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In summer 2015 we will be organizing a graduate student summer school on "Mountain Range and High Plateaus: Their underlying geodynamic processes and their interactions with climate dynamics".  The summer school will be held from August 16 to August 29, 2015, at the University of Michigan field station near Jackson, WY.  The summer school is supported by the National Science Foundation through a grant from the Continental Dynamics program.  We are currently soliciting applications from graduate students who are interested in problems that intersect solid earth and atmospheric sciences. Further details are below, please encourage interested students to apply.

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Nathan Niemi

Mountain Range and High Plateaus: Their underlying geodynamic processes and their interactions with climate dynamics
August 16 - 29, 2015
Camp Davis Rocky Mountain Field Station, Jackson, WY

The goal is to acquaint students with the basics of both how high terrain is built and how such terrain interacts with climate on local to global scales. Emphasis will be on basic concepts that lay the foundation for advanced research topics at the interface between continental dynamics and climate.

Topics to be covered include: modern methods for dating and quantifying mountain building, including thermochronometry, paleo-altimetry; large-scale deformation of the lithosphere; the role of mantle dynamics in deformation; orographic precipitation, building on basics of cloud processes and microphysics; influence of high terrain on local, regional, and global circulation; lee cyclogenesis; and monsoon dynamics. A unifying theme will be stable isotopes of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, including processes by which they are fractionated, their transport by atmosphere both on small (convective) and global scales, and their use as a paleoclimtic proxy and a tool in paleo-altimetry.

Graduate students with background in earth and/or atmospheric sciences and with training in geochemistry, continuum mechanics, and relevant mathematics are encouraged to apply.

Instructors: David Battisti (U. Washington), Marin Clark (U. Michigan), Inez Fung (UC Berkeley), Carmie Garzione (U. Rochester), Jung-Eun Lee (Brown), Peter Molnar (CU Boulder), Nathan Niemi (U. Michigan), Gerard Roe (U. Washington).

Please see http://www.earth.lsa.umich.edu/summerschool2015/ for more information.  Application deadline is Dec. 10, 2014.
 


Nathan A. Niemi
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Michigan
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