Applications are now being accepted for ENDURE's 2016 Summer School. Focusing on 'The role of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in mitigating the effects of climate change on pest dynamics - modelling approaches', the Summer School will run from October 9 to 14, 2016.
The Summer School will take place at SIAF, an International School of Advanced Education recently established by the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa and the Foundation of the Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra. SIAF is located in Volterra, 60km south-east of the Italian city of Pisa, in the heart of the Tuscany countryside.
Lecturers
Aims and rationale
The objective of the Fifth ENDURE Summer School is to make PhD students meet scientists who are actively implementing modelling approaches to develop IPM strategies able to take into account future climate. Climate change, through its effect on temperature, rainfall and atmospheric CO2 concentration, will impact many agricultural production situations worldwide. In addition to direct impact on yield, climate change will also affect biocenosis dynamics. In particular, pest (plant pathogens, animal pests and weeds) and beneficial dynamics will be affected and lead to new injury profiles and associated quantitative and qualitative damage to crop production. Given the complexity of the crop-soil-atmosphere-pest-auxiliary system, modelling is a key scientific approach to help design future cropping systems more resilient to biotic stress, with limited reliance on pesticides.
Programme
The Summer School programme will include (1) lectures given by internationally-renowned experts (guest lecturer Prof. Katia Laval, Emeritus Professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris), (2) team work to facilitate active participation of the selected PhD students and their interaction with the lecturers and (3) opportunities during the whole week for students to discuss individually with the lecturers about their PhD project or related questions. We recommend that participant have at least basic experience with ‘R’.
The teaching objectives are to:
Provisional programme
Day 1 | |
8h30-9h00 | Introduction: presentation of the programme, pedagogical objectives, lecturers and participants |
9h00-10h30 | What is climate change? What is measured? What do the General Circulation Models say? |
10h30-11h00 | Coffee break |
11h00-12h00 | How do crops react to climate change (CC)? |
12h00- 12h30 | Design of potential modelling projects on the mitigation of CC effects on pest dynamics through ad hoc IPM strategies |
12h30-13h30 | Lunch |
13h30-14h30 | Why modelling? Conceptual modelling |
14h30-15h30 | Model evaluation |
15h30-16h00 | Coffee break |
16h00-17h00 | Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses |
17h00- 17h30 | Assignment of modelling projects to groups of 3 students |
17h30-18h30 | Optional lecture: catching up with R. program à la carte |
Day 2 | |
8h30-10h30 | How pests (weeds, plant pathogens, animal pests) and crops react to CC? |
10h30-11h00 | Coffee break |
11h00-12h30 | Parameter estimation |
12h30-13h30 | Lunch |
13h30-14h30 | Dimensional analysis |
14h30-16h30 | Modelling projects |
16h00-16h30 | Coffee break |
16h30-18h30 | How to mitigate the impacts of CC on plant pathogens 1/2? Introduction to numerical algorithms: when numerics go wrong?! Application to SEIR models |
Day 3 | |
8h30-9h30 | How to mitigate the impacts of CC on plant pathogens 2/2? Qualitative modelling |
9h30-10h30 | How to mitigate the impacts of CC on weeds? The UNISIM platform |
10h30-11h00 | Coffee break |
11h00-12h00 | How to mitigate the impact of CC on animal pests 1/3? Lattice models, spatial and temporal models |
12h00-12h30 | AgMIP and the role of model ensembles in modelling |
12h30-13h30 | Lunch |
13h30-15h00 | Optional technical support to the programming in R for the modelling projects |
15h00-17h30 | Visit to the Etruscan city of Volterra |
17h30-19h30 | Free time in Volterra |
19h30-22h30 | Social dinner |
Day 4 | |
8h30-9h30 | How to mitigate the impact of CC on animal pests 2/3? |
9h30-10h30 | To be decided |
10h30-11h00 | Coffee break |
11h00-12h30 | Integrating pests into crop models |
12h30-13h30 | Lunch |
13h30-14h30 | How to mitigate the impact of CC on animal pests 3/3? Use of a phenology model of an insect (carrot weevil) |
14h30-16h00 | Modelling projects |
16h00-16h30 | Coffee break |
16h30-18h30 | Modelling projects |
Day 5 | |
8h30-10h30 | Presentation of the results of the modelling projects |
10h30-11h00 | Coffee break |
11h00-12h00 | Presentation of the results of the modelling projects |
12h00-12h30 | Wrap-up session of the summer school |
12h30-13h30 | Lunch |
13h30 | Departure from Volterra |
Applications
Please send to Camilla Moonen:
Costs
Participation cost to the summer school is €750, and includes housing, meals, access to the lecture room, daily coffee breaks, and a guided tour of Volterra on Wednesday afternoon. The cost is reduced with respect to the actual cost of participation thanks to co-financing by ENDURE partners, which covers the participation of lecturers. Travel is not included, except for the bus from Pisa airport to SIAF-Volterra on Sunday evening and back again on Friday afternoon.
Arrival and departure
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