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From: ladderra at whitman.edu (Ruth Ladderud)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:01:19 -0700
Subject: [DIALOG1] DISCCRS News 10/19/2007
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DISCCRS News
10/19/2007
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RESOURCES and FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Polar Regions Research
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08501
FORUM
Contributions sought: A Handbook of Global Environmental Issues in
preparation, Wil Burns, ed.
(see FORUM 1 below)
A Swiftly Melting Planet
(see FORUM 2 below)
SCIENCE NEWS
Report on the economic costs of climate change in the United States -
The Center for Integrative Environmental Research at the University
of Maryland
http://www.cier.umd.edu/climateadaptation/index.html
Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and
Assessment Product 3.2, "Climate Projections Based on Emission
Scenarios for Long-lived and Short-lived Radiatively Active Gases and
Aerosols" (2007) (online only). NAP, 2007.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12035.html
Killer cow emissions
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-ed-
methane15oct15,1,848859.story
(see NEWS 1 below)
Hurricane Fears Cost Homeowners Coverage
http://tinyurl.com/2cv24u
(see NEWS 2 below)
Arctic Melt Unnerves The Experts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html?
_r=1&ex=&oref=slogin
(see NEWS 3 below)
Hidden Costs of Climate Change: Major, Nationwide, Uncounted
http://www.enn.com/climate/article/23922
(see NEWS 4 below)
Caspian summit produces warnings for outsiders, but no deal on
dividing resource-rich sea
http://climate.weather.com/articles/sea101707.html
(see NEWS 5 below)
Climate change also impacts river flow
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?
feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20071015-10324300-bc-us-climatechange.xml
(see NEWS 6 below)
Ancient Fossil Evidence Supports Carbon Dioxide As Driver Of Global
Warming
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071016090525.htm
(see NEWS 7 below)
'Climate Year' Heads for Uncertain End
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/10/13/
climate_year_heads_for_uncertain_end/ Or: http://tinyurl.com/22tkn5
(see NEWS 8 below)
Something New Under the Sun
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?
story_id=9928154 Or: http://tinyurl.com/yv9f6j
(see NEWS 9 below)
Humans Consume Nearly a Quarter of Earth's Natural Productivity
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071013/bob9.asp Or:
http://tinyurl.com/yt4q7e
(see NEWS 10 below)
The Seed Bank Atop the World
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-
vault12oct12,1,1029387.story Or: http://tinyurl.com/2qwouv
(see NEWS 11 below)
Orbiting Solar Panels' Day May Be Near
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-
spacesolar11oct11,1,5761676.story Or: http://tinyurl.com/yp9jo3
(see NEWS 12 below)
Warmth Makes the World More Humid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7038278.stm Or:
http://tinyurl.com/ypf96p
(see NEWS 13 below)
Global-Warming Skeptics: Is It Only the News Media Who Need to Chill?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1011/p13s03-sten.html Or: http://
tinyurl.com/2lyehq
(see NEWS 14 below)
************The following news stories are about Gore and the Nobel
Peace Prize*************
Bush Aide Rejects Climate Goal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/
AR2007101802243.html Or: http://tinyurl.com/36p663
(see NEWS 15 below)
Gore shares Nobel win with U.N. climate panel
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071012/ts_nm/nobel_peace_gore_ipcc_dc_2
(see NEWS 16 below)
Gore, U.N. Body Win Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.examiner.com/
a-985439~Gore__U_N__Body_Win_Nobel_Peace_Prize.html Or: http://
tinyurl.com/2y2zbf
(see NEWS 17 below)
UNEP Statement on Nobel Peace Prize
(see NEWS 18 below)
IPCC and Gore win Nobel Peace Prize
(see NEWS 19 below)
SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES
Workshop: "Linkages among Emissions Trading Schemes and the role of
offset mechanisms" - 30. October 2007 ? Brussels (Belgium)
http://www.joanneum.at/climate/linking/
"Climate Change: from the geological past to the uncertain future :
A tribute to Andr? Berger" - 26 to 29 May 2008 - Louvain-la-Neuve
(Belgium)
http://www.uclouvain.be/berger2008
(see MEETING 1 below)
"Key challenges in climate variability and change" - 7th
International NCCR Climate Summer School - 31 August - 5 September
2008 - Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verit?, Ticino, (Switzerland)
http://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/summer_school/2008/index_en.html
(see MEETING 2 below)
The 38th Annual International Arctic Workshop - Institute of Arctic
and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado - 5-7 March
2008 - Boulder, Colorado (USA)
http://instaar.colorado.edu/AW or contact: ArcticWS at colorado.edu
(see MEETING 3 below)
JOBS
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Polar Regions Research
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08501
Asst Prof tenure-track - GIS, Dept. of Geography - specialization
open. California State University ? Sacramento CA (USA)
(see JOB 1 below)
Research Fellow ? Policy Research and Analysis ? Resources for the
Future (RFF) - Washington, DC (USA)
(see JOB 2 below)
Post-doc/fellowships - Global sustainability, ocean-atmosphere, etc.
- Earth Institute at Columbia & Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a
center of the Earth Institute ? New York NY (USA)
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/55
(see JOBS 3 below)
Asst Prof - Atmospheric Science ? Earth and Space Science and
Engineering - York University ? Toronto, ON (Canada)
http://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/viewposition.jsp?
positionnumber=936
(see JOB 4 below)
Environmental Fellows - Harvard University - Cambridge, MA (USA)
http://environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/funding.htm
(see JOB 5 below)
Tenure-track tier-two Canada Research Chair - Department of Earth and
Atmospheric Sciences: subgrid-scale physical parameterizations and
surface processes. University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) (Canada)
(see JOB 6 below)
Postdoc - Paleoceanography / Marine Geochemistry - School of
GeoSciences - University of Edinburgh (http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/ ) (UK)
www.jobs.ed.ac.uk Job Reference: 3008100.
(see JOB 7 below)
Asst./Assoc. Prof - Human and Physical Geography - Social Sciences
Division - King's University College - Edmonton, Alberta ? (Canada)
http://www.geog.uvic.ca/dept/cag/jobs.htm#L681*
(see JOB 8 below)
Research Fellow - Environmental Policy Research Centre- Freie
Universit?t (Berlin)
www.fu-berlin.de/ffu
(see JOB 9 below)
Asst. Prof. - Aquatic Ecologist - Biology Department ? State
University of New York (SUNY) ? Fredonia, NY (USA)
(see JOB 10 below)
Faculty - Department of Biology - Brigham Young University ? Provo UT
(USA)
http://biojobs.blogspot.com/2007/10/faculty-openings-
ecologyevolution.html
(see JOB 11 below)
Job Links ? biojobs.blogspot.com
(see JOBS 12 below)
Climate sector jobs
(see JOBS 13 below)
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Forum
(FORUM 1) Contributions sought: A Handbook of Global Environmental
Issues in preparation, Wil Burns, ed.
I've been asked by the publisher World Scientific (http://
www.worldscientific.com), to edit a new book, entitled A Handbook of
Global Environmental Issues. The co-editor will be Joel Heinen, a
conservation biologist and the Chair of the Environmental Studies
Department at Florida International University. While World
Scientific is primarily a publisher of medical, scientific, and
technical publications, it is seeking to expand its social science
offerings, and this book is part of that strategy. However, given the
primary market of the publisher, it is contemplated that the
Handbook's chapters should include a scientific/ecological component
where germane.
We are seeking potential contributors of chapters on the topics
listed below, with the following guidelines: 1.) 8000-12,000 words
per chapter, including citations; 2.) Submission of first drafts
by June 1, 2008; 3.) Because this is intended to be a "handbook,"
the approach should be to provide a broad-brush overview of a topic
rather than focusing on one particular aspect; 4.) We will
consider publication of a previous work, or a modified version, with
permission of the publisher of the earlier work. We will also
consider proposals for pertinent topics not on this list.
If you are interested in participating in this project, please submit
the following as soon as possible: 1.) A one to two paragraph
abstract describing your approach to the topic
you select; 2.) An outline for the chapter
It is my hope to begin commissioning chapters within the next
month. I hope that some of the members of the list will join us in
this project! Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions
you might have.
CONTACT: Dr. Wil Burns, Senior Fellow, International
Environmental Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, 500 El
Camino Real, Loyola 101, Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA Phone:
408.551.3000 x6139 wburns at scu.edu
SSRN Author Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?
per_id=240348
International Environmental Law Blog: http://
lawprofessors.typepad.com/intlenvironment/
CHAPTER TOPICS: 1. Climate change 2. Desertification 3.
Transboundary water law and politics 4. Sustainable development 5.
International wildlife law and policy 6. Transboundary trade in
hazardous waste 7. Interface of trade and environmental regimes
8. The Precautionary principle 9. Ocean pollution and institutional
responses 10. Transboundary air pollution and institutional
responses 11. Implementation, compliance and effectiveness
mechanisms for international environmental agreements 12. Voluntary/
corporate environmental initiatives (e.g. ISO, Equator) 13. Impacts
of globalization on the global environment 14. Fisheries: status and
management 15. International environmental governance 16. European
Union (or regional) and international environmental policymaking
17. The polluter pays principle and international environmental law
18. The role of intergovernmental organizations in international
environmental policymaking 19. Conservation Biology: Global focus
20. Energy and the Environment: global focus 21. Forests 22. The
Environmental Kuznets Curve, or more broadly, global environmental/
ecological economics
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(FORUM 2) A Swiftly Melting Planet
NY Times - Op-Ed Contributor Thomas Homer-Dixon - Published:
October 4, 2007 THE Arctic ice cap melted this summer at a shocking
pace, disappearing at a far higher rate than predicted by even the
most pessimistic experts in global warming. But we shouldn't be
shocked, because scientists have long known that major features of
earth's interlinked climate system of air and water can change abruptly.
A big reason such change happens is feedback - not the feedback
that you'd like to give your boss, but the feedback that creates a
vicious circle. This type of feedback in our global climate could
determine humankind's future prosperity and even survival.
The vast expanse of ice floating on the surface of the Arctic
Ocean always recedes in the summer, reaching its lowest point
sometime in September. Every winter it expands again, as the long
Arctic night descends and temperatures plummet. Each summer over the
past six years, global warming has trimmed this ice's total area a
little more, and each winter the ice's recovery has been a little
less robust. These trends alarmed climate scientists, but most
thought that sea ice wouldn't disappear completely in the Arctic
summer before 2040 at the earliest.
But this past summer sent scientists scrambling to redo their
estimates. Week by week, the National Snow and Ice Data Center in
Boulder, Colo., reported the trend: from 2.23 million square miles of
ice remaining on Aug. 8 to 1.6 million square miles on Sept. 16, an
astonishing drop from the previous low of 2.05 million square miles,
reached in 2005.
The loss of Arctic sea ice won't be the last abrupt change in
earth's climate, because of feedbacks. One of the climate's most
important destabilizing feedbacks involves Arctic ice. It works like
this: our release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases around
the planet causes some initial warming that melts some ice. Melting
ice leaves behind open ocean water that has a much lower reflectivity
(or albedo) than that of ice. Open ocean water absorbs about 80
percent more solar radiation than sea ice does. And so as the sun
warms the ocean, even more ice melts, in a vicious circle. This ice-
albedo feedback is one of the main reasons warming is happening far
faster in the high north, where there are vast stretches of sea ice,
than anywhere else on Earth.
There are other destabilizing feedbacks in the carbon cycle that
involve the oceans. Each year, the oceans absorb about half the
carbon dioxide that humans emit into the atmosphere. But as oceans
warm, they will absorb less carbon dioxide, partly because the gas
dissolves less readily in warmer water, and partly because warming
will reduce the mixing between deep and surface waters that provides
nutrients to plankton that absorb carbon dioxide. And when oceans
take up less carbon dioxide, warming worsens.
Scientists have done a good job incorporating some feedbacks into
their climate models, especially those, like the ice-albedo feedback,
that operate directly on the temperature of air or water. But they
haven't incorporated as well feedbacks that operate on the
atmosphere's concentrations of greenhouse gases or that affect the
cycle of carbon among air, land, oceans and organisms. Yet these may
be the most important feedbacks of all.
Global warming is melting large areas of permafrost in Alaska,
Canada and Siberia. As it melts, the organic matter in the permafrost
starts to rot, releasing carbon dioxide and methane (molecule for
molecule, methane traps far more heat in the atmosphere than carbon
dioxide).
Warming is also affecting wetlands and forests around the world,
helping to desiccate immense peat bogs in Indonesia, contributing to
more frequent drought in the Amazon basin, and propelling a widening
beetle infestation that's killing enormous tracts of pine forest in
Alaska and British Columbia. (This infestation is on the brink of
crossing the Canadian Rockies into the boreal forest that extends
east to Newfoundland.) Dried peat and dead and dying forests are
vulnerable to wildfires that would emit huge quantities of carbon
into the atmosphere.
This summer's loss of Arctic sea ice indicates that at least one
major destabilizing feedback is gaining force quickly. Scientists
have also recently learned that the Southern Ocean, which encircles
Antarctica, appears to be absorbing less carbon, while Greenland's
ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate.
When warming becomes its own cause, we might not be able to stop
extremely harmful climate change no matter how much we cut our
greenhouse gas emissions. We need a far more aggressive global
response to climate change. In the 1960s, mothers learned that the
milk they were feeding their children was laced with radioactive
material from atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons and that this
contamination could increase the risk of childhood leukemia. Soon
women organized themselves in the tens of thousands to demand that
nuclear powers ban atmospheric testing. Their campaign largely
succeeded.
In response to the new dangers of climate change, we need a
similar mobilization - of mothers, of students and of everyone with a
stake in the future - now.
Thomas Homer-Dixon, a professor of peace and conflict studies at
the University of Toronto, is the author of "The Upside of Down:
Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization."
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Science News
(NEWS 1) Killer cow emissions
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-ed-
methane15oct15,1,848859.story
Los Angeles Times - October 15, 2007 - Livestock are a leading
source of greenhouse gases. Why isn't anyone raising a stink?
It's a silent but deadly source of greenhouse gases that
contributes more to global warming than the entire world
transportation sector, yet politicians almost never discuss it, and
environmental lobbyists and other green activist groups seem unaware
of its existence.
That may be because it's tough to take cow flatulence seriously.
But livestock emissions are no joke.
Most of the national debate about global warming centers on
carbon dioxide, the world's most abundant greenhouse gas, and its
major sources ? fossil fuels. Seldom mentioned is that cows and other
ruminants, such as sheep and goats, are walking gas factories that
take in fodder and put out methane and nitrous oxide, two greenhouse
gases that are far more efficient at trapping heat than carbon
dioxide. Methane, with 21 times the warming potential of CO2, comes
from both ends of a cow, but mostly the front. Frat boys have nothing
on bovines, as it's estimated that a single cow can belch out
anywhere from 25 to 130 gallons of methane a day.
It isn't just the gas they pass that makes livestock troublesome.
A report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
identified livestock as one of the two or three top contributors to
the world's most serious environmental problems, including water
pollution and species loss. In terms of climate change, livestock are
a threat not only because of the gases coming from their stomachs and
manure but because of deforestation, as land is cleared to make way
for pastures, and the amount of energy needed to produce the crops
that feed the animals.
All told, livestock are responsible for 18% of greenhouse-gas
emissions worldwide, according to the U.N. -- more than all the
planes, trains and automobiles on the planet. And it's going to get a
lot worse. As living standards rise in the developing world, so does
its fondness for meat and dairy. Annual per-capita meat consumption
in developing countries doubled from 31 pounds in 1980 to 62 pounds
in 2002, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization, which
expects global meat production to more than double by 2050. That
means the environmental damage of ranching would have to be cut in
half just to keep emissions at their current, dangerous level.
It isn't enough to improve mileage standards or crack down on
diesel truck emissions, as politicians at both the state and national
levels are working to do. Eventually, the United States and other
countries are going to have to clean up their agricultural practices,
while consumers can do their part by cutting back on red meat.
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(NEWS 2) Hurricane Fears Cost Homeowners Coverage
http://tinyurl.com/2cv24u
By Paul Vitello - Garden City, N.Y., Oct. 15 ? It is 1,200 miles
from the coastline where Hurricane Katrina touched land two years ago
to the neat colonial-style home here where James Gray, a retired
public relations consultant, and his wife, Ann, live. But this
summer, Katrina reached them, too, in the form of a cancellation
letter from their home-insurance company.
The letter said that "hurricane events over the past two years"
had forced the company to limit its exposure to further losses; and
that because the Grays' home on Long Island was near the Atlantic
Ocean ? it is 12 miles from the coast and has been touched by
rampaging waters only once, when the upstairs bathtub overflowed ?
their 30-year-old policy was "nonrenewed," or canceled.
The Grays signed with a new company, but their case attracted the
attention of consumer advocates and, in turn, the New York insurance
commissioner, Eric R. Dinallo.
Mr. Dinallo's sharp rebuke last month of the Grays' company,
Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company, reflected a shift in how
public officials view a new reality in the homeowners' insurance
business, advocates say.
In the last three years, more than three million homeowners have
received letters like the Grays' as insurance companies, determined
to avoid another $40 billion Katrina bill, have essentially begun to
redraw the outline of the eastern United States somewhere west of the
Appalachian Trail.
Public officials in Southern states from Florida to Texas have
been fighting insurance carriers for years over rising rates and
withdrawal of services, but officials in the Northeast have only
recently joined the fray.
Companies including Allstate, State Farm and Liberty Mutual have
"nonrenewed" policies not only in hurricane-battered places like
Florida and Louisiana, but in New York and other Northern states that
have not seen hurricanes in years. Since last year, those three
companies and others have turned down all new homeowners' insurance
business in New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland,
Massachusetts and the eight downstate counties of New York.
An independent insurance agents' group puts the Grays among about
50,000 residents of the New York metropolitan area ? and about one
million homeowners in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states ? whose
policies have been canceled since 2004. While most homeowners have
been able to find coverage with other major insurers, or with smaller
companies, in most cases it is at higher rates and with larger
deductibles.
The companies say they are obliged to avoid undue risks where
they see them, and to remain solvent. "Considering what happened
between 2003 and 2005," said Robert P. Hartwig, president of the
Insurance Information Institute, an industry lobbying group, "and
considering that the best meteorological minds are telling us that
for the next 15 to 20 years hurricane activity will be heavier than
normal, if we didn't do something to reduce our exposure, we'd be out
of business."
In response to a growing torrent of complaints, state officials
and lawmakers have lately begun to push back, if gingerly, against
the industry, which they see as overreacting to the hurricane threat
in the Northeast. "My concern is that this situation is being
manipulated by the insurance companies in order for them to get
higher rates," said State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, who calls the
cancellation of policies in his eastern Long Island district "more
than a problem ? it is a crisis."
Mr. Dinallo, the commissioner, has focused his attention on the
law: It was a single line in the Liberty Mutual letter sent to the
Grays that prompted him to issue his rebuke. The line noted that one
consideration in dropping their policy was that they did not have car
insurance with the company.
That, Mr. Dinallo said, is illegal. Predicating one policy on
another, or so-called "tie-in business," is a violation of state
insurance law, he said. Liberty Mutual said the tie-in was a
secondary issue, but in response to Mr. Dinallo's warning, Liberty
Mutual, State Farm and the largest insurer in the state, Allstate,
agreed to stop the practice.
Earlier this year, Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney
general, also challenged insurers' tactics, subpoenaing records from
nine insurance companies that were requiring homeowners to install
storm shutters if they wanted to keep their policies. "The insurers
are making record profits," Mr. Blumenthal said in an interview, "and
the dire predictions of disastrous hurricanes, fortunately, have been
very wrong ? fortunately for everyone, including the insurers."
Meanwhile, heated public hearings were held this year in the
Rhode Island General Assembly about the lack of homeowners' insurance
in coastal areas, which include most of the state.
In Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, lawmakers and
regulators this year proposed requiring all insurance companies doing
business in the states to set aside billions of dollars to help
defray losses from future catastrophic storms.
At a public hearing of the New York Senate Insurance Committee
last Tuesday, Senator Charles J. Fuschillo Jr. said the retreat of
major home insurers had hurt the housing market. (Home insurance is
required by all banks that make home loans.)
"We have people who cannot buy a house because they can't find
insurance," he said.
Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a
California-based consumer advocacy group, has watched the situation
in the East with both professional and personal interest, since the
policy on her parents' Long Island home was recently canceled. Crisis
or not, she said, the pattern is familiar.
"Wide-scale nonrenewal has been the knee-jerk reaction of the big
insurance companies after every major disaster: hurricanes,
earthquakes, wildfires," she said.
Florida set the pattern for states in picking up the risk shed by
major carriers. Its state-created Citizens Property Insurance
Corporation, the insurance pool for those unable to find home
insurance anywhere else, has become the state's largest homeowners'
insurer, with 1.3 million policies.
But Massachusetts, last hit by a moderate hurricane in 1991, has
also found itself in the insurance business. Its high-risk pool has
doubled in size in the last five years, reaching 200,000 policies
this year, which makes it the largest single homeowners' insurance
carrier in the state. On Cape Cod, 44 percent of homeowners are
covered by the plan.
In New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, the number of people
covered by state insurance pools has remained relatively low. The New
York plan, known as the New York Property Insurance Underwriting
Association, carries about 70,000 policies, most for homes in coastal
areas; this year, officials said, the state pool was expecting 10,000
more.
To some extent, insurance brokers in the New York metropolitan
area have closed the gap left by the major carriers by finding
policies with subprime insurers, also known as the excess and surplus
market. Figures provided by the Excess Line Association of New York,
a group representing those insurers, show that 7,689 such policies
were sold last year, and almost as many, 7,456, in the first seven
months of 2007.
Robert J. Hunter, director of insurance for the Consumer
Federation of America, said the extent of the retreat by major
insurers "will depend a lot on what happens this year, hurricane-wise."
Insurance companies have condensed their projections of risk, he
said. "They used to project 20 years in the future, but now it is
more like 4 or 5," Mr. Hunter said, a practice that has driven the
current pull-back along the Northeast coast, where a big hurricane is
overdue, according to computer analysis.
Mr. Hartwig, of the Insurance Institute, said it was more
complicated than that. "What insurers are worried about is not just a
hurricane in New York, but hurricanes in New York and Florida at the
same time," he said.
Betty Clark, a retired waitress living on a fixed income in a
modest house where she raised her children in Eastham, Mass., on Cape
Cod, said she had no idea how the tussle between insurance companies
and public officials would play out. But after years of paying $742 a
year, her home insurance doubled last year, to $1,440, which she
would not be able to afford if not for some help from her children.
"I've never made a claim in all these years," she said by
telephone. "And yet, here it's possible I'll lose my home," she said.
And not to a hurricane, she added.
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(NEWS 3) Arctic Melt Unnerves The Experts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html?
_r=1&ex=&oref=slogin
New York Times (registration required) - 2 October 2007 - This
past summer, the Arctic ice cap shrank so much that waves could be
seen along the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea
Route over Russia. According to new study, led by Son Ngheim of U.S.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration?s Jet Propulsion and
published in Geophysical Research Letters, the changes occurring are
as much from melting as they are from the ice moving. The study also
shows that the proportion of thick, durable floes that were at least
10 years old dropped to 2 percent this spring from 80 percent in the
spring of 1987. There is much scientific debate as to what the causes
are. However many agree that the vanishing act of the sea ice this
year was probably caused by superimposed forces including heat-
trapping clouds and water vapor in the air, as well as the ocean-
heating influence of unusually sunny skies in June and July.
Sources: Citation: S.V. Nghiem, I. G. Rigor, D. K. Perovich, P.
Clemente-Colon, J. W. Weatherly, and G. Neumann. Rapid Reduction of
Arctic Perennial Sea Ice. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 34,
L19504, doi:10.1029/2007GL031138, 2007. Abstract available at: http://
www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2007GL031138.shtml
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(NEWS 4) Hidden Costs of Climate Change: Major, Nationwide, Uncounted
http://www.enn.com/climate/article/23922
The total economic cost of climate change in the United States
will be major and nationwide in scope, but remains uncounted,
unplanned for and largely hidden in public debate, says a new study
from the University of Maryland.
The report, The U.S. Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the
Costs of Inaction, is the first to pull together and analyze the
previous economic research on the subject, along with other relevant
data, in order to develop a more complete estimate of costs.
While much of the public debate has focused on the upfront costs
of emission controls, there's been only limited research on
subsequent expenses, such as rebuilding or preparing infrastructure
to meet new realities and the ripple economic effects on the
agricultural, manufacturing and public service sectors. In part, the
report evaluates the "costs of inaction" -- how a failure to reduce
greenhouse gases can make response and adaptation more expensive.
"The true economic impact of climate change is fraught with
'hidden' costs," the report concludes. It adds that these costs will
vary regionally and will put a strain on public sector budgets. For
example, even under current conditions, the combined storm impact for
the nation since 1980 has surpassed $560 billion. More frequent and
intense storms would raise the price tag even higher.
"Climate change will affect every American economically in
significant, dramatic ways, and the longer it takes to respond, the
greater the damage and the higher the costs," says lead researcher
Matthias Ruth, director of the University of Maryland's Center for
Integrative Environmental Research and the Roy F. Weston Chair in
Natural Economics. "The national debate is often framed in terms of
how much it will cost to reduce greenhouse gases, with little or no
consideration of the cost of no response or the cost of waiting.
Review and analysis of existing data suggest that delay will prove
costly and tip the economic scales in favor of quicker strategic
action."
Estimating a total price tag for all the hidden costs is
impossible at the moment, say the researchers. The report finds that
current techniques generally used by economists to measure the costs
related to climate change are ill-suited to a situation so complex
and pervasive. It recommends a new, immediate research effort to
accompany initiatives designed to minimize the impact of climate
change. ...continued...
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(NEWS 5) Caspian summit produces warnings for outsiders, but no deal
on dividing resource-rich sea
http://climate.weather.com/articles/sea101707.html
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Leaders of the five nations around the
Caspian Sea failed to agree Tuesday on how to divide the inland water
body, a prize at the center of the global struggle for access to oil
and natural gas.
Short on substance, the summit did produce aggressive statements
by Russia and Iran ? two countries deeply wary of Western influence ?
warning against outside interference in the region of increasingly
assertive resource-rich states.
Eager to maintain his country's dominance over the delivery of
oil and gas to the West from the Central Asian states on the
Caspian's eastern shore, Russian President Vladimir Putin argued that
pipelines from the region should only be built if all five nations
support them.
He cited concerns about the environment, an issue that critics
say Moscow has used as a pretext to squeeze Western companies out of
energy projects on its own soil. The remarks were likely to deepen
Western worries about Russia's use of its energy muscle. ...
continued...
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(NEWS 6) Climate change also impacts river flow
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?
feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20071015-10324300-bc-us-climatechange.xml
UPI ? Baltimore - A U.S. analysis of the potential effect of
climate change on river basins indicates many rivers will require
interventions to protect ecosystems and people.
"As a result of damming and development, major rivers worldwide
have experienced dramatic changes in flow, reducing their natural
ability to adjust to and absorb disturbances," said lead study author
Margaret Palmer, director of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. "Given
expected changes in global climate and water needs, this could lead
to serious problems for both ecosystems and people."
The researchers project river discharge under different climate
and water withdrawal scenarios and combine that with data on the
impact of dams on large river basins. The projections indicate every
populated basin in the world will experience changes in river
discharge -- some in which there won't be enough water to meet human
needs.
The study also finds nearly 1 billion people live in areas likely
to require action and approximately 365 million people live in basins
almost certain to require action.
The findings appear in the online version of the journal
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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(NEWS 7) Ancient Fossil Evidence Supports Carbon Dioxide As Driver Of
Global Warming
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071016090525.htm
A team of American and Canadian scientists has devised a new way
to study Earth's past climate by analyzing the chemical composition
of ancient marine fossils. The first published tests with the method
further support the view that atmospheric CO2 has contributed to
dramatic climate variations in the past, and strengthen projections
that human CO2 emissions could cause global warming.
In the current issue of the journal Nature, geologists and
environmental scientists from the California Institute of Technology,
the University of Ottawa, the Memorial University of Newfoundland,
Brock University, and the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve report the results of a new method for determining the growth
temperatures of carbonate fossils such as shells and corals. This
method looks at the percentage of rare isotopes of oxygen and carbon
that bond with each other rather than being randomly distributed
through their mineral lattices.
Because these bonds between oxygen-18 and carbon-13 form in
greater abundance at low temperatures and lesser abundance at higher
temperatures, a precise measurement of their concentration in a
carbonate fossil can quantify the temperature of seawater in which
the organisms lived. By comparing this record of temperature change
with previous estimates of past atmospheric CO2 concentrations, the
study demonstrates a strong coupling of atmospheric temperatures and
carbon dioxide concentrations across one of Earth's major
environmental shifts.
According to Rosemarie Came, a postdoctoral scholar in
geochemistry at Caltech and lead author of the article, only about 60
parts per million of the carbonate molecular groups that make up the
mineral structures of carbonate fossils are a combination of both
oxygen-18 and carbon-13, but the amount varies predictably with
temperature. Therefore, knowing the age of the sample and how much of
these exotic carbonate groups are present allows one to create a
record of the planet's temperature through time.
"This clumped-isotope method has an advantage over previous
approaches because we're looking at the distribution of rare isotopes
inside a single shell or coral," Came says. "All the information
needed to study the surface temperature at the time the animal lived
is stored in the fossil itself."
In this way, the method contrasts with previous approaches that
require knowledge of the chemistry of seawater in the distant past--
something that is poorly known.
The study contrasts the growth temperatures of fossils from two times
in the distant geological past. The Silurian period, approximately
400 million years ago, is thought to have been a time of highly
elevated atmospheric CO2 (more than 10 times the modern
concentration), and was found by the researchers to be a time of
exceptionally warm shallow-ocean temperatures--nearly 35 degrees C.
In contrast, the Carboniferous period, roughly 300 million years ago,
appears to have been characterized by far lower levels of atmospheric
carbon dioxide (similar to modern values) and had shallow marine
temperatures similar to or slightly cooler than today-about 25
degrees C. Thus, the draw-down of atmospheric CO2 coincided with
strong global cooling.
"This is a huge change in temperature," says John Eiler, a
professor of geochemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of the study. "It
shows that carbon dioxide really has been a powerful driver of
climate change in Earth's past."
The title of the Nature paper is "Coupling of surface
temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the Paleozoic
era." The other authors are Jan Veizer of the University of Ottawa,
Karem Azmy of Memorial University of Newfoundland, Uwe Brand of Brock
University, and Christopher R. Weidman of the Waquoit National
Estuarine Research Reserve, Massachusetts.
Note: This story has been adapted from material provided by
California Institute of Technology.
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(NEWS 8) 'Climate Year' Heads for Uncertain End
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/10/13/
climate_year_heads_for_uncertain_end/ Or: http://tinyurl.com/22tkn5
Boston Globe (Registration Required) - It's October and global
warming campaigner Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize. In November
the U.N.'s climate scientists issue a capstone report on where the
planet is headed. And in December envoys of almost 200 nations gather
in Bali, Indonesia, hoping for action to head off the worst of
climate change. But because of something that happened in September,
their chances look slim.
This has been the "year of climate," as the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, the scientist network that will share the
Nobel gold with Gore, produced a series of authoritative reports
showing that global warming has arrived.
...But prospects for an agreement dimmed in September when the
Bush administration, at a 16-nation "major emitters" meeting in
Washington, signaled it intends to stick with its opposition to any
global treaty mandating reductions in the heat-trapping emissions.
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(NEWS 9) Something New Under the Sun
http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?
story_id=9928154 Or: http://tinyurl.com/yv9f6j
Economist - "A CRISIS is a terrible thing to waste," Vinod Khosla
laments to Larry Page. The two Silicon Valley luminaries are chatting
one evening at the Googleplex, the quirky Californian headquarters of
Google. The crisis which Mr Khosla is concerned about is caused by
carmakers' addiction to oil and the consequent warming of the planet.
... The two are plotting what they hope will be the next great
industrial revolution: the convergence of software and smart
electronics with the grease and grime of the oil and car industries.
... Mr Page, co-founder of Google, had earlier hosted a gathering
of leading environmentalists, political thinkers and energy experts
to help shape an inducement to get things moving: the Automotive X
Prize, to be unveiled in early 2008. The organisers will offer at
least $10m to whoever comes up with the best "efficient, clean,
affordable and sexy" car able to obtain the equivalent of 100 miles-
per-gallon using alternative energy.
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(NEWS 10) Humans Consume Nearly a Quarter of Earth's Natural
Productivity
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071013/bob9.asp Or:
http://tinyurl.com/yt4q7e
Science News - Some people live lightly on the land: Bedouin
clans roam the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa; small
groups of indigenous people follow reindeer herds across frigid
Arctic terrain; and tribes of hunter-gatherers forage the plains of
southern Africa and the forests of Amazonia and Papua New Guinea.
Then there's the other 6.6 billion of us. When we farm, clear
forests, and build cities, dams, and roads, we dramatically alter the
landscape. In some places, we increase the land's productivity -
measured as the amount of plant life at the base of the food chain -
by adding immense amounts of water and fertilizer.
New research indicates that on the whole, however, human presence
significantly decreases Earth's biological productivity. For
instance, many of today's cities occupy large patches of what had
been some of the world's most fertile land.
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(NEWS 11) The Seed Bank Atop the World
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-
vault12oct12,1,1029387.story Or: http://tinyurl.com/2qwouv
Los Angeles Times (Registration Required) - LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY
-- High above the icy fjord, the vault is almost complete. Inside a
frozen mountain not far from the North Pole, workers are building
three concrete chambers to withstand global warming, floods and
fires, wars and nuclear holocaust.
This Arctic safe, nicknamed the "doomsday vault," will protect
millions of crop seeds here on the forbidding Svalbard archipelago,
the northernmost inhabited spot on the planet. The survival of
Earth's agriculture is being entrusted to a land inhospitable to
life, where only the toughest plants, animals and humans endure.
... Should the bleakest global warming scenario come true ... the
seeds would be sheltered in their cave here, 400 feet above the
Advent Fjord. In case of an electricity blackout, the permafrost
ensures that the seeds would remain refrigerated in the state-of-the-
art Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
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(NEWS 12) Orbiting Solar Panels' Day May Be Near
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-
spacesolar11oct11,1,5761676.story Or: http://tinyurl.com/yp9jo3
Los Angeles Times (Registration Required) - Beam it down, Scotty.
A new federal study released Wednesday concluded that continued
increases in oil prices may finally make the generation of solar
power in orbit economically competitive. The report urged the
government to sponsor a demonstration of the technology to spur
private investment in the concept.
The orbiting power plants would reduce the nation's dependence on
imported oil and help reduce the production of carbon dioxide that is
contributing to global warming, according to the report led by the
National Security Space Office, part of the Department of Defense.
"This is a solution for all mankind," said former astronaut Buzz
Aldrin, chairman of the spaceflight advocacy group, ShareSpace
Foundation. Aldrin joined a group of other space advocacy
organizations to unveil the report in Washington.
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(NEWS 13) Warmth Makes the World More Humid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7038278.stm Or:
http://tinyurl.com/ypf96p
BBC News Online - The atmosphere is becoming more humid in a
pattern consistent with man-made climate change, researchers have
found. Their study, reported in the journal Nature, confirms the
global increase in humidity found in previous studies.
They say that the pattern of humidity increases in various parts
of the world resembles that projected by computer models of man-made
global warming. Water vapour is a greenhouse gas, and it is thought
that having more of it in the air could amplify temperature rise.
The major report released earlier this year by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said that this
amplification was the largest "positive feedback" mechanism they had
identified. Previous research has shown that humidity increases in
Europe, a response to higher temperatures, were amplifying the
temperature rise by about a factor of two.
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(NEWS 14) Global-Warming Skeptics: Is It Only the News Media Who Need
to Chill?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1011/p13s03-sten.html Or: http://
tinyurl.com/2lyehq
Christian Science Monitor - In the 1970s, mainstream media
outlets published stories about a coming age of "global cooling" and
the climate disaster it would trigger.
... Today, skeptics of global warming sometimes point to what
they call the "global-cooling scare" of the 1970s as a reason to
discount what they hear now. If the news media 30 years ago hyped
"global cooling" and were wrong, skeptics say, doesn't it follow that
"global warming" coverage might prove equally wrong?
But those who have looked closely at the two eras or have been
part of the scientific community then and now say the comparison is
unfair. William Connolley, a sort of self-appointed historian of the
global-cooling theory, says that although global cooling was briefly
but prominently covered in some speculative news articles, the idea
never got much traction within the scientific community.
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(NEWS 15) Bush Aide Rejects Climate Goal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/
AR2007101802243.html Or: http://tinyurl.com/36p663
Washington Post (Registration Required) - The president's top
science adviser said yesterday there is no solid scientific evidence
that the widely cited goal of limiting future global temperature
rises to two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is necessary
to avert dangerous climate change, an assertion that runs counter to
that of many scientists as well as the Nobel Prize-winning
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
John H. Marburger III, director of the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy, said at a news conference that the
target of preventing Earth from warming more than two degrees
Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, "is going to be a very difficult
one to achieve and is not actually linked to regional events that
affect people's lives."
...Marburger said that while there is general agreement that
human activity is producing too much carbon dioxide and "you could
have emerging disasters long before you get to two degrees. ... There
is no scientific criterion for establishing numbers like that."
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(NEWS 16) Gore shares Nobel win with U.N. climate panel
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071012/ts_nm/nobel_peace_gore_ipcc_dc_2
Yahoo! News - OSLO (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore and
the U.N. climate panel shared the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for
work on global warming, and the award committee urged action "before
climate change moves beyond man's control."
Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) won "for their efforts to build up and disseminate
greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the
foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such
change," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
They were chosen to share the $1.5 million prize from a field of
181 candidates.
"Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond
man's control," the citation said of rising temperatures that could
bring more droughts, floods, rising seas.
"He is probably the single individual who has done most to create
greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be
adopted," the committee said of Gore.
"The IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about
the connection between human activities and global warming," it said.
IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said he was overwhelmed.
"I can't believe it, overwhelmed, stunned," Pachauri told
reporters and co-workers after receiving the news on the phone at his
office in New Delhi.
"I feel privileged sharing it with someone as distinguished as
him," he added, referring to Gore.
The IPCC groups 2,500 researchers from more than 130 nations and
issued reports this year blaming human activities for climate changes
ranging from more heat waves to floods. It was set up in 1988 by the
United Nations to help guide governments.
Since leaving office in 2001 Gore has lectured extensively on the
threat of global warming and last year starred in his own Oscar-
winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" to warn of the
dangers of climate change and urge action against it.
It was the second prize to a leading Democrat during the
presidency of Republican George W. Bush.
The 2002 prize went to former President Jimmy Carter, which the
chairman of the Nobel committee had called a "kick in the legs" to
the U.S. administration over its preparations to invade Iraq.
But chairman Ole Danbolt Mjoes said the prize to Gore was not
meant as criticism of Bush. The peace prize is not criticism of
anyone," Danbolt Mjoes said.
The Nobel prize is worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.54
million) and will be handed out in Oslo on December 10.
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(NEWS 17) Gore, U.N. Body Win Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.examiner.com/
a-985439~Gore__U_N__Body_Win_Nobel_Peace_Prize.html Or: http://
tinyurl.com/2y2zbf
San Francisco Examiner - October 12, 2007 - OSLO, Norway - Former
Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their
efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the
foundations for counteracting it.
"I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize," Gore
said. "We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not
a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of
humanity." Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary on
global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely
expected to win the prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said global warming, "may induce
large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's
resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the
world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of
violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."
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(NEWS 18) UNEP Statement on Nobel Peace Prize
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore
Jointly Win the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Statement by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and
Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in Response to
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore Jointly
Winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Nairobi, 12 October 2007-The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has
today made it clear that combating climate change is a central peace
and security policy for the 21st century.
The two winners -the IPCC and former US Vice-President Al Gore-
have contributed significantly to elevating public attention on the
issue of global warming while outlining the enormous risks but also
the enormous opportunities confronting the world.
In doing so, the IPCC and Mr Gore have contributed to the
unprecedented momentum on the climate change challenge in 2007.
This now needs to be translated into negotiations on a decisive,
post 2012 emissions reduction agreement, when governments gather in
December in Bali for the UN climate convention meeting.
Established in the late 1980s by UNEP and the World
Meteorological Organisation of the UN, the IPCC and its more than
2,000 scientists and experts has grappled with the science; the
likely impacts of climate change and the economics.
2007 has seen the publication of the IPCC's fourth assessment
report.
The IPCC, under the leadership of its chair Dr Rajendra Pachuri,
have put a full stop behind the science-climate change is happening.
It has also outlined the impacts, from the melting off glaciers
in the Himalayas to more frequent and devastating floods in New York
to Bangladesh-impacts, not in some far away future but in the life-
time of people reading and hearing the announcement off the Peace
Prize Committee.
The IPCC has also calculated the price of peace and stability on
this planet-perhaps 0.1 per cent of global GDP a year for 30 years
for combating climate change and avoiding instability, rising
tensions and conflict.
The IPCC, in validating the climate science, represents one of
the most important contributions the UN has made in its history to
humanity and its current and future choices.
UNEP has also recognized the importance of Mr Gore's
contributions to environmental stability with our own more modest
accolade.
This year Mr Gore was named a UNEP Champions of the Earth for
"making environmental protection a pillar of his public service and
for educating the world on the dangers posed by rising greenhouse gas
emissions".
For More Information Please Contact Nick Nuttall, UNEP
Spokesperson, at tel: +254 20 762 3084, mobile: +254 733 632755, or e-
mail: nick.nuttall at unep.org; or Anne-France White, Associate Media
Officer, at tel: +254 20 762 3088, or e-mail: anne-
france.white at unep.org.
For more information on IPCC, see www.ipcc.ch
For more information on UNEP's work on climate change, see
www.unep.org/themes/
climatechange
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(NEWS 19) IPCC and Gore win Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace
Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold
(Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater
knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations
for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be
treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary
principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter
and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may
induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the
earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens
on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased
danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.
Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two
decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus
about the connection between human activities and global warming.
Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries
have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the
warming. Whereas in the 1980s global warming seemed to be merely an
interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its
support. In the last few years, the connections have become even
clearer and the consequences still more apparent.
Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading
environmentalist politicians. He became aware at an early stage of
the climatic challenges the world is facing. His strong commitment,
reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has
strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the
single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide
understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.
By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al
Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a
sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be
necessary to protect the world?s future climate, and thereby to
reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary
now, before climate change moves beyond man?s control.
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities
(MEETING 1) "Climate Change: from the geological past to the
uncertain future :
A tribute to Andr? Berger" - 26 to 29 May 2008 - Louvain-la-Neuve
(Belgium)
http://www.uclouvain.be/berger2008
Synopsis: What causes glacial - interglacial cycles ? Around 100
scientists worldwide including some of the most authoritative experts
on quaternary climatic changes, past climates reconstruction and
climate modelling are awaited in Louvain-la-Neuve in May 2008 to
summarise the state-of-the-art on some of the most intriguing
questions about the astronomical theory of palaeoclimates: What are
the mechanisms of glacial-interglacial cycles ? When and why did they
regime change ? Would they occur in absence of orbital forcing? What
do we learn from recent marine, ice core and terresrial records ? Can
we predict climate on long time scales ? When will the next glacial
inception occur ? Do past and future greenhouse gas emissions have
long-term consequences ?
This meeting a tribute to Andre Berger, emeritus professor at the
University of Louvain-la-Neuve whose contribution to the
astronomical theory of palaeoclimates is invaluable.
Invited speakers : D. Raynaud : The ice core record ; D.-D.
Rousseau : The terrestrial record ; L. Lisiecki : The ocean record
over the last 3 million years; P. Huybers : "Timing of Pleistocene
climate changes"; J. C. Duplesy : "Changes in ocean circulation and
effects on climate" ; A. Ganopolski : "Modelling glacial-interglacial
cycles"; F. Joos : "The global beiogeochemical cycles"; M. Claussen :
"The Land surface feedbacks" ; M. F. Loutre : "The astronomical
forcing". Participants may submit an abstract for an oral or a poster
contribution.
Please register now at http://www.uclouvain.be/berger2008 ;
Limited places. Travel grants for early-career scientists and
participants from developing countries has been made available by
PAGES (http://www.pages.unibe.ch).
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(MEETING 2) "Key challenges in climate variability and change" - 7th
International NCCR Climate Summer School - 31 August - 5 September
2008 - Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verit?, Ticino, (Switzerland)
http://www.nccr-climate.unibe.ch/summer_school/2008/index_en.html
The NCCR Climate, Switzerland's Centre of Excellence in Climate
and Climate Impact Research, invites young scientists to join leading
climate researchers in a scenic southern Swiss alpine setting for
keynote lectures, workshops and poster sessions on the occasion of
the seventh NCCR Climate Summer School 2008.
The topics covered at the NCCR Climate Summer School 2008 will
include:
* pertinent aspects of climate physics and dynamics, extreme events
* climate phenomena and processes from seasonal to centennial time
ranges
* assessment of predictability, and approaches to operational prediction
* associated impacts of climate change and variability
The Summer School invites young researchers from all fields of
climate research. The courses cover a broad spectrum of climate and
climate impact research issues and foster cross-disciplinary links.
Each topic includes keynote plenary lectures and workshops with in-
depth discussion in smaller groups. All Summer School participants
are expected to present a poster of their research and there will be
ample opportunity for discussion.
Lecturers for keynotes and workshops (confirmed): International
speakers: K. Emanuel (MIT, USA); P. Jones (U East Anglia, UK); F.
Molteni (ICTP Trieste, I); J. Slingo (U Reading, UK); A. Slingo (U
Reading, UK); R. Sutton (U Reading, UK) and others. Swiss speakers:
C. Appenzeller (MeteoSwiss); H.C. Davies (ETH Zurich); J. Fuhrer
(ART); P. Heck (SwissRE); U. Lohmann (ETH Zurich); C. Maetzler (U
Bern); C. Sch?r (ETH Zurich); T.F. Stocker (U Bern); G. Stephan (U
Bern); M. Wild (ETH Zurich) and others.
The summer school is open to young researchers (PhD students and
Post-Docs) worldwide. Participation is highly competitive and will be
limited to a maximum of 70. The registration fee (1400 CHF) includes
full board accommodation, excursion and teaching material. A small
number of grants will be available for students from developing
countries.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 20 DECEMBER 2007 Successful
applicants will be notified in February 2008.
Contact: University of Bern, NCCR Climate Management Centre,
Erlachstrasse 9a, CH-3012 Bern, Switzeralnd, mailto:nccr-
climate at giub.unibe.ch, Telephone +41 31 631 31 45, Telefax +41 31 631
43 38.
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(MEETING 3) The 38th Annual International Arctic Workshop - Institute
of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado - 5-7
March 2008 - Boulder, Colorado (USA)
http://instaar.colorado.edu/AW or contact: ArcticWS at colorado.edu
Deadline for Registration and Abstracts: Wednesday, 13 February 2008
The 38th Annual International Arctic Workshop will be held 5-7
March 2008 at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR),
University of Colorado at Boulder. The meeting is open to all
interested in the Arctic, and will consist of a series of talks and
poster sessions covering all aspects of high-latitude environments,
past and present. Previous Arctic Workshops have included
presentations on arctic and antarctic climate, archeology,
environmental geochemistry, geomorphology, hydrology, glaciology,
soils, ecology, oceanography, Quaternary history, and more.
WHEN: A reception and registration is scheduled for Tuesday
evening March 4th from 5 pm - 8 p.m. The main program is scheduled
for Wednesday through Friday, March 5th to 7th. Please note that
this schedule starts and ends a day of the week earlier than past
workshops.
ABSTRACTS: Submission of abstracts through the website will begin
before Wednesday, 5 December 2007. The deadline for submissions is
Wednesday, 13 February 2008. Presentations can be either a poster or
a talk.
REGISTRATION: Registration through the website will begin before
Wednesday, 5 December 2007. Professional registration will be $150
USD if paid by Wednesday, 13 February or $180 USD thereafter.
Students presenting a talk or poster can register for free. Other
students can register for $60 USD until Wednesday, 13 February or
$180 USD thereafter.
LODGING: Organizers will provide updated links on the website to
Boulder motels and plan to arrange block reservations at a local hotel.
RESEARCH THEMES: This workshop has grown out of a series of
informal annual meetings sponsored by INSTAAR and other academic
institutions worldwide. In keeping with this tradition, there are no
formalized topics, and the workshop is organized around themes
developed from the abstracts submitted for presentation. However,
organizers can accommodate specific themes and arrange small group
meetings. Please identify any special topics or needs by e-mailing
ArcticWS at colorado.edu.
SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS: Student participation is a vital component
of this workshop. A limited number of students giving a talk or
poster will receive financial assistance, including registration and
hotel support.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Support for student participation is subsidized
by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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(JOB 1) Asst Prof tenure-track - GIS, Dept. of Geography -
specialization open. California State University ? Sacramento CA (USA)
California State University, Sacramento seeks to fill one
position in geography with a specialty in Geographic Information
Systems (GIS), effective Fall 2008.
Minimum Qualifications: Education: Ph.D. in Geography or related
discipline required; all requirements for the degree must be
completed by August 25, 2008.
Special Knowledge and Abilities: A strong background in
geography, with graduate coursework and/or research experience in
Geographic Information Systems and geotechniques. The successful
candidate will be expected to (1) teach advanced courses in GIS/
geotechniques and (2) take the lead in helping the Department
strengthen and expand its role as the primary provider of GIS
expertise on the Sacramento State campus. Preference will be given
to applicants who, in addition to the above, also have expertise in
an additional systematic or regional specialty. A strong commitment
to undergraduate teaching and supervision of undergraduate research
is required.
Experience: Prior teaching experience at the college or
university level is desired. Preference will be given to applicants
who have demonstrated the ability to work well with students from
diverse backgrounds and/or who have a record of attracting external
funding.
Assignment: Duties will include: (1) developing and teaching
upper division courses in the candidate's areas of specialization ,
(2) teaching other undergraduate courses, including introductory
level courses, (3) engaging in scholarly activities/research
(preferably in a way that involves undergraduate students in the
research experience), and (4) the service and advising
responsibilities normally expected of university faculty. In
addition, the successful candidate will be expected to take the lead
in strengthening the Geography Department's GIS program.
Appointment: The position is tenure-track at the rank of
Assistant Professor. Starting salary $48,720 to $61,416 depending
upon experience.
Application Procedure: Review of applications will begin November
5, 2007; position open until filled.
Applicants must submit a two to three page letter of application
addressing their fitness for the position described above. The
letter must address the applicant's teaching interests and
experience; experience working with Geographic Information Systems
(GIS); and scholarly interests and experience (particularly in the
context of doing research with undergraduate students). The
application packet must also include official transcripts of all
college work (unofficial copies accepted until invited for
interview), a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation sent
directly to the department search committee, and the telephone
numbers of at least three references who will speak to the
applicant's professional qualifications.
Send Materials to: Michael Schmandt, Chair of Search Committee,
Department of Geography, California State University, Sacramento,
6000 J Street , Sacramento, CA 95819-6003
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(JOB 2) Research Fellow ? Policy Research and Analysis ? Resources
for the Future (RFF) - Washington, DC (USA)
Dear Colleague,
Resources for the Future (RFF) invites applications for a full-
time research fellow. Applications are due by December 15, 2007.
Please contact me or David McLaughlin (mclaughlin at rff.org) for pdf of
announcement.
Sincerely,
Ramanan Laxminarayan, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1616 P
St NW, Washington DC 20036 202.328.5085 (P) Email: ramanan at rff.org
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(JOBS 3) Post-doc/fellowships - Global sustainability, ocean-
atmosphere, etc. - Earth Institute at Columbia & Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, a center of the Earth Institute ? New York NY (USA)
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/55
Each year the Earth Institute seeks the most outstanding early
career researchers with a recent PhD, MD or JD to alloy to the
Fellows Program. We do extensive outreach but the most successful
advertisement by far is when an EI Faculty member reaches out to
students and colleagues to spread the word about the Fellows
Program. Most applicants say they heard about the program from
their advisors.
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(JOB 4) Asst Prof - Atmospheric Science ? Earth and Space Science and
Engineering - York University ? Toronto, ON (Canada)
http://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/viewposition.jsp?
positionnumber=936
The Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering invites
applications for a tenure-stream position at the Assistant Professor
level in the field of Atmospheric Science, to commence July 1, 2008.
Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in areas to
complement the existing activities in Atmospheric Science at York
University, viz., 3D climate and air quality modelling for Earth and
Mars, boundary layer processes, small scale theoretical dynamics,
ground based and satellite instrument design (see http://www.yorku.ca/
esse/ for a more complete list) carried out within the department.
Candidates must have a strong commitment to research and teaching
and have a PhD degree in Atmospheric Science or related field. The
successful candidates will be expected to have or develop strong,
externally funded research programs, and to contribute to teaching
at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The successful candidate
must be eligible for prompt appointment to the Faculty of Graduate
Studies.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however,
Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority.
Applicants should forward a curriculum vitae, an outline of their
research plans and single copies of three publications, and the names
and contact details of three references, by December 15, 2007, to:
Chair, Search Committee
Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering
Room 102 Petrie Science and Engineering Building
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, ON Canada M3J 1P3
Posting End Date: December 15, 2007
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(JOB 5) Environmental Fellows - Harvard University - Cambridge, MA (USA)
http://environment.harvard.edu/navigation2/funding.htm
Purpose: The Harvard University Center for the Environment
created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate
recipients to use and expand Harvard's extraordinary resources to
tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows
will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or
department to create new knowledge while also strengthening
connections across the University's academic disciplines.
Environmental Fellows may include people with degrees in the
sciences, social sciences, law, government, public policy, public
health, medicine, design, and the full array of humanities.
The award: The fellowship will provide an annual stipend of
$52,000 plus health insurance, a $5,000 allowance for travel and
professional expenses, and other employee benefits. Environmental
Fellows will begin work in September 2008.
Schedule: Applications and all letters of reference must be
received by the Center for the Environment by 5 pm Eastern Standard
Time, Tuesday, *January 15, 2008*. The Center will announce the
awards in April 2008.
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(JOB 6) Tenure-track tier-two Canada Research Chair - Department of
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: subgrid-scale physical
parameterizations and surface processes. University of Quebec at
Montreal (UQAM) (Canada)
The research Centre ESCER invites applications for a tier-two
Canada Research Chair, for a tenure-stream position in the Department
of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Quebec at
Montreal (UQAM). The theme of the Chair is Regional Climate
Modelling, with a focus on subgrid-scale physical parameterizations
and surface processes. The Chair holder is expected to contribute
actively to the research programme of the Canadian Network for
Regional Climate Modelling and Diagnostics (CRCMD).
Nominees for Tier-two Chairs are intended to be emerging scholars
with less than 10 years since the PhD and whose peers acknowledge as
having the potential to be world leaders in their field. The Canada
Foundation for Innovation (CFI) provides infrastructure support to
the Chair Programme. Chair appointments are open to Canadian
researchers, whether they are working in Canada or abroad, as well as
to scientists from other countries.
Candidates are invited to signal their interest by sending a
letter with their CV and three letters of reference, electronically
before November 1 2007 to:
Ms Delphine Person, Coordinator, ESCER Centre,
person.delphine at uqam.ca
Tel.: 514-987-3000, ext. 4339 FAX: 514-987-6853
ESCER Centre: http://www.escer.uqam.ca/
CRCMD Network: http://www.mrcc.uqam.ca/
Atmospheric Sciences: http://www.sca.uqam.ca/
Department: http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sct/
UQAM: http://www.uqam.ca/
Canada Research Chair: http://www.chaires.gc.ca/english/About/index.html
CFI: http://www.innovation.ca/index.cfm)
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(JOB 7) Postdoc - Paleoceanography / Marine Geochemistry - School of
GeoSciences - University of Edinburgh (http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/ ) (UK)
www.jobs.ed.ac.uk Job Reference: 3008100.
Closing date: 20 November 2007.
You will contribute to a three-year Paleoceanographic research
programme involving trace element and radio- and stable- isotope
analysis of marine sediment cores working with Raja Ganeshram. The
broad focus of the research project is to understand the interactions
between past climate change and marine biogeochemical cycles (C, N,
P, Si, Fe) by reconstructing processes such as biological
productivity, denitrification, nutrient utilization, sediment redox,
dust inputs and sedimentary opal and carbon accumulation in high and/
or low-latitude oceans.
A PhD or equivalent in Palaeoceanography and/or Marine
Geochemistry together with proven abilities to conduct practical
laboratory based innovative research is essential. As part of a
collaborative research team, you will be responsible for carrying out
laboratory analysis at the University of Edinburgh and other
associated laboratories and contribute further to the development and
application of new and novel geochemical proxies. You will have
access to extensive geochemical and analytical facilities including
stable isotope mass spectrometry, ICP-OES, multi-collector ICP-MS,
AMS and other organic and inorganic geochemical facilities.
For further inquiries contact Dr Raja Ganeshram (email:
Raja.Ganeshram at ed.ac.uk, tel: +44 (0)131 650 7364) or Dr Laetitia
Pichevin (email: lpichevi at staffmail.ed.ac.uk, tel: +44 (0) 131 650 5980.
*How to apply: * Apply online by visiting our website. Job
Reference: 3008100. Alternatively, telephone the recruitment line on
0131 650 2511. P*lease complete the forms and include a CV, a cover
letter and contact details of two referees. *********************
(JOB 8) Asst./Assoc. Prof - Human and Physical Geography - Social
Sciences Division - King's University College - Edmonton, Alberta ?
(Canada)
http://www.geog.uvic.ca/dept/cag/jobs.htm#L681*
The King's University College (Edmonton) invites applications for
a tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate level to start
July 1, 2008. Candidates should have a PhD in Geography,
Environmental Studies or related field (ABD considered). The
successful candidate must be able to teach introductory Human and
Physical Geography, and two or more of the following: Geographic
Information Systems, Environmental Science, Environmental Impact
assessment or Resource/Environmental Management.
Experience in developing or administering an Environmental
Studies program, including student internships, is preferred. Team-
teaching and international experience are assets.
All faculty are expected to engage in scholarly activity,
including publication, and to provide professional or community service.
As a faith-based university college, all geography and
environmental courses integrate faith and learning that emphasizes
foundational and ethical perspectives. Faculty are expected to
articulate and develop a Christian perspective on their discipline,
addressing the role that faith has in shaping course content and
research activities.
This position is based in the Social Sciences Division but has
teaching and administration responsibility for an interdisciplinary
Environmental Studies program. For more information about this
position and the King's University College visit our website at
www.kingsu.ca
Qualified candidates should send a letter of application,
curriculum vitae, transcripts and three letters of reference by
January 15, 2008 to: Dr. Harry Spaling, Vice President (Academic),
The King's University College, 9125 - 50 Street, Edmonton, Alberta
T6B 2H3 Phone: (780) 465-3500, ext. 8354 Fax: (780) 465-3534 E-
mail: harry.spaling at kingsu.ca
This advertisement is addressed first to Canadian citizens and
permanent residents. The University College encourages all qualified
female and male candidates, including visible minorities, to apply.
The University College is currently advertising for a total of 10
faculty positions. Budgetary approval has been received for 5 of the
10 positions. Our intent is to fill the 5 positions for which the
most suitable candidates can be found.
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(JOB 9) Research Fellow - Environmental Policy Research Centre- Freie
Universit?t (Berlin)
www.fu-berlin.de/ffu
Deadline for applications is 31 October.
The Environmental Policy Research Centre at the Freie Universit?t
Berlin is active both in basic and applied research and provides
policy advice for a wide range of public and private institutions in
Germany and abroad. It is also engaged in advanced teaching
programmes including an interdisciplinary Masterprogramme. The Centre
forms part of a large international network of social science
institutes for environmental research. It currently employs about 25
staff. The work is mainly based on third-party funding. Research is
focused on: 1)Environmental pioneers and the diffusion of
environmental policy innovations 2) Ecological modernisation and
structural change 3)Strategies in environmental policy 4) Energy
policy and climate protection 5) Global environmental governance
The position: The Environmental Policy Research Centre seeks to
employ a research fellow (Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in) to
contribute to the research, fundraising and dissemination activities
in the area of environmental policy and innovation. Contributions are
sought in one or several of the following research areas: 1)
Strategies and policy instruments to increase resource efficiency
2) Relationships between environmental and economic policies, the
impact of environmental policy on competitiveness 3) Environmental
policy and product standards 4) Environmental policy integration
Candidates are encouraged to describe in their letter of
motivation which of those research areas correspond best to their
interests and experiences.
The research fellow will work in a dynamic small team of
researchers carrying out a range of collaborative, mostly
international research and policy consultancy projects. She/he will
be expected to contribute to the academic standing of the institute
by publishing work in academic journals, as well as to interact with
variety of audiences, including government.
Person Specification: The ideal candidate would have: 1)
Completed a post-graduate degree (abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium)
in a relevant discipline, for example in political science,
economics, innovation studies or sociology 2) Completed a PhD/
doctoral research or have several years of research experience 3) A
good working knowledge of the policy studies and environmental policy
literature 4) A strong interest in working on applied research
linked to environmental policy 5) Profound methodological knowledge
of policy analysis and policy evaluation 6) Excellent writing
skills 7) Excellent language skills in both German and English
and be: 8) Able to manage multiple research tasks 9) Self-
motivated 10) Capable of working independently as well as part of a
team
Contract terms: We are intending to appoint a research fellow
(Wissenschaftliche/rMitarbeiter/in, salary scale BAT IIa), commencing
as soon as possible but not later than January 2008. The offer is
subject to the completion of ongoing award procedures by third-party
funders. It is intended to be a 2/3 or full position. The contract
will be awarded for one year. A subsequent extension of the contract
is intended but depends on the acquisition of follow up projects.
Applications: Applications should be made electronically in the
first instance. The application should include a letter of
motivation, a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae and two short examples
of recent academic work ( e.g. a journal article, research report, an
extract of a PhD or master thesis), ideally one in English and one
in German. The application should be sent to Dr. Klaus Jacob at
jacob at zedat.fu-berlin.de by 31 October 2007.
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(JOB 10) Asst. Prof. - Aquatic Ecologist - Biology Department ? State
University of New York (SUNY) ? Fredonia, NY (USA)
The Biology Department at SUNY Fredonia is seeking applications
for a tenure-track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR position to begin Fall,
2008. SUNY Fredonia is a selective, public, undergraduate liberal
arts university. Candidates must have a Ph.D. with postdoctoral
research experience recommended. Area of research interest is open,
but applicants with interests in freshwater aquatic systems are
especially encouraged to apply. The successful applicant will teach
core courses for environmental science majors, upper-level courses in
area of specialty for life and environmental science majors as well
as general education courses. An active research program that
promotes scholarship and involves undergraduate and M.S. students is
expected. There is an aluminum work skiff for work on local lakes.
The position will also include service to the Environmental Sciences
major. The successful candidate will have teaching experience,
demonstrate a commitment to teaching and have a track record of
publications in peer-reviewed journals.
The complete application includes an application letter,
curriculum vitae, statements of teaching philosophy and research
interests, copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and
three letters of reference. Candidates will need to file a signed
university application form (http://www.fredonia.edu/humanresources/
forms/application.pdf ). Section 3 and the skills subsection do not
need to be completed. Review of completed applications will begin on
November 9, 2007. Send materials to: Aquatic Ecologist Search
Committee, Department of Biology, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
14063. www.fredonia.edu/biology .
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(JOB 11) Faculty - Department of Biology - Brigham Young University ?
Provo UT (USA)
http://biojobs.blogspot.com/2007/10/faculty-openings-
ecologyevolution.html
The Department of Biology at Brigham Young University is seeking
outstanding colleagues to join an active and interdisciplinary
faculty with strengths in evolutionary and organismal biology,
ecology, and biological science education. We seek qualified
applicants to fill one or more continuing faculty status track
positions in any area of evolutionary biology or population/
evolutionary ecology. The successful candidate will hold a PhD, have
post-doctoral experience, and is expected to maintain an externally
funded research program involving both undergraduate and graduate
students.
The review process will begin November 1, 2007 and continue until
the positions are filled.
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(JOBS 12) Job Links ? biojobs.blogspot.com
1. Ecology positions
http://biojobs.blogspot.com/search/label/Ecology
2. Postdoc and graduate fellowships; faculty positions in Evolution
http://biojobs.blogspot.com/search/label/Evolution
3. Evolutionary biology
http://biojobs.blogspot.com/search/label/Evolutionary%20biology
4. Evolutionary ecology
http://biojobs.blogspot.com/search/label/Evolutionary%20ecology
5. Population ecology
http://biojobs.blogspot.com/search/label/population%20ecology
More jobs and fellowships in ALL branches of Science are
available at
http://biojobs.blogspot.com
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(JOBS 13) Climate sector jobs
UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
Programme Officer (P4), Reporting, Data and Analysis Programme -
http://unfccc.int/tools_xml/ie07.045.pdf -
http://unfccc.int/secretariat/employment/vacancies/items/1216.php
Duty Station: Bonn, Germany
Deadline: 31 October 2007 - Chief - Human Resources Unit -
mailto:vacancies at unfccc.int
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- http://eetd.lbl.gov/
Principal Research Associate -
http://jobs.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=20991
Duty Station: Berkeley, California, USA
Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled -
Bernadette
Cu-Todd, Human Resources, +1.510.486.5327
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam -
http://www.ivm.falw.vu.nl/home/index.cfm
Post-doc researcher - http://www.vu.nl/vacatures/
Duty Station: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deadline: 30 October 2007 - Philipp.Pattberg at ivm.vu.nl
IDEAcarbon
- www.ideacarbon.com
Managers, Writers, Analysts - http://www.ideacarbon.com/careers.html
Duty Station: London,UK
Deadline: 22 October 2007 - Samuel Fankhauser - careers at ideacarbon.com
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