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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI" style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Hei, <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">Olettehan huomanneet uuden maisteritason monitieteisen intensiivikurssin Oulangan tutkimusasemalla.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">Kurssi sisältää myös hydrologiaa etenkin lumen prosessien osalta ja antaa hyvän pohjan monitieteiselle ympäristön tutkimukselle.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI">t. Hannu <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">New multidisciplinary winter field course is now open for registration until
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">15.01.2024!</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">754653S Winters under pressure: life in a changing cold environment</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5496"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">This course will form an introduction to a wide range of biological organisms and ecosystem processes that in different ways are active even during winter in northern terrestrial and freshwater
environments. It will study microbial activity in streams, soils, and groundwater, below the snow and ice. The snow and ice structure and function as a controlling factor for microbial activity as well as for grazing animals will be a focus. The microbial
activity is linked to greenhouse gas (CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub>) exchange between the ecosystems and the atmosphere, and the students will also be introduced to measurements of these activities and gas exchange as well as modeling approaches aimed
at scaling up greenhouse gas exchanges to a larger scale. It is all to be discussed in the light of ongoing climate change with winters warming and extreme events happening more frequently with episodic thaw-freeze events in the middle of the winter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">The course will be a mixture of lectures and excursions which will end with a group-based project work where the students get exposed to working in the field under challenging winter conditions
and present their own results based on the data collected during the course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Dates: 24 February – 2 March 2024 (effective course dates 25 Feb – 2 March) at Oulanka Research Station.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Teachers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">-Kaisa-Riikka Mustonen (topic: carbon-water interactions in aquatic environments, microbial abundance and activity)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">-Torben R. Christensen (topic: biogeochemistry, flux measurements, carbon balance and methane emissions)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">-Tamara Hiltunen (topic snow/grazing reindeer interactions)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">-Mikhail Mastepanov (topic, gas flux measurements)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">-Shaakir Dar (topic: snow properties, isotopes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">-Efrén López-Blanco (topic: ecosystem modeling)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI" style="font-size:12.0pt">Also: Riku Paavola, Vesa-Matti Kleemola & Juho Lämsä<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FI" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Registration is open between 8.12.2023- 15.1.2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Max 25 students will be selected for the course and master level students will be preferred over bachelors.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Please also send max 200-word motivation letter to
<a href="mailto:kaisa.mustonen@oulu.fi">kaisa.mustonen@oulu.fi</a>, which answers at least to the following 2 questions: 1. Why did you apply for this course? 2. Why should you be selected for the course?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">More information from
<a href="mailto:kaisa.mustonen@oulu.fi">kaisa.mustonen@oulu.fi</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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