Welcome to the symposium and PhD course:
“Grand Challenges in Ecology- where are we heading?”
Symposium, workshop and course (1.5 HEC)
1-2 December 2016
Symposium Program
December 1, 9:00 to 16:00 in the lecture hall Loftet at SLU, campus Ultuna.
The open symposium aims to describe modern ecological challenges – and to stimulate discussion of how current PhD students, as the next generation of ecologists, can contribute to addressing them.
During the day three renowned young researchers: Prof. Elizabeth Crone (Tuft University, USA), Prof. Anna Gårdmark (SLU, Öregrund, Sweden) and Prof. Jason Tylianakis (University of Cantebury, New Zealand), will present their perspectives on what they regard interesting and important research questions emerging in our field.
After their presentations Prof. Peter Hambäck (Stockholm University) and Prof. Erik Westholm (SLU and Dalarna University) will join the invited speakers and the audience in a discussion about how to identify and address crucial ecological questions and what these may implicate for the the direction of our field. In the evening you are invited to the symposium dinner.
Workshop and course
December 2, 9:00 -16:00 at Work & Meet, campus Ultuna.
Together with the invited speakers from the symposium the workshop participants will discuss the symposium theme and propose questions to be asked and projects to pursue if resources were plentiful. Participants are expected to prepare individual short oral presentations, outlining their own ideas and topics to be addressed by future ecology. In the end of the day participants will team up to write a short (simplified) grant proposal for a hypothetical research project.
The course includes particpation in both the symposium and the workshop. For more information confer attached course plan and syllabus!
Register for the course asap or no later than Monday November 21 by sending an e-mail to Jonas Josefsson (jonas.josefsson@slu.se ). Please also indicate if you are coming to the symposium dinner.
If you have questions concerning the course: do not hesitate to contact the course organizers: Erik Öckinger (erik.ockinger@slu.se ), Helena Bylund (helena.bylund@slu.se) and Jonas Josefsson (jonas.josefsson@slu.se ).
Course description:
