The IUGG General Assembly 2023 will take place in Berlin (Germany) from 11–20th of July. We have planned a number of activities during or attached to the IUGG that are related to heat flow education and science. Amongst these activities are:
Content and Objectives: The heat flow summer school is aiming to provide comprehensive training on heat-flow determination and evaluation with particular reference to early-career scientists, young researchers, and encouraged students with pretensions to focus on this topic in their future career. The basic idea is to give opportunities to be trained on techniques of heat-flow determination and to extend the network of researchers interested in heat flow and related research topics. The participants will be involved in discussions and working groups and they will learn tools to resolve challenges in their daily work on heat-flow research. The summer school will comprise lectures, short talks, different discussion formats, and interactive group activities. We also intend to stimulate the participants to engage with institutions and the public in their home countries to improve science awareness on heat flow, help to develop informed opinions, and enhance the transferable skills of scientists.
What to expect
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Overview of detailed topics.
Application/Registration: The summer school is free of charge but registration is mandatory. Catering during the week, accommodation in Potsdam/Berlin, and local travel expenses are provided. Apply now! The deadline for applications to the summer school is March 15, 2023.
Who can apply?
How to apply?
Travel grants and how to apply for
Partial travel grants upon request are also provided.
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How we decide ???
Candidates to the heatflow.summerschool are selected by two criteria:
Once the application is received, it is carefully examined by our staff. They check whether it fulfills the formal requirements and evaluate it according to the criteria listed above. The deadline for applications is March 15. We will inform the applicants latest April 01.
FAQ
Which nationalities are supported?
We support researchers from across the world. Currently, there are limitations to colleagues with affiliations from Russia and Belorussia. Please contact us if you are unsure whether you are eligible to apply.
Content and Objectives: The Antarctic workshop, following the summer school event, covers geothermal heat flow (GHF) affecting the ice sheet temperature, determining how it slides and internally deforms, as well as the rheological behavior of the lithosphere. GHF remains poorly constrained and there are large discrepancies in currently available glaciological and geophysical estimates. The workshop details on current methods and discusses their challenges and limitations and recommends key future directions in GHF research.
What to expect
Registration: Registration form!
Contact Information: Florian Neumann (fneu@gfz-potsdam.de) Location: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam. Building: A69 (Geoenergy) Room: Z01 Days: From July 08th – July 09th Organizer: Tobias Stål (University of Tasmania)
Workshop lead
Tobias Stål received a PhD in Geophysics in 2021 and is presently a postdoc research fellow at the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Studies (ACEAS) at the University of Tasmania. He is research is related on problems to ice/sold Earth interactions in Antarctica, including subglacial geothermal heat and explores computational and statistical methods to study Antarctica’s deep and shallow structure and properties. Furthermore he works on an Antarctic rock sample database (PetroChron), assuring quality control and updating the database structure and workflow. Tobias is co-chairing the SCAR INSTANT subcommittee for Antarctic geothermal heat and is leading the ACEAS workgroup for remote instrumentation. He has experience in coordinating and conducting remote fieldwork in the high Arctic and Antarctica, including seismic and GNSS deployment and geological mapping.
Selected publications:
- Stål, T., Reading, A. M., Fuchs, S., Halpin, J. A., Lösing, M., & Turner, R. J. (2022). Properties and biases of the global heat flow compilation. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10(August), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.963525.
- Reading, A. M., Stål, T., Halpin, J. A., Lösing, M., Ebbing, J., Shen, W., McCormack, F. S., Siddoway, C. S., & Hasterok, D. (2022). Antarctic geothermal heat flow and its implications for tectonics and ice sheets. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00348-y.
- Stål, T., Reading, A. M., Halpin, J. A., and Whittaker, J. M. (2021). Antarctic Geothermal Heat Flow Model: Aq1. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009428.
Content and Objectives:
The heat-flow workshop will play a fundamental role in completing the summer school training program. The activities will be focused on the Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project, which the IHFC started in 2021 and strategies for collaboration and developing projects to fill data gaps, in particular in Africa, and South- and Central America. The reasons for such target regions are: 1) the coverage and the overall quality of heat flow data is poor and 2) there are only a few heat-flow researchers active in these regions.
What to expect
Registration: Registration form!
Contact Information: Florian Neumann (fneu@gfz-potsdam.de) Location: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam. Building: A69 (Geoenergy) Room: Z01 Days: From July 10th – July 11th
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The above mentioned activities are sponsored by: