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From
June 15 to July 25, 2008, 14 students from Brest and Paris
Universities (France) embarked successively on the Research
Vessel Marion Dufresne operated by the French Polar Institute
(IPEV) in the Atlantic Ocean. They joined international
scientific teams of two oceanographic cruises (AMOCINT,
June 15 - July 10, and MICROSYSTEMS, July 15 - July 25),
including 23 students from 6 different European countries.
Students
were integrated in the scientific teams and were on duty
during two 4-hour shifts per day. During their shifts
("watches"), they participated in the exploitation
of the cores, from their recovery, cutting, opening, archiving,
all the way to their physical parameter measurements and
description. Additionally, classes took place between
the watches and in transit times, taught by the scientists
on board. Students were also in charge of writing the
contents of this web site.
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The R/V Marion Dufresne (IPEV) in Las Palmas de Gran
Canaria Harbour, June 15, 2008, at the beginning of AMOCINT
Cruise.
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The
"University of the Sea" is a unique
opportunity for students to get high-level training in marine
geology, oceanography and geophysics in the framework of an
actual research cruise. In 2008, the research was dedicated
to paleo-climatology, sedimentology, and paleo-oceanography.
The scientific teams included scientists from Belgium, Canada,
France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
Switzerland and Ukrainia. During the first cruise (AMOCINT),
the Education Programme on board was also effective through
the Operation called "Teachers at Sea":
School teachers from France, Norway, Portugal, Spain, United
States of America were invited on board in order to participate
to the AMOCINT cruise, to learn from coring at sea, and to enjoy
the exciting life of scientists at sea. During AMOCINT Cruise,
conferences on board were organized by Carlo LAJ, responsible
of this Programme sponsored by the European Geophysical Union
(EGU). During MICROSYSTEMS Cruise, this task was held by the
PIs and by the responsible of the University of the Sea. The
two teaching Programmes have received the support of "Universités
Européennes d'Eté" by the "Ministère
Français de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la
Recherche" and has been labelled 10th and 11th
"Universités Flottantes" by Institut
Polaire Paul-Emile Victor (IPEV).
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