ISES Summer School:  Dates, Rates, and States

We invite applications for the 2008 Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (ISES) Summer School on Dates, 
Rates, and States (July 24-31).  The interdisciplinary graduate course will focus on the rates at 
which tectonic processes occur, the dates that constrain those rates, and the implications for 
deformation, erosion, magmatism, material properties, etc. (states). All graduate students are 
encouraged to apply, including international students.

Information about the School and the on line application  can be accessed via the summer school 
page:  http://acad.coloradocollege.edu/dept/gy/ises/ISESSummerProgram2008.php. The 
application deadline is April 20, 2008, and admission decisions will be made on/near May 1, 
2008.

The 7-day workshop for graduate students will focus upon diverse aspects of dating tectonic 
processes, the rates at which these processes occur, and material responses.  The Faculty of the 
School are active researchers in diverse geological disciplines who will represent innovative 
approaches to the question of Dates, Rates, and States using lectures, practical exercises, and 
field trips. Topics to be addressed include: Low temperature thermochronology, geodesy, 
geomorphology, numerical modeling, faulting, geochemistry, metamorphic petrology, remote 
sensing, and geodynamics.

The Faculty of the School this year are:

Bodo Bookhagen, University of California - Santa Barbara
Jean Braun, University of Rennes, France
Michele Cooke, University of Massachusetts
Pete Reiners, University of Arizona
John C. Weber, Grand Valley State University
Mike Williams, University of Massachusetts

Coordinators for the School are Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin, and Christine Siddoway, 
Colorado College.

Funded by NSF, the ISES summer schools bring together U.S. and international graduate students 
for a week of intellectual engagement and applied work on a multidisciplinary theme that in most 
instances is too integrative to be taught within a single university department. One aim is to 
provide students with a learning opportunity that involves actual experiments, data analysis, and 
hands-on involvement with the subject, guided by professionals who have developed and/or are 
using emerging technologies and relevant investigation tools to get at this year's theme of "Dates, 
Rates, and States." An auxiliary subject of the Schools is the transition from graduate school to 
professional life, offering students perspective on development of a research program, 
publications schedules, funding opportunities, and undertaking teaching/mentoring duties in 
academic positions.

For more information, please contact Basil Tikoff ([log in to unmask]) or Christine Siddoway 
([log in to unmask]) and 001-719-389-6717.

Dates: July 24-July 31, 2008 / Deadline 4/20/08 	Rates : Apply now!    State :    Colorado