Phd Course August 2025

This years PhD course on Daisy will take place 25/08 - 29/08 at Copenhagen University. 

See the flyer here and register for the course through the PhD. course catalogue of Copenhagen University.  

If you have any questions please contact us at daisy@ku.dk

• The course covers the main processes in DAISY:
  • Water flow (matrix and biopore flow)
  • Solute transport (mineral N, DOC/DON, pesticides, particles, natural toxins, etc.)
  • Heat transport
  • Soil organic matter turnover
  • Soil vegetation atmosphere transfer of water and energy
  • Crop model, including a new dynamic litter (residues) layer on the soil surface
  • Management practices (conservation vs conventional ag systems)
  • And recent developments in terms of N20, PFAS and python-interface.

• The course aims at PhD students working with agriculture and environmental modelling, within fields such as soil physics, environmental science and agronomy. The aim of the course it to give the students an introduction to the 1D/2D DAISY agro-ecological model.

• The course includes a series of short presentations, each followed by hands-on group exercises where participants learn how to use the Daisy agro- ecological simulation model and analyze a simple, pre-defined system. Specifically, students will learn how to prepare data for the model, run the model, and extract and analyze output from it. Students are encouraged to present their scientific topics and their plans for testing their hypotheses/research questions using DAISY.

For Master Students it will be possible to follow the long version of the course (blok 1) as a "project outside courses". If you are interested please contact us for more information at daisy@ku.dk

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