The Second International Summer School on the Study of Extreme Environments through Integrated Approaches (ISS-SEEA)

About

The Second Edition of the ISS-SEEA Summer School will take place in 2025, from September 22nd to 25th (optional excursion and sampling experience on the 26th), at the Sicily Marine Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Messina. The school will maintain its multidisciplinary approach, combining the ecological and biotechnological aspects for the exploration of extreme environments, and will extend its training topics by involving the deepening of other specific extreme ecosystems and new research fields. In this vein, the school will be implemented with lessons covering the concepts of bioacoustics in extreme environments, oceanographic dynamics, astrobiology, and anoxic basins. Moreover, a special focus will be devoted to the Strait of Messina and its extreme dynamics. All the training activities of the school will be treated day by day through a combined perspective, merging the ecology and biotechnology of extreme environments.

The school offers both in-person and *remote attendance options.
*Online participation will be possible with an early registration fee of 100 EUR and a late registration fee of 150 EUR. For remote attendance, participants can access all course content conveniently from their location, while practical activities will not be included.

Course leader

Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn - Sicily Marine Centre

Target group

The school is open to students, PhD students and early career researchers working in the fields of marine ecology and biotechnology.

Course aim

The summer school is a renewed opportunity to enhance cross-disciplinary collaboration, and to improve skills and expertise in the knowledge of extreme ecosystems in taxonomy, high molecular approaches, bioprospecting, oceanography, and bioacoustics.

Fee info

coffee breaks, lunches and the excursion with sampling experience included