4th STABLE ISOTOPE COURSE IN ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
4th Stable Isotope Course was performed in 2022 (February 22-25), in Estación Biológica de Doñana, Seville (Spain), and Doñana (Huelva).
Thanks to all participants! And special thanks to our teachers:
Joan Giménez (joan.gimenez@csic.es); José A. González (jag@irnase.csic.es); Keith A. Hobson (khobson6@uwo.ca); Seth Newsome (newsome@unm.edu); Daniel Carrizo (dcarrizo@cab.inta-csic.es); Antonio Bode (antonio.bode@ieo.es); Martin J. Kainz (martin.kainz@donau-uni.ac.at); Ricardo (ricardo.alvarez@thermofisher.com); Antonio Carreira (antonio.carreira@airliquide.com); Carlos Urdiales (colecciones@ebd.csic.es; urdiales@ebd.csic.es); Sarai López (sarailopez@ebd.csic.es); Susana Carrasco (susana@ebd.csic.es); Manuela G. Forero (gforero@ebd.csic.es)
Laboratorio de Isótopos Estables (LIE-EBD) (lie@ebd.csic.es)
Here's the photographic evidence!: 
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You can download the lectures here (some of them are not uploaded yet )
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Tuesday 22
- Introduction to Stable Isotope Ecology: Principles and general applications. Keith A. Hobson, Western University (Ontario, Canada) 
- Main methodological aspects of SIA: Isotopic turnover, diet-to-tissue discrimination factors, confounding effects on SIA interpretation. Joan Giménez (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona)
- Principles and applications of IRMS to ecological studies: recent developments in laboratory instrumentation and new perspectives in isotope ratios analysis. Ricardo Álvarez and Lionnel Mounier (ThermoFisher, Granada)
Wednesday 23
- Participants presentations:
- Reliability in isotopic measurement. Antonio Carreira (Air Liquide SWE Market Manager. Air Liquide Specialty gases International expert)
- Sample preparation in CSIA (preservation and storage, processing, derivatization reactions). Daniel Carrizo (INTA-CSIC, Madrid)
- Introduction to Compound Specific Stable Isotope Analyses and their applications: stable isotopes in individual amino acids (CSIA-AA) as a tool to ecological studies. Seth Newsome (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA)
- Biogeochemical and astrobiological applications of compound specific isotopic measurement of δ15N, δ13C and δ2H. Daniel Carrizo (INTA-CSIC, Madrid)
Thursday 24
- Applications of conventional CSIA and Py-CSIA to the study of biopolymers and soil organic matter. José A. González (IRNAS-CSIC, Sevilla)
- Discerning dietary lipid sources and their ecophysiological fate in aquatic consumers using stable isotopes of fatty acids. Martin J. Kainz (WasserCluster Lunz - Biologische Station, Lunz am See, Austria)
- Analyzing the complexity of marine food webs using amino acid stable nitrogen isotopes: from trophic positions to diets. Antonio Bode (IEO, A Coruña)
References:
- Stable isotope data: from the lab to international databanks. What you need to know. Seth Newsome and Keith A. Hobson (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA and Western University, Ontario, Canada)