Master Seminar: Atmosphere and Climate

Please note that you generally attend the seminar 1 in the semester before your MSc thesis (i.e. 701-1211-01 typically in the 2nd semester after you already spent one semester in courses as preparation) and again (701-1211-02) in the semester during your MSc thesis, as indicated in the curriculum. Both seminars run parallel in each semester! Please only register for one seminar at a time at mystudies.ethz.ch.

We also use this seminar for a critical review of our programme.

Attendance in all classes listed below is mandatory. Performance assessment in seminar 1 (701-1211-01) is an accepted proposal, and in seminar 2 (701-1211-02) an oral presentation & accepted project management documentation. In each seminar 3 ECTS can be acquired (no grades, pass/fail).

In this seminar the knowledge exchange between you and the other students is promoted. You attend the seminar twice during your master studies. In the first run (701-1211-01) you write a proposal on a current research subject or your future master thesis project. This aims at strengthening your scientific writing skills and introduces you to a typical publishing/reviewing process. In the second run (701-1211-02) you present the status of your master thesis project.

Lecture notes

• Download Writing Skills - lecture 1 (PDF, 17 MB)
• Writing Skills - lecture 2
• Writing Skills - lecture 3        
  
• Presentation skills - lectures 1-3 (only in spring semester)

Additional material

• Download ETH plagiarism checklist (PDF, 83 KB)
• Download AGU grammar and style guide (PDF, 132 KB)
• Download Harvard Referencing Style (PDF, 242 KB)
• Download Referencing websites (PDF, 98 KB)
• Download Example proposal 1 (PDF, 3.7 MB)
• Download Example proposal 2 (PDF, 4.7 MB)
• Download Template for Master thesis title page (PDF, 91 KB)