Registration for international fieldcourse on «Experimental Radioecology and Radiobiology»
ANNOUNCEMENT
Registration for international fieldcourse on
«Experimental Radioecology and Radiobiology»
Aim: - to obtain practical skills of working in radiation contaminated territories like Chernobyl exclusion zone (ChEZ), through solving actual problems in radiation ecology.
Structure: During the couse participants are expected to work on the following problems:
1) Forest fires in ChEZ: risk and consequences estimation, developing recommendations for prevention.
2) Nuclear power plant cooling pound drainage: estimation on the influence on environment, providing recommendations for further implementation.
Participants are expected to choose problems (either (1) or (2)), and to contribute to a group report on one of the topics, that will be given in the a further synopsis.
Credits: you will be able to get 5 credit points from this course.
Location and time frame: overall course duration - June 18 – 28 2017, including:
June 18 – 20: lectures in UIAR labs, preparation for a field trip;
June 21 – 24: fieldtrip to Chernobyl exclusion zone, working on the chosen research topic;
June 24 – 28: lectures in UIAR labs, preparation of a course report.
Participation requirements:
- Master students, PhD students;
- Be interested in studying of environmental problems of nuclear power and overcome the consequences of Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear power plants disasters;
- Participants are asked to bring their laptops;
- Travel and accommodation for NUBiP and NMBU students will be covered by CPEA-2015/10108 project.
Registration: In order to apply for the course, please fill in the attached form
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B35guOboSV1vRnRfWkxJQ3RJd1hxLWtvMU5sRkZMTWM2UnZB/view?usp=sharing):
Olena Pareniuk, NUBiP, [email protected] – UIAR course coordinator
Valery Kashparov, UIAR, [email protected] – director of the UIAR
Ole Christian Lind, NMBU, [email protected] – NMBU course coordinator
Looking forward to meeting you in Kiev!