Welcome to the Munich Earth Skience School!
Skience is a winter school established in 2011 in the field of seismology. Ever since we trained participants from countries around the world in many aspects of seismology. Skience really is a “work”shop. Ideas, concepts, methods, theories are always presented in combination with practical training, data processing, simulation, currently using primarily Jupyter Notebooks and the ObsPy library.
Last not least we combine exciting science with the thrill of wintersports.
Come and join us in 2027!
The next topic will be seismology on the seafloor, covering all aspects of observing, analysing, and interpreting ground motion observations in the oceans.
An article on the winter school and the SKIENCE concept was published in the Munich University Magazine (in German), accessible here.
A further article on the 2026 winter school (in German) was published here:
A Movie about a previous school can be seen here.
Press
An article on the winter school and the SKIENCE concept was published in the Munich University Magazine (in German), accessible here.
A further article on the 2026 winter school (in German) was published here:
A Movie about a previous school can be seen here.
What is Skience?
skience [skaiens] n
1. The systematic study of nature and skiing and the behaviour of the material and mountainous universe based on observation, measurement, and training.
2. The knowledge and joy so obtained or the practice of obtaining it.
3. Any particular branch of this knowledge and skills: the pure and applied skiences.
4. Any body or knowledge organized in a systematic manner.
5. Skill or technique.
6. Archaic, knowledge, related to old English scid, piece of old split wood. (Source: VVOED, Very, Very Old English Dictionary).
Comments:
“The best lunch break at a meeting I ever had” (Adam Ringler, Albuquerque)