Global Atmosphere Watch Training and Education Centre
GAWTEC provides scientific guidance and instructions to GAW station personnel from worldwide global and regional stations.
Following a staff change, GAWTEC is back!
The planing of the next courses has started again.
Further information will follow here!
Important course update
After a long break due to restructuring,
we would now like to present our new concept to you.
Always in focus: Education. Science. Progress.
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GAWTEC Online Course
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2. Write an E-Mail with your username to gawtec@schneefernerhaus.de to get enrolled
General Information
Global Atmosphere Watch Training & Education Centre (GAWTEC) is part of
GAW Quality Assurance/Science Activity Centre (QA/SAC) Germany and responsible for training and education of station personnel from global and regional
GAW
stations by teaching measurement techniques and data analysis.
GAWTEC, operated through funds from the
German Federal Environment Agency ("Umweltbundesamt", UBA) and the
Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection , is based at the Environmental Research Station
Schneefernerhaus ("Umweltforschungsstation Schneefernerhaus", UFS), which accommodates the high-alpine platform of the
GAW Global Station "Zugspitze/Hohenpeissenberg".
GAWTEC offers its course
twice a year and is meant only for
technicians and
junior scientists who work at stations with instruments and data -
not for senior scientists and managers.
GAWTEC courses are held exclusively in
English . Trainees must therefore have good English language skills to follow lectures, instrument instructions and deepening discussions.
Travel costs to/from Munich Airport are covered by the
WMO. As these travel funds are limited, the participants are encouraged (if possible) to seek for travel support in their institutions.
Lodging, food and local travel expenses are covered by GAWTEC.
Most of the time trainees are accommodated in the UFS (double rooms with shower/WC). Due to climate and weather at UFS (elevation 2650 m), clothing must be adequate to the high-alpine environment; formal clothing is not required. Trainees must be in good health condition to avoid high altitude related effects; people with heart and circulatory problems are not allowed to participate.
