BOKU Summer School on Soils and Global Change

6 - 13 July 2024 at Rosalia Research Forest Centre (Lower Austria)

The BOKU Institute of Soil Research invites students to the Summer School on Soils and Global Change! The summer school is scheduled to take place at the Rosalia Forest Centre in Lower Austria, Austria, from 6-13 July 2024. The course program will focus on two main areas:

1. Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) and
2. Modeling of Soil Formation

Instructors from BOKU and the University of Gent, Belgium will coordinate the teaching activities. We anticipate invited speakers from CREA (Italy) and the Federal Environment Agency (Austria).The program includes a combination of field trips to state-of-the-art monitoring infrastructure and simulations of climate change, a soil formation modeling workshop, and interactive lectures aimed at deepening understanding of the relationships between soils and global environmental changes.

Participation fee: 400€, covering transportation from and to Vienna, accommodation at the Rosalia Forest Centre, and full board (three meals per day).

Interested individuals can contact Lea Wellinger and Eugenio Diaz-Pines

Link to the Lehrforst Rosalia LTER site

Link to the Forest Demonstration Centre

https://boku.ac.at/international