ENV-321: Aquatic ecosystemsInland waters are now being recognized are major players of global biogeochemical cycles. They also provide essential ecosystem services such as fresh water and fish, and link continental processes with atmospheric and marine processes. The understanding o ...
ENV-103: BiologyThis course will cover the fundamental principles governing life and the living world. Topics will include the diversity of living organisms, cellular biology, genetics, evolution, and ecology. This course provides a foundation in biology, fostering critic ...
ENV-412: Microbial ecologyThe course will focus on fundamental concepts of microbial ecology and environmental microbiology, with emphasis on bacteria and archaea, although fungi, algae, and protists will also be covered. ...
ENV-220: Fundamentals in ecologyThe students will learn the fundamentals in ecology with the goal to perceive the environment beyond its physical and chemical characteristics. Starting from basic concepts, they will acquire mechanistic understanding of biodiversity, ecosystem functioning ...
PENS-219: Hidden riversHidden Rivers aims at fulfilling the need for an interdisciplinary understanding of the problematics surrounding urban streams, through ecological, hydrological, and spatial relationships found in riverscapes. ...
ENV-512: Global change ecology and fluvial ecosystemsUnderstand the functioning of rivers, focusing on hydrological, geomorphologic, biogeochemical and ecological components, and their linkages. Analyze impacts of global change on rivers ecosystems, develop skills related to synthesizing and interpreting lit ...
PENS-225: RhonescapeRHONEscape aims at realizing the necessary interdisciplinary educational background of the problematics affecting highly-corrected large rivers, by examining riverine ecological, hydrological and morphological spatial features with new methods of conceivin ...
ENV-306: EcotoxicologyEcotoxicology aims to understand the impact of chemicals and other stressors on organisms in the environment with a particular focus on population-, community- and ecosystem effects. Based on a mechanistic understanding, the ultimate goal is to be able to ...
ENV-800: Ecohydrology: From field data to process modelingEcohydrology investigates the effects of hydrological processes on ecosystems, as well as in turn the effects of biotic processes on the water cycle. The Summer School will focus on three aspects of ecohydrology â process understanding, novel measurement ...
AR-301(ac): Studio BA5 (Bosshard et Vaquer)The term sauvegarde is approached holistically from the side of care with the will to assist, protect, and therefore save. Design proposals grow out of the will to understand, looking for an overall critical view on the preexisting; built structure as well ...
AR-401(ac): Studio MA1 (Bosshard et Vaquer)The term sauvegarde is approached holistically from the side of care with the will to assist, protect, and therefore save. Design proposals grow out of the will to understand, looking for an overall critical view on the preexisting; built structure as well ...
ENV-426: Fluvial biogeosciencesStream and river ecosystems are increasingly deteriorated owing to global change and climate change. Students will understand basic physical, chemical and biological processes in streams and rivers, and how they relate to ecosystem health and integrity . ...
AR-619: Designing cities in a changing worldThis course develops, within the urban domain, a critical review of challenges/opportunities of the One Health concept, based on the inexorable link between human, animal, and ecosystem health. ...
AR-801: Transects through alpine water landscapesThrough field expeditions, keynote lecture, discussion, workshops, and exchanges with experts, participants will contribute to the production of a synthetic "transect" across a continuous water landscape, from the Aletsch glacier to the Rhone valley floor, ...
