Short Term Scientific Missions
Funds are available for scientists to visit and collaborate with other researchers on STSMs. These trips should involve training or exchange of analytical expertise in areas related to marine trace element and isotope chemistry.
Applications are welcome from individuals in any of the countries within this Action. Selection criteria will be based on scientific excellence, relevance to the goals of this COST action, feasibility of the study, and added value for early career scientists. Decisions will also take into account gender and distribution over nations and topics.
The next deadline for STSM applications is 5th December 2011. STSMs must then be completed by end May 2012.
To download more details about the STSM program click here.
List of past and future STSMS
Completed STSMs
1. 23/03/2009 to 03/04/2009-‘Determination of dissolved cobalt concentration by flow injection analysis’ awarded to Mr Johann Bown, LEMAR (Laboratoire de l’Environnement Marin) UMR6539 CNRS,Brest(FR) to visit Dr. Maeve Lohan, School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth (UK).
2. 06/04/2009 to 21/04/2009-‘Intercomparison of flow injection with mass spectrometricmethods for the determination of Fe’ awarded to Dr. Simon Ussher, School ofEarth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth (UK) to visit ChristopheQuetel, EC-JRC-IRMM, Geel (BE).
3. 06/05/2009 to 19/05/2009- ‘Measuring samples (ICP-MS) and learning technique fordissolved silver in Seawater’ awarded to Mr Maarten Klunder, Royal NIOZ,Den Burg(NL) to visit Prof. Eric Achterberg, National Oceanography Centre,Southampton (UK).
4. 26/07/2009 to 29/08/2009-‘The role of the sea-ice sediment in controlling 231Pa/230Th’awarded to Ms Patricia Camara Mor, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona,Bellaterra, Barcelona (ES) to visit Dr. Michiel Rutgers v.d. Loeff, AlfredWegener Institute, Bremerhaven (DE).
5. 02/08/2009 to 15/08/2009-‘Diatom species effects on silicon cycling and isotopic signatures in near shore Antarctic waters’ awarded to Ms Amber Annett, University of Edinburgh,(UK) to visit Dr. Ben Reynolds, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich,(CH).
6. 05/10/2009 to 28/11/2009-‘Iron measurements by Flow injection with chemiluminescence detection (FI-CL)’ awarded to Mr Juan Santos-Echeandia, Marine Research Institute (IIM-CSIC),Vigo (Pontevedra)(ES) to visit Dr. Géraldine Sarthou Laboratoire des Sciences de l´Environnement Marine Univ.de Bretagne Oc, Plouzané (FR).
7. 15/01/2010-14/02/2010-‘Learning low level dissolved Fe measurement techniques’ awarded to Ms Farah Akaml Idrus,National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, (UK) to visit Dr. Géraldine Sarthou Laboratoire des Sciences de l´Environnement Marine Univ.de Bretagne Oc, Plouzané (FR).
8. 01/04/2010 to 21/04/2010- ‘Speciation of iron in seawater’ awarded to Mr Aridane Gonzalez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ES) to visit Dr. Marie Boye, LEMAR (Laboratoire de l’Environnement Marin) UMR6539 CNRS, Brest(FR).
9. 10/04/2010-26/04/2010-‘Nitrogen and silicon isotopic signatures in Arctic sea ice (Greenland coastal area)’ awarded to Mr François Fripiat, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (BE) to visit Prof. Dirk Notz, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg (DE).
10. 18/04/2010-2/05/2010-‘PaTh between Heidelberg and Bergen I’ awarded to Dr. Jeanne-Marie Gherardi Scao, Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Bergen (NO) to visit Dr. Joerg Lippold, Academy of Science Heidelberg (DE).
11. 9/05/2010-25/05/2010-‘PaTh between Heidelberg and Bergen II’ awarded to Dr. Joerg Lippold, Academy of Science Heidelberg (DE) to visit Dr. Jeanne-Marie Gherardi Scao, Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Bergen (NO).
12. 30/08/2010-10/09/2010-‘Isotopic measurements of seawater Chromium’ awarded to Dr. Ken Amor, Oxford University (UK) to visit Dr. Stephen Galer, Max-Planck-Institut for chemistry, Mainz (DE).
13. 10/10/2010-11/05/2010-‘Atmospheric monitoring and analytical methods for the determination of Mercury and its compounds in the atmosphere’ awarded to Dr. Eleni Stathopoulou, NUKA Athens (GR) to visit Prof. Nicola Pirrone, CNR-IIA Rende (IT).
14. 6/02/2011-7/03/2011-‘Organic aersol speciation: Learning and implementation to the sea surface micro-layer study’ awarded to Dr. Sanja Milosavljevic, Institute Rudjer Boskovic (HR) to visit Dr. Celia Alves, University of Aveiro (PT).
15. 01/03/2011-30/03/2011-‘Analysis of methlymercury in sediments, water and marine organisms’ awarded to Mr. Michal Miotik, Institution of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (PL) to visit Prof. Milena Horvat, Institut Joezef Stefan, Ljublijana (SI).
16. 15/02/2011-29/04/2011-‘Dissolution of trace metals from Australian aerosols’ awarded to Rachel Shelley, University of Plymouth to visit Dr. Andrew Bowie, Univeristy of Tasmaia (AUS).
17. 04/07/2011- 05/08/2011 ‘Determination of chromium in estuarine waters by catalytic cathodic stripping voltammetry using a vibrating silver microwire electrode’ awarded to Dr. Estrella Espada Bellido, University of Cadiz, Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain (ES) to visit Dr. Constant M.G. van den Berg, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom (UK).
18. 24/08/2011-7/09/2011-‘Analytical separation of Neodymium using cation exchange chromatography and HIBA acid as eluant’ awarded to Ester Garcia Solsona, Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS/OMP),Toulouse(FR) to visit Dr. Wafa Abouchami,Max-Planck-Institut for Chemistry (MPIC),Mainz, Germany (DE).