“海洋酸化研究最佳实践培训班”将于2015年10月19日至23日在厦门大学翔安校区举办。培训班由国际原子能机构（IAEA）下设的海洋酸化国际协调中心（OA-ICC）组织，厦门大学近海海洋环境科学国家重点实验室承办。
培训班的目的是对亚洲地区海洋酸化领域的青年科学工作者进行培训，协助他们建立相关海洋酸化实验，避免典型的错误并确保与其他研究的可比性。预期的目标还包括加强亚洲地区海洋酸化领域科学工作者之间的交流与合作。
培训将采取讲座和分组实验等形式。主题涉及：海水碳酸盐系统及其测定方法；用于测定海水碳酸盐系统参数的仪器；计算碳酸盐系统参数的软件；设计海洋酸化实验的关键环节，例如碳酸盐系统的控制，生物扰动的方法，室内及现场实验中测量生物钙化作用及其他生理过程对海洋酸化的响应的方法（包括利用原子能和同位素的技术）等。
本次培训班向国际原子能机构的亚洲成员国提供25个参加名额，将优先考虑在海洋酸化领域已开展研究的学生、青年科学工作者。名额充足的情况下，也欢迎有兴趣开展海洋酸化研究的专家参加。参加者须有海洋生物学、海洋学或相关科学领域的大学学位，并应目前正在参与或计划开展海洋酸化的研究。
如需更多信息，请联系OA-ICC联络员：
Ms Lina Hansson
IAEA Environment Laboratories, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA
4a Quai Antoine 1er, 98000 Monaco, Principality of Monaco
(Tel.: +377 97 97 72 06; Email: L.Hansson(at)iaea.org)
The State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science will host a training course on ocean acidification organized by the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).The purpose of the course is to train early-career scientists and researchers from IAEA Asian Member States entering the ocean acidification field, with the goal to assist them in becoming able to measure ocean acidification and to set up pertinent experiments, avoiding typical pitfalls and ensuring comparability with other studies. Expected outputs also include increased networking among scientists working on ocean acidification in Asia.The training will include lectures in plenary sessions and hands-on experiments in smaller groups (the level will depend on the basic knowledge of the selected participants). Subjects to be covered include: the carbon dioxide (CO2) system and its measurement; instrumentation available for measuring seawater chemistry parameters; software packages used to calculate CO2system parameters; key aspects of ocean acidification experimental design, such as manipulation of seawater chemistry, biological perturbation approaches, and laboratory and field-based methods for measuring organism calcification and other physiological responses to seawater chemistry changes, including nuclear and isotopic techniques.The course is open to 25 trainees from IAEA Member States in Asia. Priority will be given to early-career scientists who are beginning to work in the field of ocean acidification. Experts interested in starting ocean acidification studies would be welcome, space permitting. The participants should have a university degree in marine biology, oceanography or a related scientific field, and should be currently involved in or planning to set up ocean acidification studies.
More information:
Ms Lina Hansson, IAEA Environment Laboratories, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, IAEA, 4a Quai Antoine 1er, 98000 Monaco, Principality of Monaco (Tel.: +377 97 97 72 06; Email: L.Hansson(at)iaea.org).
