SPIN Short Course 2 - Seismic Instrumentation

Carcans, near Bordeaux, France
17-22 May, 2022

SPIN WS2 location: Bordeaux!

Scientific Program

The second SPIN short course will focus on hands-on experience with seismic instrumentation, including new types of sensors such as DAS and rotational seismometers. The short course will consist of lectures, deployment of different types of sensors in the field. This will be complemented by computer practicals to work with typical data sets for each type of sensor. Note that these computer practicals will rely heavily on Python and Obspy, so a solid grasp of programming with these tools is a pre-requisite for participation.

Confirmed lecuturers include:

Practical exercises

During the short course, we will work on the data that is recorded by the different instruments during practical exercise sessions. For this, please bring your laptop, with sufficient free disk space, or an external disk, for storing and processing data.
Specific information about what to install on your laptop beforehand will follow by email. In any case, you will need a Python setup (at least 3.6), e.g. in an anaconda environment.

Schedule

May 17th: arrival (shuttle times below)
May 18th - May 21: workshop program
May 22nd: departure

A preliminary schedule can be found here.

Location and Venue

SPIN WS2 venue

The short course will take place near Bordeaux, along the South Atlantic coast of France. More specifically, the venue is located in Carcans, right between the ocean and a lovely lake:

The venue is the ‘Cévéo Village Vacances’, located in the Landes pine forest, on the edge of the lake.
Transfer to and from Bordeaux Train station and Bordeaux Airport (Merignac, BOD) will be arranged. At the moment, we are aiming for at least one bus departure at the following times on May 17th:

  • 14:30 from Bordeaux St.-Jean Train station
  • 15:00 from Bordeaux Merignac (BOD) Airport

For departure on May 22nd, we aim for a bus transfer from the venue which arrives:

  • 10:00 at Bordeaux Merignac (BOD) Airport
  • 10:30 at Bordeaux St.-Jean Train station.

More bus transfer times will be added, depending on arrival times of particpants. However, if you can organize your travel to to correspond to one of the ‘main’ bus transfer times, it facilitates things on our end!

To limit the carbon footprint of the meeting, we encourage you to travel by train if possible. For reference, some train connections are listed:

  • Trains arrive from Paris/Zürich - every hour:17
  • from Grenoble - uneven hour:32
  • from Hamburg/ Berlin - 17:17, 19:17

Excursion and activities

Beside the installation of seismic instruments in the forest and beach around the venue, no excursion has been planned during the short course. However, for those who stay for both the short course and the workshop, there will be some free time on Sunday. There are many possibilities for fun activities in the region: surfing at the beach, climbing the highest Sand dune in Europe, visiting a famous Bordeaux Wine Château (including wine tasting), etc etc. Near the venue, there is possibility for bike rides, strolls through the Landes pine forest, visits to the (lake or ocean) beach, ..

Accommodation

During the SPIN short course, you will stay at the Ceveo Village de Vacances Carcans. The prices for the freshly renovated rooms are as follows:

  • Single room: 454 € per person for the whole stay.
  • Shared double room: 389 € per person for the whole stay.

Accommodation is full-board, so including breakfast, lunch and dinner, and will have to be payed together with the registration fee, before the short course. Rooms will be assigned by us after registration.

Registration

Please note that the capacity of the venue in Carcans is very limited, so we only have a handfull of places left for participants beside the SPIN PhD fellows. The remaining places will be reserved for Early-Career Researchers (PhD or early Postdoc level). We ask you to submit a short statement of your motivation for participation in the short course as well as your research interests during pre-registration. We will let you know by April 5th whether your registration has been accepted.

Would you like to attend the short course?
Pre-registration information will be distributed by email to the SPIN-info mailing list around mid-march. If you are interested, please subscribe to the mailing list here.

The registration fee will be determined when pre-registration is complete, but it will be less than 100 €, per participant for the whole meeting. The registration fees can be payed via credit card, via a secure online payment system. After registration, you will receive an email with payment information.

Covid regulations

You can find up to date information about the French Covid regulations here.

Note that we require all participants to perform a lateral flow test before traveling to the venue. If that test is positive, please contact us, so that we can cancel your participation. We will provide further lateral flow tests to perform during the short course at regular intervals.

Please be prepared to bring sufficient FFP2/KN95-grade masks to wear when entering and leaving the venue, the restaurant, etc. and potentially even during the short course. Details will be provided prior to the short course depending on the course of the pandemic. You will also need to wear masks in most public spaces in France (public transport, shops, etc).

We are committed to organizing this meeting in-person, but of course we are subject to the evolution of the Covid pandemic. You are probably aware that there is always a risk of cancellation, but we are very hopeful that the situation in May 2022 will be such that the short course can take place.

Cancellation policy

If you need to cancel your participation please inform SPIN-management@uni-hamburg.de. as soon as possible. The refund of your accommodation and registration fee is handled as follows

  • until April 22, 2022: 90 % refund
  • until May 01, 2022: 70 % refund
  • until May 14, 2022: 50 % refund
  • after May 15, 2022: no refund

If the whole short course needs to be canceled due to Covid-19, we will refund your paid accommodation and registration costs 100%.

Contact

In case of questions or for clarifications, please contact SPIN-management@uni-hamburg.de.