The Global Environment Monitoring Unit (GEM) of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) and the Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of Dar-es-Salaam have a pleasure to announce the offerung of a two-week training course on “"Methods and Applications of Ocean Colour Remote Sensing in African Coastal and Regional Seas", to be held at the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Dar-es-Salaam, in Zanzibar, Tanzania, from 12 October to 23 October 2009.
The course is intended for scientists, environmental managers, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows involved in any aspect of marine research, water quality monitoring, fisheries, marine and coastal management. The candidates should be fluent in English, as well as having appropriate computational skills.
For more information about the Course as well as for downloading application form, please visit
http://amis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/oc2009africa.php. The deadline for submission of application is
20 May 2009.