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Summer schools

Laboratory The operation of summer schools will increase the potential scientific capacity and provide an opportunity for experienced scientists from all disciplines to meet. The schools will target members of the research community, in the wide sense, primarily postgraduate students and young researchers.

The goal is to give the opportunity to understand, based on existing knowledge, how the Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems are functioning and how their goods and services can be sustained under different scenarios. Each summer school will consist of an intensive series of lectures, laboratory and discussion sessions, and its duration will not exceed 10 days. Library and computer facilities will also be available.

Two summer schools, one in the Black Sea and one in the Mediterranean, have been planned for the duration of the project. The first summer school will take place in Varna and the next one in Malta.

SESAME's Second Summer School

SESAME’s Second Summer School on ‘Coupled Ecological Modelling’ was successfully completed at the Sundown Courts in Kappara, Malta, from 8 – 13 June 2009. For more information, please click here.

The course was hosted by the Physical Oceanography Unit of the IOI-Malta Operational Centre at the University of Malta. The event was co-organised with the Black Sea Commission and CIESM and sponsored by MathWorks Inc., a leading developer and supplier of software for technical computing and Model-Based Design, who provided MATLAB software for SESAME's second summer school.

The school offered participants theoretical and practical background on numerical models simulating the dynamics of the marine ecosystem, and the physical-biological interactions. It provided the theoretical concepts leading to the parameterisation of marine ecological/biogeochemical processes (primary, microbial, secondary production, predation/grazing, nutrient cycling) and to their translation into algorithms suitable for numerical simulations in a coupled physical/ecological framework. The summer school consisted of an intensive series of lectures, laboratory and discussion sessions. Thus, theoretical background was translated in practical information through the description of state-of-the-art numerical marine ecosystem models, and through hand-on sessions that gave participants the opportunity to start practising the use of such models, using simple test cases.

The Summer School was open to young researchers and PhD students, with a biological and/or physical oceanography background, willing to expand their field of interest. The course was limited to 20 participants.

All the applications for SESAME's Second Summer School were received and considered, and and the successful applicants were selected. The table below shows the successful applicants who took part in the course.

SESAME Malta Summer Course 09
Name	Contact	Country	Total Applicants
Eleonora Radoslavova Racheva	ainsteim@abv.bg tel: + 359886495246 fax: + 35952370485	Bulgaria	1
Lionel Eisenhauer	lionel.eisenhauer@univmed.fr tel: + 330491041644 fax: + 330491041643	France	2
Adi Nugraha	nugraha@univ-brest.fr tel: + 33298498783	France	2
Emanuela Clementi	e.clementi@sincem.unibo.it tel: + 393470688249	Italy	3
Gelsomina Mattia	g.mattia@sincem.unibo.it tel: + 390544937370 fax: + 390544937370	Italy
Tiziana Peluso	tiziana.peluso@sp.ismar.cnr.it tel: + 390187978316	Italy
Raisa Tarasova	dmitrachkova@rambler.ru tel: + 78512331650 fax: + 78512301163	Russia	2
Vera V. Sorokina	sorokina@mmbi.krinc.ru tel: + 78632509805 fax: + 78632665677	Russia	2
David Costalago	costalago@icm.csic.es tel: + 34600037979 fax: + 34932309555	Spain	3
Eduardo Ramirez Romero	eduardo.ramirez@uca.es tel: + 34625828768 fax: + 34956016019	Spain
Mariona Claret	mclaret@cmima.csic.es tel: + 34932309524 fax: + 34932309555	Spain
Lars Jonasson	laj@dmi.dk tel: + 4539157261 fax: + 4539157300	Sweden	1
Béchir Béjaoui	bejaoui.bechir@instm.rnrt.tn tel: + 21671730420 fax: + 21671732622	Tunis	1
Ceren Guraslan	ceren@ims.metu.edu.tr tel: + 905366871412	Turkey	2
Ekin Akoglu	ekin@ims.metu.edu.tr tel: + 905065540390 fax: + 903245212327	Turkey	2
Yevgen Gazyetov	gazetov@gmail.com tel: + 380487237338 fax: + 380487237338	Ukraine	1
Dr. Alan Deidun	alan.deidun@um.edu.mt tel: +35625907403	Malta	2
Ms. Carmen Mifsud	carmen.mifsud@mepa.org.mt tel: +35622907103	Malta	2
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SESAME's First Summer School

SESAME's first summer school on 'Statistical Analysis of Biological data and Times-Series' was successfully completed from 21 July-1 August 2008 in Varna, Bulgaria. For more information please click here.

A call for topic suggestions of the first summer school was opened in late 2007 and they have now been decided, together with the venues and dates. Information regarding the second summer school in Malta will become available later in the year.

SESAME's first summer school on 'Statistical Analysis of Biological data and Times-Series' was successfully completed from 21 July-1 August 2008 in Varna, Bulgaria. From a total of 42 applications, 22 successful applicants were selected. You may view the list of successful applicants here.

For more information please download the relevant document and the summer school agenda.

SESAME's Summer School Presentations

Download SESAME's First Summer School Presentations
Download SESAME's Second Summer School Presentations