from the Pearl, Red, and Mekong drainage basins, Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems.
Boulay S., Colin C., Trentesaux A., Clain S., Liu Z. et C. Lauer-Leredde (in presse) - Sedimentary responses to the Pleistocene climatic variations recorded in the South China Sea. A grain-size end-members modelling approach, Quaternary Research.
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Jaleh Ghashghaie
Name: Mrs. Jaleh Ghashghaie Address: Lab. Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud. Orsay (France) E-mail: [email protected] Position: Maître de Conférence HC & Team leader
Previous employment : Titles/Diploma ● 2004 : Habilitation (HDR), University of Paris-XI, Orsay. ● 1986 : Dr. (PhD) in Life Sciences, University of Paris-XI, Orsay ● 1982 : D.E.A. of Plant Ecology, University of Paris-XI, Orsay
Experience and expertise: Responsabilities Team leader : Team «Photosynthèse et Environnement», ESE, Paris-XI, Orsay. Responsible of a Teaching Unity « Fonctionnement des plantes dans les milieux contraignants » Master EBE (Ecologie, Biodiversité et Evolution), Paris-XI, Orsay. Member of executive committee of Technological platform “Métabolisme-Métabolome” Coordination of European Network, NETCARB (2000-2004) European Research Training Network (RTN), FP5, entitled NETACRB (Network for Ecophysiology in closing Terrestrial CARbon Budget), contract: HPRN-CT-1999-00059 (see NETCARB web site). Supervision of Students: 4 PhD students, 5 DEA (Master) students and 1 post doc (NETCARB) Teaching programme (1986-2009) Lectures : - The use of stable isotopes of carbon (13C/12C) in plant ecophysiology. (Master). - Ecological Basics of plant productivity. (2d year). - Mechanisms of plant resistance to drought conditions (Master). - Soil Ecology: soil formation and different types of soil and humus (Licence). - Practical courses: Laboratory: - Water relations of plants. (Licence). Leaf gas exchanges. (Master). – Field: - Comparison of carbon sequestration in 2 ecosystems: forest and grassland. (Master). – Soil water content in relation to soil texture and structure profiles. (Master). – Bioclimatology. (Licence). - Methods to measure and estimate leaf area index (LAI) and biomass. -Plant productivity in relation to water availability. (Master). Modelling: - Growth and allocation of biomass to different organs of a Brassica napus canopy (field) and modelling as a function of water deficit (Master). Organisation of workshops and Summer-Schools: 3 NETCARB Summer-schools, JESIUM 2008 Meeting
Selected referee publications : 2001 - Ghashghaie J., Duranceau M., Badeck F., Cornic G., Adeline M.T., Deléens E. – 13 13 δ C of CO2 respired in the dark in relation to δ C of leaf metabolites: comparison between Nicotiana sylvestris and Helianthus annuus under drought. Plant, Cell & Environment, 24: 505-515. 2003 - Tcherkez G., Nogués S, Bleton J., Cornic G., Badeck F. & Ghashghaie J. – Metabolic origin of carbon isotope composition of leaf dark-respired CO2 in Phaseolus vulgaris L. Plant Physiology, 31: 237-244. 2003 - Ghashghaie J., Badeck F., Lanigan G., Nogués S., Tcherkez G., Deléens E., Cornic G. & Griffiths H. – Carbon isotope discrimination in plants during dark respiration and photorespiration in C3 plants. Phytochemistry Reviews, 2: 145-161. (Invited Review). 2008 - Bathellier C., Badeck F-W., Couzi P., Harscoët S., Mauve C. & Ghashghaie J. – Divergence in δ13C of
organic matter and respired CO2 during transition between autotrophy and heterotrophy in Phaseolus
vulgaris L. New Phytologist 177: 406-418.
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Bernard Legras
Name: Bernard Legras Address: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75213 PARIS Cedex 05, France E-mail: [email protected] Position: CNRS Reseach Director
Previous employment: ● 1988-today : CNRS Reseach Director ● 1983-1988: CNRS Research Chargé de ● 1983 Doctorate in Physical Sciences ● 1978-1983: CNRS Research Attaché de ● 1978 Doctorate de spécialité en Physique
Experience and expertise: Past and present research interests Turbulence in geophysical fluid dynamics, low-frequency variability of atmospheric flows, blocking, predictability, coherent vortices in high-Reynolds flows, transport and mixing of passive and active compounds, stratospheric ozone, dynamics and exchanges at the tropopause, water vapour and climate. Selected professional activities Head of teaching in the Earth Science department of ENS (2003-2006); Member of INSU reasearch Council (2004-2006); Co-chair of COST program on Upper Troposphere and Lower Troposphere (2002-2006); Co-organizer and lecturer of GEOMIX summer school on mixing problems in geophysics and the COST summer school on UT/LS (Cargese, 2001, 2005, 2009); Chair of the Physiscs and Chemistry of the Earth commission of the National Committee for Scientific Research (1995-2000); Co-chair of the section NonLinear Processes of EGS (1990-1995); Secretary of working group D of the International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology, IAMAS (1988-1994). 14 PhD students (1987-2008) ; 6 Recent post-docs (1998-2008). Reviewer Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, Journal of Computational Physics, Computing Systems in Engineering, Annales Geophysicae, Compte-Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences, Physical Review Letters, Chaos, Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Monthly Weather Review, Tellus, Quarterly Journal of the Royal meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research, Physica D, Europhysics Letters; US National Science Foundation, International Science Foundation, French national programmes.
Selected recent referee publications: R. James, M. Bonazzola, B. Legras, K. Surbled & S. Fueglistaler, A Lagrangian analysis of a the Asian Monsoon Water Vapor Maximum at 110 hPa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L20810, doi:10.1029/2008GL035441, 2008. R. James & B. Legras, Mixing processes and exchanges in the tropical and the extra-tropical UT/LS, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Disc., 9, pp. 25-38, 2009. S. Fueglistaler, B. Legras, A. Beljaars, J.-J. Morcrette, A. Simmons, A.M. Tompkins, S. Uppala, The diabatic heat budget of the upper troposphere and low/mid stratosphere in ECMWF reanalyses, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 135, pp. 21-37, 2009. B. Legras, I. Pisso, G. Berthet & F. Lefèvre, Variability of the Lagrangian turbulent diffusion in the lower stratosphere, 2005, Atmos. Chem. Phys., pp. 1605-1622. SRef-ID: 1680- 7324/acp/2005-5-1605. G. Lacorata, E. Aurell, B. Legras & A. Vulpiani, Evidence for a k-5/3 spectrum from the EOLE Lagrangian balloons in the stratosphere, 2004, J. Atmos. Sci, 61, pp. 2936-2942. B. Legras, B. Joseph & F. Lefèvre, Vertical diffusivity in the lower stratosphere from Lagrangian back-trajectory reconstructions of ozone profiles, 2003, J. Geophys. Res., 108, D18, 4562, doi:10.1029/2002JD003045.
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Alain SALIOT
Name: Alain SALIOT Address: Laboratoire LOCEAN de l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie ; Tour 46-00, 5ème étage ; Case courrier 100 ; 4 Place Jussieu ; 75252 Paris Cedex 05 E-mail: [email protected] Position: Professeur des Universités, classe exceptionnelle, à l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Previous employment: ● 2005-today : Professeur des Universités, classe exceptionnelle, à l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie. ● 2002-2005 Professeur à l’Institut Océanographique de Paris. ● 1990 Professeur des Universités, 1ère classe, à l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie. ● 1985-1987 Directeur-Adjoint de l'UA 353 du C.N.R.S., Directeur de la partie parisienne du LPCM. ● 1970(01) Admis dans le cadre des chercheurs du C.N.R.S.
Experience and expertise: En recherche : développement au niveau national de la Biogéochimie Organique Marine : 54 thèses encadrées ; 8 chercheurs formés, entrés dans le monde de la recherche océanographique ; 235 publications parues, dont 110 en anglais dans des revues de rang A, 29 en français dans des revues à comité de lecture et 50 majoritairement en anglais faisant suite à des congrès internationaux ; 230 communications dont 168 lors de manifestations internationales ; 9 séminaires et 20 conférences internationales invitées, animation de programmes au niveau européen (programmes EROS 2000 et EROS 21, ADIOS, AIRWIN, MEDICIS/ARCHIMED) et international avec la Chine (programme Donghai), la Russie (programme Spasiba), le Brésil, la Tunisie, le Maroc. En enseignement : depuis 1987 enseignement dans les trois cycles de l’Université, création de modules pluridisciplinaires, animation de plusieurs DEA à l’UPMC dont le DEA Océanologie, Météorologie et Environnement et la responsabilité d’une option chimie marine et, depuis 2004, du Master de l’UPMC, mention SDUEE, spécialité Océanographie et Environnements Marins et d’autres formations doctorales en France (Brest, Marseille, Bordeaux) et à l’Etranger/DOM TOM (Russie, Chine, Brésil, Polynésie). Participation à plusieurs écoles d’été européennes, Villefranche, Melreux, Plymouth, ERCA à Grenoble.
Selected recent referee publications: Er-Raioui H., Bouzid S., Marhraoui M. and Saliot A. (2009) Hydrocarbon pollution of the Mediterranean coastline of Morocco. Ocean & Coastal Management 52, 124-129 Gašparovića B., Plavšića M., Ćosovića B. and Saliot A (2007) Organic matter characterization in the sea surface microlayers in the subarctic Norwegian fjords region. Mar. Chem. 105, 1-14. TREIGNIER C, DERENNE S, and SALIOT A. 2006 Terrestrial and marine n-alcohols inputs and degradation processes relating to a sudden turbidity current in the Zaire canyon. Org. Geochem., 37, 1170-1184. ZAGHDEN H., KALLEL M., LOUATI A., ELLEUCH B., SALIOT A., OUDOT J. (2005). Hydrocarbons in surface sediments from the Sfax coastal zone, (Tunisia) Mediterranean Sea. Mar. Pollut. Bull., 50, 1287- 1294. SALIOT A. ,Editeur (2005). The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. 5.K. The Mediterranean Sea. Springer, 413 pp.
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Ronan Modolo
Name: Ronan Modolo Address: LATMOS - IPSL, 10-12 Avenue de l’Europe, 78140 VELIZY, France E-mail: [email protected] Position: Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor), University of Versailles Saint Quentin
Previous employment: ● 2008-Present : Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor), University of Versailles Saint Quentin ● 2008-2008: Research assistant, Swedish Institute of Space Physics (Swedish National Space Board grant). ● 2007-2008: Research Scholar, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA ● 2005-2007: Post-doctoral position, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden ● 2004-2005: Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Versailles, France.
Experience and expertise: • Computational research in space plasma physics, ionization processes, coupling charged and neutral species in planetary atmosphere. • Development of three-dimensional multi-species hybrid simulation models for Mars and Titan. • Authentication, data analysis and interpretation of Langmuir Probe observations (Radio and Plasma Wave Science consortium) onboard Cassini ( NASA and ESA space mission) • Data analysis and interpretation of Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) onboard Mars-Express (ESA mission)
I teach at licence and master level of university level courses. I am assisting supervisor of Karin Agren, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden and I was Master thesis supervisor of two students in Sweden, and few students in France.
Selected recent referee publications: Modolo R., J.E. Wahlund, R. Bolström, P. Canu, W.S. Kurth, D. Gurnett, G. Lewis, and A. Coates, Far plasma wake of Titan from RPWS observations – a case study, Geophys. Res. Let.,Vol. 34, L24S04, doi:10.1029/2007GL030482, 2007 (American Geophysical Union Editor Highlight article) Modolo R., G. Chanteur, J.E. Wahlund, P. Canu, W.S. Kurth, D. Gurnett and C. Bertucci, Plasma environment in the wake of Titan from hybrid simulations - a case study, Geophys. Res. Let., Vol. 34, L24S07, doi:10.1029/2007GL03489, 2007 Bertucci C, N Achilleos, M.K. Dougherty, R. Modolo, A.J. Coates, K. Szego, A. Masters, Y. Ma, C. Mazelle, F.M. Neubauer, P. Garnier, J.E. Wahlund, and D.T. Young, The Magnetic Memory of Titan’s ionized atmosphere,321, 1475, doi:10.1126/science.115970 Science, 2008 Dubinin E., R. Modolo, M. Fraenz, J. Woch, F. Duru, F. Akalin, D. Gurnett, R. Lundin, S. Barabash, J. J. Plaut, G. Picardi, Structure and dynamics of the solar wind/ionosphere interface on Mars. MEX-ASPERA-3 and MEX-MARSIS observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2008, VOL. 35, L11103, doi:10.1029/2008GL033730, 2008 Modolo R. and G.M. Chanteur, Global hybrid simulation of the kronian plasma interaction with the neutral environment of Titan, Journ. Geophys. Res., 113, A01317, doi:10.1029/2007JA012453, 2008
Author or co-author of 19 peer-reviewed articles and 5 submitted or revised articles.
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Dick Kroon
Name: Dick Kroon Address: School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, UK E-mail: [email protected] Position: Regius Chair of Geology, University of Edinburgh
Previous employment: ● 1984-1988: Research position (PhD student), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Planktonic foraminifers as tracers of ocean-climate history ● 1988-1989: Post-Doc position, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Subject: Drilling in the Arabian Sea, Leg 117, Ocean Drilling Project ● 1989-1996: Lecturer, University of Edinburgh ● 1996-2000: Reader, University of Edinburgh ● 2000-2001: Professor (personal chair), University of Edinburgh ● 2001-2007: Professor, Paleoclimate and Paleoecology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ● 2007 - Regius Chair of Geology, University of Edinburgh
Experience and expertise: Professor Dick Kroon is Regius Professor of Geology at University of Edinburgh. He has worked the last 5 years as Professor in Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology at the Vrije Universiteit. He is a member of the national assessment committee installed by NWO / WOTRO and the “beleidsadvies” committee NWO. Professor Kroon has been and still is an active member of various international scientific committees; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK IODP, Southampton Oceanography Centre Scientific and Management Audit (SOC SMA), Geological Society of Germany (vice-president). Professor Kroon is (co)author of more than 100 publications in international refereed journals and has been promotor of a dozen successfully completed and several upcoming PhD-theses at the University of Edinburg and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His research interests are reflected in his scientific output and teaching subjects. They concern all kinds of aspects of global Marine Environmental Geology and large-scale regional climate change (including extreme events) and variability, but in particular the history of the oceans (palaeoceanography). Reconstructing past oceans requires first and foremost the use of small fossils; basically all palaeoceanographers are palaeobiologists. The work mainly concentrates on planktonic foraminifera whose skeletons are buried in the sedimentary record.
Selected recent referee publications: Darling, K.F., Kucera, M., Kroon, D., Wade, C.M., 2006. A resolution for the coiling direction paradox in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma. Paleoceanography 21, PA2011, doi:10.1029/2005PA001189 Jung, S.J.A., G.R. Davies, G.M. Ganssen, D. Kroon, 2004. Stepwise Holocene aridification in NE Africa deduced from dust-borne radiogenic isotope records. Earth Planetary Science Letters 221: 27-37. Dick Kroon, James C. Zachos, and Leg 208 Scientific Party, 2007. Leg 208 Synthesis: Cenozoic Climate Cycles and Excursions. (Leg 208 Synthesis) of the Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Peeters, Frank J.C., Ruth Acheson, Geert-Jan A. Brummer, Wilhelmus P.M. De Ruijter, Ralph R. Schneider, Gerald M. Ganssen, Els Ufkes and Dick Kroon, 2004. Vigorous exchange between the Indian and Atlantic oceans at the end of the past five glacial periods. Nature 430, 661-665. Renssen, H., C.J. Beets, T. Fichefet, H. Goosse and D. Kroon, 2004. Modelling the climate response to a massive methane release from gas hydrates. Paleoceanography 19, PA2010, doi:10.1029/2003PA000968. Zachos, James C., Ursula Röhl, Stephen A. Schellenberg, Appy Sluijs, David A. Hodell, Daniel C. Kelly, Ellen Thomas, Micah Nicolo, Isabella Raffi, Lucas J. Lourens, Heather McCarren, Dick Kroon, 2005. Rapid Acidification of the Ocean During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Science, 308 (5728) 1611-1615.
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Simon F. B. Tett
Name: Simon F. B. Tett Address: R351 Grant Inst, The King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW UK E-mail: [email protected] Position: Professor of Earth System Dynamics and Modelling (since July 2007)
Previous employment: ● 2001-2007: Met Office, Hadley Centre. Managing Scientist. Duties included management of Hadley Unit at Reading University and the management of seven staff in Exeter. The major focus of his effort was to improve the team’s climate monitoring infrastructure in order to allow the team to spend more time and effort on scientific research. In particular to develop uncertainty estimates for many of their datasets. He was also responsible for developing group strategy and communicating with key customers. He carried out personal research into the ability of climate models to simulate observed climate change and variability when driven with both natural and human forcings. ● 1994-2000: Met Office, Hadley Centre. Senior Scientific Officer/JL3. Duties included model development, carrying out simulations, their analysis and comparison with observations; in particular the detection and attribution of climate change. Towards the end of this period he was responsible for the management of three staff and the management of part of the contract to Defra in his area of scientific expertise. ● 1991-1993: Met Office, Hadley Centre, Higher Scientific Officer. Duties included the implementation of a diagnostic processing system in the Climate/Weather forecasting model and analysis of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation in the first Hadley Centre coupled model. ● 1987-1990: PhD (Awarded 1992) “Parallel Algorithms for Atmospheric Modelling”, Edinburgh University ● 1983-1987: BSc (II(i)) Mathematical Physics, Edinburgh University,
Experience and expertise: His research work has been on the quantitative comparison between climate model simulations and historical observations, and on the production, and analysis, of climate data records with comprehensive uncertainty estimates. Building on these he plans to see to what extent, if any, past climate change and variability both in the instrumental period and in the relatively recent pre- instrumental period can rule out high climate sensitivity and strong carbon cycle feedbacks.
Selected recent referee publications: Author or co-author on more than 50 peer-reviewed papers or book chapters including 8 in Science or Nature. Winner of the Norbert Gerbier Mumm Prize in 1997 & 1998 (with several others), the 1998 NOAA “Best Scientific Paper” (with several others) prize and in 2007 the L G Groves prize for Meteorology. Allan, R., S. Tett, et al. (2009). "Fluctuations in autumn-winter severe storms over the British Isles: 1920 to present." Int J Clim 29(3): 357-371. Fischer, E. M., J. Luterbacher, et al. (2007). "European climate response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last half millennium." Geophysical Research Letters 34(5). Palmer, M. D., K. Haines, et al. (2007). "Isolating the signal of ocean global warming." Geophys Res Lett 34(23). Tett, S. F. B., R. Betts, et al. (2007). "The impact of natural and anthropogenic forcings on climate and hydrology since 1550." Clim Dyn 28(1): 3-34.
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Chris Merchant
Name: Chris Merchant Address: Crew Building, GeoSciences, Univerisity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland E-mail: [email protected] Position: Reader at University of Edinburgh
Previous employment: ● 1999-present : University of Edinburgh ● 1995-1999: University College London ● 1994-1995: WS Atkins Consultancy ● 1989-1993: National Grid Research and Development
Experience and expertise: Research Ocean remote sensing and sea surface temperature : - for meteorology: development of techniques for improving real-time monitoring; observations in difficult areas (e.g. ice zones, lakes) - for climate change research: analysis over the satellite era of temperatures for climatic signals (esp. in remote oceans) Air-sea interaction: modelling of thermal, biotic and chemical processes in the open-ocean near- surface for understanding heat and CO2 fluxes between atmospheric-and-ocean and for assimilation of observations. Teaching Physics of climate (4th year Physics option) Remote Sensing of the Natural Environment (MSc) Fundamentals for Remote Sensing (MSc) Radiative transfer (MSc) Physics (1st year) Meteorology (Atmospheric dynamics) Physical Geography 1 (Introduction to climate system) Professional contributions - Chair of science review panels for EUMETSAT. - MetImage Science Advisory Group, 2009 - present - Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer Science Advisory Group, 2003 – present. - Director of Post Graduate Teaching, GeoSciences, Aug 2006 – present - Chair, Working Group on Diurnal Variability, internation Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temper.
Selected recent refereed publications: Merchant C. J., P. Le Borgne, H. Roquet and A. Marsouin (2009), Sea surface temperature from a geostationary satellite by optimal estimation, Rem. Sens. Env., 113 (2), 445-457. DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2008.10.012. Merchant C J, P Le Borgne, A Marsouin and H Roquet (2008), Optimal estimation of sea surface temperature from split-window observations, Rem. Sens. Env., 112 (5), 2469-2484. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.011 Merchant C J, Embury O, Le Borgne P and Bellec B, Saharan dust in night-time thermal imagery: detection and reduction of related biases in retrieved sea surface temperature, Rem. Sens. Env., 104, 15-30, 2006.
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Peter M. Haugan
Name: Peter M. Haugan Address: Geophysical Institute, Allegaten 70, N-5007 Bergen, Norway E-mail: [email protected] Position: Appointed head (director) and professor (Dr. philos) at Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen (www.gfi.uib.no), also affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (www.bjerknes.uib.no).
Previous employment: ● 2000-2003: Vice-director of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research ● 1999- Professor of physical oceanography at the Geophysical Institute ● 1997-1999: Associate professor of polar oceanography at the University Courses on Svalbard (www.unis.no) ● 1996-1997: Senior scientist at the Geophysical Institute and adjunct senior scientist (Norwegian "bistilling") at Institute of Marine Research (www.imr.no) ● 1987-1995: Senior scientist (1987-1989), research leader (1989-1993), research director and assistant director (1993-1995) at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (www.nersc.no). ● 1982-1987: Research engineer and project leader in the Numerical Modelling Dept., Reservoir Section, Norsk Hydro Research Centre, Bergen.
Experience and expertise: Physical oceanographic field work in the Norwegian, Greenland and Barents Seas since 1988. Supervision of 9 master and 15 PhD students since 1989. Teaching of university level courses in polar oceanography, air-sea interaction and dynamical oceanography since 1996, including extensive field courses in Spitsbergen. Research interests focus on high latitude ocean climate processes including physical processes that affect carbon cycling and carbon storage. Experience from international science committees and panels, intergovernmental marine science coordination, hosting of an international scientific conference on “Polar Dynamics” and a summer school on sea ice both in 2007. Presently project manager of Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction (Norwegian Research Council 2006- 2010), Current Measurements North of Svalbard (NRC 2006-2009), and principal investigator in Svalbard Ice Ocean Interaction Studies (NRC 2007-2009), Michelsen Centre for Industrial Science and Technology (NRC, 2007-2015), Norwegian Centre for offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE, NRC 2009-2017), CARBOOCEAN (EU, 2005-2009), DAMOCLES (EU, 2005-2009) and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (NRC 2002-2012).
Selected recent referee publications: Widell, K., I. Fer, and P. M. Haugan 2006. Salt release from warming sea ice. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12501, doi:10.1029/2006GL026262. Peter M. Haugan and Guttorm Alendal 2005. Turbulent diffusion and transport from a CO2 lake in the deep ocean. J. geoph. res. 110, C09S14, doi:10.1029/2004JC002583. R. Skogseth, P.M. Haugan and M. Jakobsson 2005. Watermass transformations in Storfjorden. Cont. Shelf Research 25, 667-695. Peter M. Haugan and Fortunat Joos 2004. Metrics to assess the mitigation of global warming by carbon capture and storage in the ocean and in geological reservoirs. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L18202, doi:10.1029/2004GL020295. T.M. Saloranta and P.M. Haugan 2001. Interannual variability in the hydrography of Atlantic water northwest of Svalbard. J. geoph. res. 106(C7) 13931-13943.
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Tore Furevik
Name: Tore Furevik Address: University of Bergen E-mail: Position: Professor in physical oceanography
Previous employment: ● 2003-today : vice director at the Bjerknes Centre for climate research ● 2002-2003: president of Bergen Geophysical Society and currently vice president of the Norwegian Geophysical Society ● 1999-2002 central in developing the Bergen Climate Model ● 1998 : PhD thesis ● 1995 : Master thesis
Experience and expertise: Professor in physical oceanography, University of Bergen, vice director at the Bjerknes Centre for climate research. Physical oceanographer, field work in the Southern Ocean, Fram Strait and Barents Sea in the 1990s, wide expertise in critical latitude effects (master thesis 1995), topographic steering of ocean currents (PhD thesis 1998), climate modelling (central in developing the Bergen Climate Model 1999-2002), and air/sea/ice interactions. Has published 15 papers in international peer- reviewed journals or books, and been an expert referee for a number of journals (J. Geophys. Res, J. Climate, Tellus, Remote Sensing of Environment) and proposals (research councils of Sweden, Finland, UK, and USA). Has conducted several projects for Norwegian Oil Companies, and is now involved in the Norwegian Research Council projects NorClim (PI) and POCAHONTAS, IPY project BIAC, and the West Nordic Ocean Programme funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Is research group leader for the activity “Interannual to multidecadal variability in present day climate” at the Bjerknes Centre. Is regularly teaching courses in climatology and climate change, air-sea-ice interaction, polar oceanography, and ocean and atmospheric dynamics at masters and PhD levels, and is currently supervising three master and two PhD students. Responsible for establishing a research school in climate studies at the University of Bergen, involved in organizing several summer schools, and head of the local organizing committee for a large international conference “Polar Dynamics – monitoring, understanding and prediction” to be held in Bergen in 2007. Was president of Bergen Geophysical Society 2002-2003 and currently vice president of the Norwegian Geophysical Society.
Selected recent referee publications: Sandø, A.B. and Furevik, T. (2008). Relation between the wind stress curl in the North Atlantic and the Atlantic inflow to the Nordic Seas, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C06028, doi:10.1029/2007JC004236. Skagseth, O., Furevik, T., Ingvaldsen, R., Loeng, H., Mork, K.A., Orvik, K.A., and Ozhigin, V. (2008).Volume and heat transports to the Arctic Ocean via the Norwegian and Barents Seas, in Arctic - Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (R. Dickson, J. Meincke, and P. Rhines, Eds.) Springer Verlag, pp 25-64. (pdf) Wu, P., Haak, H., Wood, R., Jungclaus, J., and Furevik, T. (2008). Simulating the terms in the Arctic hydrological budget, in Arctic - Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (R. Dickson, J. Meincke, and P. Rhines, Eds.) Springer Verlag, pp 363-384. (pdf) Furevik, T., Mauritzen, C., and Ingvaldsen, R. (2007): The Flow of Atlantic Water to the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean, in Arctic-Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment (J.B. Ørbæk, R Kallenborn, I Tombre, E Nøst Hegseth, S Falk-Petersen, A.H. Hoel, Eds.), Springer Verlag, pp 123-146. (pdf) Bethke, I., Furevik, T., and Drange, H. (2006). Towards a more saline North Atlantic and a fresher Arctic under global warming, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L21712, doi:10.1029/2006GL027264.
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Christoph Heinze
Name: Nils Kvamsto Address: University of Bergen E-mail: Position: Professor for chemical oceanography
Experience and expertise: He is professor for chemical oceanography at the Geophysical Institute of UiB and leader of the research group on biogeochemical cycles at the Bjerknes Centre. He coordinates the EU FP6 Integrated Project CarboOcean (Marine carbon sources and sinks assessment) including 35 partners from Europe, Morocco, and North America. His speciality is the simulation of marine biogeochemical cycles with 3-D models. .
Selected recent referee publications: Denman, K.L., G. Brasseur, A. Chidthaisong, P. Ciais, P.M. Cox, R.E. Dickinson, D. Hauglustaine, C. Heinze, E. et al., 2007, Couplings Between Changes in the Climate System and Biogeochemistry. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M.Tignor und H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom und New York, NY, USA. Gehlen, M., L. Bopp, N. Emprin, O. Aumont, C. Heinze, and O. Ragueneau, 2006, Reconciling surface ocean productivity, export fluxes and sediment composition in a global biogeochemical ocean model, Biogeosciences, 3, 521–537. 3 Heinze, C., M. Gehlen, and C. Land, 2006, On the potential of 230Th, 231Pa, and 10Be for marine rain ratio determinations - a modeling study. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20, GB2018, doi:10.1029/2005GB002595. Heinze, C., 2006, The long-term oceanic Si cycle and the role of opal sediment. In: The silicon cycle - human perturbations and impacts on aquatic systems. SCOPE 66. Chicago, Il 60628, USA: Island Press 2006. ISBN 1-59726-114-9. p. 229-243. Heinze, C. and N. Dittert, 2005, Impact of paleocirculations on the silicon redistribution in the world ocean, Marine Geology, 214, 201-203. Skjelvan, I., A. Olsen, L.G. Anderson, R.G.J. Bellerby, E. Falck, Y. Kasajima, C. Kivimäe, A. Omar, F. Rey, K.A. Olsson, T. Johannessen, and C. Heinze, 2005, A Review of the Inorganic Carbon Cycle of the Nordic Seas and Barents Sea, in: The Nordic Seas - An integrated perspective, H. Drange, T. Dokken, T. Furevik, R. Gerdes and W. Berger, eds., AGU Geophysical Monograph, 158, 157-175. Heinze, C., 2004, Simulating oceanic CaCO3 export production in the greenhouse, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L16308, doi:10.1029/2004GL020613. Heinze, C., A. Hupe, E. Maier-Reimer, N. Dittert, and O. Ragueneau, 2003, Sensitivity of the marine biospheric Si cycle for biogeochemical parameter variations, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17, No. 3, 1086, doi:10.1029/2002GB001943 Heinze, C., 2002, Assessing the importance of the Southern Ocean for natural atmospheric pCO2 variations with a global biogeochemical general circulation model, Deep-Sea Research II, 49,
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Appendix D : Letters of support from different laboratories/institutes/compagnies participating to PERICLES
IPSL PRES Universud LSCE LATMOS Bjerknes Center SUERC Meteorological office EDF Climpact
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Appendix E : French laboratories and Scottish centres involved in the PERICLES project
a) French laboratories
ÆUVSQ laboratories Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiale (LATMOS) (IPSL/ UVSQ / CNRS / Paris VI), It groups more 250 scientists, students and administrative working on physics and chemistry of Earth and planetary atmosphere and the Environment. Its main research topics focus on water cycles, interactions and exchanges between the atmosphere and the surface and on the evolution of convective systems with a strong part in the development of remote sensing instruments (radar, microwave radiometers, ...) for earth observation by satellites.
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement LSCE (also dependant of CNRS and Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique) groups more than 250 scientists, students and administrative working on climate changes (past present and future), the environment (in particular the carbon cycle), geotracers and radioactive dating methods. One of the strength of LSCE is the strong association between analysts and modeller. LSCE as subtentially contributed (with other IPSL laboratories) to the climate projection of the 4th IPCC report.
PERICLES will benefits also for its opening to Economy and Society from the support of the Centre d'Economie et d'Ethique pour l'Environnement et le Développement (C3ED-UVSQ). The C3ED, one of the leading social sciences centres in Europe on sustainable development, has established a major interdisciplinary programme spanning ethics, economics, geography, ecosystems sciences and communications technologies. Jointly financed by the UVSQ and the French IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), the C3ED has a special preoccupation with North-South relations and cooperation for research and teaching.
->Other laboratories of IPSL, which do not depend of directly of UVSQ but associated to the PERICLES program through IPSL: Laboratoire de Meteorology Dynamique LMD (also dependant of CNRS, ENS-Ulm and Polytechnique) . It groups about 150 persons, 1/3 being full time scientists and University Professors/Associate Professors and as many students and postdocs). The main focus of the LMD is research on the mechanisms, evolution and prediction of meteorological phenomenon and climate, through theoretical studies, modelling and numerical simulations, remote sensing and development of specific instruments. LOCEAN (also dependent of CNRS and Institut pour la recherché et le developpement IRD) Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/) involves more than 180 scientists, students and administrative staff. The research expertises span from physical oceanography, ocean dynamic, modelling, geochemistry of organic and isotopes, coupling of CO2 cycles and marine processes.
->Other laboratories of PRES Universud Paris, which do not depend of directly of UVSQ but associated to the PERICLES program: PRES Universud Paris is a French academic consortium of universities and graduate schools regrouping 21 institutions of Paris agglomeration. Its action is defined through close contacts with the socio-economical needs of the regional territory. UniverSud Paris coordinates the work of its research and teatching teams, trying to bring added value by promoting innovation and new federative & pluridisciplinary projects. Universud Paris is organized in 14 thematic groups : Systemic and synthetic biology, bio-therapies, Climate-environnement and sustainable development, Cell imagery, Immunotherapies, Information engineering, medecines, Microbiology, Molecules and materials for energy environment and health, Nanosciences & nanotechnologies, Neurosciences, Planetology, Sciences-techniques-culture-society, Science and crop production, Engineering sciences.
Laboratoire d’Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution ESE (dependent of CNRS and AgroParisTech) in the University of Paris XI groups about 120 researchers/University Professors and associated professors/technical
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and administrative staffs/PhD students and post-docs. The team “Ecophysiologie Végétale” of ESE is involved in PERICLES. The main topics of this team are research on (i) the carbon flux at different scales (from leaf to ecosystem) and modelling the impact of climate change, (ii) mechanisms of plant adaptation (mainly photosynthesis) to environmental constraints e.g. drought, high irradiance and extreme temperatures, (iii) the use of stable isotopes to study carbon metabolism in plants, and (iv) development of portable fluorimeters (Dualex/Multiplex) for in situ measurements of polyphenols and chlorophyll fluorescence in the field. Portable leaf gas exchange and leaf chlorophyll fluorescence devices are used as the main instruments for carbon flux measurements. Recently, an Eddy flux tower and a TDLS (Tuneable Diode Laser Spectroscopy) are installed in the ESE site (Barbeau forest near Fontainebleau) for ecosystem isoflux measurements. ESE is one of the members of IFR87 (Institut Fédératif de Recherche) and thus has access to the instruments of the technical platform “Métabolisme-Métabolome” of this IFR (mainly Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometers, EA-IRMS, GC-C- IRMS, and HPLC, GC-TOF, etc).
Laboratoire IDES ESE (dependent of CNRS and in the University of Paris XI: Earth Science Laboratory with a young active group working on paleoclimates and developing strong collaborations with Tongji University.
b) Scottish research centres (http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/research/)
In association with the Department of Geosciences at UoE: the newly created Scottish Alliance for Geoscience Environment and Society programme (SAGES): SAGES is a strategic initiative which received 22 million pounds (32.5 million euros) from the Scottish government to pool world-leading expertise in geoscience from across Scotland’s research base, creating an alliance at the forefront of earth and environmental research. This initiative has lead to the creation of 13 new positions at lecturer, reader and chair level in the School of GeoScience in 2006/2007. Many of these new staff members will have an active role in PERICLES. Edinburgh University is ranked 4th in United Kingdom (after Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College) for scientific research and 38th in world. A list of the research centers involved in the PERICLES is given below. In the UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) the School’s "Earth Systems and Environmental Science" was ranked first in terms of the volume of international and world leading research.
* Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability: CECS is a dynamic research group from the environmental and rural sciences that is committed to the sustainable management and use of the World's natural resources. We bring together a wide range of expertise and technologies to address the causes and impacts of local and global environmental change. Our objective is to link the application of science to policy formulation and implementation through knowledge transfer, partnerships and joint ventures for a sustainable future. www.geos.ed.ac.uk/research/cecs/
* NERC Centre of Observation of Air-Sea Interactions and Fluxes (CASIX). Its scientific focus is on advancing the science of air-sea interactions and reducing the errors in the prediction of climate change. The primary goal is to quantify accurately the global air-sea fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2). CASIX will accelerate the exploitation of new Earth Observation satellite data to further the understanding of marine biogeochemistry in the Earth System. CASIX links NERC Centres, university groups and the Met Office to model ocean circulation and the ocean carbon cycle. http://web.pml.ac.uk/casix/
* NERC Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics (CTCD). Its aim is to solve the equations for the terrestrial carbon balance, at a variety of scales, by a combination of modelling and data. Key to improving current understanding is quantifying the uncertainties associated with such calculations and analysing how best to reduce such uncertainties. http://ctcd.group.shef.ac.uk/ctcd.html
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* NERC Data Assimilation Research Centre (DARC) whose aim is the assessment, combination and synthesis of Earth Observation data with numerical models in order to reproduce the evolution of the earth system and to forecast its behaviour. http://darc.nerc.ac.uk/
* Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage Research (SCCS). This innovative collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University with the British Geological Survey makes Edinburgh a centre of excellence for research and development in carbon capture and storage. The Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage - SCCS - builds on and extends the established world-class expertise in petroleum and hydrocarbon geoscience based on geology, geophysics, geo-engineering and subsurface fluid flow. The Centre comprises experimental and analytical facilities, expertise in field studies and modelling, and key academic and research personnel to stimulate the development of innovative solutions to carbon capture and subsuface storage and sequestration. http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/sccs/
c) Bjerkness Center (NO)
Bjerkness Center for Climate Research (BCCR): The BCCR is a joint climate research venture between the University of Bergen (UoB), the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) and the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC). The BCCR integrates around 100 observationalists and modellers in a concerted interdisciplinary research effort with the ambition to be a world-class centre on studies of high-latitude climate change. The BCCR is the largest climate research group in Norway. In 2002 it was awarded the status of a national Center of Excellence by the Research Council of Norway
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Appendix F : Research projects funded by EU in the participating institutes.
Some of the different programmes in the domain of climate changes and environment which have been supported by EU during FP4 to FP7 in the participating Institutes are given as example: ACCENT (atmospheric chemistry) ATIS (absolute chronologies in human history) CARBOAFRICA: (carbon cycles and other GHS gases in Subsaharian Africa) CARBOEUROPE IP (European carbon budget) CARBOOCEAN: (marine carbon budget) CESOP (development of paleoceanographic tools) COBO (benthic ecosystem response to human activity) E2C2: (Extreme Events) ENSEMBLES (improved model predictions & risk assess.) EPICA-MIS: (New Paleoreconstructions from Antarctic Ice and Marine Records) ESOP 1&2 (European Sub-Polar Ocean), EUCAARI (aerosol cloud climate air quality interactions) EUR-OCEANS (European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis) EUROHYDROS: (Atmospheric Hydrogen) GEMS (earth system monitoring) GEOLAND (Land cover and vegetation) GEOMON (Global earth observation and monitoring) GREENCYCLES (Biogeochemistry and Climate Change Network) HERMES: (Ecosystem Research), HYMN (Hydrogen, Methane and Nitrous oxide) ILEAPS (land ecosystems and atmospheric processes), MOEN, MOTIF(climate Feedbacks) NICE (Ice sheet and Climate Evolution) NITROEUROPE-IP (nitrogen cycle) NOCES OOMPH (Organics Particles over the ocean) PACLIVA (Holocene climate variability) PREDICATE PRISM QUANTIFY (Climate impact of Transport Systems) SCOUT (stratospheric ozone) TRACTOR THOR (Thermohaline Overturning- at Risk?, oceanography and paleoceanography) ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) MEGAPOLI (Megacities : Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation) EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification) ACQWA (Assessing Climatic change and impacts on the Quantity and quality of Water) COCOS (Coordination action Carbon Observation System) MACC (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate. A proposal for the pilot GMES atmospheric service) DOCOFO (Do forests cool the Earth? Reconciling maximum productivity and minimum climate forcing with ensembles of contrasting forest management strategies).
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Appendix G : Equivalences in grading scale between UVSQ, UiB and UoE. We have built a common understanding of the grade equivalents between the institutes common grading scale has been established between the 3 institutions is given below. It will be refined through mutual participation in the juries of the partners.
ECTS French French Bergen criteria ~Bergen Honours Edinburgh Edinburgh Grade marks grade marks Class marks grades A Excellent 18-20 Très Bien An excellent performance, clearly ~92- 1st 70-100 A outstanding. The candidate demonstrates 100% excellent judgement and a high degree of independent thinking B Very good 16-17.9 Très Bien A very good performance. The candidate ~80-92% 2:1 65-69 B demonstrates sound judgement and a very good degree of independent thinking C Good 14-15.9 Bien A good performance in most areas. The ~62-79% 2:1 60-64 B candidate demonstrates a reasonable degree of judgement and independent thinking in the most important areas D Satisfactory 12-13.9 Assez A satisfactory performance, but with ~50-62% 2:2 50-59 C Bien significant shortcomings. The candidate demonstrates a limited degree of judgement and independent thinking E Sufficient 10-11.9 Passable A performance that meets the minimum ~40-49% 3rd 40-49 D criteria, but no more. The candidate demonstrates a very limited degree of judgement and independent thinking. FX Fail < 10 Fail Fail A performance that does not meet the Fail Fail 35-39 E (Fail) minimum academic criteria. The candidate demonstrates an absence of both judgement and independent thinking F F F Fail F Fail 25-34 F (Fail) F F F Fail F Fail 0-24 G (Fail)
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Appendix H : Paper application form for Students without computer facilities (A.2.5.) Master PERICLES
“Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate, Environment and Society”
STUDENT APPLICATION FORM
Application deadline:
Please note that you must use this application form only if you have no access to internet/computer facilities
If you have access to internet, you must use the online application (http//: www.master-pericles.fr)
This form has to be written in capital letters and sent by Mail to:
PERICLES application Direction des Relations Internationales Bâtiment d'Alembert - 47, bd Vauban 78047 Guyancourt Cedex - FRANCE
Name: ______Signature: ______
I accept all the conditions requested at the present form.
Application Identification (office only):
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1. PERSONAL INFORMATION ID
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Family name (last name)
First Sex (F, M) name(s)
Date of birth Place of Country of (dd/mm/yyyy) birth birth
Nationality (-ies)
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Permanent personal address (that will be used for correspondence) in your home country (street and number, town, postal code, country; telephone, mobile) Street :
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(It is very important that we get the correct e-mail address because we will contact you mostly by e-mail. To ensure your application is duly processed, you need to check your e-mail regularly, and keep us upgraded on changes in your e-mail address.)
Two Telephone numbers (please, specify country code) Fax Tel 1:
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2. LANGUAGE SKILLS
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It is important to note that English is the Language of teaching for the master (courses, examination, master thesis). Please, be particularly accurate concerning your skills in English, the way you obtained them and the corresponding certificates (certificate of English level, certificate diploma taught in english…). Specify languages in first column. Describe your language skills under the following columns with the marks: 0=”no knowledge”, 1=“basic”, 2=“average”, 3=“advanced”. Include your mother tongue (if other than English).
Mother Reading Writing Speaking Listening Language
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Explain how you acquired your linguistic skills in languages other than your mother tongue (e.g., academic curriculum in a given language and for how long; summer internships; periods abroad for study or work; etc.)
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3. EDUCATION
Provide full records of your education to date, including high school, university degree(s) at or below BSc level, and any other higher education title (specialization, MSc, PhD, etc.). Also specify any post- graduate or training programmes you have undertaken during the last three years, even if they
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Please attach certificates (if your degree certificate is not in English or French, please upload a translation in English)
Official Name and full address Marks Rankings minimum Academic Degree obtained of Educational obtained out (out of how duration to year and date of award Institution of maximum many obtain (specify country) (e.g., 98/120) students) degree, in months
Additional education, training in industry or research centers, publications, associations, memberships, courses completed.
(Please attach certificates)
Please indicate the names and full contact addresses of the 2 academic mentors (including telephone and e-mail addresses) who wrote the two recommendation letters that you must join to your application file.
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4. EMPLOYMENT
Describe, if any, your employment and/or professional experiences. Specify also your present status (employed, unemployed, student, part-time, …)
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5. SPECIAL SKILLS
Fill in relevant skills acquired, such as computer skills. Specify and attach certificates.
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6. LETTER OF MOTIVATION
State why you are applying to the PERICLES Master course; discuss your motivations to study abroad, your professional interests and your career goals and expectations (not more than 1 page).
Date: ______Signature:
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7) SPECIAL NEEDS
Do you have a Disability/Special Needs: Yes No
This information will be treated confidentially. If you have a medical complaint or disability that require special arrangements or facilities please tell us what this is and the type of support you would require.
If you have a medical complaint or disability that require special arrangements or facilities please tell us what this is and the type of support you would require.
8. FINANCING - ERASMUS MUNDUS GRANT
Do you wish to apply for an Erasmus Mundus grant?
YES NO
Are you entitled to apply to a category A scholarship (you are not citizen from a Member State of the European Union, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Turkey, the Western Balkan countries or Switzerland and you are neither residents nor you have carried out your main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in one of these countries)?
YES NO
Are you entitled to apply to a category B scholarship (you do not fulfil the Category A criteria defined above)? YES NO
In case you are not awarded an Erasmus Mundus grant, will you be able to sustain the course fees by other means? YES NO
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9) COMMITMENT TO FULL-TIME DEDICATION
I commit to participate full-time in the Programme for the 2 years of the Master. Yes
No An 85 % of assistance is compulsory to apply for the correspondent exams.
Date Signature of applicant
10) STATEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING
• I hereby certify that to the best of my knowledge the information provided in this application and in the enclosures to this application is accurate, complete, and honestly presented. • I certify that all information submitted on my behalf, including letters of recommendation, are authentic. • I understand that I must provide any original document (certificate…) whose copy is joined to the application upon request of the consortium (during application or after acceptation of my application). • I understand and agree that any inaccurate or misleading information, as well as any omission of information, will be result in the cancellation of any offer of admission. • I agree to inform Master Secretariat immediately of any changes and amendments. I accept the responsibility for the completeness of my application. Likewise, I understand that my application and any materials submitted with my application becomes the property of “International Master in Materials and Sensors systems for Environmental Technologies” • I understand that the admission decision is final and not subject to appeal. • I understand that, if admitted to the Erasmus Mundus programme, and if my funds should at any time during my course prove to be inadequate, the Erasmus Mundus programme will not be able to provide financial assistance either by grant or by remission of fees. • I ask for my enrolment for the 2010 academic school year. In case of admission, I will respect the rules of “University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines” and of the partners’ universities of the Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate, Environment and Society in which I will study. • I certify being aware of the amount of the tuition fees.
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CHECKLIST
The following list is to help you in checking that you have fully completed the application form. Please be sure to enclose all required documents:
Signed application form filled in. Curriculum Vitae. Letter of motivation. A certified photocopy, of your highest diploma to date. Academic records from universities or any other institution of higher education attended. Two letters of recommendation, individually enclosed in envelopes, sealed and signed across the back flap of the envelope by the referee. Certificates asked along the form. Copy of identity document and/or passport.
Applications will not be reviewed until all enclosures have been received, including original test scores. Candidates are responsible for ensuring that all elements are submitted on time.
SURVEY
Please fill this short survey. It will help us to update and maintain our information.
Please indicate how you initially learned about our programme.
• Via World Wide Web
• Contact with one of the partner universities (Valencia/Stockholm/Bologna) (personal, phone, visit) (please specify)
• Via advertisements in brochures or flyers:
• Graduates of our programme
• Other (please specify)
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LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
This letter refers to the student (applicant)
Family Name: First name:
This form is filled in by the referee
Family Name: Position/Title:
University/Company:
Phone : Fax : e-mail :
Signature: Date:
Would you please indicate the circumstances and period in which you have worked with the student (lectures, practical/lab work, project or thesis supervising)? Please, inform about the abilities of the applicant in the following areas: theoretical knowledge, faculty of reasoning, work load capacity, faculty in expressing himself/herself, leadership, open-minded, reaction to difficulties or other topics that you consider important to emphasize.
Your recommendation is crucial to the admissions decision, it provides an invaluable assessment of the skills and abilities that you have had an opportunity to observe. Thank you in advance for your assistance in providing this evaluation.
Please return it, in a sealed envelope signed across the seal, to the candidate or directly to our admission office.
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LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
This letter refers to the student (applicant)
Family Name: First name:
This form is filled in by the referee
Family Name: Position/Title:
University/Company:
Phone : Fax : e-mail :
Signature: Date:
Would you please indicate the circumstances and period in which you have worked with the student (lectures, practical/lab work, project or thesis supervising)? Please, inform about the abilities of the applicant in the following areas: theoretical knowledge, faculty of reasoning, work load capacity, faculty in expressing himself/herself, leadership, open-minded, reaction to difficulties or other topics that you consider important to emphasize.
Your recommendation is crucial to the admissions decision, it provides an invaluable assessment of the skills and abilities that you have had an opportunity to observe. Thank you in advance for your assistance in providing this evaluation.
Please return it, in a sealed envelope signed across the seal, to the candidate or directly to our admission office.
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Appendix I : Project of the CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT.
Project of the CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT for the PREDOCTORAL EUROPEAN MASTER FORMATION ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY (PERICLES)
The Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), established 55 Avenue de Paris, 78000, Versailles, France, represented by Prof. Sylvie Faucheux, President, Coordinating Institution of the Consortium,
of the one part,
University of Bergen (UiB), established … , represented by …,
the University of Edinburgh (UoE), established …
, represented by …,
University of Cape Town (UCT), established … represented by…
and Tongji University (TU), established …
, represented by …,
recognized partner institutions of the consortium (the “Partners”) of the other part
HAVE AGREED to the following terms and conditions, including those in the annexes which form an integral part of this Consortium Agreement. Objective of the present Consortium Agreement
On the basis of the present Consortium Agreement the Partners shall together contribute to the achievement of the requirements of the Framework Partnership Agreement (Annexe 1). Entry into force and duration
§1. The PREDOCTORAL EUROPEAN MASTER FORMATION ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY comes into force on “insert date” and five biennial editions will be offered by the Consortium (2010-2012 – 2011-2013 – 2012-2014 – 2013-2015 – 2014-2016 courses respectively).
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§2. The present Consortium Agreement shall be valid until July the 15th, 2016, or as long as the Framework Partnership Agreement (Annexe 1) is active. It shall be renewable and modifiable by mutual agreement of the Partner institutions, and following any new proposal selected by the EACEA. All changes and modifications shall be done in writing and shall be signed by the authorised representatives of each Partner. §3. Should a Partner want to leave the agreement before the end of the Framework Partnership Agreement, this Partner shall discuss this with the Consortium and shall follow the rules stipulated in the Framework Partnership Agreement (Annexe 1). This is not the case if the Partner should leave by force majeure.
Scope and definitions
§1. The University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines is the Coordinating Institution of a Consortium of five Universities that agreed to organize an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course (EMMC) named PREDOCTORAL EUROPEAN MASTER FORMATION ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY (PERICLES), approved and funded by the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) under the Erasmus Mundus Framework programme. §2. The PERICLES Consortium is composed of three European Partners: o the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ, France), o the University of Bergen (UiB, Norvay) o the University of Edinburgh (UoE, UK) and two non European Partners: o the University of Cape Town (UCT) o the Tongji University (TU, China). §3. The activities to be developed by the Consortium, and approved by the EACEA, are fully described in the Proposal (Annexe 1). Each Partner has approved its relative contribution to the realization of the described activities in compliance with the Erasmus Mundus programme rules and policies. Any divergence from this Proposal must be approved by all the Partners and, if necessary, must be validated by the EACEA. §4. All the responsibilities related to the management of the grant allocated to the Consortium by the European Commission are formalized through a contract between the EACEA and the Coordinating Institution: the Framework Partnership Agreement (Annexe 1). Specific agreements for activities within the Erasmus Mundus II programme shall be further communicated to the Partners by the Coordinating Institution and shall be appended to this Framework Partnership Agreement. §5. The present Consortium Agreement describes the financial rules, other than specified in §4, approved by the Partners and the Coordinating Institution and summarizes the responsibilities of each Partner within the programme. §6. The PREDOCTORAL EUROPEAN MASTER FORMATION ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY (PERICLES) will welcome European (EU) and Third-Country (TC) graduate students, following the Proposal (Annexe 1) and Action 1 of Erasmus Mundus II programme. These categories are defined by the EACEA as follows: "Third-country graduate student means a national of a third country other than those from EEA-EFTA States and candidate countries for accession to the European Union; who has already obtained a first higher education degree; who is not a resident of any of the member States or the participating countries; who has not carried out his or her main activity (studies, work, etc.) for more than a total of 12 months over the last five years in any of the Member States or the participating countries; and who has been accepted to register or is registered in an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course.” "European graduate student means a national of a country from EEA-EFTA States and candidate countries for accession to the European Union; who has already obtained a first higher education degree; and who has been accepted to register or is registered in an Erasmus Mundus Masters Course.”
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Background
Article 4a) General objectives of Erasmus Mundus programme: Preamble of EACEA Framework Partnership Agreement
§1. The Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture has received delegation of powers by the Commission of the European Communities with a view to performance of tasks linked to implementation of Community programmes in the fields of education, audiovisual and culture (Decision N° xxxxxxxxx of the Commission on xx/xx/2009). The Executive Agency is responsible for implementing the actions 1 of Erasmus Mundus II programme (“the programme”). The decision establishing the programme was adopted by the European Parliament and Council on 16 December 2008 (Decision No 1298/2008/EC). §2. For the purposes of implementing the programme, the Executive Agency selects consortia composed of higher education institutions and concludes with the coordinator of each consortium, a framework partnership agreement ("the framework agreement") that will entail specific grant agreements (“the specific agreement”). §3. The Executive Agency shares with the partner common general objectives and wishes to establish with it a relationship of lasting co-operation ("the partnership"). §4. The general objectives which it shares with the partner in the above-mentioned area of activity and which justify the establishment of a partnership are the following: – to promote a quality offer in higher education with a distinct European added value, attractive both within the European Union and beyond its borders; – to encourage and enable highly qualified graduates and scholars from all over the world to obtain qualifications and/or experience in the European Union; – to develop more structured co-operation between European Union and third-country institutions and greater European Union outgoing mobility as part of European study programmes; – to improve accessibility and enhance the profile and visibility of higher education in the European Union.
Article 4b) Summary of EMMC – PREDOCTORAL EUROPEAN MASTER FORMATION ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY §1. Objectives: • to provide a high level masters teaching on mechanism and impacts of climate change. We will provide very strong bases in maths, physics, chemistry and environmental sciences and a large opening to human and social sciences in the context of climate and environmental impacts. • to attract the best students worldwide and to prepare them for doctorate/PhD research in the field of climate change and related impacts in particular in the laboratory of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course consortium or to work in public institutions or companies/organisms dealing with climate and environmental changes. • to create a worldwide academic network on climate change based on leading research institutions. This is essential considering the number of environmental, social and economical issues that have to be covered by the courses and the research projects. • to put European training at the forefront, to obtain sufficient internationally trained students to face one of the biggest societal problems in the next 50-100 years.
§2. Consortium: The "PREDOCTORAL EUROPEAN MASTER FORMATION ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY " (PERICLES) is an integrated Master Programme designed by 5 Universities with a wide-range leadership in Climate and Environment sciences: the University of Versailles Saint- Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ France, Co-ordinator), the University of Bergen (UiB, Norvay), the University of Edinburgh (UoE, UK), the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Tongji University (TU, China).. §3. Contents: The duration of the programme is 2 years (120 ECTS). PERICLES is an integrated interdisciplinary masters program with a strong quantitative approach covering the different components (ocean, atmosphere,
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biosphere, ice sheets, anthropic emissions) and approaches (physics, geochemistry, modelling, remote sensing...) of the climatic system and with a significant opening to the human dimension. It builds on the exceptional teaching and research potential of the consortium and takes advantage of the field of excellence of each university: . §4. Organisation: - Semester 1 (Versailles): Fundamentals for Earth fluid envelops, coupled climate system and the impacts of climate change. - Semester 2 (Bergen): polar processes, climate variability, data analysis and global development challenges. - Semester 3 (Edinburgh): Climate modelling, remote sensing and human dimension of climate change. - Semester 4 : 5 months research master project in one of the laboratory associated with PERICLES (UVSQ, UiB, UoE, UCT or TU). The language of teaching and examinations is English.
§5. Degree-Awarding: Multiple degrees of the universities of Versailles, Bergen and Edinburgh detailing the curriculum in a Diploma Supplement will be delivered after validation of 120 ECTS. §6. Application: PERICLES is open to excellent students with a Licence/Bachelor degree in Science such as Mathematics, Physics, Geophysics. Students with a Licence/Bachelor degree in Chemistry, Biology, Geology must have a strong motivation to use maths and physics. A good level in English, the language of teaching and examinations, is required. §7. Graduates will be well prepared for doctoral training on fundamental or applied aspects of climate sciences as well as for a wide variety of job opportunities in the public or the private sector
Structure and Organisation of the cooperation
Article 4a) General objectives of Erasmus Mundus programme: Preamble of EACEA Framework Partnership Agreement
§1. A programme coordinator of the consortium is designated by the coordinating university (UVSQ) among its academic staffs participating to the programme: Pr M. Roy-Barman
§2. Programme representatives: Each of the non-coordinating universities of the consortium (UiB, UoE, CTU and TU) designate a program representative among heir academic staffs involved in the programme (Dr Ulysses Ninnermann for UiB, Dr. M. Elliot for UoE, Prof B. Hewitson for CTU and Prof. J. Zhimin for TU).
§3. An executive board composed of the consortium coordinator (Pr M. Roy-Barman) and the programme representatives of UiB and UoE.
§4. The executive board will have authority on all decisions within the integrated program (it includes students and visiting scholars selection, determination of the target number of students for each cohorts, supervision of the choice of the research project by the students, internal and external evaluation organisation, publicity organisation, implementation of the curriculum evolution proposed by the steering committee, preparation the intermediate and final reports on the progress of the integrated programme to University authorities and to
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Erasmus Mundus). Of course the decisions/actions of the executive board are bounded by the rules of the universities and may requires the approval of the Educational Audiovisual and Cultural Executive Agency (EACEA) as indicated in the Administrative Handbook of the EACEA.
§6.The programme representatives of the University of Cape Town and Tongji University will be regularly informed of the work of the executive board (they will be on the executive board mailing list and will receive all reports). The executive board will be open to UCT and/or TU representatives (or to mandated persons) for decisions concerning directly the third country partners (research project organisation, student selection for research project in their institutions…). The UCT and TU representatives (or mandated persons) are members of the supervision committee.
§7. A supervision committee composed of: • the coordinator (UVSQ) • the programme representatives of the UoE, UiB, UCT and TU • one administrative staff representative, • 2 student representatives (one per promotion) and at least 2 external members • the external academic reviewer (see section A5.2) • a member of the economic world concerned by the climate change issue
Other competent personalities can be invited by the executive board to this committee (eg: invited scholars). At the end of each academic year (after the research project defence and jury), the supervision committee meets to discuss academic and administrative problems encountered during the year, the results of the internal and external evaluations (see section A5.A and A5.2). It proposes solutions for the problems encountered during the academic year and discuss the strategic orientations of the programme. The recommendations of the supervision committee are the basis of the future action of the executive committee. The work of the supervision committee contributes to the preparation of the final report of the programme to the Educational Audiovisual and Cultural Executive Agency that must be submitted in September.
§8. Administrative Coordination will consist of the administrative support representatives of the universities and will work under the guidance of the administrative representative of the Co-ordinator. It will provide administration support and will treat all administrative questions and problems and will be in charge of practical issues such as arrival and registration of students, administrative tasks concerning study progress, collecting the marks of students, organisation of the selection procedure, organisation of meetings of the managing bodies, communication, financial reporting and report writing. It will provide the Consortium Committee with financial information on a regular basis.
§9. Pedagogic Coordination: the pedagogic coordination between the semesters is organized by the executive board under the control of the supervising committee..
§10.: Consortium meetings: Each year, the executive board will meet in January and May for the selection of the third country students and scholars applications and in May for the selection of the European students. In June, a meeting will be organized under the responsibility of one of the University centres (on a rotating basis) at the occasion oral defences of the Master thesis coupled with the supervision committee meeting.
Responsibilities
Article 6a) Coordinating Institution §1. The Coordinating Institution has the financial responsibility of the programme. §2. The PERICLES Program Coordinator is the representative of the Coordinating Institution. He shall organize the collaboration between Partners in compliance with the Proposal (Annexe 1). He is the link between the EACEA and the Partners and shall see to the effective application of the Proposal. §3. The Coordinating Institution will provide the EACEA with all the required reports on the project evolution and its
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financial management, according to the Framework Partnership Agreement (Annexe 1). §4. The Coordinating Institution shall manage in particular the following activities: – General coordination and initiation of PERICLES programme activities in collaboration with the Partners. – Coordination of the decision taking procedure. – Creation of tools shared between the Partners (forms, guidelines …). – Payment of European grants to students and scholars involved in the PERICLES programme. – Perception of tuition fees and distribution to Partner institutions. – Partners’ information regarding the number of students continuing their studies in each institution, and the academic data necessary for their registration at each Partner: Yearly, until December the 1st. – Payments of invoices resulting from PERICLES programme general activities (except for Partners' participation, Article 8 §4), even if occurring at a Partner institution, when the Consortium has agreed on the expenses, when the costs are eligible under the Coordinating Institution criteria, reasonable, and fitting with the current budgeting of the Consortium allocation. – Banking facilities for enrolled students and scholars. – Elaboration of reports (administrative and financial) to the Consortium for each session of the PERICLES course.
Article 6b) Partners (including the Coordinating Institution) §1. The Partners shall perform and complete their share of the PERICLES Programme activities (Annexe 1) in accordance with the requirements set out in the Framework Partnership Agreement (Annexe 1). Each Partner shall carry out the work in such a way that no act or omission in relation thereto shall constitute, cause, or contribute to any breach or non-compliance by the Coordinating Institution or by other Partner of any of their respective obligations under the Framework Partnership Agreement. §2. The Partners shall provide in due time the PERICLES Coordinator with the information necessary to prepare the reports required by the EACEA (Annexe 1). The Partners shall be aware that the payment of the studenships and of the funds allocated to each Partner are subjected to the timely submission of the financial reports by the Partners to the Coordinating Institution, then by the Coordinating Institution to the EACEA. The payments of the EACEA are pre-financings: instalments account for 70% of the financing (Annexe 1). Further payment is made only when 70% of the pre-financing have been spent, and within 90 days from the submission of the financial report, if approved by the EACEA (Annexe 1). §3. When submitting invoices resulting from activities as in Article 6a §4 to the Coordinating Institution, the Partners shall meet the financial and administrative requirements of the latter. §4. Each Partner shall organize and realize the PERICLES programme activities in its own institution, and specifically: – The realization and promotion of PERICLES academic programme. – The management of the funds distributed by the Coordinating Institution: The financial administration of each Partner shall guarantee the correct use of the funding for the correct destination in compliance with Annexe 2. – Regarding the students and scholars visiting its institution, prior and during their stays: • Visa request: Each Partner shall help to obtain the documents required by its national immigration policy, by providing all the explanations and documents helpful for the applicants. • Supervision of students' and scholars' status regarding national immigration policy during their stay. • Academic admission and registration. • Assistance. • Accommodation assistance or booking.
§5. For each Partner, a Partner Coordinator, named in the Proposal (Annexe 1), shall organize and coordinate with his/her collaborator(s) the activities and the organisation of PERICLES programme in the Partner institution. He/she is the link between Partner institution and the PERICLES Coordinator. §6. The Partners are further assigned specific tasks (Annexe 1), that they shall manage and supervise in compliance with the Consortium decisions: – University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: Financial management of Consortium funds (payments, reports), Communication tools (documents for promotion and presentation, website)
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– University of Bergen: Coordination of the relations with the economic sector – University of Edinburgh: coordination of the external evaluation Funding distribution and use
§1. The EACEA, acting under powers delegated by the CEC, is funding the Consortium yearly. The funds, referenced in the Framework Partnership Agreement (Annexe 1), are paid to the Coordinating Institution, and can be summarized as follows: – Consortium allocation: Annual flat rate of 30,000 € (Fifteen thousands Euros) within the Action 1 of the Erasmus Mundus programme, to cover internal expenses of the Consortium. – Grants: studentships and scholarships within the Action1 of the Erasmus Mundus II programme, to distribute to students and scholars effectively involved in the PERICLES mobility programme. §2. The students involved in the PERICLES programme pay tuition fees. The annual rate of the latter are determined for for the academic year 2010/2011 are 7720 € for TC students and 3950 € for EU students. This fees are subject to change for each new cohorte. §3. The tuition fees shall be paid to the Coordinating Institution following the scheme attached in Annexe 2. The latter shall be updated yearly, to specify the exact financial scheme according to the number of students in each category, enrolled in successive PERICLES classes. §4. Part of the tuition fees shall be distributed between the Partners, including the Coordinating Institution, according to the following rules:
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Costs for Non EU Comments the student EU Student Student Fees UVSQ €250 €250 normal masters fees per year Fees UiB per 0 0 Nil (normal masters fees) year Fees UoE per € 5550 € 1850 normal UoE masters fees are: £4,850 per year for EU students year £14,750 per year for non EU students UoE accepts a partial tuition fee for the effective time spent by students in Edinburgh. All students will spend the 3rd semester in UoE, and ~1/3 of them will do their research project during the 4th semester. As students must pay the same fees regardless of the research project location, we charge 1/3 of a semester to all students to obtain an equivalent amount of money. Therefore, UoE charges total 1850€ per year (EU rate) or 5550€ per year (overseas rate) (subject to inflationary change in subsequent years). Insurance per €620 €550 550 € per student and per year is charged for social security and insurance coverage (see year section A4.2 for details). For non UE students, 70 extra euros are budgeted to cover the compulsory medical visit for long stay of overseas students. Teaching €600 €600 distributed equally among UVSQ and UoE to cover special teaching expenses due to Costs PERICLES programme activities (contribution to field trips, consumable for practical work, per year tutoring) Logistical €250 €250 Contribution to cover expenses resulting from the organisation of PERICLES programme costs (e.g.:, cost of attending PERICLES meetings and transportation of consortium members to per year these meetings, but not students transportation for teaching purposes). Secretarial €450 €450 Contribution towards the salary of an administrative bilingual person to assist the staff of the assistance international office on all tasks concerning students and invited scholars (student fellowships, In UVSQ scholar expenses and travels, personal problems management for both categories as visa, per year lodging, bank accounts, social insertion...) and towards the Pericles coordination activity. Totat cost for € 7720 € 3950 The difference between EU and non EU students is due to the different registration fees in student UK for EU and non EU students. per year Totat cost for €15440 €7900 for 2 years
§5. Should an enrolled student fail to participate to part or the totality the PERICLES programme and he/she is not replaced by another student, the Coordinating Institution shall have to return part or the totality of the grant to the EACEA. If clearly required by EACEA, the Partners shall renounce to the funds due, and/or shall return the corresponding funds to the Coordinating Institution, including those corresponding to Registration if the enrolled student never came to the Partner institution. §6. The subsidies of the tuition fees perceived by the Coordinating Institution together with the Consortium allocation (§1) shall cover for expenses resulting from the organization and the logistic of the PERICLES programme as follows:
– Common and shared expenses concerning the Consortium, e.g. as in Article 5b §6, or the organisation of PERICLES meetings and events, except for the Partners' participation through their Provision for Logistic (§4) unless they demonstrate the latter is insufficient, and following the approval of the Consortium. – Other expenses if approved by the Consortium and the Coordinating Institution. Liability
§1. Each Partner shall be solely liable toward the other Partners and toward third parties for loss, destruction, damage or injury resulting from its own actions in the execution of this Consortium Agreement. Notwithstanding the
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foregoing, a Partners’ aggregate liability shall be limited to once the Partner’s share of the total cost of the project, provided such damage was not caused by a wilful act or gross negligence. §2. Each Partner shall be solely liable toward the Coordinating Institution for any breach or non-compliance as described in Article 5b of the present Consortium Agreement. If the Coordinating Institution has to pay any damages or penalties to the EACEA for such breach or non-compliance by a Partner, the Coordinating Institution shall be entitled to full reimbursement from the said Partner. §3. Each Partner shall be fully responsible for the performance of any part of its share of the Consortium Agreement and for the requirements of Insurance and Social Security for its personnel, involved herein. Applicable law and Competent Court
§1. This Consortium Agreement shall in all respect be in compliance with the terms of the related Framework Partnership Agreement and Specific Agreements (Annexe 1). The settlement of any difference or conflict arising from or in connection with this Consortium Agreement shall be attempted by an amicable effort from the Partners. Only the Courts of Brussels are competent to decide on the disputes which remain unresolved. §2. The PERICLES student is bound to the rules and regulations from the Institutes / institutions at which she/he is enrolled. Banking information
§1. The Coordinating Institution shall transfer the funds to the following bank accounts (see financial identification forms in Annexe 2): Annexes
The following annexes are part of the present Agreement: Annexe 1. Framework Partnership Agreement. Specific agreements are appended, especially: “PERICLES – PREDOCTORAL EUROPEAN MASTER FORMATION ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CLIMATE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY ” (Ref. 135513-1-2008-1-FR-ERASMUS MUNDUS-EM1), the Proposal as selected by the European Commission. The latter document describes exhaustively the activities within PERICLES programme. Annexes and supplements are appended by EACEA for specific actions and partnerships. Annexe 2. Financial identification forms of the Partner institutions.
Signatures and Stamps
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UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES On behalf of the University, I agree to abide by the terms of this Consortium Agreement for the Erasmus Mundus Master programme PERICLES (Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate Environment and Society)
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UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN On behalf of the University, I agree to abide by the terms of this Consortium Agreement for the Erasmus Mundus Master programme PERICLES (Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate Environment and Society)
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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH On behalf of the University, I agree to abide by the terms of this Consortium Agreement for the Erasmus Mundus Master programme PERICLES (Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate Environment and Society)
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UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN On behalf of the University, I agree to abide by the terms of this Consortium Agreement for the Erasmus Mundus Master programme PERICLES (Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate Environment and Society)
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TONGJI UNIVERSITY On behalf of the University, I agree to abide by the terms of this Consortium Agreement for the Erasmus Mundus Master programme PERICLES (Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate Environment and Society)
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Appendix I : Project of Student Agreement.
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Project of Student agreement for the PERICLES Masters programme
Rights and obligations ensuing to the award contract The consortium’s relationship to its scholarship-holders is based on support and partnership. Nevertheless, there do have to be some regulations for the correct and effective use of public scholarship funds. Therefore, the award contract comprises details of legal relationship between you and us and our respective rights and obligations. Please read the following information carefully and take note of the content.
§1. The University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, established in 55 Avenue de Paris, 78000 Versailles, France, Coordinating Institution of the Erasmus Mundus Master course PERICLES (Predoctoral European master foRmation on Interactions between Climate Environment and Society), represented by Prof. Matthieu Roy-Barman, Coordinator
of the one part,
Name: First name: Date of birth: Place of birth: Nationality:
, the scholarship-holder, of the other part, HAVE AGREED to the following terms and conditions.
§2. The scholarship-holder hereby commits him/herself on his or her honour to duly attend the PERICLES programme and attend the prescribed courses, practical work, research project and examinations to the best of her/his ability.
§3. ● In case of non-attendance i) that the scholarship-holder cannot justify with medical certificates, ii) for which permission has not been granted by the PERICLES staff (to ensure permission, the scholarship-holder shall preferably ask in advance), ● If the scholarship-holder fails to validate a year of study,
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● the scholarship-holder’s behaviour is such as to make it obvious, that little or no efforts have been made to realize the scholarship aim;
● If the scholarship-holder is the subject of disciplinary measures leading to his/her exclusion from the PERICLES Partner Universities, ● If the scholarship-holder is the subject of legal prosecutions that prevent him/her attending the PERICLES programme, ● If the scholarship-holder withdraws from the PERICLES programme, on his/her own decision or by force majeure, ● If the requirements for awarding the funds were not met at the outset or were subsequently disregarded; ● if the scholarship-holder has deliberately given false or incomplete information regarding important facts or has omitted necessary facts relevant to the scholarship;
The scholarship-holder understands that he/she shall be excluded from the PERICLES Master.
§4. In such an event, the scholarship-holder hereby makes a commitment on his/her honour to reimburse the PERICLES Coordinating Institution (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin- en-Yvelines, France) the portion of the the grant (monthly and fixed amount) allocated to him/her that he/she has received and which exceed their actual insofar incurred expenditure (i.e. based on the number of months attended/completed, and/or a copy of the "return ticket")
§5. Upon exclusion, the scholarship-holder shall in due time and before his/her departure pay for the following: ● the rent of his/her accommodation, for the month of the day of his/her exclusion, ● the bank fees corresponding to his/her accommodation insurance, for the month of the day of his/her exclusion, ● the remaining tuition fees for the PERICLES programme: tuition fees amount to € 7900 per year for non European scholarship-holders or € 3950 per year for European scholarship- holders.
§6. The consortium is entitled to reclaim scholarship funds which have already been paid out, if the following occurs: ● the funds have not been used in accordance with their intended purpose; ● the requirements for awarding the funds were not met at the outset or were subsequently disregarded; ● the scholarship-holder has deliberately given false or incomplete information regarding important facts or has omitted necessary facts relevant to the scholarship; ● the scholarship-holder’s behaviour is such as to make it obvious, that little or no efforts have been made to realize the scholarship aim; ● the scholarship-holder her/himself cancels the scholarship without giving sufficient reasons (e.g. serious illness or unforeseeable circumstances) justifying such a cancellation;
The scholarship-holder understands that he/she shall be excluded from the PERICLES
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Master.
Before any of the above measures are implemented, the consortium will, as far as possible, give the scholarship-holder the opportunity to present his/her case and will endeavour to reach an amicable settlement.
Further Conditions • The scholarship-holder allows the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to deduct directly the tuitions fees from his/her scholarship.
• The scholarship-holder is obliged to inform the consortium in writing on his/her travel dates and the arrival date at the host institution. • The scholarship-holder is obliged to inform the consortium in advance of any facts or alterations which are relevant to the conditions on which the award is based. • The scholarship-holder is financially responsible for: o Travel to and from the institutions they are attending during the length of the programme. o Books, stationery, etc. o Travel documentation, visas, etc. o Travel, accommodation, and living expenses. o Student Association/General Services Charges.
• The scholarship holder is obliged to fill evaluation forms and to write reports upon request of the consortium. The report may concern the attended courses, the implementation of the research project. The consortium might use a specific form to be followed when requiring the report. Information of the report may be transferred to the European Commission on request. • All personal data relevant to the study/research period funded by the European Union scholarship may be transferred to the European Commission • Scholarship holders are required to inform the consortium’s office at the Versailles on any change of the private personal address, phone and email-address which will be entered in the mailing list. • The scholarship holder is obliged to include the following text in all communications and publications resulting from the scholarship stay: “Supported by the Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Union”.
Undertakings given by the consortium ● The consortium accords the scholarship-holder the financial support itemized in the Letter of Award. Within the range of its possibilities the consortium will also endeavour to advise, assist, and support scholarship-holders in matters of non-financial nature pertaining to their stay in the host-country during the award period.
● The scholarship-holder who obtain the total of 120 ECTS after the 4 semesters of PERICLES will be given multiple degrees which include the following existing diplomas: o “Master Sciences de l’Environnement, du Territoire et de la Société (SETE), spécialité « Interactions Climat Environnement.et télédétection » for UVSQ, o “Master of Earth Science for UiB
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o Master of Sciences for UoE
University of Cape Town and Tongji University will not deliver the diploma.
If you have a problem: Contact the consortium representative of the host university and the consortium coordinator at UVSQ.
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Declaration of acceptance (to be sent back immediately after the receipt of the letter of award) I hereby declare that I have carefully read and understood the rights and obligations ensuing to the award contract and that I observe the conditions of scholarship.
______Date______Place______Signature Please fill in the following fields: Surname: ______First Name: ______Date of birth: ______Nationality: ______Address: ______Street/street number: ______Postcode: ______Town: ______Country: ______Email: ______
For the PERICLES consortium
______Date______Place______Prof. Matthieu Roy-Barman
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The declaration of acceptance form must be signed and returned via mail (do not e-mail, we need an original document) to: Direction des Relations Internationales Bâtiment d'Alembert - 47, bd Vauban 78047 Guyancourt Cedex - FRANCE
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