[{"Kurskod":"PFS0180","Version":1,"Benämning":"Nordisk dendrokronologisk fältvecka","Omfattning":7.0,"Giltig från och med":"HT2007","Utbildningsnivå":"Forskarnivå","Ämne":[{"Ämne":"Biologi"}],"Språk":"Svenska","Behörighetskrav":"Master in forestry, biology, geography, environmental sciences, and related fields. The participants should be admitted as PhD or Licentiate student in a relevant subject.","Mål":"The main objective of the course is to help students master a range of practical skills, which should allow them to independently collect and analyze tree-ring datasets for the studies in forestry, forest ecology, climatology, environmental monitoring, and archeology.","Innehåll":"The use of tree-rings is strongly increasing in ecological and environmental sciences, especially in ecology and forestry. Disturbance history, climate reconstructions, analysis of human impact on forest ecosystems, retrospective assessment of various ecosystem services are areas where methods of tree ring research can add new and unique information. With the course, we would like to give a broad overview of dendroecology, concentrating on field and lab techniques and statistical routines to analyse the dendrodata. The course will provide a solid starting point for students to integrate dendrochronological methods in their own research project and to avoid numerous pitfalls associated with this group of methods. We would like to emphasize that the course will give students practical experience to develop methodological setup for studies involving tree rings, to collect data, and to apply a range of analytical routines. Pre- and post-course literature review assignments are designed to inform the students on the start-of-the-art in the field and to provide a solid theoretical background for this intensive practical course.\n\n \n\nThe pedagogical method used during the course will be oriented towards creating a stimulating learning environment for students with diverse background in environmental sciences. The teaching will be based on a combination of lectures, discussions, field exercises and a series of mini-projects. In mini-projects, the participants will be responsible for the whole range of steps typically present in a research project (data collection, lab analysis, statistical analysis, interpretation and presentation). The main pedagogical approach of the dendroweek will be \"learning by doing\", allowing the participants to obtain first-hand experience with dendrochronological methods.\n\n \n\nInteractive elements of the course will include the following elements:\n\n(1) lectures in the format which allow unrestricted communication between the teachers and the students, \n\n(2) work in a mini-groups (3-5 participants) during project assignments with one of the teachers supervising work on assignment (the major interactive moment), \n\n(3) direct access to the teachers during the whole length of the of the course, facilitating further knowledge transfer, and\n\n(4) pre- and post-course literature review assignments. The pre-course assignment will be designed with the student research interests in mind and will be discussed during the course.","Betygsformer":"Kraven för kursens olika betygsgrader framgår av betygskriterier, som ska finnas tillgängliga senast vid kursstart.","Examinationsformer":"Examination is based (1) submission of the project report based on a mini-project carried out during the course, (2) evaluation of pre- and post-course assignment. Scale: Fail\/Pass\/Pass with honors. \r\n- Examinatorn har, om det finns skäl och är möjligt, rätt att ge en kompletteringsuppgift till den student som inte blivit godkänd på en examination.\r\n- Om studenten har ett beslut från SLU om riktat pedagogiskt stöd på grund av funktionsnedsättning, kan examinatorn ge ett anpassat prov eller låta studenten genomföra provet på ett alternativt sätt.\r\n- Om denna kursplan läggs ned, ska SLU besluta om övergångsbestämmelser för examination av studenter, som antagits enligt denna kursplan och ännu inte blivit godkända.\r\n- För examination av självständigt arbete (examensarbete) gäller dessutom att examinatorn kan tillåta studenten att göra kompletteringar efter inlämningsdatum. Mer information finns i utbildningshandboken.\r\n","Ansvarig institution\/Motsvarande":[{"kod":"295","Enhetsnamn_sv":"Institutionen för sydsvensk skogsvetenskap"}],"Övriga upplysningar":"\r\n- Rätten att delta i undervisning och\/eller handledning gäller endast det kurstillfälle, som studenten blivit antagen till och registrerad på.\r\n- Om det finns särskilda skäl, har studenten rätt att delta i moment som kräver obligatorisk närvaro vid ett senare kurstillfälle. Mer information finns i utbildningshandboken.\r\n"}]