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Newsletter February 2024
16 February 2024 |
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| Upcoming courses and discussion groups |
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Big data exploration and object-oriented programming with Python |26 February - 01 March 2024
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| Python is a dynamic, readable language that is a popular platform fit for executing different kinds of numerical problems, from simple one-off scripts to large, complex software projects. This workshop is aimed at people who already have a basic knowledge of Python and are interested in using the language to explore and visualize large datasets and write more complex programs using object-oriented programming techniques. |
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Grasping sustainability: Connecting your research for wider impact | 04-08 March 2024, Wageningen
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| To date, many different scientific concepts and approaches of sustainability exist. What are the differences and what do they entail? What is your role as a scientist in achieving sustainable development? How can you apply sustainability in your own research? And in doing so, how can you deal with facts, uncertainty, values and opinions? This course will enable you to think about the ‘bigger picture’, grasp sustainability and to apply concepts and approaches to your own research, in a collaborative learning environment. To ensure that the content of the course is aligned to your own research, the content of the course will also be determined by the research topics of the participants. |
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Image Processing with Python 11-14 March 2024, Amsterdam |
In this workshop participants will use Python to understand and manipulate images.
This is a Data Carpentry workshop that will teach you to about digital images and how to analyze them using code. The workshop will cover the basics of digital images, manipulation with Python, and the scikit-image (skimage) library. Both deeper image understanding and automation of image processing tasks will be covered.
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Crop Modelling and Climate Change: Training the Next Generation of Crop Modelers for Crop Model Development and Improvement | 10-15 March 2024, Ede
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| In this age of artificial intelligence models, mechanistic crop growth models are more important than ever. Plant and crop growth simulation models are now a basic tool for many researchers. Yet, there is a shortage of model developers, scientists with knowledge about underlying mechanistic processes and skills to transform this knowledge into scientific equations and sound models. Such modelling skills are highly demanded in the labour market. There is, therefore, an urgent need to train the next generation of scientists on the further development of dynamic crop simulation models. This post-graduate course focusses on just that. Crop models refer to models that deal with crops, contrasting with e.g. virtual plant models that are focussing on interactions between individual plants. Together with international senior scientists in crop modelling, participants will take up the challenge to acquaint themselves with the process of crop modelling and to develop new insights to strengthen current crop models. |
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Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution 18 March - 30 June 2024, Groningen |
| Mathematical models have become an indispensable tool in ecology and evolutionary biology, to the point that aspiring scientists in these fields must have a working knowledge of basic mathematical modeling techniques. This course teaches such techniques practically from scratch, without requiring much background knowledge except elementary high school algebra and a little calculus. |
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Biocatalysis and Protein Engineering 8-12 April 2024, Delft |
| The Advanced Course Biocatalysis aims to familiarize participants with the integrated, interdisciplinary approach required to utilize the catalytic potential of enzymes and whole cells for the production of useful compounds. Organic chemists, enzymologists, microbiologists and (bio)chemical engineers from the faculty staff of Delft University of Technology and other universities, together with invited international experts from industry, will offer a selection of theory and practice. In this way, the course will provide an intensive and in-depth treatment of the state of the art and the necessary link between fundamental knowledge and practical applications in industrial scale processes. |
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Highlight of later courses |
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| In case you are interested in either participating or teaching a course that is currently not in the programme, please do not hesitate and contact us with your suggestions. |
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| Upcoming Events |
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Webinar Series January: Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change within the context of agriculture and forestry | 29 February 2024 |
We would like to invite you to join the webinar series
Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change within the context of agriculture
jointly organised by WIMEK WUR (NL) and Walailak University (Thailand).
29th February 2024 09:00-10:30 (NL/CET), 15:00-16:30 (Thailand/ICT)
Carbon sequestration
- Dr Mathilde Hagens: Co-benefits and trade-offs of agricultural
soil carbon sequestration
- Dr Ingrid Luijkx: The global carbon budget: land use change and
carbon sequestration in tropical areas
- Prof. Dr Guido van der Werf: The role of landscape fires in the
global carbon cycle, and potential fire emission mitigation options
- Prof. Dr Anchana Prathep (Prince of Songkhla University):
Blue carbon assessment of seagrass and mangrove ecosystem
Register here or join the webinar directly here
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| Aqua Nederland 2024, 19-22 March 2024, Gorinchem |
Aqua Nederland is the event of the Netherlands in the field of wastewater, drinking water, process water and urban water & sewage management. During Aqua Nederland the supply and demand of water technology, water management services and knowledge products are brought together.
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| ISEC 2024- Conference for Renewable Heating and Cooling in Integrated Urban and Industrial Energy Systems 9-11 April 2024 Graz, Austria |
The focus of ISEC 2024 will be on how we can achieve energy sovereignty within a time horizon dictated by climate change and defined by politics. Global solutions such as the transformation of our economic system towards a sustainable circular economy, the complete phase-out of fossil fuels, the implementation of sector coupling and energy storage systems as well as the smart electrification of the energy supply will be the focus of the presentations and discussions.
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| Competences for Transition- EWUU alliance + CUCo 24 April 2024 |
| Transitions are messy. Embracing the uncertain and sometimes chaotic nature of transitions, we discover the importance of developing new skills and competences. In this track, CUCo and the EWUU alliance Education Programme invite you on an experiential journey. Let’s explore together how to learn, enhance, and apply future competences in our daily work. This track is part of the annual EWUU alliance conference 2024. This years’ theme is ‘Navigation Transitions’. Please find the full programme here. |
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| Reinventing the city; Scientific Conference AMS Institute 23-25 April 2024 |
Join us for the Reinventing the City conference, where we will explore sustainable urban transformations on a metropolitan scale. Scientists, policymakers, students, and industry partners will come together to share insights, inspire action, and shape the future of our cities
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| WCSG Conference 2024 Governing sustainability transformations 16-17 Oktober 2024 |
Transformation of society and sustainability governance requires significant
reordering: one that changes existing drivers and structures to drive change
towards fundamentally novel systems. During the conference we focus on the
central question, can sustainability transformation be governed? And if so by
whom, what and how? For more information, go here.
Deadline for papers and posters call: 1-4-2024
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| Upcoming PhD graduations |
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| Overview of PhD graduations February and March 2024 |
- Dianneke van Wijk
Towards smart nutrient retention networks to improve water quality: perspectives, theories and tools
20 February, 2024, Wageningen University
- Fee Smulders
How herbivores shape the seascape
1 March, 2024, Wageningen University
- Ivonne Servin Balderas
A carbon transition as a pre-requisite for a smooth and rapid energy transition
5 March, 2024, Wageningen University
- Max Tesselaar
The social security for climate change risks
7 March, 2024, VU University Institute for Environmental Studies
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