The Summer School on Biogeodynamics and Earth System Sciences (BESS) (http://www.istitutoveneto.org/bess/) addresses the scientific questions associated with understanding the coupled dynamics of biotic and abiotic components of the Earth System, e.g. related to climate-biosphere interactions, the bio-geomorphic processes that shape the landscape, the two-way interaction between atmospheric and biospheric processes at the surface.

Deadline for applications May 15, 2011.

The accepted applications will be notified by May 25, 2011.

Lecturers

Michael Ghil - École Normale Supérieure, Paris and University of California, Los Angeles

Data Assimilation in Atmosphere, the Ocean and in the Coupled Climate System

Robert Gurney - Environmental System Science Center and the University of Reading

Earth Observation for Hydrology and the Biogeosciences

Tim Lenton - University of East Anglia

Life driven transformations of the Earth system

Francois Taiani - Lancaster University

Cloud Computing in the biogeosciences

Scientific Committee

John Albertson, Duke University
Michael Ghil, École Normale Supérieure Paris & University of California Los Angeles

Robert Gurney, ESSC - Reading 
Marco Marani, University of Padua 
Antonello Provenzale, ISAC - CNR
Andrea Rinaldo, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, University of Padova, EPFL Lausanne

Daniel Rothman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology