Programme

The programme of the summer school includes the following parts:

• a lectured part held at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik (4.5 days)


• an excursion to inner Iceland (Hrauneyjar) with trips to glaciers, geysers, hot spring areas, lava fields and Mars-like areas. Also, places important to Icelandic history and culture will be visited.


• a lab course with microbiological (hot water extremophiles) and geochemical investigations into hot spring water will also be organised.

Participants will be able to present their own research in a poster session at the beginning of the event.

A detailed programme of the summer school is listed below and can also be downloaded as a .doc file. Enquiries about the programme can be directed to Wolf D. Geppert,  Physics Department, Stockholm University, phone ++ 46-8-55378649, fax ++46-8-55378601, email wgeppert@hotmail.com.

 

Detailed programme

University Cinema
Reykjavik

Public Event on the occasion of the International Year of Astronomy:
"Exploring other Icy Worlds"

"Interstellar clouds and their role in the gas-phase formation of molecules"
Wolf D. Geppert, Stockholm University, Sweden

"Molecular processes in the protostellar disk involving water"
Cecilia Ceccarelli, Astrophysics Laboratory, Grenoble, France

"Isotope fraction in water and possible reasons"
Cecilia Ceccarelli, Astrophysics Laboratory, Grenoble, France

"Astronomical observations of water in the gas phase"
Cecilia Ceccarelli, Astrophysics Laboratory, Grenoble, France

"Observations of water ices with state-of-the art telescopes"
Cecilia Ceccarelli, Astrophysics Laboratory, Grenoble, France

"Icy satellites of outer planets"
Paul Helfenstein, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

"Future space missions to outer planets"
Paul Helfenstein, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

"Introduction into models of dark clouds"
Wolf D. Geppert, Stockholm University, Sweden

"Introduction into Monte-Carlo studies on ice surface chemistry"
Herma Cuppen, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Group A+B: "Model Calculations of water formation in dark clouds"
Wolf D. Geppert, Stockholm University, Sweden

Group C+D "Monte-Carlo studies on ice surface chemistry"
Herma Cuppen, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Group C+D: "Model Calculations of water formation in dark clouds"
Wolf D. Geppert, Stockholm University, Sweden

Group A+B; "Monte-Carlo studies on ice surface chemistry"
Herma Cuppen, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Excursion to Árbaer museum, Krisuvik hot springs area and Blue Lagoon spa

Introduction into hot springs in Iceland and sample collection"
Guðmundur Hreggviðsson, Prokaria, Iceland

Incubation of samples 
Guðmundur Hreggviðsson, Prokaria, Iceland

"Origin of Earth's oceans"
Karen J.Meech, University of Hawai'i, USA

"Comets and cometary ices"
Karen J.Meech, University of Hawai'i, USA

"Small Body missions and Main Belt Comets"
Karen J.Meech, University of Hawai'i, USA

"Certain aspects of ice physics"
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

"Introduction into glaciers and glaciology"
Þröstur Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

"Glaciation in Iceland (past and present)"
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

"Ice drilling in Iceland and subglacial lake studies"
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

"Ice core records"
David Fisher, National Resources, Canada

"Ice on Mars"
David Fisher, National Resources, Canada

"Highlights from the Phoenix mission"
David Fisher, National Resources, Canada

"Msrs analogues in Iceland"
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

"Life in icy environments"
Charles Cockell, The Open University, UK

"Colonisation of volcanic rocks by microbes"
Charles Cockell, The Open University, UK

"Introduction into thermophiles"
Viggo Marteinsson, Matis, Iceland

"Genetics of thermpophiles"
Nils-Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway

"Molecular basis of the stability of biomoleculees in hot environments"
Nils-Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway

"Introduction into lab programme"
Nils-Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway

Group A: Lab work: Microbiology (Microscopy, Quantificatiion of cultivable aerobic bacteria)
Group B: Lab work: Diversity (DNA isolation from enrichment cultures, PCR)

Guðmundur Hreggviðsson, Prokaria, Iceland
Nils-Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway
Ida H. Steen, University of Bergen, Norway
Viggo Marteinsson, Matis, Iceland

Group C: Lab work: Geochemistry (ICP-OES, IC and CO2) 
Group D: Lab work: Geochemistry (Sulfur speciation) 

Andrí Stéfansson, University of Iceland
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

Coffee break

Group A: Lab work: Diversity (DNA isolation from enrichment cultures, PCR)

Group B: Lab work: Microbiology (Microscopy, Quantification of cultivable aerobic bacteria)

Guðmundur Hreggviðsson, Prokaria, Iceland
Nils-Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway
Ida H. Steen, University of Bergen, Norway
Viggo Marteinsson, Matis, Iceland

Group C: Lab work: Geochemistry (ICP-OES, IC and CO2) 
Group D: Lab work: Geochemistry (Sulfur speciation) 

Andrí Stéfansson, University of Iceland
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

Group A: Lab work: Geochemistry (ICP-OES, IC and CO2) 
Group B: Lab work: Geochemistry (Sulfur speciation) 

Andrí Stéfansson, University of Iceland
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

Group C: Lab work: Microbiology (Microscopy, Quantification of cultivable aerobic bacteria)
Group D: Lab work: Diversity (DNA isolation from enrichment cultures, PCR)

Guðmundur Hreggviðsson, Prokaria, Iceland
Nils-Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway
Ida H. Steen, University of Bergen, Norway
Viggo Marteinsson, Matis, Iceland

Group C: Lab work: Diversity (DNA isolation from enrichment cultures, PCR)
Group D: Lab work: Microbiology (Microscopy, Quantification of cultivable aerobic bacteria)

Guðmundur Hreggviðsson, Prokaria, Iceland
Nils-Kåre Birkeland, University of Bergen, Norway
Ida H. Steen, University of Bergen, Norway
Viggo Marteinsson, Matis, Iceland

Group A: Lab work: Geochemistry (ICP-OES, IC and CO2) 
Group B: Lab work: Geochemistry (Sulfur speciation) 

Andrí Stéfansson, University of Iceland
Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland

Group A: Lab work: Microbiology (Microscopy, Macroscopy)
Group B: Lab work: Diversity (DGGE: Casting, Loading, Running)

Group C: Lab work: Geochemistry (Sulfur speciation)
Group D: Lab work: Geochemistry (ICP-OES, IC and CO2) 

Group C: Lab work: Geochemistry (Sulfur speciation)
Group D: Lab work: Geochemistry (ICP-OES, IC and CO2) 

Group C: Lab work: Microbiology (Microscopy, Macroscopy)
Group D: Lab work: Diversity (DGGE: Casting, Loading, Running)

Group A: Lab work: Geochemistry (Sulfur speciation)
Group B: Lab work: Geochemistry (ICP-OES, IC and CO2)

Group C: Lab work: Diversity (DGGE: Casting, Loading, Running)
Group D: Lab work: Microbiology (Microscopy, Macroscopy)

Group A: Lab work: Geochemistry (Sulfur speciation)
Group B: Lab work: Geochemistry (ICP-OES, IC and CO2) 

Group A: Lab work: Microbiology (CFU)
Group B: Lab work: Diversity (DGGE: Staining visualisation, documentation)

Group C + D: Data reduction and report writing for lab courses

Group A: Lab work: Diversity (DGGE: Staining visualisation, documentation)
Group B: Lab work: Microbiology (CFU)

Group C + D: Data reduction and report writing for lab courses

Group C: Lab work: Microbiology (CFU)
Group D: Lab work: Diversity (DGGE: Staining visualisation, documentation)

Group A + B: Data reduction and report writing for lab courses

Group D: Lab work: Diversity (DGGE: Staining visualisation, documentation)
Group C: Lab work: Microbiology (CFU)

Group A + B: Data reduction and report writing for lab courses