| Department of Agricultural Sciences
90 % Department of Natural Sciences 10 % | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination and oral examination Portfolio Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Assessment of project report, colloquia and an oral presentation and defence of the project. Weight: Colloquia: 20 %, project report: 40 %, presentation and defence of the project: 40 % 13-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | The course ´Experimental climate Management in Horticultural Production´ is equivalent to the last half part of the thematic course ´Thematic course in Climate Management in Horticultural Production´. Teaching will partly be at the KVL Campus in Taastrup. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 3 Week Structure: B | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 250008 220003 Climate, Weather and Plants It is stronly recommended to have passed one of the courses. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Basic science: In depth knowledge of the important climate parameters will be obtained on plant, field and greenhouse level. The knowledge will be related to an understanding of the interactions between climate management, technological possibilities and production of horticultural crops. Further more knowledge will be obtained about how to analyse production oriented problems. Applied science: The students will be trained in the ability - to understand design of plant experiments where climate is an important factor - to analyse possibilities for improving current climate management - to discuss, analyse and evaluate the production of horticultural crops from a technical and climatically point of view. Ethics and Values: Ability to analyse and reflect on the way scientific plant experiments. are planned, performed and documented | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The aim of the course is to make the students able to analyse a climatic depended crop production problem. After the course students are able to work scientific with climate parameters and their influence on crop production. The course is aimed at students that want to work with direct crop production or research in different aspects of crop production. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The course starts with presentations of production or resarch oriented climatic problems from intensive crop production and research. From one of these problems the students, within groups, work out a hypothesis for a solution and an experiment is planed to prove it. The experiment is performed and afterwards documented. In addition to the project there will be lectures that focus on how to analyse and solve a climatic based production problem. Topics during the course: - Problem analysis - Experiment arrangement, performance and documentation - Data acquisition and processing - Models, decision support systems and crop optimisation - Special protected cultivation now and in the future (growth chambers, production in space, biosphere etc.) - Future aspects of closed production (the future greenhouse, use of LED as artificial light, future sensor types etc. Examples of problems that can be analysed experimentally are: - The fruit and berry production needs to produce high quality of fresh fruit in a greater part of the year. How can we mange that? - The greenhouse industry has quite a high use of energy. How can we change the climate control system in order to save energy? - Stem elongation is often controlled with the use of chemicals. Can we control the elongation growth by using climatic methods instead? - The climate affects pests in a greenhouse. Can we control pests by using a certain climate strategy? - How will the greenhouse be in the future? Which possibilities do we have to improve the production system? The course is a multidisciplinary course that integrates knowledge from several disciplines among which are; climatology, statistics, system analysis, modelling, sensor technology, ecology, crop physiology, horticultural production physiology, theory of science etc. Relevant teachers from other departments will be integrated in the course, depending on the actual projects. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||||
| The main part of the course is the project work, but theoretical lectures and excursions are also important teaching methods. The project is performed within groups of 2-4 students. Project reports are worked out in groups. Included education methods are case studies, computer analyses, problem based learning, lectures, and several visits to commercial companies. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Climate management in horticulture. Aaslyng et al. 2005. Compendium, KVL. Department of Agricultural Sciences. Greenhouse Climate Control: An Integrated Approach. Bakker et al. (Editor). Wageningen Academic Publishers. ISBN:9074134173 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Jesper Mazanti Aaslyng, jmaa@life.ku.dk, Department of Agricultural Sciences/Crop Science, Phone: 3528 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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