Objectives and competences - Doct. biogeochemical flows
OBJECTIVES
The main objective of the PhD Programme Dynamics of Biogeochemical Flows and their Applications is to train qualified researchers at the highest level in the disciplines of Physical Oceanography and Climatology, with special attention to the Strait of Gibraltar Area and its role in the exchange between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
SKILLS
As established in Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January, which regulates official doctoral studies, these studies will guarantee, as a minimum, the acquisition by the doctoral student of the following competences:
General competences:
CB11 - Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of the research skills and methods related to that field.
CB12 - Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
CB13 - Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
CB14 - Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.
CB15 - Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
CB16 - Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
Personal competences:
CA02 - Finding the key questions to be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
CA03 - Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
CA04 - Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
CA05 - Integrating knowledge, dealing with complexity and formulating judgements with limited information.
CA06 - Critique and intellectual defence of solutions.
In this PhD programme, PhD students must also acquire the following specific competences:
CE1 - Understanding of Earth system processes associated with biogeochemical fluxes, and of the interactions between the atmosphere, water bodies and the Earth's surface and their implications for ecosystems.
CE2 - Analysis and modelling of the processes associated with biogeochemical fluxes including the different spatio-temporal scales and system responses.
CE3 - Understanding and handling of the fundamentals of the integrated management of systems in which natural processes associated with biogeochemical flows and human activities interact.
CE4 - Analysis of uncertainty in natural processes associated with biogeochemical flows and their influence on the integrated management of resources, development of optimisation techniques, risk analysis and decision theory.
CE5 - Training in experimental design, the carrying out of field campaigns and the use of the instruments used to take experimental measurements.
CE6 - Training in the use of appropriate mathematical and statistical techniques for the processing, interpretation and management of information from field and experimental measurements.
