Austral Summer Institute XIV (ASI XIV)

The Department of Oceanography and the COPAS Sur-Austral Program of the University of Concepcion, Chile, announce the Austral Summer Institute XIV (ASI XIV) to be held in January 2014 at the Main Campus in Concepción and at the Experimental Laboratory of Marine Biology in Dichato.

ASI XIV will be devoted to Coastal and Open Ocean Studies Through Multiple Approaches, and consists of the following courses:

• Multi-disciplinary satellite oceanography: platforms, data and applications

  6-10 January 2014

  Andrew Thomas, University of Maine, United States

• Changing biogeochemical cycles in the coastal ocean

  6-10 January 2014

  Kay-Christian Emeis, Institute of Coastal Research & University of Hamburg, Germany

• Ecology and Diversity of Marine Microorganisms (ECODIM VIII)

  6-25 January 2014

  Rodrigo De la Iglesia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
  Kurt Hanselmann, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  Matthew Sullivan, University of Arizona, United States
  Nicole Trefault, Universidad Mayor, Chile
  Osvaldo Ulloa, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
  Ger van den Engh, BD BioSciences, United States
  Daniel Vaulot, Station Biologique de Roscoff (CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie), France

• Fluvial and glacial sediments impacting coastal ocean processes: an interdisciplinary perspective

  13-17 January 2014

  Charles Nittrouer, University of Washington, United States