The UNOLS Chief Scientist Training Cruises will instruct early career marine scientists, including PhD students, on how to effectively plan for, acquire, utilize and report on time at sea for multi-disciplinary research and education. A training cruise will take place from July 6-15, 2011 from Newport OR and be repeated for a second science party September 16-25, 2011. The cruise plan will be dictated by the science requirements of the participants. Participant travel costs are provided along with small stipends for research supplies. However, space is limited. To apply, please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/cruise_training_survey. For additional information contact Clare Reimers < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >.

An intensive three-week, cross-disciplinary, graduate-level course on "Calibration and validation for ocean color remote sensing" will be offered at the University of Maine's Darling Marine Center from 11 to 29 July 2011. This class is a continuation of the Optical Oceanography course first offered at the Friday Harbor Laboratories in 1985 and more recently at the Darling Marine Center. Past graduates are many of today's leaders in oceanography.

"Microbial Oceanography:  The Biogeochemistry, Ecology and Genomics of Oceanic Microbial Ecosystems"  is an immersion summer course offered from June 19 to July 09 by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences.