GeoBiology 2010: An International Training course in a Rapidly Evolving Field

Please note: We will offer the International GeoBiology Course during June and July of 2010. Dates for the session have yet to be determined and will be posted here as soon as they are known. For more information, please contact the course coordinator, Ann Close.

The interactions of microbes and minerals have shaped our planet, and the signs of this activity are carved into rock all around the world. GeoBiology 2010 will examine this microbe-mineral activity and its imprint during an intensive five-week course that includes travel to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming; to the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, and to USC research labs on Catalina Island off the coast of California. Participants receive hands-on experience in geobiology research methods and work in small groups to solve research questions.

Dates for GeoBiology 2010 have yet to be determined.

GeoBiology 2010 will be open students and researchers at the graduate, postgraduate and professorial level. The course application will be available for download in PDF and Word formats. You also can request a copy from Ann Close by email at: close@usc.edu

GeoBiology 2010 will be offered by the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and sponsored by the Agouron Institute in Pasadena, California. The course will be led by Will Berelson, a biogeochemist in the USC Department of Earth Sciences; Frank Corsetti, a geobiologist at USC; John Spear, a microbiologist at the Colorado School of Mines, and Kurt Hanselmann, a microbiologist at the University of Zurich. More than a dozen other faculty researchers will help teach the five-week course.

For further information, please contact:

GeoBiology Course Coordinator, Ann Close
Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
University of Southern California
3616 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, USA 90089-0371
phone: 213-740-6780, fax: 213-740-6720
email: close@usc.edu