Mid term review: Fuerteventura 7-14 February 2013
Photos from the mid term review can be found here.
MINSC mid-term review |
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The MINSC mid-term review took place from Feb. 7-14, 2014 in Fuerteventura. The week long training session included a 2 day Phreeqc workshop interspersed with 2 days of mid-term review and a 2 day writing workshop. This meeting also included CW1 for ERs: people and project management. The ERs are co-editors of the special issue of Mineralogical Magazine (http://www.minersoc.org/minmag.html) created with abstracts produced during the network event. Feedback was provided to all ESRs following their oral presentations to the representatives from the European Commission. A summary of the feedback comments can be found here.
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Accommodations and transportation |
The meeting will be held at the Melia Gorriones Hotel: http://www.melia.com/hotels/spain/fuerteventura/melia-gorriones/index.html The University of Leeds has made bookings for all participants and each institute will be re-invoiced for its participation following the training event. Melia Gorriones is located approximately 69 km from the Fuerteventura airport. If you arrive in a group, it is probably worth renting a car for the week. Alternately, you can rent a car at the airport with Avis and drop it back at the hotel. There are also taxi services available from the airport. For more information: Taxi services: http://www.taxisfuerteventura.es/index/reserva Airport transfers: http://www.fuerteventuraairport.net/getting-to-fuerteventura.shtml GPS coordinates and hotel address: Playa Barca GPS COORDINATES: N +28º 8' 12.22" / W -14º 14' 42.72" |
Agenda |
The agenda for the week can be consulted here. |
Mid term review |
As part of the mid-term review, all fellows are required to give a ten minute presentation including the following: 1) An introduction about yourself and your background 2) Your work and your training experience within the network. (This means what science you are working on and what types of training events have helped you with that). 3) You should also discuss how you think your experience in the MINSC network will be of use to you in your future career. Presentations must be sent to Clare Desplats by January 31st, 2014 (C.Desplats@leeds.ac.uk) A standard agenda for the mid-term review can be consulted here: |
PhreeQC course |
For the PhreeQC course, please bring the following: 1) A laptop computer with Excel and PhreeQC on it 2) You should download this version of PhreeQC: http://wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/GWC_coupled/phreeqci/ 3) You should download this document to your laptop. |
Writing workshop |
For the writing course, please bring tables, figures, bullet points for the article you are planning to write. A special issue of Mineralogical Magazine will be published with all of your articles. Some useful information about writing a research paper can be found here. |
