Biosphere Atmosphere
Research & Training

Technical short courses provide hands-on technical training to graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty members, and scientists.  Each course equips participants with the tools necessary to conduct research in a particular subdiscipline of biosphere-atmosphere interactions. BART also offers classroom based short courses that are typically led by multiple instructors lecturing on their area of expertise.

The short courses are offered over a five to eight-day (see the BART Calendar)  period at the University of Michigan’s Biological Station (UMBS), an outstanding venue for courses of many kinds, with extensive classroom, computing, and laboratory facilities.  The University of Michigan Biological Station is located at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, on the south shore of Douglas Lake.

The cost for the short courses include lodging and dining, as well as facility and lab fees.  For more information, contact the BART office at 888-647-0536, bartumbs@umich.edu, in Ann Arbor.  Course descriptions are available below.

Essentials in Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions  (flyer)
June 22-June 30th, 2009        Register by May 1st for discounted cost of $1725
A classroom based short course team-taught by experienced biosphere-atmosphere researchers and coordinated by Dr. Steven Bertman and Dr. David Karowe of Western Michigan University. Topics include: Global Climate Change, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Atmospheric Chemistry, Plant Physiology, Forest Ecophysiology, Aquatic Ecology, Global Biogeochemical Processes, Plant-Atmosphere Interactions, Water-Atmosphere Interactions, and Soil-Atmosphere Interactions. Download a copy of the 2008 Course Syllabus .

Flux Measurement Fundamentals (flyer)
Course will be offered summer of 2010      
A technical short course in the use of micrometeorological methods to obtain and analyze fluxes of momentum, heat, and chemical species by eddy-covariance, eddy accumulation and related techniques.  Topics covered include theory of turbulent exchange measurements, flux measurement techniques, installation and operation of an EC and energy balance measurement site, and QA/QC. Course will be co-taught by Dr. Hans Peter (HaPe) Schmid, Indiana University and Dr Brian Lamb, Washington State University. Download a copy of the 2008 Course Syllabus.