8 January - 10 February 2007

Two Greencycles Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) as well as a Greencycles Senior Scientist are participating in ERCA 2007 - the European Research Course on Atmospheres.

ERCA is a five week long course on atmosphere. The first four weeks are spent in Grenoble, France and the final week is spent at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, near the small city of Forcalquier (170km south of Grenoble).

Valentina Sicardi and Yannick Le Page, two Greencycles ESRs, will attend at ERCA this year.

Valentina will present her work on Future change in Ocean circulation and Carbon Cycle inferred from O2 fluxes.

Yannick will present his results on Global view of the main patterns of fire activity variability from 1996 to 2006 using screened ESA World Fire Atlas data.

The Greencycles Senior Scientist Richard Betts will be contributing to ERCA 2007. He will be giving two lectures, the first on February 1st titled, "Forcing of climate change by large-scale vegetation change", and the second on February 2nd: "Feedbacks on climate change by large-scale vegetation changes".