In 2021, we hosted our second virtual summer school. The TransTiP & TPE Science & Technology Training was again organized jointly by TransTiP, TPE, CAS, and KCRE. In total, this summer school attracted 68 ECS from China, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Iran, Colombia, Mexico, France, and Germany.
The training focused on scientific writing, Intercultural competence training, the new research area Environmental Humanities, and discussed gender equality. The streaming of the documentation “Picture a Scientist” was followed by a panel discussion, led by members of the Commission for Equality at TUBS that raised many concerns regarding the state-of-the art of gender equality.
In addition, national and international experts gave talks on various topics in geosciences, environmental humanities and Limnology:
Andreas Hördt: Philosophy of Science: On the logic of scientific discovery
Liping Zhu: Lakes in Tibetan Plateau and Global Changes-Response, Trends and Coping
Carlos Sierra, Georg Guggenberger: The global carbon cycle
May-Brith Ohman Nielsen: Deadly Dreams and Paradise on Earth: Environmental Humanities presented through two case studies
Michael Krautblatter: Alpine permafrost and mechanical implications: examples from Zugspitze and other high mountain environments
Andreas Hördt: Basic facts about climate change
Juzhi Hou: Unusual warm/humid climate boosted the Tibetan Empire prosperity in Early Medieval Period
Yaoming Ma: The observation and modeling of air-land interaction over heterogeneous landscapes of the Third Pole
Julia Klein: Tibetan pastoralists, grassland vulnerability & mountain sustainability in transdisciplinary research
Roland Zech: The rhythm of the ice ages - searching for a holy grale using cosmogenic nuclides and biomarker analyses
Fan Zhang: Climate change impact on riverine runoff and sediment flux over the Tibetan Plateau
Carina Hoorn: Scientific Writing
A special of this summer school were the dissertation defenses of three doctoral researchers from our 1st cohort that were extremely informative and instructive for the 2nd Cohort doctoral researchers in terms of both research and procedures:
Felix Nieberding: Assessing land-atmosphere CO2 exchange at lake Nam Co on the Tibetan Plateau using Eddy Covariance
Eike Reinosch: Remote sensing of active periglacial landforms within the western Nyainqêntanglha Range, Tibetan Plateau
Johannes Buckel: The cryosphere of the Western Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau