1  Logistics

1.1 How the course works

• Lead: Prof. Benjamin Stocker; contributing lecturers: Dr. Fabian Bernhard and Dr. Fabrice Lacroix.
• Course language is English.
• Monday 14.15-16.00 is our presence time, use it for your communication with us.
• The course is mix of lectures and poster presentations by students.
• Contents are partly covered by the lecture notes Land in the Earth System, Part II.
• The contents of the lecture notes are covered by the written exam. From experience, personal presence and an active engagement in the lectures is strongly associated with success in the written exam.
• In groups of two, students create and present a poster (printed in A1) that describes a published peer-reviewed scientific research article (not a review or opinion article) as if they were the authors of it. Posters should be created following recommendations for scientific posters (see Section 3.1).
• Articles are proposed by the lecturers (see Section 3.2) or may be suggested by the students.
• The posters are graded together with the written exam (each 50%).
• The exam is in written form, closed book, and takes place in the last session during the semester.

1.2 Use of AI

The use of AI services for text creation should be considered with caution. You are solely responsible for the content of any output that graded as part of this course. Accurate descriptions of scientific methods and results, justified interpretations, and the correct referencing of original sources is mandatory and is often unreliably solved by AI. Full control over outputs by the human author is undespensable. Consider the view of the lecturer on this topic, see here.