Satellite Remote Sensing in Biological Oceanography Summer Training Course 2005

This 2-week summer training course is geared toward biological oceanographers and marine biologists who have little or no prior background in satellite remote sensing. The goal of the training course is to teach participants the skills needed to work independently to acquire data sets derived from a variety of satellite sensors (SeaWiFS, MODIS, AVHRR, SeaWinds and Topex-Poseidon) and to merge these data sets to examine biological response to changes in the physical environment. The training course is open to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and post-graduate professionals.

Background lectures will cover the fundamentals of bio-optics, pigment algorithms, primary production algorithms and, to a lesser extent, the underlying physical principals leading to the measurement of sea surface temperature, ocean wind speed and ocean topography. See the course syllabus for more details on the topics covered in this course.

Dates: June 3-17, 2005
Application deadline: May 1, 2005
Course fee: 2385 USD (+ travel + housing + meals)

Course webpage: http://www.eas.cornell.edu/ocean/rs_course/

I hope this is of your interest. Regards,

Jorge Brenner