Habitable Planet Workshop at CPUT

The workshop uses South Africa’s magnificent physical environments to introduce 3rd and 4th year students(from a diverse range of fields from mathematics/ natural sciences to sociology / law) to the concept of Earth System Science.
What Workshop
When 2011-12-05 08:00to
2011-12-15 17:00
Where Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Contact Name Dr Carl Palmer
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The Applied Centre for Climate and Earth System Science (ACCESS) will be hosting a workshop on the 5th – 15th December 2011 through the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The workshop will focus on the evolution of Planet Earth’s glorious diversity of flora and fauna and the conditions required to maintain these favourable environments. The favourable conditions depend on the interactions between the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans and solid Earth including phenomena such as El Nino, La Nina, the circulations of the atmosphere and oceans, the drifting of the continents and the ice ages. The course will include a focus on human-environment relationships, both in the distant past and present, to investigate the impact future global warming and climate change may have.
Funding is available to cover the travel and accommodation costs of all successful applicants.
Application closing date: 17th October 2011
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