On the 23^th and 24^th of August up to 20 postgraduates and students from the Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN) in Antofagasta participated at an online short course about the use and application of cosmogenic nuclides for dating surfaces and terrestrial archives. Dr. Benedikt Ritter offered this course to geoscience students in Chile in the spirit of knowledge exchange between the CRC1211 and the UCN and to foster potential new research project of postgraduates in Chile.

Beside participants from the UCN, also students from the Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Atacama, Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad de Concepcíon attended. During the two-day workshop, the participants learned the background knowledge about cosmogenic nuclides, their source, production and their application as dating tool. With the knowledge gained during the course, we hope that our young geoscientists think about applying these new methods in their future projects.

Fig.1: Flyer Short Course by Dr. Benedikt Ritter

Fig.2: Participants from Chile.