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The Summer School is designed to teach students about Boundary Layer Research with Aircraft instruments. It will take place in Iasi, Romania from 10th to 20th July.

The successful applicants will have the opportunity to gain hands on experience with state of the art instrumentation and data analysis and interpretation of aircraft data sets. Further information can be found on the EUFAR web site and the attached PDF flyer.

N-2007 Agriculture, Development, and Nitrogen A problem of too little or too much

The last 40 years have seen an extraordinary change in the global nitrogen cycle. As recently as the 1960s, nitrogen availability on Earth was controlled by natural processes, but the human creation of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and the release of nitrogen from fossil-fuel combustion now match the natural rate of formation of reactive nitrogen on the planet’s landscape.
The use of nitrogen is imbalanced, with industrialized countries suffering pollution problems from too much nitrogen and low-income countries having a shortage of nitrogen that constrains food production. The goal of the N2007 Symposium is to address these two challenges in an integrated manner. The meeting will bring together some of the world’s best nitrogen scientists with development experts to build a new agenda towards a sustainable use of nitrogen in our planet.

A Summer School on Surface emissions and prediction of atmospheric composition changes is organised by ESF-ACCENT-CNRS-GEIA in Ile d'Oléron, France from September 11-20, 2007.

More information can be found at http://www.geiacenter.org/

The 23rd congress of the Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists (NJF) will take place in Copenhagen on 26 to 29 June 2007.

International Congress on Modelling and Simulation

Land, Water and Environmental Management: Integrated Systems for Sustainability

On 19, 20 and 21 March 2007, Wageningen UR (The Netherlands) and the University of Kiel (Germany) organize the International Conference on Ammonia in Agriculture: Policy, Science, Control and Implementation. It addresses ammonia in agriculture in a broad sense; from the policy on ammonia inventory and abatement in different world regions to measuring methods and mitigation strategies.

The Conference is held in Conference Centre "De Reehorst", Ede, The Netherlands. Hotel accommodation is available at the Conference Centre (approx. 80 rooms) and at the Wageningen International Conference Centre (WICC) in Wageningen (approx. 200 beds).

Read more here: http://www.firstammoniaconference.wur.nl/ <

The issues of concern at the 1st International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories, held September 24-25, 2004, in Warsaw, Poland, rooted in the level of confidence with which national emission assessments can be performed, as well as the management of uncertainty and its role in developing informed policy. The 1st Workshop covered state-of-the-art research and developments in accounting, verifying and trading of GHG emissions and provided a multidisciplinary forum for international experts to address the methodological uncertainties underlying these activities. The topics of interest covered national GHG emission inventories, bottom-up versus top-down emission analyses, signal processing and detection, verification and compliance, and emission trading schemes.

The UNECE Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling (TFIAM) will meet from May 2-4 2007 in Prague (CZ). A main part of the work in this meeting will focus on the review of the Gothenburg Protocol.

Many aspects of our planet are changing rapidly due to human activity. Over the last 50 years, humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in other comparable period of time. All these changes, including climate change, land use change, pollution and biodiversity loss are strongly interrelated and cannot be seen in isolation. Because their impacts influence the entire planet, the combined changes are commonly recognized as global environmental change. This summer school will focus on how global change affects principal processes, compartments, interactions of the earth system. The summer school will combine general principles of earth system science with cutting-edge scientific insights. Specific topics that will be covered include:

• Global change observations and trends
• Earth system compartment interactions
• Complex systems and resilience
• Scenarios and modeling potential impacts
• Uncertainty, and communication

The next General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2007) will be held again at the congress centre: Austria Centre Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, from 15 to 20 April 2007.

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