Satellite Remote Sensing Training Course for Biological Oceanographers, Cornell University, May 30 - June 13, 2008 A two-week training course is being offered in early summer to those who have modest or no prior experience with satellite remote sensing techniques. The course is methods oriented and intended to give participants the practical skills needed to work independently to acquire, analyze and visualize data derived from the SeaWiFS and MODIS missions. The course will include, to a lesser extent, instruction on working with data from other ocean satellite sensors (e.g., AVHRR, SeaWinds and Topex/Jason/ERS1-2). The course will focus a lot of attention on developing IDL programming skills and using SeaDAS. For more information about the course and application instructions: visit:http://www.geo.cornell.edu/ocean/satellite or contact Bruce Monger at: bcm3@cornell.edu Bruce Monger, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 2136 Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 Phone: 607-227-2972 Satellite Oceanography Summer School 2008, 3 - 23 August 2008. Department of Physical Oceanography and Department of Biological Oceanography Oceans Division at CICESE Ensenada B. C., México. An advanced international training course for the series Satellite Oceanography Summer Schools (1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006), will focus mainly on extreme events (not limited) to the coastal ocean and the relevant processes in the vicinity of the interface between the two most important sub-systems in our planet, the ocean and the atmosphere. For further information please see Announcement.

	Other Fellowships and Scholarships

2008 POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowships for Oceanographic Observations The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) and its partner, the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) announce the Fellowship Program for 2008. This program is designed to promote training and capacity building leading towards a global observation scheme for the oceans. The fellowship program is open to scientists, technicians, graduate students (PhD) and Post Doctoral Fellows involved in oceanographic work at centres in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. The fellowship provides airfare and a stipend for living expenses for up to three months. Deadline for application is April 15, 2008. More information and the application form is available on the POGO website http://www.ocean-partners.org/POGO_SCOR_Fellowships.htm Prospective host scientists are asked to contact POGO Secretariat so that we can provide contact information for applicants. Contact for POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowships 2008: Liz Humphreys, Email pogo@mba.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0)1752 633 234, Fax: +44 (0)1752 633 102 Special POGO-SCOR Fellowship for On-board Training on an Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Cruise. Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in a six-week cruise as well as one-month advance preparation and two-months post cruise analyses based at Plymouth Marine Laboratory. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to visit Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), in the UK, for one month prior to the start of the cruise to participate in cruise preparation and planning; to go on the cruise (5 October – 12 November 2008) and help make hydrological, bio-optical and ecological observations; and after the cruise to spend two additional months at PML, learning to analyse the results statistically and interpret them. Total period of Fellowship: 05 September 2008 – 12 January 2009. Candidates should be available to participate for the full period. The fellowship provides airfare and a stipend for living expenses for up to three months stay in the UK before and after the cruise; the flight back from the Falklands; accommodation in the Falklands (on leaving ship); accommodation in UK (to join ship); ship messing fee; seafaring medical and sea survival course. Deadline for application is June 15, 2008. Back | Training & Education | Home