[ISSHA] Announcement: IOC Regional HAB Training Course

[Henrik Enevoldsen]

(Ref IOC Circular Letter No. 2077)
Paris, 24 June 2003
 

Subject:     Training Courses on the Taxonomy of Harmful Microalgae: October
2003 to January 2004

            I am pleased to inform of the organisation of a regional
training course (South East Asia) on the Taxonomy of Harmful Microalgae
which is being organised in collaboration with the following institutes: the
University of the Philippines, the University of Tokyo, the University of
Tasmania, the IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae, at the
University of Copenhagen, and the Virtual University of the International
Ocean Institute. 

 

            The training course is a pilot project; it is part of a project
to establish an Internet Portal on harmful algae covering South East Asia,
named the "HABSEA Portal".  The course consists of two parts: the first part
is a 3-month Internet distant learning course and second part is a 10-day
practical course using the microscope for species identification. The course
was offered the first time in first semester of 2003.

 

UNESCO will cover all direct costs such as travel, accommodation, and
allowances for the two associated workshops, excluding the Internet
connections and participant's fees for working hours in connection with the
distant learning part of the course. This is applicable to participants from
Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia,
Myanmar, Laos and China. Support for participants from other countries in
the region is subject to availability of funds.

Schedule and venue

            The distance learning part of the course will include a
three-day introductory workshop to be held from on 6 to 8 October 2003 in
Bangkok, followed by three months of work at from the participants' home
laboratories.   The estimated workload is one day per week. 

 

            The microscope course will take place from 7 to 14 January 2004.

 

Applications

            Application forms are available from the following Web site:
http://ioc.unesco.org/hab/train.htm.  Applications should be send to Dr.
Rhodora Azanza, IMS, the University of the Philippines by 1 September 2003.
The selected participants will be contacted directly by the organizers via
e-mail or fax.  In case they have not received a reply by 15 September, they
should not expect to participate in the course.

 

            All applications must be endorsed by an appropriate authority,
including a statement that the applicant is permitted to use the working
time equivalent of one day per week for 3 months to follow the distant
learning part of the course and also allowing them to participate in the
microscope course. The endorsement should also confirm that appropriate
computing facilities will be at the disposal of the applicant, they include
an Internet browser and CD drive.  Full details are available at
http//:portal.unesco.org/habsea Web site.

 

            For further information please contact Professor Rhodora V.
AZANZA, Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman,
Quezon City 1101, PHILIPPINES, Tel: (63) 2989676 to 79, local 7414, Fax:
(63) 2 921 59 67, E-mail: rhod at upmsi.ph.

 

          Yours sincerely,

 

Henrik Oksfeldt Enevoldsen

IOC Project Coordinator

 

IOC Science and Communication Centre on Harmful Algae

University of Copenhagen

Oster Farimagsgade 2D

DK-1353 Copenhagen K

 

Tel +45 33 13 44 46

Fax +45 33 13 44 47

 

E-mail: henrike at bot.ku.dk and hab.ioc at unesco.org

 

IOC is the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

 

VISIT THE IOC HAB HOMEPAGE AT  <http://ioc.unesco.org/hab>
http://ioc.unesco.org/hab 

 

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