Hi Everyone,
Thought you'd all like to know about this upcoming Biodiversity
Informatics course, offered to Nordic graduate students, postdocs,
and researchers.
Kilpisjärvi calling: Order and Sense to Your Data at the Polar
Frontier
ForBio: proudly presents the first-time-ever course on
biodiversity informatics and data management
More info: http://www.forbio.uio.no/events/courses/2014/biodiv_informatics.html
When: 29 July -1 August 2014
Where: Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, University of
Helsinki, Finland
http://www.helsinki.fi/kilpis/english/
What: A course for Nordic graduate students, postdocs, and
researchers which explores data tools beyond MS Excel and R! What
are the modern, efficient, mistake-proof ways to collect and
manage field and lab data, identifiers, traits, and environmental
variables? How can you store your data to easily integrate with
external databases? This course covers basics of data collecting
and data management but leaves out data analysis to other courses.
How much: No course fee. Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, or
Finnish PhD students and postdocs are encouraged to join ForBio -
the Research School in Biosystematics, since members are
reimbursed for course-related travel costs and accommodation in
shared rooms and food at Kilpisjärvi Station. ForBio may also
support masters students registered at Danish, Swedish, Norwegian,
or Finnish universities who provide compelling evidence that they
need the course for their thesis work. ForBio will not cover any
expenses (e.g., food, travel, or accommodation costs) for other
participants who have to be registered as ForBio associates to
attend the course.
Please pass along to any who might be interested in taking the
course -- or developing a similar one.
Best,
Deb
(apologies for cross-posting)