From weilercs@whitman.edu Mon Jan 5 20:19:11 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:19:11 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Dec. 31, 2003 Message-ID: --============_-1138788540==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" DIALOG and Disccrs News Dec. 31, 2003 *************************************************** Forum U.S. may finally ratify the UN Law of the Sea provided by Adrienne Froelich The move to have the U.S. ratify the Law of the Sea is finally gaining momentum. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy issued a call for the treaty's ratification in early 2001 as their first official task. Now, two years later, the Senate is showing signs that ratification may occur soon. On October 14 and 21, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held two hearings on the treaty. During these hearings, the committee heard the views of a diverse array of interests and government officials (see http://foreign.senate.gov/hearing.html for witness lists and testimony). *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Faculty Position UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA College of Marine Science The College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida invites applications for a tenure-track (or tenure-eligible) Faculty Position (#6525) in Marine Microbiology. The position is 9 months. Appointment is expected to be at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor rank. Salary is negotiable and competitive. Requirements: For the Assistant Professor rank, candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in a relevant field (such as marine science, environmental microbiology, or similar) at the time of appointment. Candidates must have a publication record, potential to attract extramural funding (preferably federal) for their research, and be committed to quality teaching of graduate students. For the Associate Professor rank, the candidates must meet all requirements for the Assistant Professor rank, and have an outstanding record in research, including a substantive publication record, evidence of success in attracting extramural funding for their research, and at least a strong record in teaching, as evidenced by successful direction of masters and doctoral candidates. The preferred candidate will use the modern tools of biology (molecular biological techniques, genomics, proteomics) to study marine microbial systems (water column, benthos, estuarine, coastal, or open ocean). The successful candidate selected will be expected to explore interactions with the faculty, staff, and students of the College of Marine Science and other units of USF, and state and federal agencies, in particular but not restricted to those near the USF St. Petersburg Campus. USFs College of Marine Science is a multidisciplinary college with 30 core faculty and about 130 graduate students in the fields of biological, chemical, geological, and physical oceanography. Additional information about the college is available at the website:http://www.marine.usf.edu. Contact: Applicants should specify the rank for which they are applying (assistant or associate professor), submit curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests, the names, addresses (including email) and phone numbers of three references to the search committee assistant, Lois Bryce, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, 140 Seventh Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701. Applications must be received by: 20 March 2004. The University of South Florida is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Institution. For disability accommodations, please call 727-553-3938. According to Florida law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public. *************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG and DIACES poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1138788540==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" DIALOG and DISCCRS News Dec. 31, 2003
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Forum

U.S. may finally ratify the UN Law of the Sea
provided by Adrienne Froelich
     The move to have the U.S. ratify the Law of the Sea is finally
gaining momentum. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy issued a call
for the treaty's ratification in early 2001 as their first official
task. Now, two years later, the Senate is showing signs that
ratification may occur soon. On October 14 and 21, the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee held two hearings on the treaty. During these
hearings, the committee heard the views of a diverse array of
interests and government officials (see
http://foreign.senate.gov/hearing.html for witness lists and
testimony).


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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings



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Jobs for PhDs

Faculty Position
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
College of Marine Science

The College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida invites applications for a tenure-track (or tenure-eligible) Faculty Position (#6525) in Marine Microbiology. The position is 9 months. Appointment is expected to be at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor rank.  Salary is negotiable and competitive.

Requirements: For the Assistant Professor rank, candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in a relevant field (such as marine science, environmental microbiology, or similar) at the time of appointment. Candidates must have a publication record, potential to attract extramural funding (preferably federal) for their research, and be committed to quality teaching of graduate students. For the Associate Professor rank, the candidates must meet all requirements for the Assistant Professor rank, and have an outstanding record in research, including a substantive publication record, evidence of success in attracting extramural funding for their research, and at least a strong record in teaching, as evidenced by successful direction of masters and doctoral candidates.  The preferred candidate will use the modern tools of biology (molecular biological techniques, genomics, proteomics) to study marine microbial systems (water column, benthos, estuarine, coastal, or open ocean). The successful candidate selected will be expected to explore interactions with the faculty, staff, and students of the College of Marine Science and other units of USF, and state and federal agencies, in particular but not restricted to those near the USF St. Petersburg Campus.

USFs College of Marine Science is a multidisciplinary college with 30 core faculty and about 130 graduate students in the fields of biological, chemical, geological, and physical oceanography. Additional information about the college is available at the website:http://www.marine.usf.edu.
 
Contact: Applicants should specify the rank for which they are applying (assistant or associate professor),  submit curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests, the names, addresses (including email) and phone numbers of three references to the search committee assistant, Lois Bryce, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, 140 Seventh Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701.

Applications must be received by: 20 March 2004.

The University of South Florida is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Institution. For disability accommodations, please call 727-553-3938.  According to Florida law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public.




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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.

--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG and DIACES poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf             
--============_-1138788540==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Sun Jan 11 18:13:16 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:13:16 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News January 0. 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1138277693==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and Disccrs News January 9, 2004 *************************************************** Resources "You and the Media: A researcher's guide for dealing successfully with the news media," is available on the AGU website. Click <>here to view it http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/everyone.html submitted by Jean Wardell *************************************************** =46orum Jerry Mahlman, NY Times article this is a great interview with disccrs mentor jerry mahlman http://fp.arizona.edu= /khirschboeck/nats101gc/gw_3.htm *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Marine Biology Postgraduate Workshop 2nd - 4th April 04] >>>> Following the success of the Marine Biology Postgraduate Workshop at >>>Plymouth (UK) in 2002, the Marine Biological Association (with the >>>University of Plymouth and UoW-Bangor) are organising another workshop, >>>this time in Bangor from 2-4 April 04. Costs are deliberately kept low (= a >>>=A3 25ish registration fee), which includes lunches etc. The idea is to = have >>>an informal forum where Marine Biology postgraduate researchers can discu= ss >>>their work, share ideas etc. We would like presentations (in the loosest >>>sense) in any area of marine biology. There will be opportunities for a >>>field visit to local shores. >>>> >>>> Currently, there is no other opportunity for postgraduates in marine >>>biology to interact in this way, outside of their own institution. At th= e >>>last workshop, we had researchers from all over the UK, northern France a= nd >>>Ireland. We are hoping that this meeting will be bigger and better! >>>> >>>> Full details can be obtained from Dr. Chris Richardson at Bangor >>>(c.a.richardson@bangor.ac.uk >>>) or myself >>>> >>>> Many thanks for wading through this >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Ross >>>> >>>> ----------------------- >>>> Meetings Secretary of the Marine Biological Association of the UK >>>> email RAC@mba.ac.uk >>>> >>>> ------------- Ross Coleman Senior >>>>Lecturer In Ecology and Behaviour Marine >>>>Biology and Ecology SoBS Portland Square: >>>>Room B427 ext. 2912, fax. 2970 > Travel Support for attendance at the SCAR Open Science Conference, Bremen= , > July 26-28, 2004 > > The Office of Polar Programs plans to support the travel and registration > costs of up to twenty-five young investigators and graduate students at > the SCAR Open Science Conference, July 26-28, 2004, in Bremen, Germany. > The application procedure has not been finalized, however preference will > be given to applicants with an accepted conference abstract. Please note > that the deadline for submitting abstracts of talks or posters to the > conference itself is January 15, 2004. (See the conference web site > ). > > If you have questions, please contact one of the NSF/OPP Antarctic > Sciences Program Managers, listed at > http://www.nsf.gov/staff/subdiv.cfm?key=3D287. *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Post Doctoral Positions Available Marie Curie Excellence Team Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis University of Lund, Sweden Deadline for Application: Monday, 2 February 2004 =46or further information, please contact: Dr. Almut Arneth (arneth@dkrz.de) Prof. Dr. Anders Lindroth (anders.lindroth@natgeo.lu.se) or go to: http://www.cgb.lu.se/English/home.asp ------------------------------------------ The University of Lund, Sweden seeks two post-doctoral research fellows to join a newly created Marie Curie Excellence Team in the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis. Objectives of the Marie Curie Team will be to investigate the fluxes of biogenic reactive organic carbon compounds (RCC), and aerosols in representative ecosystems of the northern latitudes (wetlands and forests). POSITION DESCRIPTION The work will combine leaf-level and ecosystem flux measurements and process based modelling activities. Field measurements will be conducted at existing departmental field sites (subarctic tundra wetland, boreal forest) to complete established CO2, H2O, and CH4 flux measurements. Tasks will include micrometeorological measurements and analysis. The combination of proton-transferreaction mass spectrometry with disjunct eddy covariance and relaxed eddy accumulation will be used for ecosystem RCC flux measurements. Aerosol flux and size distribution measurements will complete these. The work will also include leaf and soil emission measurements, and analysis of biochemical processes. Measurements of leaf and soil CO2 fluxes using portable systems will be combined with field sampling of air for RCC analysis on the PTR mass spectrometer and/or a gas chromatograph. There will also be the opportunity to conduct emission studies in controlled growth chambers. The positions will be (proviso to completion of contract negotiations with the EC) available from mid 2004. Appointments will be for initially two years with a possible prolongation to a maximum of four years. Lund is a pleasant university town in southern Sweden with excellent connections to Copenhagen International airport. Salaries will be competitive and in consistence with EC guidelines and will include full access to the Swedish social security system; an additional mobility allowance may be available depending on the origin of the applicant. CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS - Expertise in the installation, adaptation and precision maintenance of sophisticated flux measurement equipment, and in programming of related software (e.g., Metlab, Labview, etc.). Candidates should have a Ph.D. in physics, meteorology or environmental engineering, or a related field. - Ideal candidates will have expertise in the use of portable systems and with sophisticated laboratory studies (e.g., growth chambers, mass spectrometers), including adaptation of software. Candidates for this position should have a Ph.D. in biochemistry, plant physiology or atmospheric chemistry, or a related field. =46or both positions we welcome candidates with enthusiasm for fieldwork and for collaboration within a team, as well as an aptness to pose and solve problems individually. International collaboration will be an important aspect of the research. APPLICATIONS Applications including a detailed description of motivation and research interests, detailed CV, publication list and names and contact details of three referees should be sent by email in PDF format to: Prof. Dr. Anders Lindroth (anders.lindroth@natgeo.lu.se) Dr. Almut Arneth (arneth@dkrz.de) Interviews for the posts will be around mid-March 2004. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Monday, 2 February 2004 =46or further information, please contact: Dr. Almut Arneth (arneth@dkrz.de) Prof. Dr. Anders Lindroth (anders.lindroth@natgeo.lu.se) or go to: http://www.cgb.lu.se/English/home.asp *************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. =46or ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG and DIACES poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1138277693==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and DISCCRS News January 0. 2004
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Resources

"You and the Media: A researcher's guide for dealing successfully with the news media," is available on the AGU website.
Click here to view it
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/everyone.html
submitted by Jean Wardell

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Forum

Jerry Mahlman, NY Times article
this is a great interview with disccrs mentor jerry mahlman


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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings

Marine Biology Postgraduate Workshop 2nd - 4th April 04]
        Following the success of the Marine Biology Postgraduate Workshop at
Plymouth (UK) in 2002, the Marine Biological Association (with the
University of Plymouth and UoW-Bangor) are organising another workshop,
this time in Bangor from 2-4 April 04.  Costs are deliberately kept low (a
=A3 25ish registration fee), which includes lunches etc.  The idea is to have
an informal forum where Marine Biology postgraduate researchers can discuss
their work, share ideas etc.  We would like presentations (in the loosest
sense) in any area of marine biology.  There will be opportunities for a
field visit to local shores.

        Currently, there is no other opportunity for postgraduates in marine
biology to interact in this way, outside of their own institution.  At the
last workshop, we had researchers from all over the UK, northern =46rance and
Ireland.  We are hoping that this meeting will be bigger and better!

        Full details can be obtained from Dr. Chris Richardson at Bangor
(c.a.richardson@bangor.ac.uk <mailto:c.a.richardson@bangor.ac.uk> ) or myself

        Many thanks for wading through this

     Cheers

  Ross

    -----------------------
Meetings Secretary of the Marine Biological Association of the UK
       email RAC@mba.ac.uk <mailto:RAC@mba.ac.uk>

      -------------   Ross Coleman    Senior
Lecturer In Ecology and Behaviour Marine
Biology and Ecology       SoBS    Portland Square:
Room B427       ext. 2912, fax. 2970




> Travel Support for attendance at the SCAR Open Science Conference, Bremen,
>  July 26-28, 2004
>
> The Office of Polar Programs plans to support the travel and registration
> costs of up to twenty-five young investigators and graduate students at
> the SCAR Open Science Conference, July 26-28, 2004, in Bremen, Germany.
> The application procedure has not been finalized, however preference will
> be given to applicants with an accepted conference abstract.  Please note
> that the deadline for submitting abstracts of talks or posters to the
> conference itself is January 15, 2004.  (See the conference web site
> <http://www.scar28.org>).
>
> If you have questions, please contact one of the NSF/OPP Antarctic
> Sciences Program Managers, listed at
> http://www.nsf.gov/staff/subdiv.cfm?key=3D287.


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Jobs for PhDs

Post Doctoral Positions Available
Marie Curie Excellence Team
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis
University of Lund, Sweden

Deadline for Application: Monday, 2 February 2004

=46or further information, please contact:
Dr. Almut Arneth (arneth@dkrz.de)
Prof. Dr. Anders Lindroth (anders.lindroth@natgeo.lu.se)

or go to:
http://www.cgb.lu.se/English/home.asp

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The University of Lund, Sweden seeks two post-doctoral research fellows
to join a newly created Marie Curie Excellence Team in the Department of
Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis. Objectives of the Marie
Curie Team will be to investigate the fluxes of biogenic reactive
organic carbon compounds (RCC), and aerosols in representative
ecosystems of the northern latitudes (wetlands and forests).

POSITION DESCRIPTION
The work will combine leaf-level and ecosystem flux measurements and
process based modelling activities. Field measurements will be conducted
at existing departmental field sites (subarctic tundra wetland, boreal
forest) to complete established CO2, H2O, and CH4 flux measurements.

Tasks will include micrometeorological measurements and analysis. The
combination of proton-transferreaction mass spectrometry with disjunct
eddy covariance and relaxed eddy accumulation will be used for ecosystem
RCC flux measurements. Aerosol flux and size distribution measurements
will complete these.

The work will also include leaf and soil emission measurements, and
analysis of biochemical processes. Measurements of leaf and soil CO2
fluxes using portable systems will be combined with field sampling of
air for RCC analysis on the PTR mass spectrometer and/or a gas
chromatograph. There will also be the opportunity to conduct emission
studies in controlled growth chambers.

The positions will be (proviso to completion of contract negotiations
with the EC) available from mid 2004. Appointments will be for initially
two years with a possible prolongation to a maximum of four years.

Lund is a pleasant university town in southern Sweden with excellent
connections to Copenhagen International airport. Salaries will be
competitive and in consistence with EC guidelines and will include full
access to the Swedish social security system; an additional mobility
allowance may be available depending on the origin of the applicant.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS
- Expertise in the installation, adaptation and precision maintenance
of sophisticated flux measurement equipment, and in programming of
related software (e.g., Metlab, Labview, etc.). Candidates should have a
Ph.D. in physics, meteorology or environmental engineering, or a related
field.

- Ideal candidates will have expertise in the use of portable systems
and with sophisticated laboratory studies (e.g., growth chambers, mass
spectrometers), including adaptation of software. Candidates for this
position should have a Ph.D. in biochemistry, plant physiology or
atmospheric chemistry, or a related field.

=46or both positions we welcome candidates with enthusiasm for fieldwork
and for collaboration within a team, as well as an aptness to pose and
solve problems individually. International collaboration will be an
important aspect of the research.

APPLICATIONS
Applications including a detailed description of motivation and research
interests, detailed CV, publication list and names and contact details
of three referees should be sent by email in PDF format to:
Prof. Dr. Anders Lindroth (anders.lindroth@natgeo.lu.se)
Dr. Almut Arneth (arneth@dkrz.de)

Interviews for the posts will be around mid-March 2004.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Monday, 2 February 2004

=46or further information, please contact:
Dr. Almut Arneth (arneth@dkrz.de)
Prof. Dr. Anders Lindroth (anders.lindroth@natgeo.lu.se)

or go to:
http://www.cgb.lu.se/English/home.asp



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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.

--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       =46ax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG and DIACES poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf        
--============_-1138277693==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Fri Jan 16 22:00:51 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:00:51 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Jan. 16, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1137832040==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and Disccrs News Jan. 16, 2004 *************************************************** Resources P3 Award: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/designs_sustain_rfp.html Open Date: 01/09/2004 - Close Date: 03/25/2004 Summary: The P3 competition will provide grants to teams of college students= to research, develop, and design solutions to sustainability challenges. P3 highlights people, prosperity, and the planet - the three pillars of sustainability - as the next step beyond P2 or pollution prevention. The P3 Award program= is a partnership between the public and private sectors to progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the natu= ral systems of the planet, and providing a higher quality of life for its people= =2E EPA and its affiliates offer the P3 Award competition to respond to the technical needs of the developed and developing world in moving towards the goal of sustainability. Members of this list are encouraged to use the Web interface at: http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_list/elists to unsubscribe to this list or subscribe to other lists available on NCER. *************** GPA newsletter for 2004. The GPA is the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities, for which the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides the secretariat. Monthly GPA Outreach newsletters and weekly GPA News Updates are a source of articles, news and updates on the GPA and GPA-related events and information relevant to the wider marine and freshwater sector. They will be useful for all stakeholders who work in, or are interested in, marine and freshwater policy, management and sustainability. The newsletters will be relevant to business, NGOs, students, UN or government officials, scientists and practitioners. We hope you will find these newsletters and updates a useful and relevant source of information. Please pass on this information to your friends and colleagues. We welcome your feedback, so please email us (kdickinson@stakeholderforum.org) your suggestions or comments. For more information on our work and how it relates to yours please visit our websites: GPA http://www.gpa.unep.org Stakeholder Forum: http://www.stakeholderforum.org If you have been forwarded this email and would like to subscribe to GPA Outreach, please email join-gpa-outreach@lists.healthdev.org to subscribe. *************************************************** Science News ALASKA THAWS, COMPLICATING THE HUNT FOR OIL from The New York Times (Registration Required) DEADHORSE, Alaska =97 Harry Bader slogged across a patch of America's only Arctic shore, leaning into a late December gale that filled the midday twilight with blowing snow and sent the wind chill to 40 below. Despite the weather, Mr. Bader, the state's land manager for the oil-r= ich North Slope, was consumed with one thing =97 the warming climate. Oil- prospecting convoys in search of new deposits are allowed to crisscross the fragile tundra only when it is snowy and solid. But over three decades, rising temperatures have cut this frozen season in half, to 100 days from 200. Environmentalists have begun to point out the contradictions in a situation where Arctic-wide warming, which many scientists say is at least partly driven by smokestack and tailpipe emissions, is curtailing the quest for a fossil fuel that is a prime source of such pollution. Nowhere is the warming trend more acute than here on this Minnesota-size stretch of pond- pocked plains and shrubby foothills. http://snipurl.com/3ruu *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings 4th International Symposium Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical Countries will take place in B=3DFAzios, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, during October 25th to 29th, 2004. Please, reserve these dates. Consult the site http://www.uff.br/geoquimica/isegtc2004 to obtain information about this Symposium. Prof. Ricardo Erthal Santelli 4th International Symposium Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical Countries Departamento de Geoqu=3DEDmica da Universidade Federal Fluminense Outeiro de S=3DE3o Jo=3DE3o Batista s/n - Centro - Niter=3DF3i/RJ - CEP 2402= 0-007 Brazil. *************** =46irst Announcement: International Summer School of Oceanography A GODAE Summer School AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF OCEANOGRAPHY: Ocean Weather Forecasting in the 21st Century Progress in a wide range of ocean research and applications depends upon the prompt and dependable availability of ocean information products. The field of physical oceanography has matured to a point where it is now conceivable to combine numerical models and observations via data assimilation in order to provide ocean prediction products on various spatial and time scales. As a result, many nations have begun large-scale efforts to provide routine products to the oceanographic community. The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) provides a framework for these efforts, i.e., a global system of observations, communications, modeling, and assimilation that will deliver regular, comprehensive information on the state of the oceans, in a way that will promote and engender wide utility and availability of this resource for maximum benefit to the community. The societal benefit will be an increased knowledge of the marine environment and ocean climate, predictive skills for societal, industrial, and commercial benefit and tactical and strategic advantage, as well as the provision of a comprehensive and integrated approach to the oceans. One objective of the school is to form/motivate the young scientists and professionals that will be the principal movers and users of operational oceanographic outputs in the next 10 years. We consider it timely, given the international context, to bring together leading scientists to summarize our present knowledge in ocean modeling, ocean observing systems, and data assimilation to present an integrated view of oceanography. In addition to formal lectures, shorter talks by experts in the field will expose the participants to a wide range of applications. Attendees will also have the opportunity to present their work via poster sessions. The lecture notes will be reviewed by the attendees and will be published as a proceedings volume. Venue: The School will be hosted by Agelonde in Lalonde-Les Maures near the French Riviera, from September 20 to October 1, 2004. A list of the principal topics includes: Ocean modeling, ocean satellite and in-situ data, data assimilation, validation, integration, systems, and products. A number of presentations will be made concerning uses of operational oceanography. Approximately 6 hours of lectures and seminars are planned every day. Two student poster sessions and two debate sessions are also planned. Attendance: The school is directed to graduate students, post-docs, and young scientists and to professionals that are or will be involved in the development of integrated oceanography. It is open to all countries. There will be a special effort made to include participants from developing countries for knowledge dissemination. Support for the school will be provided by CNES, GODAE, and the MERSEA EU Integrated Project, among others. Organizing committee: Yves Mnard (CNES, Toulouse) Joelle Guinle (CNES, Toulouse) Scientific committee chairs: Prof. Eric Chassignet (University of Miami) Dr. Jacques Verron (LEGI, Grenoble) In order to receive additional information about the school (application process, logistics, ...), please send your name and email address to Joelle Guinle at "joelle.guinle@cnes.fr". =46or all questions related to program content and other scientific aspects you may contact Josiane Brasseur at "meom@hmg.inpg.fr". This information will also be provided via the web sites http://oceanmodeling.rsmas.miami.edu/godae_school and http://www.cnes.fr/colloque/ *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY SEEKS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/SURFACE WATER HYDROGEOLOG= IST The Department of Geology at East Carolina University (ECU) invites applications for a tenure-track position with emphasis in surface water hydrogeology beginning August 23, 2004. We seek a field-oriented geologist in the general field of surface water hydrogeology, and specific applications may include the reconstruction/restoration of channelized streams, the analysis of safe yield of rivers, and the application of surface water modeling. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an externally funded research program, to render professional service, and to teach undergraduates, graduate-level surface water hydrology, and other courses in his/her specialty. A PhD is required and postdoctoral experience is desirable. Information about the ECU Geology Department can be found at www.geology.ecu.edu. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching and research interests, and the name, address, phone number, and e-mail addresses of three references to Dr. R. K. Spruill, Department of Geology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858 (spruillr@mail.ecu.edu) Up to three reprints may be included with the application materials. Review of applications will begin on March 2, 2004, and continue until the position is filled. East Carolina University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action University that accommodates individuals with disabilities. Proper documentation of identity and employability are required at the time of employment. Official transcript required upon employment. Dr. D. Reide Corbett East Carolina University Department of Geology Coastal Resources Management Graham Bldg. Greenville, NC 27858 252-328-1367 corbettd@mail.ecu.edu http://www.geology.ecu.edu/ *************** Biological Oceanographer The Marine Science Program and the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina invite applications for a tenure-track position in biological oceanography with an anticipated starting date of 16 August 2004. The position is a 9-month academic year appointment at the assistant professor level. We seek applicants with process-oriented research interests in the broad area of biological oceanography, including open ocean, coastal and estuarine environments. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, plankton an= d nekton dynamics, biogeochemistry, and carbon and nutrient cycles. The successful candidate will be expected to establish a vigorous, externally-funded research program and to demonstrate excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, statements of research and teaching interests, and the names, addresses, and phone/fax/email of at least three referees to: Prof. Ron Benner, Attn: Search Committee for Biological Oceanography, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA. All applicants must also submit their applications via our on-line system (http://www.msci.sc.edu/SearchNew/bio-apps-search.htm). If you encounter problems with the on-line application system, advise us via email to shannon@msci.sc.edu. Review of applications will begin on 1 March 2004 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. at the time of appointment. For more information on the Marine Science Program and the Department of Biological Sciences visit our web sites at http://www.msci.sc.edu and http://www.biol.sc.edu. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity/affirmative ac= tion employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. ****************** Brian Helmuth, PhD Assistant Professor University of South Carolina Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Science Program Columbia, SC 29208 (803) 777-2100 =46ax: (803) 777-4002 helmuth@biol.sc.edu http://www.biol.sc.edu/~helmuthlab Outreach website: http://www.biol.sc.edu/~coral *************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. =46or ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG and DIACES poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1137832040==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and DISCCRS News Jan. 16, 2004
DIALOG and Disccrs News
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Resources

 P3 Award: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability
focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet
URL: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/p3/designs_sustain_rfp.html
Open Date: 01/09/2004  -  Close Date: 03/25/2004
Summary: The P3 competition will provide grants to teams of college students to
research, develop, and design solutions to sustainability challenges. P3 highlights
people, prosperity, and the planet - the three pillars of sustainability
- as the next step beyond P2 or pollution prevention. The P3 Award program is a
partnership between the public and private sectors to progress toward sustainability
by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the natural
systems of the planet, and providing a higher quality of life for its people.
EPA and its affiliates offer the P3 Award competition to respond to the technical
needs of the developed and developing world in moving towards the goal of sustainability.

Members of this list are encouraged to use the Web interface at:
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_list/elists to unsubscribe to this list or subscribe to other
lists available on NCER.

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 GPA newsletter for 2004. The GPA is the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities, for which the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides the secretariat.
     Monthly GPA Outreach newsletters and weekly GPA News Updates are a source of articles, news and updates on the GPA and GPA-related events and information relevant to the wider marine and freshwater sector. They will be useful for all stakeholders who work in, or are interested in, marine and freshwater policy, management and sustainability. The newsletters will be relevant to business, NGOs, students, UN or government officials, scientists and practitioners.
     We hope you will find these newsletters and updates a useful and relevant source of information. Please pass on this information to your friends and colleagues. We welcome your feedback, so please email us (kdickinson@stakeholderforum.org) your suggestions or comments.
    For more information on our work and how it relates to yours please visit our websites:
GPA http://www.gpa.unep.org
Stakeholder Forum: http://www.stakeholderforum.org
     If you have been forwarded this email and would like to subscribe to GPA Outreach, please email join-gpa-outreach@lists.healthdev.org to subscribe.


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Science News

ALASKA THAWS, COMPLICATING THE HUNT FOR OIL
from The New York Times (Registration Required)
DEADHORSE, Alaska =97 Harry Bader slogged across a patch of America's only
Arctic shore, leaning into a late December gale that filled the midday
twilight with blowing snow and sent the wind chill to 40 below.
     Despite the weather, Mr. Bader, the state's land manager for the oil-rich
North Slope, was consumed with one thing =97 the warming climate. Oil-
prospecting convoys in search of new deposits are allowed to crisscross the
fragile tundra only when it is snowy and solid. But over three decades,
rising temperatures have cut this frozen season in half, to 100 days from
200.
     Environmentalists have begun to point out the contradictions in a situation
where Arctic-wide warming, which many scientists say is at least partly
driven by smokestack and tailpipe emissions, is curtailing the quest for a
fossil fuel that is a prime source of such pollution. Nowhere is the
warming trend more acute than here on this Minnesota-size stretch of pond-
pocked plains and shrubby foothills.
http://snipurl.com/3ruu


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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings


4th International Symposium Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical Countries will take place in B=3DFAzios, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, during October 25th to 29th, 2004. Please, reserve these dates.
Consult the site http://www.uff.br/geoquimica/isegtc2004 to obtain information about this Symposium.
Prof. Ricardo Erthal Santelli
4th International Symposium Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical Countries
Departamento de Geoqu=3DEDmica da Universidade Federal Fluminense
Outeiro de S=3DE3o Jo=3DE3o Batista s/n - Centro - Niter=3DF3i/RJ - CEP 24020-007
Brazil.

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First Announcement: International Summer School of Oceanography

                         A GODAE Summer School
                  AN INTEGRATED VIEW OF OCEANOGRAPHY:
             Ocean Weather Forecasting in the 21st Century

Progress in a wide range of ocean research and applications depends upon
the prompt and dependable availability of ocean information products.

The field of physical oceanography has matured to a point where it is
now conceivable to combine numerical models and observations via data
assimilation in order to provide ocean prediction products on various
spatial and time scales. As a result, many nations have begun
large-scale efforts to provide routine products to the oceanographic
community. The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE)
provides a framework for these efforts, i.e., a global system of
observations, communications, modeling, and assimilation that will
deliver regular, comprehensive information on the state of the oceans,
in a way that will promote and engender wide utility and availability of this resource for maximum benefit to the community. The societal benefit will be an increased knowledge of the marine environment and ocean climate, predictive skills for societal, industrial, and commercial benefit and tactical and strategic advantage, as well as the provision of a comprehensive and integrated approach to the oceans.

One objective of the school is to form/motivate the young scientists and
professionals that will be the principal movers and users of operational
oceanographic outputs in the next 10 years. We consider it timely, given
the international context, to bring together leading scientists to
summarize our present knowledge in ocean modeling, ocean observing
systems, and data assimilation to present an integrated view of
oceanography. In addition to formal lectures, shorter talks by experts in the field will expose the participants to a wide range of applications.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to present their work via poster sessions. The lecture notes will be reviewed by the attendees and will be published as a proceedings volume.

Venue: The School will be hosted by Agelonde in Lalonde-Les Maures near
the French Riviera, from September 20 to October 1, 2004.

A list of the principal topics includes: Ocean modeling, ocean satellite
and in-situ data, data assimilation, validation, integration, systems, and products. A number of presentations will be made concerning uses of
operational oceanography. Approximately 6 hours of lectures and seminars
are planned every day. Two student poster sessions and two debate sessions are also planned.

Attendance:  The school is directed to graduate students, post-docs, and
young scientists and to professionals that are or will be involved in the development of integrated oceanography. It is open to all countries. There will be a special effort made to include participants from developing countries for knowledge dissemination.

Support for the school will be provided by CNES, GODAE, and the MERSEA EU Integrated Project, among others.

Organizing committee:
Yves Mnard (CNES, Toulouse)
Joelle Guinle (CNES, Toulouse)

Scientific committee chairs:
Prof. Eric Chassignet (University of Miami)
Dr. Jacques Verron (LEGI, Grenoble)

In order to receive additional information about the school (application
process, logistics, ...), please send your name and email address to
Joelle Guinle at "joelle.guinle@cnes.fr".

=46or all questions related to program content and other scientific aspects you may contact Josiane Brasseur at "meom@hmg.inpg.fr".

This information will also be provided via the web sites http://oceanmodeling.rsmas.miami.edu/godae_school and
http://www.cnes.fr/colloque/

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Jobs for PhDs

EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY SEEKS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/SURFACE WATER HYDROGEOLOGIST
     The Department of Geology at East Carolina University (ECU) invites applications for a tenure-track position with emphasis in surface water hydrogeology beginning August 23, 2004.  We seek a field-oriented geologist in the general field of surface water hydrogeology, and specific applications may include the reconstruction/restoration of channelized streams, the analysis of safe yield of rivers, and the application of surface water modeling.  The successful candidate will be expected to develop an externally funded research program, to render professional service, and to teach undergraduates, graduate-level surface water hydrology, and other courses in his/her specialty.  A PhD is required and postdoctoral experience is desirable.  Information about the ECU Geology Department can be found at www.geology.ecu.edu.  Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching and research interests, and the name, address, phone number, and e-mail addresses of three references to Dr. R. K. Spruill, Department of Geology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858 (spruillr@mail.ecu.edu)
    Up to three reprints may be included with the application materials.  Review of applications will begin on March 2, 2004, and continue until the position is filled.  East Carolina University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action University that accommodates individuals with disabilities.  Proper documentation of identity and employability are required at the time of employment.  Official transcript required upon employment.
Dr. D. Reide Corbett
East Carolina University
Department of Geology
Coastal Resources Management
Graham Bldg.
Greenville, NC  27858
252-328-1367

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Biological Oceanographer
The Marine Science Program and the Department of Biological Sciences at the
University of South Carolina invite applications for a tenure-track position in biological oceanography with an anticipated starting date of 16 August 2004. The position is a 9-month academic year appointment at the assistant professor level.
     We seek applicants with process-oriented research interests in the broad area of biological oceanography, including open ocean, coastal and estuarine
environments. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, plankton and
nekton dynamics, biogeochemistry, and carbon and nutrient cycles. The successful candidate will be expected to establish a vigorous, externally-funded research program and to demonstrate excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
     Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, statements of research and teaching interests, and the names, addresses, and phone/fax/email of at least three referees to: Prof. Ron Benner, Attn: Search Committee for Biological
Oceanography, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA. All applicants must also submit their applications via our on-line system (http://www.msci.sc.edu/SearchNew/bio-apps-search.htm). If
you encounter problems with the on-line application system, advise us via email to shannon@msci.sc.edu. Review of applications will begin on 1 March 2004 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. at the time of appointment.
     For more information on the Marine Science Program and the Department of Biological Sciences visit our web sites at http://www.msci.sc.edu and
http://www.biol.sc.edu.
    The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates.

******************
Brian Helmuth, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of South Carolina
Department of Biological Sciences
      and Marine Science Program
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-2100
=46ax: (803) 777-4002
helmuth@biol.sc.edu
http://www.biol.sc.edu/~helmuthlab
Outreach website:  http://www.biol.sc.edu/~coral

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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.

--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       =46ax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG and DIACES poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf         
--============_-1137832040==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Fri Jan 23 22:53:07 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:53:07 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Jan. 23, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1137224103==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" DIALOG and Disccrs News Jan. 23, 2004 *************************************************** Resources Note from Sue Weiler: Did you know that introverts tend to have more trouble learning names than extroverts? Maybe that explains my problem--or maybe it is premature (nearing mature) senility. In any case, names are important and here are some great tips on how to do better if, like me, you have trouble: Teaching Tip: Learning Student Names by Joan Middendorf, Director, Teaching Resource Center, Indiana University, `Though learning student names may seem a trivial matter in the entire university enterprise, it is a powerful means to foster both of these interactions.` Here are some tips for learning student names. http://www.ntlf.com/html/lib/bib/names.htm U.S. Snow Monitoring, National Climate Data Center, ` Snowfall maps are available for the most recent 1,2,3 and 7-day period by state or for the entire nation. Current snow depth maps are also available.` http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/snow/recent.html Taken from Geoscience Education list Locate Your Watershed, EPA, view boundaries for all U.S. watersheds and then retrieve data on point sources of pollution with the Enviromapper (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/). The site also identifies the extent of impaired rivers within the watershed, stream flow characteristics, and the extent of remedial efforts to restore river health and wetlands. Taken from Geoscience Education list *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Travel Support for attendance at the SCAR Open Science Conference - Travel Support for attendance at the SCAR Open Science Conference,Bremen, July 26-28, 2004 The Office of Polar Programs plans to support the travel and registration costs of up to twenty-five yo...URL: http://www.gerg.tamu.edu/antarctica/menu_news/answer.asp?id=503 *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Postdoc opening, Utah State University We are seeking a postdoctoral student to: (1) study nutrient and selenium processing in wetlands of the Great Salt Lake, and (2) teach wetland/riparian ecology. The extensive wetlands bordering the Great Salt Lake are important habitat for shorebirds and waterfowl. The wetlands include managed impoundments of federal and state agencies, private duck clubs, and unmanaged saline playas. In addition to providing important habitat, the wetlands are also likely important filters for contaminants reaching the Great Salt Lake. The University and State are interested in how much selenium may accumulate in the biota in the wetlands, the chemistry of other metals such as mercury, and how effective the wetlands are for removing metal and nutrient contaminants before reaching the lake. The employee will work closely with the Utah Division of Water Quality, other agencies, and environmental groups addressing contaminant movement through wetlands and into the lake. The agency's offices and laboratories are in Salt Lake City. The postdoctoral position will be in the Department of Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resources in the College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. The University is located in Logan, UT, situated in a mountain valley 90 miles north of Salt Lake City. The postdoctoral student will teach a one-semester course in wetland and riparian ecology. This will be a combined upper division/graduate level course. The position is currently for one year, but additional grants may extend this period. We will begin reviewing applicants on February 10th and continue until the position is filled. We hope to fill the position by April 2004. Individuals with expertise in food-web dynamics, chemistry, and toxicology of wetlands are encouraged to apply. Please mail or e-mail a letter of interest, your curriculum vitae, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to: Wetland Ecology Search Department of Aquatic, Watershed & Earth Resources Utah State Univ., Logan, UT 84322-5210 E-mail: wurts@cc.usu.edu ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1137224103==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" DIALOG and DISCCRS News Jan. 23, 2004
DIALOG and Disccrs News
Jan. 23, 2004

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Resources

Note from Sue Weiler: Did you know that introverts tend to have more trouble learning names than extroverts? Maybe that explains my problem--or maybe it is premature (nearing mature) senility. In any case, names are important and here are some great tips on how to do better if, like me, you have trouble:
Teaching Tip: Learning Student Names by Joan Middendorf, Director, Teaching Resource Center, Indiana University, `Though learning student names may seem a trivial matter in the entire university enterprise, it is a powerful means to foster both of these interactions.` Here are some tips for learning student names.

U.S. Snow Monitoring, National Climate Data Center, ` Snowfall maps are available for the most recent 1,2,3 and 7-day period by state or for the entire nation. Current snow depth maps are also available.`
Taken from Geoscience Education list <geo-ed@dpc.ucar.edu>

Locate Your Watershed, EPA, view boundaries for all U.S. watersheds and then retrieve data on point sources of pollution with the Enviromapper (http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/em/). The site also identifies the extent of impaired rivers within the watershed, stream flow characteristics, and the extent of remedial efforts to restore river health and wetlands.
Taken from Geoscience Education list <geo-ed@dpc.ucar.edu>


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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings

 Travel Support for attendance at the SCAR Open Science Conference -

Travel Support for attendance at the SCAR Open Science Conference,Bremen, July 26-28, 2004 The Office of Polar Programs plans to support the travel and registration costs of up to twenty-five yo...URL: http://www.gerg.tamu.edu/antarctica/menu_news/answer.asp?id=503

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Jobs for PhDs

Postdoc opening, Utah State University
We are seeking a postdoctoral student to: (1) study nutrient and selenium processing in wetlands of the Great Salt Lake, and (2) teach wetland/riparian ecology.  The extensive wetlands bordering the Great Salt Lake are important habitat for shorebirds and waterfowl.  The wetlands include managed impoundments of federal and state agencies, private duck clubs, and unmanaged saline playas.  In addition to providing important habitat, the wetlands are also likely important filters for contaminants reaching the Great Salt Lake.  The University and State are interested in how much selenium may accumulate in the biota in the wetlands, the chemistry of other metals such as mercury, and how effective the wetlands are for removing metal and nutrient contaminants before reaching the lake.  The employee will work closely with the Utah Division of Water Quality, other agencies, and environmental groups addressing contaminant movement through wetlands and into the lake.  The agency's offices and laboratories are in Salt Lake City.
     The postdoctoral position will be in the Department of Aquatic, Watershed, and Earth Resources in the College of Natural Resources at Utah State University.  The University is located in Logan, UT, situated in a mountain valley 90 miles north of Salt Lake City.  The postdoctoral student will teach a one-semester course in wetland and riparian ecology.  This will be a combined upper division/graduate level course. 
     The position is currently for one year, but additional grants may extend this period.  We will begin reviewing applicants on February 10th and continue until the position is filled.  We hope to fill the position by April 2004.   Individuals with expertise in food-web dynamics, chemistry, and toxicology of wetlands are encouraged to apply.  Please mail or e-mail a letter of interest, your curriculum vitae, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to: 
Wetland Ecology Search
Department of Aquatic, Watershed & Earth Resources
Utah State Univ., Logan, UT 84322-5210
E-mail: wurts@cc.usu.edu

**************************************************

This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf            
--============_-1137224103==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Mon Feb 2 17:35:18 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:35:18 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Feb. 2, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1136379172==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and Disccrs News =46eb. 2, 2004 *************************************************** Resources Complex Systems There is a really nice website for Complex Systems, maintained by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI): http://www.necsi.net/ It has some really nice basic information about complex systems (definitions and the like) as well as some great resources. Note they have a conference coming up--see announcement in the section below on meetings.... New Report charts Course for Future of Geosciences see article, front page of EOS 85(3) 20 January 2004 the full report is available at: http://www.iugg.org/geosciences.html *************************************************** Science News HAS GLOBAL OIL PRODUCTION PEAKED? from The Christian Science Monitor Today's civilization depends on an abundant and relatively cheap= supply of oil. It fuels most of our vehicles, aircraft, ships, and trains. It provides the raw material for fertilizer, some clothing fabrics, most plastics, and many chemicals. Oil heats many of our homes and businesses. So when experts discuss when oil production will begin to decline, the world pays heed. The question now making the rounds in energy circles: Has production already peaked? http://snipurl.com/45ir *************************************************** =46orum *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Preliminary Program and Abstract Submission Deadline Extension for the International Conference on Complex Systems Attached is a preliminary program for the 5th International Conference on Complex Systems. As you can see from the program, this ICCS, like the previous ones, is an unusual opportunity to discuss advances that contribute to our general understanding of complex systems. It is also a remarkable opportunity for pedagogy. Please note that this is not a final program. Many outstanding abstracts have been received that will become part of the program. Because of a delay in the program committee meeting the ICCS abstract submission deadline has been extended to February 15. After this date, abstracts will be accepted only if space is available in specific sessions. The early registration deadline has been extended to March 1. Registering to attend the conference without giving a presentation is also still possible. Students and postdocs should submit papers about recent advances in their research. Generally, they will be given opportunities to give short talks or, if they prefer, poster presentations. We expect to have funds to assist students and postdocs in attending the conference. Please see the conference web page at: http://www.necsi.net/events/iccs/iccscover.html ------------------------------------------------ Workshop in Ecological Stoichiometry (Woodstoick 2004), Finse, Norway, 15-19 August 2004 Applications are now being accepted for a a scientific "happening" (Woodstoick 2004; http://folk.uio.no/jmoe/woodstoick/ ) related to ecological stoichiometry that is planned for the coming summer in Norway's beautiful Hardanger mountains (http://biologi.uio.no/felles= avdelinger/finse/ ). The event is targeted for postdoctoral and advanced PhD students who are working on any aspect of ecological/biological stoichiometry in any type of ecosystem or with any type of organism. The event is going to be dynamic, novel, and its products will be rapidly disseminated in Oikos. Norway's Center for Advanced Study (http://www.cas.uio.no/) is providing funding to defray the costs of attendance of all accepted participants. The main organizers of this workshop are Dag Hessen (U of Oslo) and Jim Elser (Arizona State University) working with Jannicke Moe (NCEAS, California) as a scientific coordinator and with Norway's Center for Advanced Study and biological station support staff for practical logistics. To apply, interested parties should provide a cover letter describing their past, ongoing, and/or planned work in ecological/biological stoichiometry and what s/he hopes to contribute to the conference and a short (2-page) c.v. summarizing her/his academic training and past research experiences and accomplishments. The materials should be sent to Dr. Jannicke Moe (moe@nceas.ucsb.edu) by 1 March 2004. Inquiries about further details can be sent to her as well ******************* ----------------------------------- IHDP-IAI 2004 Global Environmental Change Institute on Globalisation and Food Systems Scientific Workshop and Science-Policy Forum October 24 - November 6, 2004, Nicoya, Costa Rica IHDP (International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change) and IAI (Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research) is pleased to announce the 2004 Global Environmental Change Institute on Globalisation and Food Systems =96 Scientific Workshop and Science-Policy Forum, to be held from October 24 through November 6, 2004 at the Mesoamerican Institute of the National University of Costa Rica in Nicoya. Please, access the site "http://www.institutes.iai.int" to visualize the full announcement or submit your application form. --This meeting focuses on young PI's, and travel subsidies are availab= le. *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Postdoc, Role of small pelagic fish in the NE Shelf ecosystem Sue- would you kindly post the following position announcement to the DIALOG lists as soon as is feasible? We just got word that we may have funding for this position, and although the next deadline is Feb. 1 it is still worth posting despite the short notice and given the relatively minimal application requirements. There will likely be additional positions for subsequent NRC deadlines as well. So if this particular project is too short a notice for this round of reviews, interested individuals can familiarize themselves with the NRC process for what will likely be other chances in the near future. This project will be an opportunity for someone in the DIALOG community to work at a federal laboratory for a couple of years, providing them with a different perspective towards our LMRs and LMEs than what one might obtain in academia. Our Lab has some premier datasets, world-class scientists, and of course Woods Hole is Woods Hole. So those factors plus the salary should make this post-doc a reasonably attractive position to interested and qualified individuals. Thanks in advance for posting this announcement. Jason Link ************************************************** As an integral part of the Energy Modeling and Analysis eXercise (EMAX) involving >20 NEFSC Scientists, a network analysis and related modeling/fitting exercise is planned. The project will emphasize the role of small pelagic fish in the NE Shelf ecosystem, but is inclusive of a wide range of trophic levels and taxa. This position will assist in the assembly of all network components, including the cataloguing of biomass, production, consumption, migration, and related rates from extant NEFSC databases. This position will then fit/estimate those areas of information that are unknown to complete the network using a variety of extant methods and models. Finally, using dynamic network methodology, once the network is constructed a suite of simulations will then be executed to evaluate different scenarios. This project may be filled under any of the NRC announcements below. http://www4.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap.nsf Assessing Marine Ecosystems 26.38.01.B5368 Interaction Strengths among Species of the Northwest Atlantic Food Web 26.38.01.B4263 Multispecies Predator-Prey Modeling for Marine Fishes of the Northwest Atlantic 26.38.01.B3815 ************************************************** *************************************************** Student Positions PhD Student Position Available Modeling of Future Sea Level Rise from the Retreat of Glaciers Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology Stockholm University, Sweden REFERENCE NUMBER: 617-2696-03 Application deadline: Monday, 16 February 2004 =46or further information, please contact: Regine Hock (regine@natgeo.su.se) or go to: http://www.glaciology.su.se ------------------------------------- OVERVIEW Applications are encouraged for a 4-year PhD student position focusing on modeling future sea level rise from the retreat of glaciers outside Greenland and Antarctica. The objective is to model the changes in annual glacier volume based on the most recent temperature and precipitation scenarios as defined by General Circulation Models or Regional Climate Models, and to translate these changes into sea level changes. The project is a modeling study based on available data sets. However, opportunity is given to participate in mass balance related field work at the Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden. POSITION SPECIFICS The position is based in the glaciology/hydrology group at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University. The project is in collaboration with Professor J. Oerlemans at Utrecht University, Holland, and some visits at his department are envisaged. The 4-year PhD program includes roughly 3 years of thesis work and one year of course work. The position may be extended by up to one year if up to 20% teaching assistance is included in the contract. There is no tuition. The starting salary is 2470 USD per month. ELIGIBILITY We seek a dedicated candidate with a degree in atmospheric/geoscience, natural science, civil engineering, or other relevant subjects including university level mathematics and physics. Modeling and programming experience is desirable. The starting date is negotiable, but preferably as soon as possible and not later than 1 June 2004. APPLICATION DETAILS When applying, please include the following: (1) Curriculum vitae (2) Copies of degrees (3) Transcripts of academic records (4) Name and address of at least two references who are familiar with the applicants qualifications (5) Other relevant documents (all attested) Applications must be labelled "ref nr 617-2696-03." Please send applications to: Stockholm University Registrator/P=C4 SE-106 91 Stockholm SWEDEN Applications can also be faxed to: +46 8 16 38 66 or e-mailed to: registrator@adm.su.se Applications sent by fax or e-mail must be followed by an identical and signed original. Application deadline: Monday, 16 February 2004 =46or further information, please contact: Regine Hock (regine@natgeo.su.se) or go to: http://www.glaciology.su.se ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. =46or ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1136379172==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and DISCCRS News Feb. 2, 2004
DIALOG and Disccrs News
Feb. 2, 2004

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Resources

Complex Systems
There is a really nice website for Complex Systems, maintained by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI):
http://www.necsi.net/
It has some really nice basic information about complex systems (definitions and the like) as well as some great resources. Note they have a conference coming up--see announcement in the section below on meetings....

New Report charts Course for Future of Geosciences
see article, front page of EOS 85(3) 20 January 2004
the full report is available at:  http://www.iugg.org/geosciences.html

***************************************************

Science News

HAS GLOBAL OIL PRODUCTION PEAKED?
from The Christian Science Monitor
     Today's civilization depends on an abundant and relatively cheap supply of
oil. It fuels most of our vehicles, aircraft, ships, and trains. It
provides the raw material for fertilizer, some clothing fabrics, most
plastics, and many chemicals. Oil heats many of our homes and businesses.
     So when experts discuss when oil production will begin to decline, the
world pays heed. The question now making the rounds in energy circles: Has
production already peaked?
http://snipurl.com/45ir



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Forum



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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings

Preliminary Program and Abstract Submission
Deadline Extension
for the
International Conference on Complex Systems

Attached is a preliminary program for the 5th
International Conference on Complex Systems. As
you can see from the program, this ICCS, like
the previous ones, is an unusual opportunity
to discuss advances that contribute to our
general understanding of complex systems. It
is also a remarkable opportunity for pedagogy.

Please note that this is not a final program.
Many outstanding abstracts have been received
that will become part of the program.

Because of a delay in the program committee meeting
the ICCS abstract submission deadline has been
extended to February 15. After this date, abstracts
will be accepted only if space is available in
specific sessions. The early registration deadline
has been extended to March 1.

Registering to attend the conference without
giving a presentation is also still possible.

Students and postdocs should submit papers about
recent advances in their research. Generally,
they will be given opportunities to give short
talks or, if they prefer, poster presentations.
We expect to have funds to assist students and
postdocs in attending the conference.

Please see the conference web page at:
http://www.necsi.net/events/iccs/iccscover.html
 
------------------------------------------------

Workshop in Ecological Stoichiometry (Woodstoick 2004), Finse, Norway, 15-19 August 2004
 Applications are now being accepted for a a scientific "happening" (Woodstoick 2004; http://folk.uio.no/jmoe/woodstoick/ ) related to ecological stoichiometry that is planned for the coming summer in Norway's beautiful Hardanger mountains (http://biologi.uio.no/fellesavdelinger/finse/ ).  The event is targeted for postdoctoral and advanced PhD students who are working on any aspect of ecological/biological stoichiometry in any type of ecosystem or with any type of organism.  The event is going to be dynamic, novel, and  its products will be rapidly disseminated in Oikos.  Norway's Center for Advanced Study (http://www.cas.uio.no/) is providing funding to defray the costs of attendance of all accepted participants. The main organizers of this workshop are Dag Hessen (U of Oslo) and Jim Elser (Arizona State University) working with Jannicke Moe (NCEAS, California) as a scientific coordinator and with Norway's Center for Advanced Study and biological station support staff for practical logistics. To apply, interested parties should provide a cover letter describing their past, ongoing, and/or planned work in ecological/biological stoichiometry and what s/he hopes to contribute to the conference and a short (2-page) c.v. summarizing her/his academic training and past research experiences and accomplishments.  The materials should be sent to Dr. Jannicke Moe (moe@nceas.ucsb.edu) by 1 March 2004.  Inquiries about further details can be sent to her as well


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-----------------------------------
IHDP-IAI 2004 Global Environmental Change Institute on
Globalisation and Food Systems
Scientific Workshop and Science-Policy Forum
       
October 24 - November 6, 2004, Nicoya, Costa Rica

IHDP (International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change) and IAI (Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research) is pleased to announce the 2004 Global Environmental Change Institute on Globalisation and Food Systems =96 Scientific Workshop and Science-Policy Forum, to be held from
October 24 through November 6, 2004 at the
Mesoamerican Institute of the National University of Costa Rica in Nicoya.
     Please, access the site "http://www.institutes.iai.int" to visualize the full announcement or submit your application form.
     --This meeting focuses on young PI's, and travel subsidies are available.
 

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Jobs for PhDs

Postdoc, Role of small pelagic fish in the NE Shelf ecosystem

Sue-
would you kindly post the following position announcement to the DIALOG
lists as soon as is feasible?  We just got word that we may have funding
for this position, and although the next deadline is Feb. 1 it is still
worth posting despite the short notice and given the relatively minimal
application requirements.  There will likely be additional positions for
subsequent NRC deadlines as well.  So if this particular project is too
short a notice for this round of reviews, interested individuals can
familiarize themselves with the NRC process for what will likely be
other chances in the near future.

This project will be an opportunity for someone in the DIALOG community
to work at a federal laboratory for a couple of years, providing them
with a different perspective towards our LMRs and LMEs than what one
might obtain in academia.  Our Lab has some premier datasets,
world-class scientists, and of course Woods Hole is Woods Hole.  So
those factors plus the salary should make this post-doc a reasonably
attractive position to interested and qualified individuals.

Thanks in advance for posting this announcement.

Jason Link
**************************************************
As an integral part of the Energy Modeling and Analysis eXercise (EMAX)
involving >20 NEFSC Scientists, a network analysis and related
modeling/fitting exercise is planned.  The project will emphasize the
role of small pelagic fish in the NE Shelf ecosystem, but is inclusive
of a wide range of trophic levels and taxa.  This position will assist
in the assembly of all network components, including the cataloguing of
biomass, production, consumption, migration, and related rates from
extant NEFSC databases.  This position will then fit/estimate those
areas of information that are unknown to complete the network using a
variety of extant methods and models.  Finally, using dynamic network
methodology, once the network is constructed a suite of simulations will
then be executed to evaluate different scenarios.

This project may be filled under any of the NRC announcements below.

http://www4.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap.nsf

Assessing Marine Ecosystems
26.38.01.B5368

Interaction Strengths among Species of the Northwest Atlantic Food Web
26.38.01.B4263

Multispecies Predator-Prey Modeling for Marine Fishes of the Northwest
Atlantic
26.38.01.B3815

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Student Positions

PhD Student Position Available
Modeling of Future Sea Level Rise from the Retreat of Glaciers
Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology
Stockholm University, Sweden
REFERENCE NUMBER: 617-2696-03

Application deadline: Monday, 16 February 2004

=46or further information, please contact:
Regine Hock
(regine@natgeo.su.se)

or go to:
http://www.glaciology.su.se

-------------------------------------
OVERVIEW
Applications are encouraged for a 4-year PhD student position focusing
on modeling future sea level rise from the retreat of glaciers outside
Greenland and Antarctica. The objective is to model the changes in
annual glacier volume based on the most recent temperature and
precipitation scenarios as defined by General Circulation Models or
Regional Climate Models, and to translate these changes into sea level
changes. The project is a modeling study based on available data sets.
However, opportunity is given to participate in mass balance related
field work at the Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden.

POSITION SPECIFICS
The position is based in the glaciology/hydrology group at the
Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm
University. The project is in collaboration with Professor J. Oerlemans
at Utrecht University, Holland, and some visits at his department are
envisaged. The 4-year PhD program includes roughly 3 years of thesis
work and one year of course work. The position may be extended by up to
one year if up to 20% teaching assistance is included in the contract.
There is no tuition. The starting salary is 2470 USD per month.

ELIGIBILITY
We seek a dedicated candidate with a degree in atmospheric/geoscience,
natural science, civil engineering, or other relevant subjects including
university level mathematics and physics. Modeling and programming
experience is desirable. The starting date is negotiable, but preferably
as soon as possible and not later than 1 June 2004.

APPLICATION DETAILS
When applying, please include the following:
(1) Curriculum vitae
(2) Copies of degrees
(3) Transcripts of academic records
(4) Name and address of at least two references who are familiar with
the applicants qualifications
(5) Other relevant documents (all attested)

Applications must be labelled "ref nr 617-2696-03."

Please send applications to:
Stockholm University
Registrator/P=C4
SE-106 91 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Applications can also be faxed to:
+46 8 16 38 66

or e-mailed to:
registrator@adm.su.se

Applications sent by fax or e-mail must be followed by an identical and
signed original.

Application deadline: Monday, 16 February 2004

=46or further information, please contact:
Regine Hock (regine@natgeo.su.se)

or go to:
http://www.glaciology.su.se


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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       =46ax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf        
--============_-1136379172==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Mon Feb 2 18:11:06 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 10:11:06 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG Sessions at ASLO/TOS Meeting: Message-ID: --============_-1136377024==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is the last reminder that there will be 2 DIALOG sessions at the ASLO/TOS meeting in Hawaii: We hope that both old and new DIALOG program participants will attend--In addition to timely information on job-application and research-proposal development, plus an opportunity to find out more about the DIALOG VI symposium, scheduled for Oct. 30-Nov. 6, 2004 (May 1, 2004 application deadliine--see http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf ), these sessions provide a great opportunity for past DIALOG program participants to catch up with each other, and establish new collegial relationships. The full Meeting Program is posted at http://aslo.org/honolulu2004/files/aslo-tos-2004-program.pdf The DIALOG information, on p. 14, is reproduced below. We look forward to seeing you there! Please encourage your students and colleagues to attend. Cheers, Sue ************************************************* Workshop for Landing the Right Job: Applications to Interviews Date: Monday, February 16, 2004 12:00 to 1:15 p.m. Location: Room 316 C - Hawaii Convention Center It all begins here=8A..but where to begin? Knowing how to make your application and interview stand out among all the others is one of the keys to getting the offer for that perfect job. We will discuss some "universal" strategies that should help you attain your goal. Organizers: Rebecca Shipe, Assistant Professor, UCLA Monty Graham, Associate Professor, University of Southern Alabama Susan Weiler, Research Associate, Whitman College. ------------------------------------ DIALOG Reception: Proposal Development Strategies for new Pis Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Location: Room 317 A - Hawaii Convention Center It takes more than just a good idea to get funded=8A..knowing how to get your message across to the reviewer can substantially improve your chance. We will present an overview of proposal development using a systematic approach. The brief overview of the process will set the stage for questions and discussions. While the presentations will use a U.S. National Science Foundation proposal as a model, past European DIALOG participants and others with successful experience will be on hand to relate these strategies to the European and other systems. Agency representatives have been invited as well. While the focus is on new PI's, everyone is welcome to participate. Organizers: Monty Graham, Associate Professor, Dauphin Island Sea Lab Susan Weiler, Research Associate, Whitman College. ************************************************** -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1136377024==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG Sessions at ASLO/TOS Meeting:
This is the last reminder that there will be 2 DIALOG sessions at the ASLO/TOS meeting in Hawaii:

We hope that both old and new DIALOG program participants will attend--In addition to timely information on job-application and research-proposal development, plus an opportunity to find out more about the DIALOG VI symposium, scheduled for Oct. 30-Nov. 6, 2004 (May 1, 2004 application deadliine--see http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf ), these sessions provide a great opportunity for past DIALOG program participants to catch up with each other, and establish new collegial relationships.

The full Meeting Program is posted at http://aslo.org/honolulu2004/files/aslo-tos-2004-program.pdf
The DIALOG information, on p. 14, is reproduced below.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please encourage your students and colleagues to attend.

Cheers, Sue

*************************************************

Workshop for Landing the Right Job: Applications to Interviews
Date:         Monday, =46ebruary 16, 2004 12:00 to 1:15 p.m.
Location:   Room 316 C - Hawaii Convention Center
   It all begins here=8A..but where to begin? Knowing how to make your application and interview stand out among all the others is one of the keys to getting the offer for that perfect job. We will discuss some "universal" strategies that should help you attain your goal.
   Organizers:
Rebecca Shipe, Assistant Professor, UCLA
Monty Graham, Associate Professor, University of Southern Alabama
Susan Weiler, Research Associate, Whitman College.

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DIALOG Reception: Proposal Development Strategies for new Pis
Date:         Tuesday, =46ebruary 17, 2004, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Location:   Room 317 A - Hawaii Convention Center
     It takes more than just a good idea to get funded=8A..knowing how to get your message across to the reviewer can substantially improve your chance. We will present an overview of proposal development using a systematic approach. The brief overview of the process will set the stage for questions and discussions. While the presentations will use a U.S. National Science Foundation proposal as a model, past European DIALOG participants and others with successful experience will be on hand to relate these strategies to the European and other systems. Agency representatives have been invited as well. While the focus is on new PI's, everyone is welcome to participate.
   Organizers:
Monty Graham, Associate Professor, Dauphin Island Sea Lab
Susan Weiler, Research Associate, Whitman College.

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--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       =46ax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf                
--============_-1136377024==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Fri Feb 6 23:34:50 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:34:50 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Feb. 6, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1136012001==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" DIALOG and Disccrs News Feb. 6, 2004 *************************************************** Resources Science article transformed for Smithsonian See attached article about 'gas guzzlers', for a good example of how a Science article was transformed by Smithsonian Magazine. Alan Milligan reports this article was a direct result of the little plug I gave at the DIALOG IV symposium about using the Public Relations folks at universities for help reaching out to the 'general public'. If you are interested in doing something like this, the Smithsonian article is a nice model. The magazine comes complete with some really terrific photos. Unfortunately those are not available on the web. Check out the Feb. 2004 issue to see the photos. http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/feb04/phenomena.html AGUAGI Survey of Recent Earth Science PhDs, Class of 2002 Available AGU and AGI (in collaboration with AIP) conduct an annual survey of employment trends among recent Earth and space science PhD recipients. The latest report, profiling the class of 2002, is available. See http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/cpst/2002PhDSurvey.pdf Contributed by David Smith NSF Speakers Tackle Biocomplexity and Science Workforce at AAAS Annual Meeting URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ma0402 NSF: new funding opportunity focusing on Human and Social Dynamics (HSD). The program description can be found at . The challenges posed by the need to understand individual and group behavior in the context of the natural, built, and social environments are immense. They require research that breaks down disciplinary boundaries and embraces interactions at multiple scales: over time from nanoseconds to millennia and across space from the internal workings of the human mind to the interplay of global social and cultural systems. Accomplishing the goals of the HSD priority area requires a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach across science and engineering research and education including the development of an infrastructure that can support such efforts. In this year's competition, the HSD priority area will target research and education within and across three topical emphasis areas and three resource-related emphasis areas. All six emphasis areas encompass topics for which interdisciplinary synergies hold special promise for important breakthroughs. The deadline for submitting a mandatory letter of intent is March 3, 2004 and the deadline for submitting full proposals is March 30, 2004. You can contact the individuals listed at for general inquiries about your research ideas and team and their appropriateness for funding under the Human and Social Dynamics competition. This is an exciting opportunity at the National Science Foundation. We encourage you to broadly disseminate this information to your colleagues. Sincerely, Miriam Heller, Ph.D. Competition Coordinator, Human and Social Dynamics Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate National Science Foundation Women Vastly Underrepresented in Academia From Women's eNews at http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=1672 A female chemistry professor decided to count the number and calculate the percentage of women and minority men on university science faculties. The results document a widespread lack of diversity in academia. The report finds that only between 3 percent and 15 percent of full professors at top engineering and science departments are women, although the percentage of women attaining doctorates during the last 20 years is substantially higher. Top-ranked departments in disciplines such as political science, biology and psychology scored much higher in 2002. But even in sociology--the best-of-the-best in terms of female representation--on average, only 35.8 percent of the faculty was female. Arctic GIS Website Launched Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Geospatial Information Infrastructure (GII) Developed by The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS) The website is available at: http://www.arcus.org/gis/index.html For further information, please contact: Helen Wiggins, ARCUS Project Manager (helen@arcus.org) A CLIMATE CHANGE ATLAS FOR 80 FOREST TREE SPECIES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, U.S. Forest Service, this site models the range shifts and change in abundance of 80 tree species in the Eastern U.S. as a result of an increase carbon dioxide levels. The resulting distribution maps are based on scenarios generated from five climate change models involving modifications in temperature, precipitation and potential evapotranspiration. Regardless of whether one accepts the presented climate change scenarios, the site is still a useful resource for showing current tree distributions and how climate, elevation, and soil type influence the spatial patterns of different tree species. http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/atlas/index.html *************************************************** Science News NSF Fiscal 2005 Budget Request Is $5.745 Billion URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr0412 *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Director (Faculty Fellow) Center for the Environment Plymouth State University, New Hampshire, USA (Three-year faculty appointment with the possibility of renewal) Plymouth State University is seeking applications for a Director (HR classification = faculty fellow) of a multidisciplinary center for environmental research, education, and outreach. The primary responsibility for the director is to secure funding for research that addresses regional environmental concerns. This research will involve faculty, undergraduate and graduate students at PSU as well as individuals from area non-profit organizations investigating environmental problems. Starting date of the position will be July 1, 2004. The individual must have strong communication skills, a strong track record in grant writing and receiving research funding, familiarity with regional environmental problems, such as invasive species and aquatic toxicity, experience in conducting research with students at both undergraduate and/or graduate levels, and an ability to form multi-disciplinary research teams that draw primarily upon the strengths of the PSU faculty. Education and outreach are additional emphases of the center and as such, the faculty researcher will need to be able to communicate scientific findings to a range of audiences. The individual will be principally involved in hiring a coordinator for outreach at some date subsequent to starting the position. The center will be located in the newly renovated Boyd Science Center, a state-of-the-art facility outfitted with equipment and technology that make it a first-rate center for the study of biology and other areas of natural science. Many area non-profit organizations have expressed high interest in the establishment of the center and anticipate collaborative ventures in the areas of research and education. Plymouth State University is located in the scenic heart of the Lakes and White Mountain Region of New Hampshire. Required Qualifications: 1) Ph.D. Degree; 2) recent experience in successfully acquiring research funding; 3) ability to communicate scientific information to many audiences; 4) ability to promote and facilitate research collaborations among faculty, non-profit organizations, and other academic institutions; 5) teaching background at the undergraduate and graduate level; 6) proven administrative experience highly desirable; 7) experience with internship programs. Salary: The PSU administration has dedicated the necessary funding to support a faculty fellow salary for a three-year period with the possibility of renewal at the end of the term. The salary is negotiable. The expectation is that extramural funding will become an increasing part of the source of funds for every aspect of the center?s operations. Application: This opening, originally closing the 30th of January, has been extended until the 29th of February because of problems getting information about the position out. Applications received by 29th will be given priority consideration. Position will remain open until filled. Candidates should send a cover letter describing how the applicant?s experiences match the position qualifications, a curriculum vitae, and names, addresses and telephone numbers of three current professional references as well as letters written from each to: Human Resources, MSC # 14, Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, Plymouth, NH 03264. Plymouth State University is committed to diversity amongst its faculty, staff and students. We are an AA/EEO employer and encourage women and minorities to apply. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the U.S. If you have immediate questions feel free to contact Larry Spencer (Chair of the Search Committee) at lts@plymouth.edu or 603-535-2322 ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1136012001==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" DIALOG and DISCCRS News Feb. 6, 2004
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Resources

Science article transformed for Smithsonian
See attached article about 'gas guzzlers', for a good example of how a Science article was transformed by Smithsonian Magazine. Alan Milligan reports this article was a direct result of the little plug I gave at the DIALOG IV symposium about using the Public Relations folks at universities for help reaching out to the 'general public'. If you are interested in doing something like this, the Smithsonian article is a nice model. The magazine comes complete with some really terrific photos. Unfortunately those are not available on the web. Check out the Feb. 2004 issue to see the photos.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues04/feb04/phenomena.html


AGUAGI Survey of Recent Earth Science PhDs, Class of 2002 Available
AGU and AGI (in collaboration with AIP) conduct an annual survey of employment trends among recent Earth and space science PhD recipients. The latest report, profiling the class of 2002, is available. See
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/cpst/2002PhDSurvey.pdf
Contributed by David Smith

NSF Speakers Tackle Biocomplexity and Science Workforce at AAAS Annual Meeting
URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ma0402

NSF: new funding opportunity focusing on Human and Social Dynamics (HSD).  The program
description can be found at <http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/hsd/>.
     The challenges posed by the need to understand individual and group behavior in the context of
the natural, built, and social environments are immense.  They require research that breaks down
disciplinary boundaries and embraces interactions at multiple scales: over time from nanoseconds
to millennia and across space from the internal workings of the human mind to the interplay of
global social and cultural systems.  Accomplishing the goals of the HSD priority area requires a
comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach across science and engineering research and
education including the development of an infrastructure that can support such efforts.  In this
year's competition, the HSD priority area will target research and education within and across
three topical emphasis areas and three resource-related emphasis areas.  All six emphasis areas
encompass topics for which interdisciplinary synergies hold special promise for important
breakthroughs.
      The deadline for submitting a mandatory letter of intent is March 3, 2004 and the deadline for
submitting full proposals is March 30, 2004.  You can contact the individuals listed at
<http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/hsd/contacts.htm> for general inquiries about your
research ideas and team and their appropriateness for funding under the Human and Social
Dynamics competition.
     This is an exciting opportunity at the National Science Foundation.  We encourage you to broadly
disseminate this information to your colleagues.
     Sincerely,
Miriam Heller, Ph.D.
Competition Coordinator, Human and Social Dynamics
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate
National Science Foundation

Women Vastly Underrepresented in Academia
From Women's eNews at http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=1672
     A female chemistry professor decided to count the number and calculate
the percentage of women and minority men on university science faculties.
The results document a widespread lack of diversity in academia.  The report
finds that only between 3 percent and 15 percent of full professors at
top engineering and science departments are women, although the percentage
of women attaining doctorates during the last 20 years is substantially
higher.
     Top-ranked departments in disciplines such as political science, biology
and psychology scored much higher in 2002.  But even in sociology--the
best-of-the-best in terms of female representation--on average, only
35.8 percent of the faculty was female.

Arctic GIS Website Launched
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Geospatial Information Infrastructure (GII)
Developed by The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
The website is available at:
http://www.arcus.org/gis/index.html
For further information, please contact:
Helen Wiggins, ARCUS Project Manager
(helen@arcus.org)

A CLIMATE CHANGE ATLAS FOR 80 FOREST TREE SPECIES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES, U.S. Forest Service, this site models the range shifts and change in abundance of 80 tree species in the Eastern U.S.  as a result of an increase carbon dioxide levels. The resulting distribution maps are based on scenarios generated from five climate change models involving modifications in temperature, precipitation and potential evapotranspiration. Regardless of whether one accepts the presented climate change scenarios, the site is still a useful resource for showing current tree distributions and how climate, elevation, and soil type influence the spatial patterns of different tree species. 
http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/atlas/index.html


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Science News

NSF Fiscal 2005 Budget Request Is $5.745 Billion
URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr0412



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Jobs for PhDs

Director (Faculty Fellow) Center for the Environment
Plymouth State University, New Hampshire, USA

(Three-year faculty appointment with the possibility of renewal)

Plymouth State University is seeking applications for a Director (HR
classification = faculty fellow) of a multidisciplinary center for
environmental research, education, and outreach. The primary responsibility
for the director is to secure funding for research that addresses regional
environmental concerns. This research will involve faculty, undergraduate
and graduate students at PSU as well as individuals from area non-profit
organizations investigating environmental problems.  Starting date of the
position will be July 1, 2004.

The individual must have strong communication skills, a strong track record
in grant writing and receiving research funding, familiarity with regional
environmental problems, such as invasive species and aquatic toxicity,
experience in conducting research with students at both undergraduate and/or
graduate levels, and an ability to form multi-disciplinary research teams
that draw primarily upon the strengths of the PSU faculty. Education and
outreach are additional emphases of the center and as such, the faculty
researcher will need to be able to communicate scientific findings to a
range of audiences. The individual will be principally involved in hiring a
coordinator for outreach at some date subsequent to starting the position.

The center will be located in the newly renovated Boyd Science Center, a
state-of-the-art facility outfitted with equipment and technology that make
it a first-rate center for the study of biology and other areas of natural
science.  Many area non-profit organizations have expressed high interest in
the establishment of the center and anticipate collaborative ventures in the
areas of research and education.  Plymouth State University is located in
the scenic heart of the Lakes and White Mountain Region of New Hampshire.

Required Qualifications:  1)  Ph.D. Degree; 2) recent experience in
successfully acquiring research funding; 3) ability to communicate
scientific information to many audiences; 4) ability to promote and
facilitate research collaborations among faculty, non-profit organizations,
and other academic institutions; 5) teaching background at the undergraduate
and graduate level; 6)  proven administrative experience highly desirable;
7) experience with internship programs.

Salary:  The PSU administration has dedicated the necessary funding to
support a faculty fellow salary for a three-year period with the possibility
of renewal at the end of the term. The salary is negotiable.  The
expectation is that extramural funding will become an increasing part of the
source of funds for every aspect of the center?s operations.

Application:  This opening, originally closing the 30th of January, has been
extended until the 29th of February because of problems getting information
about the position out. Applications received by 29th will be given priority
consideration.  Position will remain open until filled.

Candidates should send a cover letter describing how the applicant?s
experiences match the position qualifications, a curriculum vitae, and
names, addresses and telephone numbers of three current professional
references as well as letters written from each to:  Human Resources, MSC
# 14, Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, Plymouth, NH 03264.

Plymouth State University is committed to diversity amongst its faculty,
staff and students.  We are an AA/EEO employer and encourage women and
minorities to apply.  Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the
U.S.

If you have immediate questions feel free to contact Larry Spencer (Chair of
the Search Committee) at lts@plymouth.edu or 603-535-2322


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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf        
--============_-1136012001==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Mon Feb 9 18:25:46 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:25:46 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] Postdoctoral position in Zooplankton Ecology, Virginia Inst. Mar. Science Message-ID: --============_-1135771345==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Position description Postdoctoral Research Associate Zooplankton Ecology Department of Biological Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science The College of William and Mary A postdoctoral position is available immediately to join an NSF-funded project investigating the impacts of mesoscale eddies on zooplankton community structure and biogeochemical cycling in the open ocean. The project will address how the physical/ chemical/ biological characteristics of mesoscale eddy features affect the spatial and temporal distribution, and behavior and physiology of zooplankton, as well as how do differences in zooplankton dynamics within or outside eddies affect vertical flux of carbon and associated bio-elements. The postdoctoral associate will participate in 2 summer cruises in each year of 2004 and 2005 in the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda. Applicants must have a Ph.D. with emphasis in marine science or a closely related field with expertise in zooplankton ecology. Knowledge of basic zooplankton taxonomy is essential, and experience with acoustics, performing MOCNESS tows, and zooplankton physiology is highly desirable. Funding is available for 3 years at a starting salary of $35,000/yr. For informal inquiries or to send application materials, interested individuals should respond to: Dr. Debbie Steinberg Virginia Institute of Marine Science College of William and Mary P.O. Box 1346 Gloucester Pt, VA 23062 USA Email: debbies@vims.edu Phone: 804-684-7838 Fax: 804-684-7293 Please send a letter of interest highlighting experience relative to the position, curriculum vitae, and the names of and contact information for three references. Review of materials will begin February 20 and continue until an appointment is made. The College of William and Mary is an EEO/AA employer. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1135771345==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Postdoctoral position in Zooplankton Ecology, Virginia
Position description

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Zooplankton Ecology

Department of Biological Sciences
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
The College of William and Mary

A postdoctoral position is available immediately to join an
NSF-funded project investigating the impacts of mesoscale eddies on
zooplankton community structure and biogeochemical cycling in the
open ocean.  The project will address how the physical/ chemical/
biological characteristics of mesoscale eddy features affect the
spatial and temporal distribution, and behavior and physiology of
zooplankton, as well as how do differences in zooplankton dynamics
within or outside eddies affect vertical flux of carbon and
associated bio-elements.  The postdoctoral associate will participate
in 2 summer cruises in each year of 2004 and 2005 in the Sargasso Sea
off Bermuda.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. with emphasis in marine science or a
closely related field with expertise in zooplankton ecology.
Knowledge of basic zooplankton taxonomy is essential, and experience
with acoustics, performing MOCNESS tows, and zooplankton physiology
is highly desirable.  Funding is available for 3 years at a starting
salary of $35,000/yr.

For informal inquiries or to send application materials, interested
individuals should respond to:

Dr. Debbie Steinberg
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
College of William and Mary
P.O. Box 1346
Gloucester Pt, VA  23062
USA

Email: debbies@vims.edu
Phone: 804-684-7838
Fax:   804-684-7293

Please send a letter of interest highlighting experience relative to
the position, curriculum vitae, and the names of and contact
information for three references.  Review of materials
will begin February 20 and continue until an appointment is made.

The College of William and Mary is an EEO/AA employer.
--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf                
--============_-1135771345==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Thu Feb 12 23:28:25 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:28:25 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Feb. 12, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1135493986==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" DIALOG and Disccrs News Feb. 12, 2004 *************************************************** Forum From Wendy Loya: >>LOOKING FOR COLLABORATOR IN MICROBIOLOGY OR MICROBIAL ECOLOGY >>the crazy idea: >>The crater lake of White Island volcano, New Zealand (for example, >>as there are others), can exhibit pH values below zero and yet >>support microbial life. Where does this life originate? To >>examine the possibilities a study of several crater lakes in >>various stages of evolution is proposed. By carefully selecting >>acidic lakes from active volcanic craters, such as one recently >>formed (< 1 year), another less than 10 years old, and a third (in >>addition to White Island) that is more evolved, microbial ecology >>can be compared. By looking at early colonizers of new crater >>lakes (e.g. Papandajan volcano, Indonesia) we may be able to >>ascertain if such life forms are able to adapt as their environment >>gradually grows more acidic or if they are originating from >>magmatic degassing deeper in the volcanic conduit. Magmatic fluids >>have been compared to primordial soup and recent work has found >>complex organic compounds that were previous thought unable to >>withstand magmatic temperatures. >> Below is a link for an NSF proposal due 01April 2004 in >>Geomicrobial Processes. >> About me: I have BS/MS degrees in Environmental Engineering >>and a PhD in Geochemistry/Volcanology. Though currently a post-doc >>at McGill University in Canada, I am obtaining an Adjunct position >>at Mich Tech which will allow me to write NSF proposals. Although >>my expertise is in volcano geochemistry, my limited background in >>microbiology comes from biodegradation studies as an environmental >>engineer and I would like to pair up with a microbiologist for this >>proposal. This would be my first NSF proposal but I have won a >>large number of small grants. >>>Research in Biogeosciences >>>URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04535 >>>Type : Program Announcements & Information >>>Subtype : Geosciences > >Lois Jean Wardell >Earth & Planetary Sciences >McGill University >3450 University Street >Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2A7 >Canada >(514) 398-4587 >fax (514) 398-4680 wardell@eps.mcgill.ca *************************************************** Resources The Aldo Leopold Leadership Program is pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2005 Leopold Leadership Fellowships. Please forward this e-mail to anyone you know who might be interested. Fellowship details, including application forms, can be downloaded from the web site, www.leopoldleadership.org . Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Call for Applications - 2005 Fellowships Deadline: Monday, April 19, 2004 The Aldo Leopold Leadership Program invites academic environmental scientists from North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States) to apply for the 2005 fellowships that provide scientific leadership, communications and outreach training. Through a competitive process, the Leopold Leadership Program selects up to 20 Fellows annually to participate in an intensive training program designed to build and enhance the skills of academic environmental scientists to communicate with policy makers, media representatives, businesses, non-profit organizations, and the general public. The program's goal is to increase the understanding of complex environmental issues among non-scientific audiences in order to improve policies and practices for sustainability of the planet. The program seeks candidates from a broad range of disciplines including biological, physical and social sciences (e.g. economics, political science) and technical, medical and engineering fields (e.g., wildlife veterinary medicine, environmental health, hazardous waste management) related to the environment. Applicants must be employed by an academic institution in North America, be at mid-career as a tenured or tenure-track professor, and be active in teaching and research. Every applicant must demonstrate: * a reputation for excellent science, interdisciplinary research, and application within their area of professional specialty, and good judgment; * a record of making direct connections between defining issues and applying science in ways that support sustainability; * interest, willingness, and an appropriate professional position to actively synthesize, interpret, and communicate the results of their work to their peers, policy makers, the media, and the general public; * passion and capacity to exercise leadership in the environmental science and sustainability arenas, and enthusiasm to promote the importance of scientific understanding for improved environmental policies and practices; * commitment to participate in the entire two weeks of training and contribute to the program as well as take advantage of its benefits; * intent to share what is learned in the training program with students and colleagues and other stakeholders through courses, workshops and broader outreach efforts; * ability and desire to remain an active member of the Leopold Leadership Network after the conclusion of the Fellowship year. The 2005 training schedule is: Session I Session II Trinity Conference Center, CT Washington, D.C. June 20 - 27, 2005 September 23 - 30, 2005 The training is offered in English and focuses primarily on U.S.-based institutions, audiences, and policy making. Full details and application documents are available online at: www.leopoldleadership.org Support for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program is provided by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. ********************* NSF Budget Would Increase 3 Percent in President's FY 2005 Request The National Science Foundation (NSF) budget would grow 3.0 percent to $5.7 billion in FY 2005, according to the budget request submitted to Congress by the President on February 2. The proposed increase falls well short of the doubling path specified in the NSF Authorization Act of 2002, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President less than 18 months ago. Of the $167 million in new funding, 45 percent would be devoted to a management initiative that would provide more staff for NSF and improve the security of its computer systems. NSF would increase the average grant size to $142,000 per year in FY 2005, from $139,000 in FY 2004. The average grant duration would remain 3 years. Funding for the Biocomplexity in the Environment Priority Area would remain flat at $99.8 million in FY 2005. This cross-disciplinary Priority Area, which "explores the complex interactions among organisms at all scales and through space and time," received a 42 percent increase last year. Most of the funding under this initiative comes from the Biological Sciences and Geosciences directorates. The number of NSF graduate fellowships would increase from 5,000 to 5,500 in FY 2005. The stipends would remain constant at $30,000 per year. Overall funding for Education and Human Resources would decrease by 17.9 percent to $771.4 million. This loss would come in the form of cuts to Elementary, Secondary and Informal Education and a program to stimulate competitive research at the state-level, as well as the transfer of the President's Math and Science Partnership program. NSF Director Rita Colwell called the agency's three percent budget increase a "vote of confidence" in a time when other federal agencies are experiences severe cuts, although she called the $19 billion recommended by the National Science Board to fulfill all unmet needs "fully justified, and frankly, necessary." An extended version of this article, which includes a budget table, is available online at www.NCSEonline.org ************************ Interagency Education Research Initiative URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04553 *************************************************** Science News CITIES BUILT ON FERTILE LANDS AFFECT CLIMATE While cities provide vital habitat for human beings to thrive, it appears U.S. cities have been built on the most fertile soils, lessening contributions of these lands to Earth's food web and human agriculture, according to a study by NASA researchers and others. Though cities account for just 3 percent of continental U.S. land area, the food and fiber that could be grown there rivals current production on all U.S. agricultural lands, which cover 29 percent of the country. Marc Imhoff, NASA researcher and lead author of a current paper, and co-author Lahouari Bounoua, of NASA and University of Maryland, College Park, added that throughout history humans have settled in areas with the best lands for growing food. "Urbanization follows agriculture -- it's a natural and important human process," said Imhoff.Throughout history, highly productive agricultural land brought food, wealth and trade to an area, all of which fostered settlements. "Urbanization is not a bad thing. It's a very useful way for societies to get together and share resources," said Bounoua. "But it would be better if it were planned in conjunction with other environmental factors." Studies like this one, which appears in the current issue of Remote Sensing of Environment, may lead to smarter urban-growth strategies in the future. The researchers used two satellites offering a combination of daytime and nighttime Earth observation data and a biophysical computer model to derive estimates of annual Net Primary Productivity (NPP). NPP measures plant growth by describing the rate at which plants use carbon from the atmosphere to build new organic matter through photosynthesis. NPP fuels Earth's complex food web and quantifies amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, which plants remove from the atmosphere. Nighttime-lights data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and a vegetation-classification map created at NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, New York, were used to portray urban, peripheral and non-urban areas across the United States. In this way, the researchers calculated the extent and locations of U.S. urban and agricultural land. In addition, observations from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instrument, aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's polar orbiting satellites, were used to calculate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. This index is a measure of plant health, based on the principle that plants absorb solar radiation in the red part of the spectrum of sunlight used for photosynthesis during plant growth. These data were then entered into a Stanford University computer model to derive NPP. The computer model created a potential pre-urban American landscape, which was used to compare and estimate the reduction of NPP due to current urban-land transformation. For the continental United States, when compared to the pre- urban landscape, modern cities account for a 1.6 percent annual decline in NPP. This loss offsets the gain in NPP of 1.8 percent annually from increased farmlands. The result is striking, given the small area that cities cover, relative to agricultural areas. A reduction of this magnitude has vastly unknown consequences for biological diversity, but it translates to less available energy for the species that make up Earth's complex food web. The loss of highly fertile lands for farming also puts pressure on other means to meet the food and fiber needs of an increasing population. On the local scale, urbanization can increase NPP, but only where natural resources are limited. It brings water to arid areas, and "urban heat islands" extend the growing season around the urban fringe in cold regions. These benefits, however, do not offset the overall negative impact of urbanization on NPP. NASA scientists developed the city lights map, and the U.S. Geological Survey used a technique to create the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data. Research partners include the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. For more information and images on the Internet, visit: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0202cityland.html ***************** NASA PREDICTS MORE TROPICAL RAIN IN A WARMER WORLD As the tropical oceans continue to heat up, following a 20-year trend, warm rains in the tropics are likely to become more frequent, according to NASA scientists. In a study by William Lau and Huey-Tzu Jenny Wu, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., the authors offer early proof of a long-held theory that patterns of evaporation and precipitation, known as the water cycle, may accelerate in some areas due to warming temperatures. The research appears in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. The study cites satellite observations showing the rate that warm rain depletes clouds of water is substantially higher than computer models predicted. This research may help increase the accuracy of models that forecast rainfall and climate. The rate water mass in a cloud rains out is the precipitation efficiency. According to the study, when it comes to light warm rains, as sea surface temperature increases, the precipitation efficiency substantially increases. Computer climate models that predict rainfall have underestimated the efficiency of warm rain. Compared to actual observations from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, computer models substantially underestimate the precipitation efficiency of light rain. The findings from this study will provide a range of possibilities for warm rain efficiency that will greatly increase a model's accuracy. "We believe there is a scenario where in a warmer climate there will be more warm rain. And more warm rain will be associated with a more vigorous water cycle and extreme weather patterns," Lau said. The process that creates warm rain begins when water droplets condense around airborne particles and clouds are created. The droplets collide, combine and grow to form raindrops. The raindrops grow large and heavy enough to fall out as warm rain. The study claims, for each degree rise in sea surface temperature, the rate a cloud loses its water to moderate-to- light warm rainfall over the tropical oceans increases by eight to 10 percent. Cold rains are generally associated with heavy downpour. They are generated when strong updrafts carry bigger drops higher up into the atmosphere, where they freeze and grow. These drops are very large by the time they fall. Once updrafts take these large drops high enough, and freezing takes place, the process of rainfall is more dependent on the velocity of the updraft and less on sea surface temperatures. Since the process of condensation releases heat, warm rains heat the lower atmosphere. More warm rains are likely to make the air lighter and rise faster, creating updrafts producing more cold rain. The study found warm rains account for approximately 31 percent of the total global rain amount and 72 percent of the total rain area over tropical oceans, implying warm rains play a crucial role in the overall water cycle. Light warm rains appear to occur much more frequently, and cover more area, than cold rains, even though they drop less water per shower. The total precipitation from all types of warm rains accounts for a substantial portion of the total rainfall. In a warmer climate, it is possible there will be more warm rain and fewer clouds. If the amount of water entering into clouds stays constant and rainfall efficiency increases, then there will be less water in the clouds and more warm rains. More study is needed to better understand the relationship between increased warm-rain precipitation efficiency and a rise in sea surface temperatures, and to determine how cold rain might be affected by an increase in warm rain and a decrease in cloud water amounts. NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying Earth System Science to improve prediction of climate, weather and natural hazards using the unique vantage point of space. For more information and images related to the study on the Internet, visit: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1224rainfall.html For information about NASA on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Professor in marine ecology, with specialization in fish ecology University of Kalmar, Sweden The University of Kalmar, located in SE Sweden at the Baltic Sea, has a strong profile in aquatic, especially marine, ecology, with a diversified undergraduate program and courses for PhD-students. Research is based on international cooperation with extensive funding from the EU as well as the Swedish Research Council and other national agencies. The university can offer modern, well equipped laboratories, with state of the art instruments, for both traditional and molecular biological work, and mesocosm and aquaria rooms with running seawater, for fish and invertebrate studies. More than 30 scientists (including two professors) , PhD-students and technicians participate in research and teaching within aquatic ecology. We are now opening a new position as professor in marine ecology, with specialization in fish ecology. Teaching and research should be within an ecosystem context, and with focus on the Baltic Sea and its fish resources and fisheries. We are looking for a candidate with internationally recognized scientific merits, documented pedagogic skills and experience from undergraduate teaching as well as supervision of graduate students. The candidate is expected to take an active part in the development of teaching and research at the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, through own externally funded research projects, recruitment and supervision of PhD-students and teaching in undergraduate courses e. g. within Aquatic Ecology, Marine Ecology, Fisheries and Environmental Science. Deadline for applications March 8, 2004 For more details on where to send your application and documents required please check at http://www.hik.se ************************ Academic Coordinator/Program Manager >>UC Davis Extension department of Land Use & Natural Resources is >>seeking an experienced scientist, resource manager, administrator >>or policy analyst to serve as Program Manager of a unique >>scientific peer review program focused on restoring the ecosystems >>of the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta and its >>watersheds and tributaries. This position is an essential part of >>the California Bay Delta Authority (previously CALFED) Ecosystem >>Restoration Program's proposal solicitation and review process. >>The Ecosystem Restoration Program provides approximately $100 >>million in funding annually through its competitive proposal >>solicitation process. $475 million has been awarded to 400 >>restoration projects thus far. Graduate degree in a discipline >>related to ecology, fisheries, aquatic restoration, watershed >>science or environmental management/policy required with 2-4 years >>of professional experience in an agency, academic program or >>consulting firm in a field directly related to ecosystem >>restoration. Full-time position; annual hiring salary for Acad >>Coord II ranges from $54,240 to$62,376, dependent upon experience. >>For information call (530) 757-8671 or >>dprigge@unexmail.ucdavis.edu. UC Davis is an affirmative >>action/equal opportunity employer. ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1135493986==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" DIALOG and DISCCRS News Feb. 12, 2004
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Forum

From Wendy Loya:
LOOKING FOR COLLABORATOR IN MICROBIOLOGY OR MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
the crazy idea:
The crater lake of White Island volcano, New Zealand (for example, as there are others), can exhibit pH values below zero and yet support microbial life.  Where does this life originate?  To examine the possibilities a study of several crater lakes in various stages of evolution is proposed.  By carefully selecting acidic lakes from active volcanic craters, such as one recently formed (< 1 year), another less than 10 years old, and a third (in addition to White Island) that is more evolved, microbial ecology can be compared.  By looking at early colonizers of new crater lakes (e.g. Papandajan volcano, Indonesia) we may be able to ascertain if such life forms are able to adapt as their environment gradually grows more acidic or if they are originating from magmatic degassing deeper in the volcanic conduit.  Magmatic fluids have been compared to primordial soup and recent work has found complex organic compounds that were previous thought unable to withstand magmatic temperatures.
     Below is a link for an NSF proposal due 01April 2004 in Geomicrobial Processes.
     About me:  I have BS/MS degrees in Environmental Engineering and a PhD in Geochemistry/Volcanology.  Though currently a post-doc at McGill University in Canada, I am obtaining an Adjunct position at Mich Tech which will allow me to write NSF proposals.  Although my expertise is in volcano geochemistry, my limited background in microbiology comes from biodegradation studies as an environmental engineer and I would like to pair up with a microbiologist for this proposal.  This would be my first NSF proposal but I have won a large number of small grants.
Research in Biogeosciences
URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf04535
Type : Program Announcements & Information
Subtype : Geosciences

Lois Jean Wardell
Earth & Planetary Sciences
McGill University
3450 University Street
Montreal, Quebec,  H3A 2A7
Canada
(514) 398-4587
fax (514) 398-4680
wardell@eps.mcgill.ca


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Resources

The Aldo Leopold Leadership Program is pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2005 Leopold Leadership Fellowships.  Please forward this e-mail to anyone you know who might be interested.  Fellowship details, including application forms, can be downloaded from the web site, www.leopoldleadership.org <http://www.leopoldleadership.org>.
Aldo Leopold Leadership Program
Call for Applications - 2005 Fellowships
Deadline: Monday, April 19, 2004
     The Aldo Leopold Leadership Program invites academic environmental scientists from North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States) to apply for the 2005 fellowships that provide scientific leadership, communications and outreach training.
Through a competitive process, the Leopold Leadership Program selects up to 20 Fellows annually to participate in an intensive training program designed to build and enhance the skills of academic environmental scientists to communicate with policy makers, media representatives, businesses, non-profit organizations, and the general public.  The program's goal is to increase the understanding of complex environmental issues among non-scientific audiences in order to improve policies and practices for sustainability of the planet.
The program seeks candidates from a broad range of disciplines including biological, physical and social sciences (e.g. economics, political science) and technical, medical and engineering fields (e.g., wildlife veterinary medicine, environmental health, hazardous waste management) related to the environment.  Applicants must be employed by an academic institution in North America, be at mid-career as a tenured or tenure-track professor, and be active in teaching and research. Every applicant must demonstrate:
        *       a reputation for excellent science, interdisciplinary research, and application within their area of professional specialty, and good judgment;
*       a record of making direct connections between defining issues and applying science in ways that support sustainability;
*       interest, willingness, and an appropriate professional position to actively synthesize, interpret, and communicate the results of their work to their peers, policy makers, the media, and the general public;
  *       passion and capacity to exercise leadership in the environmental science and sustainability arenas, and enthusiasm to promote the importance of scientific understanding for improved environmental policies and practices;
     *       commitment to participate in the entire two weeks of training and contribute to the program as well as take advantage of its benefits;
  *       intent to share what is learned in the training program with students and colleagues and other stakeholders through courses, workshops and broader outreach efforts;
        *       ability and desire to remain an active member of the Leopold Leadership Network after the conclusion of the Fellowship year.
     The 2005 training schedule is:
Session I                               Session II
Trinity Conference Center, CT           Washington, D.C.
June 20 - 27, 2005                      September 23 - 30, 2005
     The training is offered in English and focuses primarily on U.S.-based institutions, audiences, and policy making.   Full details and application documents are available online at: www.leopoldleadership.org <http://www.leopoldleadership.org>
     Support for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program is provided by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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NSF Budget Would Increase 3 Percent in President's FY 2005 Request
      The National Science Foundation (NSF) budget would grow 3.0 percent to $5.7 billion in FY 2005, according to the budget request submitted to Congress by the President on February 2.  The proposed increase falls well short of the doubling path specified in the NSF Authorization Act of 2002, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President less than 18 months ago.  Of the $167 million in new funding, 45 percent would be devoted to a management initiative that would provide more staff for NSF and improve the security of its computer systems.  NSF would increase the average grant size to $142,000 per year in FY 2005, from $139,000 in FY 2004.  The average grant duration would remain 3 years.
      Funding for the Biocomplexity in the Environment Priority Area would remain flat at $99.8 million in FY 2005.  This cross-disciplinary Priority Area, which "explores the complex interactions among organisms at all scales and through space and time," received a 42 percent increase last year.  Most of the funding under this initiative comes from the Biological Sciences and Geosciences directorates.
      The number of NSF graduate fellowships would increase from 5,000 to 5,500 in FY 2005.  The stipends would remain constant at $30,000 per year.  Overall funding for Education and Human Resources would decrease by 17.9 percent to $771.4 million.  This loss would come in the form of cuts to Elementary, Secondary and Informal Education and a program to stimulate competitive research at the state-level, as well as the transfer of the President's Math and Science Partnership program.   
     NSF Director Rita Colwell called the agency's three percent budget increase a "vote of confidence" in a time when other federal agencies are experiences severe cuts, although she called the $19 billion recommended by the National Science Board to fulfill all unmet needs "fully justified, and frankly, necessary."
      An extended version of this article, which includes a budget table, is available online at www.NCSEonline.org

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Interagency Education Research Initiative
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Science News


CITIES BUILT ON FERTILE LANDS AFFECT CLIMATE

     While cities provide vital habitat for human beings to
thrive, it appears U.S. cities have been built on the most
fertile soils, lessening contributions of these lands to
Earth's food web and human agriculture, according to a study by
NASA researchers and others.

Though cities account for just 3 percent of continental U.S.
land area, the food and fiber that could be grown there rivals
current production on all U.S. agricultural lands, which cover
29 percent of the country. Marc Imhoff, NASA researcher and
lead author of a current paper, and co-author Lahouari Bounoua,
of NASA and University of Maryland, College Park, added that
throughout history humans have settled in areas with the best
lands for growing food.

"Urbanization follows agriculture -- it's a natural and
important human process," said Imhoff.Throughout history,
highly productive agricultural land brought food, wealth and
trade to an area, all of which fostered settlements.

"Urbanization is not a bad thing. It's a very useful way for
societies to get together and share resources," said Bounoua.
"But it would be better if it were planned in conjunction with
other environmental factors." Studies like this one, which
appears in the current issue of Remote Sensing of Environment,
may lead to smarter urban-growth strategies in the future.

The researchers used two satellites offering a combination of
daytime and nighttime Earth observation data and a biophysical
computer model to derive estimates of annual Net Primary
Productivity (NPP). NPP measures plant growth by describing the
rate at which plants use carbon from the atmosphere to build
new organic matter through photosynthesis. NPP fuels Earth's
complex food web and quantifies amounts of carbon dioxide, a
greenhouse gas, which plants remove from the atmosphere.

Nighttime-lights data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite
Program and a vegetation-classification map created at NASA's
Goddard Institute of Space Studies, New York, were used to
portray urban, peripheral and non-urban areas across the United
States. In this way, the researchers calculated the extent and
locations of U.S. urban and agricultural land.

In addition, observations from the Advanced Very High
Resolution Radiometer instrument, aboard the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration's polar orbiting satellites,
were used to calculate the Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index. This index is a measure of plant health, based on the
principle that plants absorb solar radiation in the red part of
the spectrum of sunlight used for photosynthesis during plant
growth. These data were then entered into a Stanford University
computer model to derive NPP.

The computer model created a potential pre-urban American
landscape, which was used to compare and estimate the reduction
of NPP due to current urban-land transformation.

For the continental United States, when compared to the pre-
urban landscape, modern cities account for a 1.6 percent annual
decline in NPP. This loss offsets the gain in NPP of 1.8
percent annually from increased farmlands. The result is
striking, given the small area that cities cover, relative to
agricultural areas.

A reduction of this magnitude has vastly unknown consequences
for biological diversity, but it translates to less available
energy for the species that make up Earth's complex food
web. The loss of highly fertile lands for farming also puts
pressure on other means to meet the food and fiber needs of an
increasing population. On the local scale, urbanization can
increase NPP, but only where natural resources are limited. It
brings water to arid areas, and "urban heat islands" extend the
growing season around the urban fringe in cold regions. These
benefits, however, do not offset the overall negative impact of
urbanization on NPP.

NASA scientists developed the city lights map, and the U.S.
Geological Survey used a technique to create the Normalized
Difference Vegetation Index data. Research partners include the
University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary
Center, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Center for
Conservation Biology at Stanford University.

For more information and images on the Internet, visit:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0202cityland.html


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NASA PREDICTS MORE TROPICAL RAIN IN A WARMER WORLD

     As the tropical oceans continue to heat up, following a
20-year trend, warm rains in the tropics are likely to become
more frequent, according to NASA scientists.

In a study by William Lau and Huey-Tzu Jenny Wu, of NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., the authors offer
early proof of a long-held theory that patterns of evaporation
and precipitation, known as the water cycle, may accelerate in
some areas due to warming temperatures. The research appears in
the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

The study cites satellite observations showing the rate that
warm rain depletes clouds of water is substantially higher than
computer models predicted. This research may help increase the
accuracy of models that forecast rainfall and climate. The rate
water mass in a cloud rains out is the precipitation
efficiency. According to the study, when it comes to light warm
rains, as sea surface temperature increases, the precipitation
efficiency substantially increases.

Computer climate models that predict rainfall have
underestimated the efficiency of warm rain. Compared to actual
observations from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
(TRMM) satellite, computer models substantially underestimate
the precipitation efficiency of light rain. The findings from
this study will provide a range of possibilities for warm rain
efficiency that will greatly increase a model's accuracy.

"We believe there is a scenario where in a warmer climate there
will be more warm rain. And more warm rain will be associated
with a more vigorous water cycle and extreme weather patterns,"
Lau said.

The process that creates warm rain begins when water droplets
condense around airborne particles and clouds are created. The
droplets collide, combine and grow to form raindrops. The
raindrops grow large and heavy enough to fall out as warm rain.
The study claims, for each degree rise in sea surface
temperature, the rate a cloud loses its water to moderate-to-
light warm rainfall over the tropical oceans increases by eight
to 10 percent.

Cold rains are generally associated with heavy downpour. They
are generated when strong updrafts carry bigger drops higher up
into the atmosphere, where they freeze and grow. These drops
are very large by the time they fall. Once updrafts take these
large drops high enough, and freezing takes place, the process
of rainfall is more dependent on the velocity of the updraft
and less on sea surface temperatures. Since the process of
condensation releases heat, warm rains heat the lower
atmosphere. More warm rains are likely to make the air lighter
and rise faster, creating updrafts producing more cold rain.

The study found warm rains account for approximately 31 percent
of the total global rain amount and 72 percent of the total
rain area over tropical oceans, implying warm rains play a
crucial role in the overall water cycle. Light warm rains
appear to occur much more frequently, and cover more area, than
cold rains, even though they drop less water per shower. The
total precipitation from all types of warm rains accounts for a
substantial portion of the total rainfall.

In a warmer climate, it is possible there will be more warm
rain and fewer clouds. If the amount of water entering into
clouds stays constant and rainfall efficiency increases, then
there will be less water in the clouds and more warm rains.

More study is needed to better understand the relationship
between increased warm-rain precipitation efficiency and a rise
in sea surface temperatures, and to determine how cold rain
might be affected by an increase in warm rain and a decrease in
cloud water amounts.

NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to understanding
the Earth as an integrated system and applying Earth System
Science to improve prediction of climate, weather and natural
hazards using the unique vantage point of space.

For more information and images related to the study on the
Internet, visit:

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1224rainfall.html

For information about NASA on the Internet, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov


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Jobs for PhDs

Professor in marine ecology, with specialization in fish ecology
University of Kalmar, Sweden
     The University of Kalmar, located in SE Sweden at the Baltic Sea, has a strong profile in aquatic, especially marine, ecology, with a diversified undergraduate program and courses for PhD-students.  Research is based on international cooperation with extensive funding from the EU as well as the Swedish Research Council and other national agencies. The university can offer modern, well equipped laboratories, with state of the art instruments, for both traditional and molecular biological work, and  mesocosm and aquaria rooms with running seawater, for fish and invertebrate studies.  More than 30 scientists (including two professors) , PhD-students and technicians participate in research and teaching within aquatic ecology.
     We are now opening a new position as professor in marine ecology, with specialization in fish ecology. Teaching and research should be within an ecosystem context, and with focus on the Baltic Sea and its fish resources and fisheries. We are looking for a candidate with internationally recognized scientific merits, documented pedagogic skills and experience from undergraduate teaching as well as supervision of graduate students. The candidate is expected to take an active part  in the development of teaching and  research at the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, through own externally funded research projects, recruitment and supervision of PhD-students and teaching in undergraduate courses e. g.  within Aquatic Ecology, Marine Ecology, Fisheries and Environmental Science.
Deadline for applications March 8, 2004
     For more details on where to send your application and documents required please check at http://www.hik.se




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Academic Coordinator/Program Manager
>>UC Davis Extension department of Land Use & Natural Resources is
>>seeking an experienced scientist, resource manager, administrator
>>or policy analyst to serve as Program Manager of a unique
>>scientific peer review program focused on restoring the ecosystems
>>of the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta and its
>>watersheds and tributaries.  This position is an essential part of
>>the California Bay Delta Authority (previously CALFED) Ecosystem
>>Restoration Program's proposal solicitation and review process.  
>>The Ecosystem Restoration Program provides approximately $100
>>million in funding annually through its competitive proposal
>>solicitation process. $475 million has been awarded to 400
>>restoration projects thus far. Graduate degree in a discipline
>>related to ecology, fisheries, aquatic restoration, watershed
>>science or environmental management/policy required with 2-4 years
>>of professional experience in an agency, academic program or
>>consulting firm in a field directly related to ecosystem
>>restoration. Full-time position; annual hiring salary for Acad
>>Coord II ranges from $54,240 to$62,376, dependent upon experience.
>>For information call (530) 757-8671 or
>>dprigge@unexmail.ucdavis.edu. UC Davis is an affirmative
>>action/equal opportunity employer.
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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf      
--============_-1135493986==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Mon Feb 23 19:16:19 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:16:19 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Feb. 23, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1134558711==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and Disccrs News =46eb. 23, 2004 *************************************************** Resources Teaching Tip: Creating an Effective Power Point Presentation, Thomas Sailor, Concord University, includes suggestions like The "joy of six" is a helpful rule of thumb. Use a maximum of six points per slide and six words per point.`http://people.= csp.edu/saylor/effective_powerpoint.htm Earth Observatory Data and Imagery, NASA, experience a highly interactive site that allows global scale manipulation of parameters relating to the atmosphere, oceans, land, biosphere, and radiation budget. Over 25 parameters are available, including cloud cover, sea surface height, land cover classification, chlorophyll content, out going heat radiation, and much more. Build animations for different time periods (there is selective parameter coverage for 1978-2003). =46or example, compare land cover with fires in order to discuss spatial and temporal trends. Click on the "Features" section and read related archived NASA news stories like "NASA Satellites Watch Worlds Cities Grow" and "Scientists "Reconstruct" Earth's Climate Over Past Millennia." A site glossary mode allows quick access to the meaning of unfamiliar concepts. http://earthobservatory.nasa.= gov/Observatory/ NRC has released the 2nd report on the Climate Change Science Program - htt= p://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309088658?OpenDocument *************************************************** Science News Rita Colwell Resigns as Director of the National Science Foundation Dr. Rita Colwell has resigned as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective February 21. Upon her retirement from NSF, Colwell will become Chairman of Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., a newly-created Washington-based subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. whose goal is to identify and develop life-science solutions with potential applications in diagnostics and medical instrumentation. She will also serve as Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and on the faculty of The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. There she will help develop a new international center for the study of infectious diseases, water, and health. Colwell is the third longest-serving Director in NSF's 54 year history. She has been director of NSF since 1998, when she was appointed by President Clinton. Her six year term would have expired in August. During her tenure at NSF, Colwell oversaw a major increase in the Foundation=92s support of environmental research through such initiatives as the interdisciplinary Biocomplexity in the Environment Priority Area. "I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to lead NSF through two Administrations and major transformational changes," Colwell said in a press release Wednesday. "During the past five and a half years, our budget has increased by 68 percent, our merit review system has been recognized throughout government as the gold standard for responsible use of public funds, and our programs have helped U.S. science and engineering evolve into the flexible, robust and diverse endeavors that they must become to keep America preeminent at the frontier of research and education." Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., who currently serves as Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will become interim Director. Bement has indicated that he will remain accountable to Congress and Administration for NIST during this time, and that he will resume his duties as full time director of NIST once a new NSF director is appointed. Bement has served on the National Science Board, which is the governing board of the NSF. Before becoming Director of NIST in 2001, Bement was Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. Prior to that, he held a variety of positions in academia, industry and government, including senior positions with the Department of Defense. *************************************************** =46orum Submitted by Krisa Arzayus The Mars Beneath the Waves By Robert B. Gagosian Saturday, February 14, 2004; Page A29 As an oceanographer, I confess that when I want a break from the blitz of election reporting, I point my Web browser to NASA to check that, 35 million miles from any primary or caucus, Opportunity is still sending pictures from a peaceful, still world. When I look at the rover's photographs of the Martian surface, I feel pride and awe at the engineering feat of visiting another world. I feel humbled by the sense of infinite time. And I feel the same excitement of discovery that I felt in dives in the submersible Alvin, when I saw at the bottom of the sea what no other human had ever seen before. I also feel a nagging frustration -- like that of a father whose son ha= s just decided to go to the Himalayas to "find himself" when he can't find his socks in his own dresser drawer. Not that he won't learn something in the mountains, but I wish he could see that frontiers at home are also worthy of his devotion. They are frontiers he will need to confront sooner or later. Which brings me to oceanography. Except for the fact that one looks up and the other looks down, oceanographers are basically space explorers who get wet. Both work in terrifically hostile environments. Both go where no one has gone before. Both seek to understand nature and spin off technologies and discoveries that benefit society. Both get most of their support from public funds. The big difference is that oceanographers work where they live -- on a planet that is 70 percent water, which is the wellspring of our survival. Why is oceanography a valuable pursuit? Despite 100 years of ship-based ocean science, less than 5 percent of the ocean floor has been explored. Our biologists discover new species practically every time they go to sea. Our knowledge of the oceans is still characterized mainly by what we don't know. Today we have an unprecedented chance to change this. Miniaturization of sensors and telemetry technology has created a new generation of ocean observatories that enable us to learn more at less cost. We needn't rely only on ships for exploration. Flotillas of battery- and solar-powered observatories, some as small as a soccer ball, can report back measurements 24 hours a day from anywhere on Earth, regardless of weather. Some are anchored in place or flow with ocean currents; some are autonomous robots that swim on a programmed path for months at a time; some are installed on the sea floor, some on the coast, some at the sea surface and some part way down in "mid water." We are in a new age of oceanography, one in which giving the ocean its own instrumentation has become an economic and technical possibility. The cost of building a network of hundreds of sensors to wire the oceans: about $1 billion over 10 years, a little more than the cost of the two Mars rovers. What's the payback? The oceans affect climate and weather, and thus the human condition, around the world. Ocean observatories can reveal conditions that affect fisheries, shifts in weather and long-term climate change. They can illuminate the migratory patterns of marine mammals, the reasons for drought or floods, and the fate and long-term effects of pollutants. They can detect in real time tsunamis, undersea earthquakes, volcanoes and extreme weather at sea, improving prediction of their devastating effects at sea and ashore. Figures we have come up with show that better predictions of ocean conditions could produce $1 billion in annual savings from better mitigation or prevention of damages. When Henry David Thoreau wrote in "Walden" that "in wildness is the preservation of the world," he probably meant that we have a spiritual need for untamed territory. We also have a need to understand the unknown. Indeed, our survival may lie in the uncharted, watery frontiers of our own planet. Oceanographers try to understand the water wilderness that covers most of our planet, which generates most of the oxygen on Earth, controls our climate and makes Earth habitable. They convey what they learn so that we all may help in the preservation of our world. I encourage us to follow in the footsteps of Thoreau, a great homebody who realized that the answers to who we are and what we need to know are hidden in our own backyard. The writer is president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. =46or ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1134558711==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and DISCCRS News Feb. 23, 2004
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Feb. 23, 2004
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Resources

Teaching Tip: Creating an Effective Power Point Presentation, Thomas Sailor, Concord University, includes suggestions like The "joy of six" is a helpful rule of thumb.  Use a maximum of six points per slide and six words per point.`http://people.csp.edu/saylor/effective_powerpoint.htm

Earth Observatory Data and Imagery, NASA, experience a highly interactive site that allows global scale manipulation of parameters relating to the atmosphere, oceans, land, biosphere, and radiation budget. Over 25 parameters are available, including cloud cover, sea surface height, land cover classification, chlorophyll content, out going heat radiation, and much more. Build animations for different time periods (there is selective parameter coverage for 1978-2003).  For example, compare land cover with fires in order to discuss spatial and temporal trends. Click on the "Features" section and read related archived NASA news stories like "NASA Satellites Watch Worlds Cities Grow" and "Scientists "Reconstruct" Earth's Climate Over Past Millennia." A site glossary mode allows quick access to the meaning of unfamiliar concepts. 

NRC has released the 2nd report on the Climate Change Science Program - http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/0309088658?OpenDocument

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Science News

Rita Colwell Resigns as Director of the
National Science =46oundation
      Dr. Rita Colwell has resigned as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective February 21.  Upon her retirement from NSF, Colwell will become Chairman of Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., a newly-created Washington-based subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. whose goal is to identify and develop life-science solutions with potential applications in diagnostics and medical instrumentation.  She will also serve as Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and on the faculty of The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.  There she will help develop a new international center for the study of infectious diseases, water, and health.
      Colwell is the third longest-serving Director in NSF's 54 year history.  She has been director of NSF since 1998, when she was appointed by President Clinton.  Her six year term would have expired in August.  During her tenure at NSF, Colwell oversaw a major increase in the =46oundation=92s support of environmental research through such initiatives as the interdisciplinary Biocomplexity in the Environment Priority Area.
      "I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to lead NSF through two Administrations and major transformational changes," Colwell said in a press release Wednesday. "During the past five and a half years, our budget has increased by 68 percent, our merit review system has been recognized throughout government as the gold standard for responsible use of public funds, and our programs have helped U.S. science and engineering evolve into the flexible, robust and diverse endeavors that they must become to keep America preeminent at the frontier of research and education."
      Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., who currently serves as Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will become interim Director.  Bement has indicated that he will remain accountable to Congress and Administration for NIST during this time, and that he will resume his duties as full time director of NIST once a new NSF director is appointed.
    Bement has served on the National Science Board, which is the governing board of the NSF.  Before becoming Director of NIST in 2001, Bement was Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University.  Prior to that, he held a variety of positions in academia, industry and government, including senior positions with the Department of Defense.

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Forum

Submitted by Krisa Arzayus
The Mars Beneath the Waves
By Robert B. Gagosian
Saturday, February 14, 2004; Page A29
     As an oceanographer, I confess that when I want a break from the blitz
of election reporting, I point my Web browser to NASA to check that, 35
million miles from any primary or caucus, Opportunity is still sending
pictures from a peaceful, still world.
     When I look at the rover's photographs of the Martian surface, I feel
pride and awe at the engineering feat of visiting another world. I feel
humbled by the sense of infinite time. And I feel the same excitement of
discovery that I felt in dives in the submersible Alvin, when I saw at
the bottom of the sea what no other human had ever seen before.
    I also feel a nagging frustration -- like that of a father whose son has
just decided to go to the Himalayas to "find himself" when he can't find
his socks in his own dresser drawer. Not that he won't learn something
in the mountains, but I wish he could see that frontiers at home are
also worthy of his devotion. They are frontiers he will need to confront
sooner or later.
     Which brings me to oceanography. Except for the fact that one looks up
and the other looks down, oceanographers are basically space explorers
who get wet. Both work in terrifically hostile environments. Both go
where no one has gone before. Both seek to understand nature and spin
off technologies and discoveries that benefit society. Both get most of
their support from public funds. The big difference is that
oceanographers work where they live -- on a planet that is 70 percent
water, which is the wellspring of our survival.
     Why is oceanography a valuable pursuit?
     Despite 100 years of ship-based ocean science, less than 5 percent of
the ocean floor has been explored. Our biologists discover new species
practically every time they go to sea. Our knowledge of the oceans is
still characterized mainly by what we don't know. Today we have an
unprecedented chance to change this.
     Miniaturization of sensors and telemetry technology has created a new
generation of ocean observatories that enable us to learn more at less
cost. We needn't rely only on ships for exploration. Flotillas of
battery- and solar-powered observatories, some as small as a soccer
ball, can report back measurements 24 hours a day from anywhere on
Earth, regardless of weather. Some are anchored in place or flow with
ocean currents; some are autonomous robots that swim on a programmed
path for months at a time; some are installed on the sea floor, some on
the coast, some at the sea surface and some part way down in "mid
water."
     We are in a new age of oceanography, one in which giving the ocean its
own instrumentation has become an economic and technical possibility.
      The cost of building a network of hundreds of sensors to wire the
oceans: about $1 billion over 10 years, a little more than the cost of
the two Mars rovers.
     What's the payback?
     The oceans affect climate and weather, and thus the human condition,
around the world. Ocean observatories can reveal conditions that affect
fisheries, shifts in weather and long-term climate change. They can
illuminate the migratory patterns of marine mammals, the reasons for
drought or floods, and the fate and long-term effects of pollutants.
They can detect in real time tsunamis, undersea earthquakes, volcanoes
and extreme weather at sea, improving prediction of their devastating
effects at sea and ashore. Figures we have come up with show that better
predictions of ocean conditions could produce $1 billion in annual
savings from better mitigation or prevention of damages.
     When Henry David Thoreau wrote in "Walden" that "in wildness is the
preservation of the world," he probably meant that we have a spiritual
need for untamed territory. We also have a need to understand the
unknown. Indeed, our survival may lie in the uncharted, watery frontiers
of our own planet.
     Oceanographers try to understand the water wilderness that covers most
of our planet, which generates most of the oxygen on Earth, controls our
climate and makes Earth habitable. They convey what they learn so that
we all may help in the preservation of our world.
     I encourage us to follow in the footsteps of Thoreau, a great homebody
who realized that the answers to who we are and what we need to know are
hidden in our own backyard.
     The writer is president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution.



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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings



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Jobs for PhDs



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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.        
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       =46ax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf             
--============_-1134558711==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Fri Feb 27 19:15:06 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:15:06 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News March 27, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1134213184==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" DIALOG and Disccrs News March 27 ,2004 *************************************************** Resources Submitted by Christina De La Rocha PhD Fellowship for University of Alberta, Canada http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage/scholarship Narratives of Nature, Environment and Self http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage/call_for_papers National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA), USGS, the NAWQA site provides a detailed assessment of water chemistry, hydrology, land use, stream habitat, and aquatic life. More than 50 watersheds are analyzed. Each report considers local geology, geomorphology, vegetation, land use, and climate to help develop sound watershed management policies. Resources are available in the form of raw data, reports, journal articles, and pamphlets. http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/index.html *************************************************** Forum BUSH CLIMATE PLAN RATED SOMEWHAT IMPROVED from The New York Times (Registration Required) President Bush's plan for clarifying the causes and effects of climate change has been improved over the past year but can succeed only if the research is shielded from political pressures and if more money is spent on it, an independent panel of experts said yesterday. Administration officials, who requested the outside review of the plan, welcomed the findings, but said no significant budget increases were possible. They said climate research goals would be met mainly through improved organization. "We can't practically expect short-term massive increases in funding; it's just not in the cards these days," said James R. Mahoney, an assistant secretary of commerce who directs the Climate Change Science Program. http://snipurl.com/4lk7 TOP SCIENTISTS ACCUSE BUSH OF MANIPULATING RESEARCH FOR POLITICAL GAIN from The New York Times (Registration Required) More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad. The sweeping accusations were later discussed in a conference call organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an independent organization that focuses on technical issues and has often taken stands at odds with administration policy. On Wednesday, the organization also issued a 38-page report detailing its accusations. The two documents accuse the administration of repeatedly censoring and suppressing reports by its own scientists, stacking advisory committees with unqualified political appointees, disbanding government panels that provide unwanted advice and refusing to seek any independent scientific expertise in some cases. http://snipurl.com/4ljg Contribute your knowledge as an AskNSDL Expert: In preparation for Excellence in Science, Technology, and Mathematics (ESTME) Week, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and the Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) at Syracuse University are expanding their AskNSDL service by augmenting the pool of experts who answer user questions. ESTME Week is co-sponsored by NSF and the Department of Education as a celebration of science and technology during the week of March 15-20, 2004. AskNSDL will be featured as the "Ask a Scientist or Engineer" service on the ESTME Week web site and during the Washington, DC ESTME Week exposition. "Experts" can sign up to answer questions related to specific areas of science, mathematics, or technology; educational resources and practices in these disciplines; or about NSDL, DLESE, DWEL or other digital libraries. It is easy to register as an expert and requires only as much time as you prefer to commit in responding to the questions that you choose to answer. To register, go to http://asknsdl.askvrd.org and click on the "experts" tab. Select "register as an expert" and follow the instructions. For more information, contact Susan Van Gundy (303-497-2946 or vangundy@ucar.edu) or Blythe Bennett (315-443-5445 or blytheb@vrd.org). *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Please share the announcement below with students or organizations with student membership that work on climate or enviromental justice issues. We are pleased to announce we are offering a limited amount of funding generously provided by the National Science Foundation Paleoclimate Program for students to attend the upcoming conference "Just Climate: Pursuing Environmental Justice in the Face of Global Climate Change" which will take place March 26-28, 2004 at University of Michigan. Please see http://sitemaker.umich.edu/snre-ejcc/ for further conference details. Students in fields related to climate change and environmental justice issues, particularly science students, are encouraged to submit a 250 word (maximum) statement of interest to emaxwell@umich.edu. Statements should include experience with climage change and environmental justice issues, institutional affiliation, and what will be gained by attending the conference. Also please include a brief budget with anticipated costs. Conference support will include funding toward transportation and accomodations. Be sure to include contact information. Email preferred. We will begin reviewing applications on March 1, 2004, and will continue to accept applications and notify applicants of their status on a rolling basis. In an effort to ensure diverse representation, we strongly encourage women and students of color to apply. J. Timmons Roberts Professor of Sociology; Director, Mellon Program in Environmental Studies The College of William and Mary Williamsburg Virginia 23187 USA tel: 757-221-2463; FAX: 757-221-1007; email: jtrobe@wm.edu; http://faculty.wm.edu/jtrobe *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8551 732-932-9631 FAX: 732-932-8746 Professor of Environmental Education and Citizen Science Academic year, tenure-track position, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, at the Associate/Assistant Professor level. The Teacher Education Program and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources of Cook College of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in cooperation with the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, are seeking an environmental biologist to develop a program of research and teacher training in environmental education and citizen science. Qualifications: Ph.D. in ecology, natural resources, environmental science, science education or related field. Demonstrated competence and experience in environmental education and teacher training. Record of publication in recognized, peer-reviewed journals. Projected start date of September 2004, subject to funding approval. For full position announcement, application procedure and deadlines, see http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~deenr/enved.html or email bastardo@rci.rutgers.edu to request copy. Rutgers University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minority and female applicants are encouraged to apply. Richard A. Duschl Dept Learning & Teaching GSE-Rutgers University 10 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183 rduschl@rci.rutgers.edu tel: 732.932.7496 x-8111 NHEERL POST-DOCTORAL http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/postdocs/ged.html ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1134213184==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" DIALOG and DISCCRS News March 27, 2004
DIALOG and Disccrs News
March 27 ,2004

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Resources

Submitted by Christina De La Rocha
PhD Fellowship for University of Alberta, Canada
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage/scholarship
Narratives of Nature, Environment and Self
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/aleksiuk/homepage/call_for_papers

National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA), USGS, the NAWQA site provides a detailed assessment of water chemistry, hydrology, land use, stream habitat, and aquatic life. More than 50 watersheds are analyzed. Each report considers local geology, geomorphology, vegetation, land use, and climate to help develop sound watershed management policies. Resources are available in the form of raw data, reports, journal articles, and pamphlets.


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Forum

BUSH CLIMATE PLAN RATED SOMEWHAT IMPROVED
from The New York Times (Registration Required)
     President Bush's plan for clarifying the causes and effects of climate
change has been improved over the past year but can succeed only if the
research is shielded from political pressures and if more money is spent on
it, an independent panel of experts said yesterday.
    Administration officials, who requested the outside review of the plan,
welcomed the findings, but said no significant budget increases were
possible. They said climate research goals would be met mainly through
improved organization.
     "We can't practically expect short-term massive increases in funding; it's
just not in the cards these days," said James R. Mahoney, an assistant
secretary of commerce who directs the Climate Change Science Program.
http://snipurl.com/4lk7

TOP SCIENTISTS ACCUSE BUSH OF MANIPULATING RESEARCH FOR POLITICAL GAIN
from The New York Times (Registration Required)
     More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a
statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had
systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on
the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home
and abroad.
     The sweeping accusations were later discussed in a conference call
organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an independent organization
that focuses on technical issues and has often taken stands at odds with
administration policy. On Wednesday, the organization also issued a 38-page
report detailing its accusations.
     The two documents accuse the administration of repeatedly censoring and
suppressing reports by its own scientists, stacking advisory committees
with unqualified political appointees, disbanding government panels that
provide unwanted advice and refusing to seek any independent scientific
expertise in some cases.
http://snipurl.com/4ljg
Contribute your knowledge as an AskNSDL Expert:
     In preparation for Excellence in Science, Technology, and Mathematics
(ESTME) Week, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and the
Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) at Syracuse University are expanding their
AskNSDL service by augmenting the pool of experts who answer user
questions.  ESTME Week is co-sponsored by NSF and the Department of
Education as a celebration of science and technology during the week of
March 15-20, 2004.  AskNSDL will be featured as the "Ask a Scientist or
Engineer" service on the ESTME Week web site and during the Washington,
DC ESTME Week exposition.
     "Experts" can sign up to answer questions related to specific areas of
science, mathematics, or technology; educational resources and practices
in these disciplines; or about NSDL, DLESE, DWEL or other digital
libraries.  It is easy to register as an expert and requires only as
much time as you prefer to commit in responding to the questions that
you choose to answer.
     To register, go to http://asknsdl.askvrd.org and click on the "experts"
tab.  Select "register as an expert" and follow the instructions.  For
more information, contact Susan Van Gundy (303-497-2946 or
vangundy@ucar.edu) or Blythe Bennett (315-443-5445 or blytheb@vrd.org).


***************************************************
Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings

Please share the announcement below with students or organizations with student
membership that work on climate or enviromental justice issues.
    We are pleased to announce we are offering a limited amount of funding
generously provided by the National Science Foundation Paleoclimate Program
for students to attend the upcoming conference "Just Climate: Pursuing
Environmental Justice in the Face of Global Climate Change" which will take
place March 26-28, 2004 at University of Michigan.  Please see
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/snre-ejcc/ for further conference details. Students
in fields related to climate change and environmental justice issues,
particularly science students, are encouraged to submit a 250 word (maximum)
statement of interest to emaxwell@umich.edu.
     Statements should include experience with climage change and environmental
justice issues, institutional affiliation, and what will be gained by attending
the conference.  Also please include a brief budget with anticipated costs.
Conference support will include funding toward transportation and
accomodations.  Be sure to include contact information.  Email preferred.
     We will begin reviewing applications on March 1, 2004, and  will continue to
accept applications and notify applicants of their status on a rolling basis.
     In an effort to ensure diverse representation, we strongly encourage women and
students of color to apply.
   J. Timmons Roberts
   Professor of Sociology; Director, Mellon Program in Environmental Studies
   The College of William and Mary
   Williamsburg Virginia 23187 USA
   tel: 757-221-2463; FAX: 757-221-1007; email: jtrobe@wm.edu;
http://faculty.wm.edu/jtrobe

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Jobs for PhDs

Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8551
732-932-9631    FAX: 732-932-8746
Professor of Environmental Education and Citizen Science
     Academic year, tenure-track position, Department of Ecology, Evolution,
and Natural Resources, at the Associate/Assistant Professor level.
     The Teacher Education Program and the Department of Ecology, Evolution,
and Natural Resources of Cook College of Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, in cooperation with the Rutgers Graduate School of
Education, are seeking an environmental biologist to develop a program
of research and teacher  training in environmental education and citizen
science.
     Qualifications:  Ph.D. in ecology, natural resources, environmental
science, science education or related field.  Demonstrated competence
and experience in environmental education and teacher training. Record
of publication in recognized, peer-reviewed journals.
     Projected start date of September 2004, subject to funding approval.
For full position announcement, application procedure and deadlines, see
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~deenr/enved.html or email
bastardo@rci.rutgers.edu to request copy.
     Rutgers University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Minority and female applicants are encouraged to apply.
Richard A. Duschl
Dept Learning & Teaching
GSE-Rutgers University
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183
rduschl@rci.rutgers.edu
tel: 732.932.7496  x-8111


NHEERL POST-DOCTORAL
http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/postdocs/ged.html

**************************************************

This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf         
--============_-1134213184==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Sat Mar 6 01:32:39 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 17:32:39 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News MARCH 6, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1133585730==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and Disccrs News MARCH 6, 2004 *************************************************** Resources AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR PHD'S Contributed by Anke Mueller-Solger Attention Postdocs, Graduate Students and PhDs in general: The NIH Office of Education has put up a new site, the Virtual Career Center, http://www.training.nih.gov/careers/careercenter with 55 pages and 1,088 links. Adapted from the NIH Press release: 'The site was developed with the NIH community in mind, but the plethora of information found in the Virtual Career Center is also available to all who wish to visit the site, from the college level to postdoctoral and beyond. The "Exploring Career Options" section enables users to explore their interests through self-assessment mechanisms, discover careers and pathways, and learn important career skills such as writing grants and publishing articles. The section entitled "Continuing Your Education" provides information on admissions, application services, financial aid, loan repayment, grants, fellowships, education survival skills, and medical schools and other professional programs. Information on conducting employment searches and learning about opportunities available in industry, academe, and government are found in the "Employment Options and Opportunities" section. Last, important skills to be used for applying, interviewing, and negotiating for a position are found in the "Job Search Process" section. Realizing that each user will have specific needs and come from different backgrounds, each section can be searched independently and includes related links that will provide additional information on particular areas of interest to the user.' Donna L. Vogel, M.D., Ph.D. Director, The Fellowship Office National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS 31 Center Drive, Room 4A48 Bethesda MD 20892-2473 Phone: 301-496-4796 email: dv1h@nih.gov web site: www.nci.nih.gov/fellowships NEW NCI Fellowship handbook:http://ncifellowshandbook.nci.nih.gov/ *************************************************** Science News CHANGING CLIMATE: GOING TO DEPTHS FOR EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING from The San Francisco Chronicle A puzzling heating trend on the bottom of the North Pacific has left oceanographers scratching their heads. Since 1985, just south of the Aleutian Islands and about 3 miles benea= th the waves, in a pitch-black realm haunted by "Finding Nemo"-style fish with nasty fangs and glowing antennae, the temperature has risen by a tiny fraction of a degree -- five-thousandths of a degree Centigrade, to be exact. Sounds slight, right? But the temperature shouldn't be rising at all, = or hardly at all, over such a geologically short time, according to respected computer models. The history of science shows that slight discrepancies occasionally lead to big discoveries, hence oceanographers are carefully scrutinizing the find. http://snipurl.com/4t3k ENVIRONMENTAL PEACEMAKING from The Christian Science Monitor Last month, Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan declared war ... on the jellyfish. A particularly voracious species known as Mnemiopsis is munching happily on phytoplankton in the Caspian Sea, the building block for the sea's valuable fish stocks. As a result, they're wiping out sturgeon and every other type of fish. None of the five nations wants to see a repeat of what happened a few years ago in the Black Sea, when the Mnemiopsis biomass - like the blob that ate New York in a long-ago B-movie - grew larger than the world's entire commercial fish catch. So the Caspian countries, spurred by their common jellyfish enemy, are coordinating under the umbrella of the Caspian Environment Program. A five-year-old cooperative project to clean up the Caspian, the CEP has made some significant headway as well as willing partners out of feisty competitors. http://snipurl.com/4vt7 Well, I suppose one could argue that this isn't really limnology or oceanography related, but it is about water! :) -- and it does suggest climate change :) ROVER FINDS EVIDENCE THAT LIFE ON MARS WAS POSSIBLE from The San Francisco Chronicle The Mars rover Opportunity has discovered powerful evidence that water once drenched the surface of Mars and made the planet habitable for life during some unknown epoch in the distant past, NASA scientists announced Tuesday. For the first time since astronomers began speculating about water and life on the Red Planet centuries ago, the historic new findings from the Mars rover mission appear to have pinned down the long-cherished idea that Mars in fact once held a warm, wet environment where life could well have flourished. Analysis of a rock outcropping inside the tiny crater where the spacec= raft bounced to a landing in January establishes that "liquid water once flowed through these rocks,"said Steven Squyres, the mission's principal scientist, at a NASA briefing in Washington that was Webcast around the world. "The water changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry." http://snipurl.com/4us0 NASA RESEARCH SHOWS HEAVY SMOKE "CHOKES" CLOUDS NASA PRESS RELEASE 04-081 Using data from NASA's Aqua satellite, agency scientists found heavy smoke from burning vegetation inhibits cloud formation. The research suggests the cooling of global climate by pollutant particles, called "aerosols," may be smaller than previously estimated. During the August-October 2002 burning season in South America's Amazon River basin, scientists observed cloud cover decreased from about 40 percent in clean-air conditions to zero in smoky air. Until recently, scientists thought aerosols such as smoke particles mainly served to cool the planet by shading the surface, either directly, by reflecting sunlight back toward space, or indirectly, by making clouds more reflective. Certain aerosols make clouds' droplets smaller and more numerous, thereby making the clouds more reflective while reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the surface. However, this new study proves smoke aerosols have a "semi- direct" effect on climate, causing a reduction in cloud cover and warming the surface. In the morning, smoke absorbs incoming solar radiation and heats the atmosphere while cooling the surface. Since there is less upward transport of warmth and moisture in such conditions, clouds are less likely to form. Then, in the afternoon, since there is less cloud cover, more sunlight passes through the atmosphere and warms the surface. "This instantaneous warming is important and can dramatically affect the people and the Amazonian ecosystem," said Ilan Koren, research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Koren is lead author of a paper in the current issue of Science. Using Aqua data, Koren and his NASA co-authors measured the total amount of light reflected through the top of the atmosphere. From those data they determined how much area was covered by clouds and how much by smoke. They also estimated the smoke's "optical thickness," a measure of how much sunlight the smoke prevented from traveling down through a column of atmosphere. The team found the smoke and clouds together would ordinarily reflect solar energy equal to one 28-watt light bulb per square meter back up into space (i.e., a cooling effect). With the reduction in cloud cover, however, solar energy equal to one eight-watt light bulb per square meter is absorbed within Earth's climate system (i.e., a warming effect). The team consulted other weather data to make sure the differences in cloud patterns were not due to regional differences in meteorology. Once team members proved the meteorological conditions were the same in the smoky regions as they were in the cloudy regions, they knew the smoke had to be the reason average cloud cover dropped from 40 percent to zero in the presence of heavy smoke. "We used to think of smoke mainly as a reflector, reflecting sunlight back to space, but here we show that, due to absorption, it chokes off cloud formation," Koren said. According to Koren, smoke inhibition of cloud formation is not unique to the Amazon area. His team has seen similar examples in other parts of the world, including over parts of Africa during the burning season, and over Canada during major boreal forest wildfires. When added up over the entire globe, the warming influence of smoke and other absorbing aerosols suggests the global cooling influence of these particles is much smaller than current models predict. Smoke and aerosol inhibition of cloud formation was first proposed in two previous NASA studies based upon results of computer model experiments. However, this study documents the first time this effect of smoke on clouds has been measured in Earth's environment. The research was funded by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. The Enterprise is dedicated to understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying Earth system science to improve predication of climate, weather and natural hazards using the unique vantage point of space. *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences: A Workshop for Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Fellows July 29-August 1, 2004, University of Minnesota Application deadline is March 24, 2004 The workshop page has links to the workshop overview and application f= orm http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep04/index.html Description and Goals This workshop will bring graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in an academic career together with geoscience faculty members from different institutional settings who have a range of expertise and experience. The workshop will provide a stimulating and resource-rich environment in which to explore important facets of an academic career. Three main goals of the workshop are for participants to become more effective teachers, stronger candidates for academic jobs, and better prepared for a quick start to teaching and research in the next stage of their career. During the workshop, each participant will =B7Learn more about the job-search process. =B7Learn about roles and responsibilities of faculty members in different educational settings (e.g., two-year colleges, four-year colleges, universities) and positions in other academic institutions (e.g., museums) and meet informally with workshop leaders from a range of educational settings =B7Explore aspects of effective and innovative teaching. =B7Design a research plan suitable for the next career stage. =B7Learn about strategies for documenting strengths and accomplishments in teaching and research and develop or revise supporting materials. =B7Share ideas and strategies for stress- and time-management. =B7Develop a personal action plan. Activities The workshop will include an early-career faculty panel, short presentations on various topics, structured discussions, small-group collaboration, and informal interaction and conversation. Participants will leave with a broad understanding of academic options, specific strategies for developing as teachers and scholars and for meeting competing demands, and an expanded network of colleagues. Participants will be involved in electronic discussion and preparation prior to the workshop to become familiar with key issues and concepts and will follow-through with post-workshop plans. Application Application must be made on-line by March 24. An important part of each application is a statement of endorsement from a faculty member. Therefore, when submitting the on-line application, each applicant must provide contact information for a faculty member who has agreed to endorse the applicant. We will then ask the faculty member to submit electronically a brief statement regarding the potential of the applicant to benefit from and contribute to the workshop. Successful applicants will be notified by April 15. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep04/application.htmlSelectio= n Criteria The workshop size is limited. The final set of participants will be established with a goal of assembling a diverse and interactive group representing a range of experiences, educational environments, career aspirations, and specialties. Preference will be given to those entering or soon to enter the academic job market. Cost and Facilities The operational costs of the workshop as well as room, board, and workshop materials are covered by a grant from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE-0127310). Participants or their home institutions must provide transportation to and from the workshop. The workshop will be held at the University of Minnesota. Participants will be housed in dormitories on campus and will eat meals on campus. For more information, contact Heather Macdonald (rhmacd@wm.edu) This workshop is part of the On the Cutting Edge professional development program (funded by a grant from the National Science =46oundation Division of Undergraduate Education and offered in association with NAGT and DLESE) http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/index.html *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs EXECUTIVE OFFICER The global change SysTems for Analysis, Research, and Training (START) is seeking an Executive Officer for the International Project Office for the project: Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Studies (MAIRS). The Executive Officer will manage an international office based at the START Regional Center for Temperate East Asia located within the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. The Executive Officer will be responsible for implementing the MAIRS project in close collaboration with the Project Steering Committee and the International START Secretariat based in Washington D.C., USA. Other responsibilities include: # Maintain links to START's regional programs in Asia and relevant projects of the Earth System Science Partnership comprising the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and DIVERSITAS, and other relevant international, regional and national global environmental change agencies and programmes; # Assist in fund-raising for regional research activities; # Organize conferences, meetings and workshops; # Assist in the preparation of reports and publications; # Provide secretariat support for the overall MAIRS Steering Committee; The candidate should have a strong background in regional aspects of global environmental change, especially in the monsoon Asia region. Post-graduate qualifications (preferably a PhD) are desirable. The candidate must have demonstrated organizational, communication, and inter-personal skills; experience in drafting and editing a diverse range of scientific documents; and ability to communicate in English effectively with a group of scientists with diverse disciplinary and national backgrounds. He or she must be willing to undertake travel within the region and elsewhere as appropriate. Given that the position is located in Beijing, China, ability to communicate in the Chinese language would be an advantage. The initial appointment will be for a term of 2 years, with a possibility of an extension up to 4 years. The position will be filled by June 2004. Applications (including a detailed CV, list of three referees and their contact information, and salary requirements) should be submitted to as soon as possible and no later than 18 March 2004 to the International START Secretariat (address below) with copies to the Director of START TEA Regional Center in Beijing (address below). Submission of electronic copies of application is encouraged. Candidates must be available for a potential interview during 10-12 April 2004. Please submit your application to: Director International START Secretariat 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20009 USA Email: rfuchs@agu.org ***************************** NSF-Funded Postdoctoral Position in Evolutionary Genetics University of California, Santa Cruz A three-year postdoctoral position is available to study the molecular population genetics of two NE Pacific marine taxa (the California sea mussel and purple sea urchin). The primary objective of the project is to investigate the impact of Pleistocene climatic oscillations on the historical ecology of mussels and urchins through the reconstruction of allelic genealogies from multiple nuclear genes. The successful applicant will have strong molecular (i.e., PCR, DNA sequencing, etc.) and analytical skills. Familiarity with coalescent theory and some experience in performing coalescent simulations would also be ideal. The deadline for applications is March 31 and the starting date will be as soon as possible after April 15. Interested applicants should send a CV, a brief letter describing research interests and experience, and the contact information for three referees via email to Grant Pogson (pogson@biology.ucsc.edu). The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Grant Pogson Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Phone: 831 459-5122 =46ax: 831 459-5353 Email: pogson@biology.ucsc.edu ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. =46or ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1133585730==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and DISCCRS News MARCH 6, 2004
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Resources

AN EXCELLENT RESOURCE FOR PHD'S
Contributed by Anke Mueller-Solger
      Attention Postdocs, Graduate Students and PhDs in general: The
NIH Office of Education has put up a new site, the Virtual Career
Center,
http://www.training.nih.gov/careers/careercenter
with 55 pages and 1,088 links. Adapted from the NIH Press release:
'The site was developed with the NIH community in mind, but the
plethora of information found in the Virtual Career Center is also
available to all who wish to visit the site, from the college level to
postdoctoral and beyond.
     The "Exploring Career Options" section enables users to explore their
interests through self-assessment mechanisms, discover careers and
pathways, and learn important career skills such as writing grants and
publishing articles.  The section entitled "Continuing Your Education"
provides information on admissions, application services, financial
aid, loan repayment, grants, fellowships, education survival skills,
and medical schools and other professional programs.  Information on
conducting employment searches and learning about opportunities
available in industry, academe, and government are found in the
"Employment Options and Opportunities" section.  Last, important
skills to be used for applying, interviewing, and negotiating for a
position are found in the "Job Search Process" section.  Realizing
that each user will have specific needs and come from different
backgrounds, each section can be searched independently and includes
related links that will provide additional information on particular
areas of interest to the user.'
 Donna L. Vogel, M.D., Ph.D.
 Director, The Fellowship Office
 National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS
 31 Center Drive, Room 4A48
 Bethesda MD 20892-2473
  Phone: 301-496-4796
  email: dv1h@nih.gov <mailto:dv1h@nih.gov>
   web site: www.nci.nih.gov/fellowships
 NEW NCI Fellowship handbook:http://ncifellowshandbook.nci.nih.gov/


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Science News

CHANGING CLIMATE: GOING TO DEPTHS FOR EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING
from The San Francisco Chronicle
     A puzzling heating trend on the bottom of the North Pacific has left
oceanographers scratching their heads.
     Since 1985, just south of the Aleutian Islands and about 3 miles beneath
the waves, in a pitch-black realm haunted by "Finding Nemo"-style fish with
nasty fangs and glowing antennae, the temperature has risen by a tiny
fraction of a degree -- five-thousandths of a degree Centigrade, to be
exact.
     Sounds slight, right? But the temperature shouldn't be rising at all, or
hardly at all, over such a geologically short time, according to respected
computer models. The history of science shows that slight discrepancies
occasionally lead to big discoveries, hence oceanographers are carefully
scrutinizing the find.
http://snipurl.com/4t3k

ENVIRONMENTAL PEACEMAKING
from The Christian Science Monitor
     Last month, Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan declared war ... on the jellyfish. A particularly voracious species known as
Mnemiopsis is munching happily on phytoplankton in the Caspian Sea, the
building block for the sea's valuable fish stocks. As a result, they're
wiping out sturgeon and every other type of fish.
     None of the five nations wants to see a repeat of what happened a few years ago in the Black Sea, when the Mnemiopsis biomass - like the blob that ate New York in a long-ago B-movie - grew larger than the world's entire commercial fish catch.
     So the Caspian countries, spurred by their common jellyfish enemy, are
coordinating under the umbrella of the Caspian Environment Program. A five-year-old cooperative project to clean up the Caspian, the CEP has made some significant headway as well as willing partners out of feisty competitors.
http://snipurl.com/4vt7

Well, I suppose one could argue that this isn't really limnology or oceanography related, but it is about water! :)  -- and it does suggest climate change :)
ROVER FINDS EVIDENCE THAT LIFE ON MARS WAS POSSIBLE
from The San Francisco Chronicle
     The Mars rover Opportunity has discovered powerful evidence that water once
drenched the surface of Mars and made the planet habitable for life during
some unknown epoch in the distant past, NASA scientists announced Tuesday.
     For the first time since astronomers began speculating about water and life
on the Red Planet centuries ago, the historic new findings from the Mars
rover mission appear to have pinned down the long-cherished idea that Mars
in fact once held a warm, wet environment where life could well have
flourished.
     Analysis of a rock outcropping inside the tiny crater where the spacecraft
bounced to a landing in January establishes that "liquid water once flowed
through these rocks,"said Steven Squyres, the mission's principal
scientist, at a NASA briefing in Washington that was Webcast around the
world. "The water changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry."
http://snipurl.com/4us0
NASA RESEARCH SHOWS HEAVY SMOKE "CHOKES" CLOUDS
NASA PRESS RELEASE 04-081
     Using data from NASA's Aqua satellite, agency scientists
found heavy smoke from burning vegetation inhibits cloud
formation. The research suggests the cooling of global climate
by pollutant particles, called "aerosols," may be smaller than
previously estimated.
     During the August-October 2002 burning season in South
America's Amazon River basin, scientists observed cloud cover
decreased from about 40 percent in clean-air conditions to zero
in smoky air.
    Until recently, scientists thought aerosols such as smoke
particles mainly served to cool the planet by shading the
surface, either directly, by reflecting sunlight back toward
space, or indirectly, by making clouds more reflective. Certain
aerosols make clouds' droplets smaller and more numerous,
thereby making the clouds more reflective while reducing the
amount of sunlight reaching the surface.
     However, this new study proves smoke aerosols have a "semi-
direct" effect on climate, causing a reduction in cloud cover
and warming the surface. In the morning, smoke absorbs incoming
solar radiation and heats the atmosphere while cooling the
surface. Since there is less upward transport of warmth and
moisture in such conditions, clouds are less likely to form.
Then, in the afternoon, since there is less cloud cover, more
sunlight passes through the atmosphere and warms the surface.
     "This instantaneous warming is important and can dramatically
affect the people and the Amazonian ecosystem," said Ilan
Koren, research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, Md.
     Koren is lead author of a paper in the current issue of
Science. Using Aqua data, Koren and his NASA co-authors
measured the total amount of light reflected through the top of
the atmosphere. From those data they determined how much area
was covered by clouds and how much by smoke. They also
estimated the smoke's "optical thickness," a measure of how
much sunlight the smoke prevented from traveling down through a
column of atmosphere.
     The team found the smoke and clouds together would ordinarily
reflect solar energy equal to one 28-watt light bulb per square
meter back up into space (i.e., a cooling effect). With the
reduction in cloud cover, however, solar energy equal to one
eight-watt light bulb per square meter is absorbed within
Earth's climate system (i.e., a warming effect).
     The team consulted other weather data to make sure the
differences in cloud patterns were not due to regional
differences in meteorology. Once team members proved the
meteorological conditions were the same in the smoky regions as
they were in the cloudy regions, they knew the smoke had to be
the reason average cloud cover dropped from 40 percent to zero
in the presence of heavy smoke.
     "We used to think of smoke mainly as a reflector, reflecting
sunlight back to space, but here we show that, due to
absorption, it chokes off cloud formation," Koren said.
     According to Koren, smoke inhibition of cloud formation is not
unique to the Amazon area. His team has seen similar examples
in other parts of the world, including over parts of Africa
during the burning season, and over Canada during major boreal
forest wildfires. When added up over the entire globe, the
warming influence of smoke and other absorbing aerosols
suggests the global cooling influence of these particles is
much smaller than current models predict.
     Smoke and aerosol inhibition of cloud formation was first
proposed in two previous NASA studies based upon results of
computer model experiments. However, this study documents the
first time this effect of smoke on clouds has been measured in
Earth's environment. The research was funded by NASA's Earth
Science Enterprise. The Enterprise is dedicated to
understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying
Earth system science to improve predication of climate, weather
and natural hazards using the unique vantage point of space.


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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings

Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences: A Workshop for Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Fellows
July 29-August 1, 2004, University of Minnesota
Application deadline is March 24, 2004
     The workshop page has links to the workshop overview and application form
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep04/index.html
Description and Goals
This workshop will bring graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in an academic career together with geoscience faculty members from different institutional settings who have a range of expertise and experience.  The workshop will provide a stimulating and resource-rich environment in which to explore important facets of an academic career. Three main goals of the workshop are for participants to become more effective teachers, stronger candidates for academic jobs, and better prepared for a quick start to teaching and research in the next stage of their career.
During the workshop, each participant will
=B7Learn more about the job-search process.
=B7Learn about roles and responsibilities of faculty members in different educational settings (e.g., two-year colleges, four-year colleges, universities) and positions in other academic institutions (e.g., museums) and meet informally with workshop leaders from a range of educational settings
=B7Explore aspects of effective and innovative teaching.
=B7Design a research plan suitable for the next career stage.
=B7Learn about strategies for documenting strengths and accomplishments in teaching and research and develop or revise supporting materials.
=B7Share ideas and strategies for stress- and time-management.
=B7Develop a personal action plan.
Activities
The workshop will include an early-career faculty panel, short presentations on various topics, structured discussions, small-group collaboration, and informal interaction and conversation. Participants will leave with a broad understanding of academic options, specific strategies for developing as teachers and scholars and for meeting competing demands, and an expanded network of colleagues. Participants will be involved in electronic discussion and preparation prior to the workshop to become familiar with key issues and concepts and will follow-through with post-workshop plans.
Application
Application must be made on-line by March 24. An important part of each application is a statement of endorsement from a faculty member. Therefore, when submitting the on-line application, each applicant must provide contact information for a faculty member who has agreed to endorse the applicant. We will then ask the faculty member to submit electronically a brief statement regarding the potential of the applicant to benefit from and contribute to the workshop. Successful applicants will be notified by April 15.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep04/application.htmlSelection Criteria
The workshop size is limited. The final set of participants will be established with a goal of assembling a diverse and interactive group representing a range of experiences, educational environments, career aspirations, and specialties. Preference will be given to those entering or soon to enter the academic job market.
Cost and Facilities
The operational costs of the workshop as well as room, board, and workshop materials are covered by a grant from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE-0127310). Participants or their home institutions must provide transportation to and from the workshop. The workshop will be held at the University of Minnesota. Participants will be housed in dormitories on campus and will eat meals on campus.
     For more information, contact Heather Macdonald (rhmacd@wm.edu)
This workshop is part of the On the Cutting Edge professional development program (funded by a grant from the National Science =46oundation Division of Undergraduate Education and offered in association with NAGT and DLESE)
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/index.html


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Jobs for PhDs

EXECUTIVE OFFICER

The global change SysTems for Analysis, Research, and Training (START)
is seeking an Executive Officer for the International Project Office for
the project: Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Studies (MAIRS). The
Executive Officer will manage an international office based at the START
Regional Center for Temperate East Asia located within the Institute of
Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing,
China.  The Executive Officer will be responsible for implementing the
MAIRS project in close collaboration with the Project Steering Committee
and the International START Secretariat based in Washington D.C., USA.

Other responsibilities include:

# Maintain links to START's regional programs in Asia and relevant
projects of the Earth System Science Partnership comprising the
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the International
Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP), the World Climate Research Programme
(WCRP) and DIVERSITAS, and other relevant international, regional and
national global environmental change agencies and programmes;
# Assist in fund-raising for regional research activities;
# Organize conferences, meetings and workshops;
# Assist in the preparation of reports and publications;
# Provide secretariat support for the overall MAIRS Steering Committee;

The candidate should have a strong background in regional aspects of
global environmental change, especially in the monsoon Asia region.
Post-graduate qualifications (preferably a PhD) are desirable. The
candidate must have demonstrated organizational, communication, and
inter-personal skills; experience in drafting and editing a diverse
range of scientific documents; and ability to communicate in English
effectively with a group of scientists with diverse disciplinary and
national backgrounds. He or she must be willing to undertake travel
within the region and elsewhere as appropriate. Given that the position
is located in Beijing, China, ability to communicate in the Chinese
language would be an advantage.

The initial appointment will be for a term of 2 years, with a
possibility of an extension up to 4 years. The position will be filled
by June 2004.  Applications (including a detailed CV, list of three
referees and their contact information, and salary requirements) should
be submitted to as soon as possible and no later than 18 March 2004 to
the International START Secretariat (address below) with copies to the
Director of START TEA Regional Center in Beijing (address below).
Submission of electronic copies of application is encouraged.
Candidates must be available for a potential interview during 10-12
April 2004.

Please submit your application to:

Director
International START Secretariat
2000 Florida Avenue N.W.
Washington D.C. 20009 USA
Email: rfuchs@agu.org

*****************************

NSF-Funded Postdoctoral Position in Evolutionary Genetics
University of California, Santa Cruz

A three-year postdoctoral position is available to study the molecular
population genetics of two NE Pacific marine taxa (the California sea
mussel and purple sea urchin).  The primary objective of the project is to
investigate the impact of Pleistocene climatic oscillations on the
historical ecology of mussels and urchins through the reconstruction of
allelic genealogies from multiple nuclear genes.   The successful applicant
will have strong molecular (i.e., PCR, DNA sequencing, etc.) and analytical
skills.  Familiarity with coalescent theory and some experience in
performing coalescent simulations would also be ideal.

The deadline for applications is March 31 and the starting date will be as
soon as possible after April 15.  Interested applicants should send a CV, a
brief letter describing research interests and experience, and the contact
information for three referees via email to Grant Pogson
(pogson@biology.ucsc.edu).

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer.

Grant Pogson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Phone: 831 459-5122
=46ax: 831 459-5353
Email: pogson@biology.ucsc.edu


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C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       =46ax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf       
--============_-1133585730==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Fri Mar 19 19:24:54 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:24:54 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News March 19, 2004 Message-ID: --============_-1132398199==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and Disccrs News March 19, 2004 *************************************************** Resources UK SOLAS, a =A312 million programme of the UK Natural Environment Research Council, is now up and running with a Steering Committee, a Science Coordination team and (very shortly) a 5-year science plan. The UK project office is based at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. If you would like more details about UK SOLAS, or to join their mailing list, contact claire.hughes@uea.ac.uk, of visit: http://www.uea.ac.u= k/mailman/listinfo/uk-solas-academic *************************************************** Science News RELEASE: 04-095 NASA EXPLAINS "DUST BOWL" DROUGHT NASA scientists have an explanation for one of the worst climatic events in the history of the United States, the "Dust Bowl" drought, which devastated the Great Plains and all but dried up an already depressed American economy in the 1930's. Siegfried Schubert of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues used a computer model developed with modern-era satellite data to look at the climate over the past 100 years. The study found cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean surface temperatures combined with warmer tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures to create conditions in the atmosphere that turned America's breadbasket into a dust bowl from 1931 to 1939. The team's data is in this week's Science magazine. These changes in sea surface temperatures created shifts in the large-scale weather patterns and low level winds that reduced the normal supply of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and inhibited rainfall throughout the Great Plains. "The 1930s drought was the major climatic event in the nation's history," Schubert said. "Just beginning to understand what occurred is really critical to understanding future droughts and the links to global climate change issues we're experiencing today," he said. By discovering the causes behind U.S. droughts, especially severe episodes like the Plains' dry spell, scientists may recognize and possibly foresee future patterns that could create similar conditions. For example, La Ninas are marked by cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean surface water temperatures, which impact weather globally, and also create dry conditions over the Great Plains. The researchers used NASA's Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project (NSIPP) atmospheric general circulation model and agency computational facilities to conduct the research. The NSIPP model was developed using NASA satellite observations, including; Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System radiation measurements; and the Global Precipitation Climatology Project precipitation data. The model showed cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean temperatures and warmer than normal tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures contributed to a weakened low-level jet stream and changed its course. The jet stream, a ribbon of fast moving air near the Earth's surface, normally flows westward over the Gulf of Mexico and then turns northward pulling up moisture and dumping rain onto the Great Plains. As the low level jet stream weakened, it traveled farther south than normal. The Great Plains dried up and dust storms formed. The research shed light on how tropical sea surface temperatures can have a remote response and control over weather and climate. It also confirmed droughts can become localized based on soil moisture levels, especially during summer. When rain is scarce and soil dries, there is less evaporation, which leads to even less precipitation, creating a feedback process that reinforces lack of rainfall. The study also shed light on droughts throughout the 20th century. Analysis of other major U.S. droughts of the 1900s suggests a cool tropical Pacific was a common factor. Schubert said simulating major events like the 1930s drought provides an excellent test for computer models. While the study finds no indication of a similar Great Plains drought in the near future, it is vital to continue studies relating to climate change. NASA's current and planned suite of satellite sensors is uniquely poised to answer related climate questions. NASA's Earth Science Enterprise funded the study. The Enterprise is dedicated to understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying Earth System Science to improve climate, weather, and natural hazard prediction using the unique vantage point of space. For information about NASA and agency programs on the Internet, visit: *************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan=20 Weiler for the purpose of distributing=20 information of potential interest to recent PhDs=20 engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or=20 climate change research, and to build an=20 international sense of community among recent=20 grads. It provides an international forum for the=20 exchange of information and opinions regarding=20 research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly=20 those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has=20 submitted a particular item for distribution. The=20 opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect=20 those of the funding agencies or sponsoring=20 societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and=20 editor and reserves the right to edit or reject=20 material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent=20 PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. =46or ease of transmission, please do not send=20 attachments. Send a short message in the body of=20 an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate=20 websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1132398199==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and DISCCRS News March 19, 2004
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March 19, 2004
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Resources

        UK SOLAS, a =A312 million programme of the
UK Natural Environment Research Council, is now
up and running with a Steering Committee, a
Science Coordination team and (very shortly) a
5-year science plan. The UK project office is
based at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
If you would like more details about UK SOLAS, or
to join their mailing list, contact
claire.hughes@uea.ac.uk, of visit:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/uk-solas-academic



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Science News

RELEASE: 04-095

NASA EXPLAINS "DUST BOWL" DROUGHT

     NASA scientists have an explanation for one of the worst
climatic events in the history of the United States, the "Dust
Bowl" drought, which devastated the Great Plains and all but
dried up an already depressed American economy in the 1930's.

Siegfried Schubert of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues used a computer model developed
with modern-era satellite data to look at the climate over the
past 100 years. The study found cooler than normal tropical
Pacific Ocean surface temperatures combined with warmer
tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures to create conditions in
the atmosphere that turned America's breadbasket into a dust
bowl from 1931 to 1939. The team's data is in this week's
Science magazine.

These changes in sea surface temperatures created shifts in the
large-scale weather patterns and low level winds that reduced
the normal supply of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and
inhibited rainfall throughout the Great Plains.

"The 1930s drought was the major climatic event in the nation's
history," Schubert said. "Just beginning to understand what
occurred is really critical to understanding future droughts
and the links to global climate change issues we're
experiencing today," he said.

By discovering the causes behind U.S. droughts, especially
severe episodes like the Plains' dry spell, scientists may
recognize and possibly foresee future patterns that could
create similar conditions. For example, La Ninas are marked by
cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean surface water
temperatures, which impact weather globally, and also create
dry conditions over the Great Plains.

The researchers used NASA's Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction
Project (NSIPP) atmospheric general circulation model and
agency computational facilities to conduct the research. The
NSIPP model was developed using NASA satellite observations,
including; Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
radiation measurements; and the Global Precipitation
Climatology Project precipitation data.

The model showed cooler than normal tropical Pacific Ocean
temperatures and warmer than normal tropical Atlantic Ocean
temperatures contributed to a weakened low-level jet stream and
changed its course. The jet stream, a ribbon of fast moving air
near the Earth's surface, normally flows westward over the Gulf
of Mexico and then turns northward pulling up moisture and
dumping rain onto the Great Plains. As the low level jet stream
weakened, it traveled farther south than normal. The Great
Plains dried up and dust storms formed.

The research shed light on how tropical sea surface
temperatures can have a remote response and control over
weather and climate. It also confirmed droughts can become
localized based on soil moisture levels, especially during
summer. When rain is scarce and soil dries, there is less
evaporation, which leads to even less precipitation, creating a
feedback process that reinforces lack of rainfall.

The study also shed light on droughts throughout the 20th
century. Analysis of other major U.S. droughts of the 1900s
suggests a cool tropical Pacific was a common factor. Schubert
said simulating major events like the 1930s drought provides an
excellent test for computer models. While the study finds no
indication of a similar Great Plains drought in the near
future, it is vital to continue studies relating to climate
change. NASA's current and planned suite of satellite sensors
is uniquely poised to answer related climate questions.

NASA's Earth Science Enterprise funded the study. The
Enterprise is dedicated to understanding the Earth as an
integrated system and applying Earth System Science to improve
climate, weather, and natural hazard prediction using the
unique vantage point of space. For information about NASA and
agency programs on the Internet, visit:


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The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       =46ax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf             
--============_-1132398199==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Fri Mar 19 19:25:48 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:25:48 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News March 10, 2004 cont. Message-ID: --============_-1132398145==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" DIALOG and Disccrs News March 10, 2004 cont. *************************************************** Resources The Innovation in Environmental Science and Engineering Education (EdEn) venture fund at the National Science Foundation offers an internal source of matching funding for proposals that address education and training priorities in the environmental sciences. This is not a program that can be applied to directly. Proposals to existing solicitations or supplement requests should be sent to the cognizant program officers. NSF program officers may then enter proposals into the EdEn venture fund competition if they address EdEn venture fund priorities and review well in their respective competitions. The EdEn venture fund provides 50/50 matching funds with the cognizant program up to $75,000 for one year only. EdEn venture fund priorities are described below. For more information please contact Renee Crain (rcrain@nsf.gov) in the Office of Polar Programs or Dave Campbell (dcampbel@nsf.gov) who administers the EdEn venture fund in the Education and Human Resources Directorate. ------------------------------------ In its recent report, NSF's Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (AC-ERE) stressed the need to build workforce and institutional capacity to provide quality environmental education that "is based on the natural, engineering, and social sciences, utilizes current educational technology, and prepares students for a broad array of careers." The Committee anticipates that within the next few years scientists and engineers-and increasingly the general public--will be called upon to understand complex environmental systems, use advanced information technologies, and interpret results for a wide array of interested groups. At all levels, innovative approaches to education about the environment are needed to train individuals to undertake interdisciplinary, collaborative, and synthesis activities. The Committee expressed special concern about the need to broaden participation in careers in environmental science and engineering. See the ERE web site for more information http://www.nsf.gov/geo/ere/ereweb/index.cfm. *************************************************** Science News Ocean Carbon and Climate Change (OCCC) report, an implementation strategy for U.S. ocean carbon research. An electronic, pdf version can be downloaded from: http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/ or more specifcally http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/occc-feb04.pdf Hard copies of the report are available from: Gloria Rapalee Carbon Cycle Program Officer U.S. Climate Change Science Program 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 250 Washington, DC 20006 U.S.A. Tel: 202-419-3484 Fax: 202-223-3065 Email: grapalee@usgcrp.gov 2003 LIKELY EUROPE'S HOTTEST IN 500 YEARS from Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Last year's deadly summer in Europe probably was the hottest on the continent in at least five centuries, according to researchers who analyzed old records, soil cores and other evidence. More than 19,000 people died. Researchers at the University of Bern, Switzerland, collected and analyzed temperature data from all over Europe, including such climate measures as tree rings from 1500. They found that the climate has been generally warming and last summer was the most torrid of all. "When you consider Europe as a whole, it was by far the hottest," said Jurg Luterbacher, climatologist and the first author of a study appearing this week in the journal Science. http://snipurl.com/4wp1 *************************************************** Forum International Polar Year (IPY) The March 5 issue of Science has two IPY-related items in it - an editorial and an article. Contributed by Sheldon Drobot *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference >This email is concerning a conference that we are hosting here at my >home university, UNC at Chapel Hill. Last year, I along with a >wonderful group of student and faculty environmentalists campaigned for >and won the vote on a referendum allocating student funds to provide >renewable energy on campus. The success of this campaign has got us >all "fired up". On April 2-4, we (UNC, NCSU, and Duke) are hosting a >Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference to support and motivate >other university students to start similar initiatives on their own >campuses. This conference is definitely not limited to students in the >southeast as students from anywhere could benefit. We too have >scholarships available. Please visit our conference website by >following the link below. If you could help spread the word or give me >the contact information of anyone who might be interested in the >success of this conference, I would really appreciate it. > >http://www.duke.edu/web/env_alliance/conference/ *************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf --============_-1132398145==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" DIALOG and DISCCRS News March 10, 2004 cont.
DIALOG and Disccrs News
March 10, 2004 cont.
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Resources

The Innovation in Environmental Science and Engineering Education (EdEn)
venture fund at the National Science Foundation offers an internal
source of matching funding for proposals that address education and
training priorities in the environmental sciences.
     This is not a program that can be applied to directly. Proposals to
existing solicitations or supplement requests should be sent to the
cognizant program officers. NSF program officers may then enter
proposals into the EdEn venture fund competition if they address EdEn
venture fund priorities and review well in their respective
competitions. The EdEn venture fund provides 50/50 matching funds with
the cognizant program up to $75,000 for one year only. EdEn venture fund
priorities are described below.
     For more information please contact Renee Crain (rcrain@nsf.gov) in the
Office of Polar Programs or Dave Campbell (dcampbel@nsf.gov) who
administers the EdEn venture fund in the Education and Human Resources
Directorate.

------------------------------------
In its recent report, NSF's Advisory Committee for Environmental
Research and Education (AC-ERE) stressed the need to build workforce and institutional capacity to provide quality environmental education that
"is based on the natural, engineering, and social sciences, utilizes
current educational technology, and prepares students for a broad array
of careers." The Committee anticipates that within the next few years
scientists and engineers-and increasingly the general public--will be
called upon to understand complex environmental systems, use advanced
information technologies, and interpret results for a wide array of
interested groups. At all levels, innovative approaches to education
about the environment are needed to train individuals to undertake
interdisciplinary, collaborative, and synthesis activities.  The
Committee expressed special concern about the need to broaden
participation in careers in environmental science and engineering. See
the ERE web site for more information
http://www.nsf.gov/geo/ere/ereweb/index.cfm.

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Science News

Ocean Carbon and Climate Change (OCCC) report, an implementation
strategy for U.S. ocean carbon research.  An electronic, pdf version can
be downloaded from:
http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/
or more specifcally
http://www.carboncyclescience.gov/occc-feb04.pdf
Hard copies of the report are
available from:
Gloria Rapalee
Carbon Cycle Program Officer
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW  Suite 250
Washington, DC 20006
U.S.A.
Tel: 202-419-3484
Fax: 202-223-3065
Email: grapalee@usgcrp.gov


2003 LIKELY EUROPE'S HOTTEST IN 500 YEARS
from Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Last year's deadly summer in Europe probably was the hottest
on the continent in at least five centuries, according to researchers who
analyzed old records, soil cores and other evidence. More than 19,000
people died.

Researchers at the University of Bern, Switzerland, collected and analyzed
temperature data from all over Europe, including such climate measures as
tree rings from 1500. They found that the climate has been generally
warming and last summer was the most torrid of all.

"When you consider Europe as a whole, it was by far the hottest," said Jurg
Luterbacher, climatologist and the first author of a study appearing this
week in the journal Science.
http://snipurl.com/4wp1




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Forum

International Polar Year (IPY)
The March 5 issue of Science has two IPY-related items in it - an editorial and an article.
Contributed by Sheldon Drobot

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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings

Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference
This email is concerning a conference that we are hosting here at my
home university, UNC at Chapel Hill.  Last year, I along with a
wonderful group of student and faculty environmentalists campaigned for
and won the vote on a referendum allocating student funds to provide
renewable energy on campus.  The success of this campaign has got us
all "fired up".  On April 2-4, we (UNC, NCSU, and Duke) are hosting a
Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference to support and motivate
other university students to start similar initiatives on their own
campuses.  This conference is definitely not limited to students in the
southeast as students from anywhere could benefit.  We too have
scholarships available.  Please visit our conference website by
following the link below.  If you could help spread the word or give me
the contact information of anyone who might be interested in the
success of this conference, I would really appreciate it.

http://www.duke.edu/web/env_alliance/conference/


***************************************************

This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       Fax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf         
--============_-1132398145==_ma============-- From weilercs@whitman.edu Sat Mar 27 02:01:07 2004 From: weilercs@whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:01:07 -0800 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Message-ID: --============_-1131769626==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable DIALOG and Disccrs News *************************************************** Science News CLIMATE DEBATE GETS ITS ICON: MT. KILIMANJARO from The New York Times (Registration Required) Kilimanjaro, the storied mountain that rises nearly four miles above t= he shimmering plains of Tanzania, is beginning to resemble the spotted owl =97 at least in the way it has become a two-sided icon in an environmental debate. The owl first entered the spotlight 15 years ago, in fierce debate ove= r clear-cutting of ancient Pacific forests. Millions of acres were placed off- limits to logging when the bird was listed as threatened under the federal endangered-species law. Soon afterward, effigies of it began showing up on the grilles of logging trucks. Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of=20 11,000-year-old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases from smokestacks and tailpipes. http://snipurl.com/59i0 PENGUIN-CAM SNAPS AMAZING IMAGES from BBC Online Scientists have obtained amazing images of penguins interacting with e= ach other underwater by strapping miniature cameras to the flightless birds' backs. Observing genuine underwater behaviour in marine birds and mammals is tricky because the presence of a diver nearby can make the animals act unnaturally. By attaching cameras to the penguins, the scientists could see that th= e birds kept together during dives for food. Details of the work appear in the Royal Society journal Biology Letter= s. http://snipurl.com/5ab4 NASA USES A "SLEUTH" TO PREDICT URBAN LAND USE NASA PRESS RELEASE RELEASE: 04-101 According to NASA-funded researchers, developed land in the greater Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area is projected to increase 80 percent by 2030. Scientists used a computer-based decision support model loaded with NASA and commercial satellite images to simulate three policies affecting land use. The researchers, Claire Jantz and Scott Goetz, from the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., and the Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Mass., also found a 39 percent increase in developed land in the region from 1986 to 2000. Some of the most striking changes occurred around the Dulles Airport area in Northern Virginia. Observations from NASA and commercial Earth observation satellites were used in a United States Geological Survey (USGS) computer model, called SLEUTH. The model was applied to 23,700 square kilometers (9151 sq. miles) of the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area. The initial aim was to simulate the impact of future policy scenarios on the area and Chesapeake Bay watershed. "The satellite observations provided us with an unprecedented ability to monitor the urbanization process and capture the patterns of urban sprawl," Goetz said. The study is in the March issue of Environment and Planning B. It explains how models may be used to forecast the effects of urban growth and runoff on the Chesapeake Bay estuary system. The study showed how high resolution commercial imagery from Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite can be used to complement NASA's imagery from Landsat satellites. IKONOS images, with resolutions up to one meter (3.28 feet), were used with county-level air photos to link to 30-meter Landsat observations, which cover vast areas and offer a longer time frame for assessing urban change. The project was designed to study declining water quality in the Chesapeake Bay estuary due in part to disruptions in the hydrological system caused by urban and suburban development. The goal was to create a modeling system that could assess future development and support decision making by exploring the potential impact of different regional management scenarios. Future growth was projected out to 2030 using three different policy scenarios. The scenarios were based on current trends, managed, and ecologically sustainable growth. The current trends scenario simulated how the Washington metropolitan area might change if development policies remained the same. This scenario included forest and agricultural preservation already in place, leaving unprotected areas open for development. In this scenario, development increased by 80 percent by 2030. The managed growth scenario assumed added protection of forests and agriculture areas and placed moderate growth boundaries around already built areas. In this scenario, development increased by 30 percent by 2030. In the ecological scenario, strong protection of most forests and agricultural areas was projected, so development only increased by 20 percent by 2030. "The model is a tool that can be used for land use planning and resource management," Jantz said. "It offers the ability to explore and visualize alternative futures." The model is applicable to land use studies, and it has small to large-scale potential. It can also help decision- makers assess the configuration of landscapes in forests and urban areas, and understand sources of runoff related to water quality in streams. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is exploring use of the model to target forest resources, restoration and conservation activities. NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying Earth System Science to improve prediction of climate, weather, and natural hazards using the unique vantage point of space. NASA funded the study, with additional funds from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. *************************************************** =46orum The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is seeing new life after lying dormant in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for a decade. Former Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) opposed the treaty and kept it bottled up in the committee under his chairmanship, never allowing UNCLOS to escape onto the Senate floor, where a two-thirds majority vote is needed for ratification. When Helms retired, Senator Richard Lugar (R- IN) stepped in as chair, held two hearings on the treaty last Fall, and move= d the treaty out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a 19-0 vote on 25 February. Despite the unanimous committee vote, and support for the treaty expressed in the hearings by the State Department, the Defense Department, the U.S. Coast Guard, industry representatives, and ocean experts, it is unclear whether Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) will move the treaty towards a full senate vote. Scientists in favor of ratifying the treaty nee= d to express their views now, to their senators and to Majority Leader Frist, = or risk missing a rare opportunity where the political winds are blowing in the treaty's favor. Why is the treaty important to the ocean scientists? It is generally acknowledged that much of what the marine research community wants to do is already covered under UNCLOS procedures (namely, to obtain foreign clearances for ships). Without a ratified treaty, however, U.S. research efforts in the future could be seriously damaged by denying the U.S. important rights for dispute settlement, and exacerbate the uncertainty of clearing ships seeking to conduct research in the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of other countries. The "implied consent" clause within UNCLOS, for example, deems a ship clearance application approved unless the coastal state in question responds with a question or refusal within a specified time. Exercising rights under that one clause could greatly streamline the process for conducting research cruises off foreign shores. Trying to take advantage of "implied consent" without a ratified treaty is negotiating from a position of weakness, however, and working through international organizations is often problematic. For ocean researchers, many observers point out, there is no conceivable downside to ratifying the treaty, and several potential upsides.= Once the treaty reaches the senate floor, it most likely will garner the required 67 votes for ratification. But getting to the vote is the question= , and it is unclear whether Senator Frist has heard from enough of his senate colleagues, and from interested members of the public, to move forward. If scientists want to take action, it is best to=20 send a fax or email directly to your senators, and to Senator Frist,. Letters sent through the regular mail often get held up for weeks at a time in a screening procedure in the post- anthrax, ricin, and September 11th environment on Capitol Hill. You can look up your senator's address, email, and fax number by visiting their websites: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm . Sen. Frist's address is: Office of Senator Bill Frist 461 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 202-228-1264 (fax) *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission=20 (Commission) has issued a notice requesting=20 applications from those interested in being=20 listed as potential panel members to assist in=20 the Commission's study dispute resolution process=20 for the integrated licensing process for=20 hydropower projects, Docket No. AD04-4-000.=20 Complete details are located on the Commission's=20 hydropower website=20 http://www.ferc= =2Egov/industries/hydropower/indus-act/ilp.asp.=20 =46or further information, contact Mr. Lon Crow at=20 (202) 502-8749 or=20 lon.crow@ferc.gov. *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Procter & Gamble's Central Product Safety=20 organization has an opening for a Genomics=20 Postdoctoral Research Scientist. This scientist=20 will work within a team to develop a rapid=20 endocrine screening method predictive of=20 endocrine mediated effects in fish. If=20 successful, the program will move to the=20 development of an in vitro system. We anticipate=20 use of gene chips to identify gene expression=20 patterns in exposed fish to develop the screening=20 method and understand the mechanisms by which=20 endocrine effects occur in fish. Some of the job responsibilities include:=20 expose fish to test chemical, isolate relevant=20 organs and analyze response of tissue to the test=20 chemical using gene chips, proteomics, and/or=20 metabonomics approaches; reduce data on the=20 response of test organisms and conduct=20 statistical analysis of the data; prepare=20 publications on results and develop next steps=20 for the program. Qualifications Applicants should=20 have a Ph.D. in biological sciences. Experience=20 in genomics, gene chip, molecular biology,=20 proteomics, metabonomics, cell biology, aquatic=20 toxicology, and/or endocrinology is desired. This is a one year postdoc, renewable for one additional year. To apply visit:=20 http://pg.sitebase.net/global/pages/content/global_rs_frame.html Search for job number 525. ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan=20 Weiler for the purpose of distributing=20 information of potential interest to recent PhDs=20 engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or=20 climate change research, and to build an=20 international sense of community among recent=20 grads. It provides an international forum for the=20 exchange of information and opinions regarding=20 research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly=20 those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has=20 submitted a particular item for distribution. The=20 opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect=20 those of the funding agencies or sponsoring=20 societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and=20 editor and reserves the right to edit or reject=20 material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent=20 PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. =46or ease of transmission, please do not send=20 attachments. Send a short message in the body of=20 an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate=20 websites. -- C. 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Science News

CLIMATE DEBATE GETS ITS ICON: MT. KILIMANJARO
from The New York Times (Registration Required)
     Kilimanjaro, the storied mountain that rises nearly four miles above the
shimmering plains of Tanzania, is beginning to resemble the spotted owl =97
at least in the way it has become a two-sided icon in an environmental
debate.
     The owl first entered the spotlight 15 years ago, in fierce debate over
clear-cutting of ancient Pacific forests. Millions of acres were placed off-
limits to logging when the bird was listed as threatened under the federal
endangered-species law. Soon afterward, effigies of it began showing up on
the grilles of logging trucks.
     Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000-year-old ice has long captured
imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that
environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in
2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of
global warming caused by emissions of heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases from
smokestacks and tailpipes.
http://snipurl.com/59i0

PENGUIN-CAM SNAPS AMAZING IMAGES
from BBC Online
     Scientists have obtained amazing images of penguins interacting with each
other underwater by strapping miniature cameras to the flightless birds'
backs.
     Observing genuine underwater behaviour in marine birds and mammals is
tricky because the presence of a diver nearby can make the animals act
unnaturally.
     By attaching cameras to the penguins, the scientists could see that the
birds kept together during dives for food.
     Details of the work appear in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.
http://snipurl.com/5ab4


NASA USES A "SLEUTH" TO PREDICT URBAN LAND USE
NASA PRESS RELEASE RELEASE: 04-101
     According to NASA-funded researchers, developed land in
the greater Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area is
projected to increase 80 percent by 2030. Scientists used a
computer-based decision support model loaded with NASA and
commercial satellite images to simulate three policies
affecting land use.
     The researchers, Claire Jantz and Scott Goetz, from the
University of Maryland, College Park, Md., and the Woods
Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, Mass., also found a 39
percent increase in developed land in the region from 1986
to 2000. Some of the most striking changes occurred around
the Dulles Airport area in Northern Virginia.
     Observations from NASA and commercial Earth observation
satellites were used in a United States Geological Survey
(USGS) computer model, called SLEUTH. The model was applied
to 23,700 square kilometers (9151 sq. miles) of the
Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area. The initial aim was
to simulate the impact of future policy scenarios on the
area and Chesapeake Bay watershed. "The satellite
observations provided us with an unprecedented ability to
monitor the urbanization process and capture the patterns of
urban sprawl," Goetz said.
    The study is in the March issue of Environment and Planning
B. It explains how models may be used to forecast the
effects of urban growth and runoff on the Chesapeake Bay
estuary system.
     The study showed how high resolution commercial imagery from
Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite can be used to complement
NASA's imagery from Landsat satellites. IKONOS images, with
resolutions up to one meter (3.28 feet), were used with
county-level air photos to link to 30-meter Landsat
observations, which cover vast areas and offer a longer time
frame for assessing urban change.
     The project was designed to study declining water quality in
the Chesapeake Bay estuary due in part to disruptions in the
hydrological system caused by urban and suburban
development. The goal was to create a modeling system that
could assess future development and support decision making
by exploring the potential impact of different regional
management scenarios. Future growth was projected out to
2030 using three different policy scenarios. The scenarios
were based on current trends, managed, and ecologically
sustainable growth.
     The current trends scenario simulated how the Washington
metropolitan area might change if development policies
remained the same. This scenario included forest and
agricultural preservation already in place, leaving
unprotected areas open for development. In this scenario,
development increased by 80 percent by 2030.
     The managed growth scenario assumed added protection of
forests and agriculture areas and placed moderate growth
boundaries around already built areas. In this scenario,
development increased by 30 percent by 2030. In the
ecological scenario, strong protection of most forests and
agricultural areas was projected, so development only
increased by 20 percent by 2030.
     "The model is a tool that can be used for land use planning
and resource management," Jantz said. "It offers the ability
to explore and visualize alternative futures."
     The model is applicable to land use studies, and it has
small to large-scale potential. It can also help decision-
makers assess the configuration of landscapes in forests and
urban areas, and understand sources of runoff related to
water quality in streams. The Maryland Department of Natural
Resources is exploring use of the model to target forest
resources, restoration and conservation activities.
     NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to
understanding the Earth as an integrated system and applying
Earth System Science to improve prediction of climate,
weather, and natural hazards using the unique vantage point
of space. NASA funded the study, with additional funds from
the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.



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Forum

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is seeing
new life after lying dormant in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for
a decade.  Former Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) opposed the treaty and kept
it bottled up in the committee under his chairmanship, never allowing
UNCLOS to escape onto the Senate floor, where a two-thirds majority vote
is needed for ratification.  When Helms retired, Senator Richard Lugar (R-
IN) stepped in as chair, held two hearings on the treaty last Fall, and moved
the treaty out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a 19-0 vote on
25 February. 

Despite the unanimous committee vote, and support for the treaty expressed
in the hearings by the State Department, the Defense Department, the U.S.
Coast Guard, industry representatives, and ocean experts, it is unclear
whether Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) will move the treaty
towards a full senate vote.  Scientists in favor of ratifying the treaty need
to express their views now, to their senators and to Majority Leader =46rist, or
risk missing a rare opportunity where the political winds are blowing in the
treaty's favor.

Why is the treaty important to the ocean scientists?  It is generally
acknowledged that much of what the marine research community wants to
do is already covered under UNCLOS procedures (namely, to obtain
foreign clearances for ships).  Without a ratified treaty, however, U.S.
research efforts in the future could be seriously damaged by denying the
U.S. important rights for dispute settlement, and exacerbate the uncertainty
of clearing ships seeking to conduct research in the Exclusive Economic
Zones (EEZ) of other countries. 

The "implied consent" clause within UNCLOS, for example, deems a ship
clearance application approved unless the coastal state in question responds
with a question or refusal within a specified time.  Exercising rights under
that one clause could greatly streamline the process for conducting research
cruises off foreign shores.  Trying to take advantage of "implied consent"
without a ratified treaty is negotiating from a position of weakness,
however, and working through international organizations is often
problematic.   For ocean researchers, many observers point out, there is no
conceivable downside to ratifying the treaty, and several potential upsides. 

Once the treaty reaches the senate floor, it most likely will garner the
required 67 votes for ratification.  But getting to the vote is the question,
and it is unclear whether Senator Frist has heard from enough of his senate
colleagues, and from interested members of the public, to move forward.

If scientists want to take action, it is best to send a fax or email directly to
your senators, and to Senator Frist,.  Letters sent through the regular mail
often get held up for weeks at a time in a screening procedure in the post-
anthrax, ricin, and September 11th environment on Capitol Hill.  You can
look up your senator's address, email, and fax number by visiting their
websites:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm =2E 
Sen. Frist's address is:

Office of Senator Bill Frist
461 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-228-1264 (fax)


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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) has issued a notice requesting applications from those interested in being listed as potential panel members to assist in the Commission's study dispute resolution process for the integrated licensing process for hydropower projects, Docket No. AD04-4-000.  Complete details are located on the Commission's hydropower website http://www.ferc.gov/industries/hydropower/indus-act/ilp.asp.  For further information, contact Mr. Lon Crow at (202) 502-8749 or lon.crow@ferc.gov.
 

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Jobs for PhDs

Procter & Gamble's Central Product Safety organization has an opening for a Genomics Postdoctoral Research Scientist. This scientist will work within a team to develop a rapid endocrine screening method predictive of endocrine mediated effects in fish. If successful, the program will move to the development of an in vitro system. We anticipate use of gene chips to identify gene expression patterns in exposed fish to develop the screening method and understand the mechanisms by which endocrine effects occur in fish.
     Some of the job responsibilities include: expose fish to test chemical, isolate relevant organs and analyze response of tissue to the test chemical using gene chips, proteomics, and/or metabonomics approaches; reduce data on the response of test organisms and conduct statistical analysis of the data; prepare publications on results and develop next steps for the program. Qualifications Applicants should have a Ph.D. in biological sciences. Experience in genomics, gene chip, molecular biology, proteomics, metabonomics, cell biology, aquatic toxicology, and/or endocrinology is desired.
     This is a one year postdoc, renewable for one additional year.
To apply visit:   http://pg.sitebase.net/global/pages/content/global_rs_frame.html
Search for job number 525.


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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues.
The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu.
For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites.




--
C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.          
Biology Department                  Tel:   509-527-5948          
Whitman College                       =46ax:  509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler@whitman.edu    
  Programs for Recent PhDs             http://aslo.org/phd.html
  Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences  http://www.aslo.org/mas.html
  DIALOG poster  http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf
  DISCCRS poster       http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf             
--============_-1131769626==_ma============-- From weilercs at whitman.edu Wed Apr 7 13:08:32 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Wed Apr 7 14:11:35 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] Deadline for DIALOG VI symposium is May 1 Message-ID: Dear all, DIALOG symposia keep getting better! This October, Debbie Steinberg, DIALOG I alum and current faculty member at VIMS, will be on site to provide perspectives based on her experience as both hard-money faculty and, earlier, soft-money researcher. Monty Graham will be present as well--be sure to check out his Tips on Tenure on the http://aslo.org/phd.html webpage. --If you are eligible for this year's symposium, you are strongly encouraged to apply. The process is simple and, with the symposium on an annual schedule, the success rate should be higher than it has been in the past couple of cycles. So this is definately a good time to apply! --Those of you who are no longer eligible, please forward this message to your students and colleagues! Thanks, Sue ************************************************* Please distribute DIALOG VI SYMPOSIM Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography http://aslo.org/dialog/dialogposter.pdf DIALOG symposia provide an opportunity for recent PhD graduates to forge lasting collegial bonds with their peer group, enhance international and interdisciplinary exchange, and gain perspectives on early-career development. Participants will present their research in an interdisciplinary forum, learn about agency programs, practice communication and teambuilding skills, and discuss emerging research, education and societal issues. DIALOG VI is scheduled for: October 30 - November 6, 2004 Dauphin Island Sea Lab, http://www.disl.org/ Graduates completing their Ph.D. between April 1, 2002 and March 31, 2004 and whose work in any field is relevant to freshwater or marine biology/ecology are eligible. Some travel subsidies are available Application Instructions are posted at http://aslo.org/phd/phdsymphelp.html. Application Deadline: May 1, 2004 "It was the most useful and worthwhile meeting I have ever been to. It goes without saying that the relationships we all began there will be with us throughout our professional careers.... It not only allowed those of us in freshwater to gain a marine perspective and begin to think about collaborating, but it also brought together the most informed group of people I could have met with respect to applying for grants and looking for jobs." Celia Y. Chen, past DIALOG Symposium participant DIALOG is sponsored by the the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) and co-sponsored by: American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Fisheries Society (AFS), Ecological Society of America (ESA), Estuarine Research Federation (ERF), International Society of Limnology (SIL), North American Benthological Society (NABS), North American Lake Management Society (NALMS), Phycological Society of America (PSA), The Oceanography Society (TOS), Society of Canadian Limnologists (SCL) and Western Society of Naturalists (WSN). DIALOG is supported through grants from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Department of Energy (DOE). Symposium Co-Organizers: C. Susan Weiler, Whitman College, Washington William M. Graham, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama Maarten Boersma, Alfred-Wegener-Inst. Polar and Sea Res., Germany *********************************************** -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Board members convene electronically to participate in online conferences, surveys and discussions addressing issues of importance to their individual areas of investigation and/or clinical specialties. You are cordially invited to review the Board's latest report on employment in the life sciences, "A Window into the Scientist's and Allied Health Professional's Workplace," which is located at http://www.scienceboard.net/pdf/scienceboard.net_jobsurvey.pdf. The report features your colleagues' insights into what it is like to work in the life sciences. It outlines the skills life science and medical professionals believe are necessary to succeed in their positions; offers their views on workplace frustrations and rewards; and shares their perspectives about compensation, funding, recognition, and networking. The goal of The Science Advisory Board is to give individuals -like yourself- a prominent voice to express opinions on the tools and techniques of your profession. Individually, it is often hard for one person's opinion to make a difference, but collectively through our online Board, it is possible to exert tremendous influence. The power of the Internet provides a medium for communicating with the life sciences industry about their products on a scale that has never before been possible. Interested in participating in studies about the tools and techniques of your profession? Voice your own views on the technologies transforming science and medicine by joining today. Members also have opportunities to share their expertise through a variety of venues including editorials, product and book reviews, discussion posts, and online teleconferences. Please register at http://www.scienceboard.net/register. Membership is completely free. In fact, your contributions will be acknowledged through various forms of compensation, including a reward points program that can be redeemed for various gifts and drawings for cash and other prizes. Your participation in any study sponsored by The Science Advisory Board is always strictly confidential-your name will never be released to a third party. Learn more by visiting us at http://www.scienceboard.net. Sincerely, Tamara Zemlo, Ph.D., MPH Director, Scientific & Medical Communications The Science Advisory Board 2111 Wilson Boulevard Suite 250 Arlington, VA 22201 Toll Free (866) 348-3554 x 29 inquiries@scienceboard.net *************************************************** Science News A GLOBAL WARMING WHAT-IF from Newsday The upward trend of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions could virtually eliminate Greenland's massive ice sheet and swamp coastal communities with 23 feet of seawater in as little as 1,000 years, according to a climate modeling study by a trio of European researchers. At that height, oceans would likely cover much of low-lying areas such as Florida, Bangladesh and the Netherlands, not to mention the coasts of Long Island and New York City. A permanent loss of the ice cover on Greenland could be triggered by a rise in the island's average year-round temperature of 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit or more, the study suggests, an effect precipitated by increasing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. http://snipurl.com/5kzt *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Postdoctoral Marine Scholar, Dauphin Island Sea Lab Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL), the marine research facility for 22 colleges and universities in the State of Alabama, is seeking a postdoctoral marine scientist. This position will be funded for two years with the possibility of a one-year renewal. The successful applicant will pursue independent research but will also likely conduct collaborative research with one or more members of the DISL faculty. We seek an individual who complements our existing strengths and who will contribute to the intellectual atmosphere of the Sea Lab. The position comes with a competitive salary and benefits package, along with institutional support for travel and other essential research requirements. For additional details on DISL, its academic programs and faculty research interests see http://www.disl.org. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a brief statement of research interests, 2-3 selected reprints, and the names and contact information (including email addresses) of three references to: Marine Scholar Search Committee, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, 101 Bienville Boulevard, Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528. Review of applications will begin May 15, 2004 and will continue until the position is filled. DISL is an EOE/AA/M/F/D employer. ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anyone can subscribe to the Tomorrows-Professor Listserv by addressing an e-mail message to: . --Do NOT put anything in the SUBJECT line --DO type in BODY of the message, subscribe tommorows-professor State of the Land, Natural Resources Conservation Service, maps, tables, graphs, and related publications are available for the extent of farmland, forests, land-use, soil erosion, water quality, wetlands, and urbanization. Although the most recent data are from 1997, this is still an all-inclusive resource relating to U.S. land stewardship, especially if used in conjunction with the most recent National Resource Inventory, completed in 2001. http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/land/ Teaching Tip: Investigating the Climate System, from NASA, suggested by Cheryl Dodes, Port Washington, NY. Need a complete set of modules relating to clouds, energy, precipitation, weather and wind? These problem based modules correlate with national science standards and involve interdisciplinary connections language arts, geography, mathematics, and social studies. Taken from Geo-ed 10 April 2004 http://spacelink.nasa.gov/products/Investigating.the.Climate.System/ Aquatic Science Education Resources ASLO's e Outreach Activities website (www.aslo.org/education/outreach.html) describes innovative outreach programs developed by your colleagues. The Teaching Tools website (www.aslo.org/education/teaching.html) provides educators with a list of teaching tools for teaching students about limnology and oceanography. These sites can be used to help members writing proposals who are having difficulty addressing the requirements of Criterion 2 of the US National Science Foundation, i.e. the broader impacts of the proposed activity. Imagine a website that you can peruse and use to find outreach program ideas that fit within the parameters of your proposed research, partners who can provide you outreach expertise - a foothold into a school district, or a ready-made program in which your real-time data stream can feed directly into the classroom, or a teaching model that can help weave your research into best-practice pedagogy. Outreach programs and teaching tools that you develop to meet Criterion 2 objectives can also be distributed on ASLO's Education website. *************************************************** Science News SATELLITES RECORD WEAKENING NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT NASA RELEASE: 04-130 A North Atlantic Ocean circulation system weakened considerably in the late 1990s, compared to the 1970s and 1980s, according to a NASA study. Sirpa Hakkinen, lead author and researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and co-author Peter Rhines, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle, believe slowing of this ocean current is an indication of dramatic changes in the North Atlantic Ocean climate. The study's results about the system that moves water in a counterclockwise pattern from Ireland to Labrador were published on the Internet by the journal Science on the Science Express Web site at: http://www.sciencexpress.org or http://www.aaas.org The current, known as the sub polar gyre, has weakened in the past in connection with certain phases of a large-scale atmospheric pressure system known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). But the NAO has switched phases twice in the 1990s, while the subpolar gyre current has continued to weaken. Whether the trend is part of a natural cycle or the result of other factors related to global warming is unknown. "It is a signal of large climate variability in the high latitudes," Hakkinen said. "If this trend continues, it could indicate reorganization of the ocean climate system, perhaps with changes in the whole climate system, but we need another good five to 10 years to say something like that is happening." Rhines said, "The sub polar zone of the Earth is a key site for studying the climate. It's like Grand Central Station there, as many of the major ocean water masses pass through from the Arctic and from warmer latitudes. They are modified in this basin. Computer models have shown the slowing and speeding up of the subpolar gyre can influence the entire ocean circulation system." Satellite data makes it possible to view the gyre over the entire North Atlantic basin. Measurements from deep in the ocean, using buoys, ships and new autonomous "robot" Seagliders, are important for validating and extending the satellite data. Sea-surface height satellite data came from NASA's Seasat (July, August 1978), U.S. Navy's Geosat (1985 to 1988), and the European Space Agency's European Remote Sensing Satellite1/2 and NASA's TOPEX/Poseidon (1992 to present). Hakkinen and Rhines were able to reference earlier data to TOPEX/Poseidon data, and translate the satellite sea-surface height data to velocities of the subpolar gyre. The sub-polar gyre can take 20 years to complete its route. Warm water runs northward through the Gulf Stream, past Ireland, before it turns westward near Iceland and the tip of Greenland. The current loses heat to the atmosphere as it moves north. Westerly winds pick up that lost heat, creating warmer, milder European winters. After frigid Labrador Sea winters, the water in the current becomes cold, salty and dense, plunges beneath the surface, and heads slowly southward back to the equator. The cycle is sensitive to the paths of winter storms and to the buoyant fresh water from glacial melting and precipitation, all of which are experiencing great change. While previous studies have proposed winds resulting from the NAO have influenced the subpolar gyre's currents, this study found heat exchanges from the ocean to the atmosphere may be playing a bigger role in the weakening current. Using Topex/Poseidon sea-surface height data, the researchers inferred Labrador Sea water in the core of the gyre warmed during the 1990s. This warming reduces the contrast with water from warmer southern latitudes, which is part of the driving force for ocean circulation. The joint NASA-CNES (French Space Agency) Topex/Poseidon oceanography satellite provides high-precision data on the height of the world's ocean surfaces, a key measure of ocean circulation and heat storage in the ocean. ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. 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Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Apr 23 17:03:43 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Apr 23 18:04:34 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 04-23-04 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News 04-23-04 *************************************************** Resources The Great Lakes an Environmental Atlas and Resource Book, EPA, find a richly illustrated and concisely written on-line atlas with chapters devoted to the natural and cultural history of the Great Lakes, current problems and sources of exploitation, plus management policies. The comprehensive approach to understanding the Great Lakes lends credibility to the systems approach advocated by the Biocomplexity Initiative. http://www.epa.gov/glnpo/atlas/index.html Current Marine Data, Ocean Weather Inc., this commercial site offers a clean, quick world map interface for accessing water temperature, wave height, and wind direction. A Java loop puts these parameters into motion. This is a good site for correlating wave height with storms and circulation around semi permanent pressure cells. http://www.oceanweather.com/data/ *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for information, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience PLAN NEAR FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE MONITORING from Associated Press TOKYO -- Nations are near agreement on the blueprint of a global climate monitoring system that would help forecast environmental threats such as rising sea levels or drought, but negotiating the details won't be easy, U.S. officials said Friday. Officials from 47 nations and more than two dozen international organizations are meeting in Tokyo this week to decide what the climate watch system should look like, who will run it and how open it should be. They are expected to announce on Sunday a plan for the next decade through 2015. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head, Mike Leavitt, cautioned that the system will likely suffer growing pains. http://snipurl.com/5wdc SCIENCE GROUP SAYS U.S. BUDGET PLAN WOULD HARM RESEARCH from The New York Times (Registration Required) WASHINGTON, April 22 ? The nation's largest general science group said Thursday that the Bush administration's proposed budget for the next five years could cut research financing at 21 of the 24 federal agencies that engage in it. Among fields that would most likely be hurt, the organization said, are physics, medicine, oceanography, astronomy, geology, chemistry, psychology, biology, climatology, anthropology, ecology, mathematics, archaeology, meteorology, sociology and energy research. "Particularly during a presidential election year, it's essential that policy makers and taxpayers understand the impacts of any federal budget changes, especially any proposals that may have implications for the pace of scientific discoveries in coming years," said Al Teich, director of science and policy programs for the group, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, based in Washington. http://snipurl.com/5wd7 ARCTIC OZONE LOSS MORE SENSITIVE TO CLIMATE CHANGE THAN THOUGHT NASA PRESS RELEASE: 04-138 A cooperative study involving NASA scientists quantifies, for the first time, the relationship between Arctic ozone loss and changes in the temperature of Earth's stratosphere. The results indicate the loss of Arctic ozone due to the presence of industrial chlorine and bromine in Earth's atmosphere may well be sensitive to subtle changes in stratospheric climate. Such ozone depletion leads to increased exposure to harmful, ultraviolet solar radiation at Earth's surface. According to the study, the sensitivity of Arctic ozone to temperature is three times greater than predicted by atmospheric chemistry models. This leads to the possibility decreases in stratospheric temperatures may have significantly larger impacts on future Arctic ozone concentrations than have been expected in the past. Dr. Markus Rex of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany, led the study. It also included scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif. The researchers analyzed more than 2,000 balloon measurements collected over the past 12 years. They found the amount of ozone loss occurring in any given Arctic winter is closely related to the amount of air exposed to temperatures low enough to support the formation of polar stratospheric clouds. Reactions occurring on the surface of these clouds convert chlorine from unreactive forms to other forms that quickly deplete ozone. Based on the relation between ozone loss and polar stratospheric cloud existence, the researchers found every degree Kelvin (equal to one Celsius degree) cooling of the Arctic results in an additional ozone destruction of five percent. This sensitivity is a factor of three larger than previously predicted by state-of-the-art, coupled climate- chemistry computer models. The scientists found the coldest stratospheric winters, during which most of the ozone loss occurs due to greater polar stratospheric cloud formation, have gradually become significantly cooler during the past few decades. "If stratospheric climatic conditions had not changed since the 1960s, Arctic ozone loss would be much less severe today, despite the increase in chlorofluorocarbons and bromine," Rex said. "This study presents a new method of looking at a multi-year data set that enables us to relate year-to-year variations in the amount of ozone depletion to climate change," said co- author Dr. Ross Salawitch, a JPL research scientist. "Results of this research will lead to substantially improved computer model simulations of this phenomenon and will provide an excellent method for analyzing data from satellites such as NASA's soon-to-be-launched Aura atmospheric chemistry laboratory," he said. Researchers are trying to understand why the Arctic stratosphere cools. It may be due to a number of factors: rising levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide; a feedback between ozone depletion and stratospheric temperature; and natural variability. Higher amounts of greenhouse gases trap heat near Earth's surface, warming the surface and preventing the heat from reaching the stratosphere, thus cooling the upper atmosphere. However, climate models vary widely in their estimates of how much stratospheric cooling has occurred due to rising greenhouse gases over the past 40 years. Stratospheric chlorine and bromine have begun to decline in response to the Montreal Protocol, a worldwide agreement signed in 1987 that limits the production of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone depleting pollutants. Scientists believe this indicates the cleansing process has begun, and eventually the ozone layer will recover, although chlorofluorocarbons can stay in the atmosphere for 50 to 100 years. The study suggests the healing process might be slowed, in the short term, by changes in stratospheric climate. Tracking the predicted recovery of the ozone layer is a key science objective of NASA's Aura spacecraft. Aura is the latest in the Earth Observing System series and scheduled for launch in June. Aura will study the atmosphere's chemistry and dynamics, providing data to help scientists better understand Earth's ozone, air quality and climate change. Aura's chemistry measurements will follow up on records that began with NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite and will also continue the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer mission's goal of collecting comprehensive ozone data. The paper was highlighted by the American Geophysical Union and published in Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, L04116. For information about the research on the Internet, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/earth/air_ozone/air_ozone_index.cfm *************************************************** Forum US Commission on Ocean Policy The US Commission on Ocean Policy has released its preliminary report today [April 20, 2004]. The public comment period is open for 30 days, ending on 21 May. You may wish to send comments to the Commission during this period. Details about the Commission and its work are available at http://oceancommission.gov/. AGU has also formed a panel to draft a position statement on the report, focusing on issues that deal with research and education. The panel welcomes your input and recommendations. A copy of the comments you send directly to the Commission would be helpful to the panel. Please send your comments to Peter Folger at AGU headquarters, pfolger@agu.org . The commission report establishes findings and makes recommendations to the President and Congress for a coordinated and comprehensive national ocean policy. It addresses a range of issues, from stewardship of marine resources to marine science and research, including coastal and estuarine research. This is the first comprehensive review of U.S. ocean policy since the Stratton Commission report over 30 years ago. Panel members are: Michael J. McPhaden-Chair Kenneth H. Brink Antonio J. Busalacchi Janet W. Campbell Margaret L. Delaney Jeff Dozier Rana A. Fine David M. Karl John A. Knauss Cindy Lee Jeffrey J. Park Sincerely, Michael McPhaden President, Ocean Sciences Section *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Interdisciplinary Research and Education at NCAR We have an important senior position open at NCAR for someone with a strong interest in interdisciplinary research and education. The announcement is at: http://www.fin.ucar.edu/hr/careers/uco.cfm?do=jobDetailExt&job_ID=253 ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040423/1699bfbb/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Mon May 3 13:56:09 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Mon May 3 14:01:21 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 04/30/04 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News 04/30/04 *************************************************** Resources Ocean Studies Will Move to Other Planets. Provided by cnn.com `Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Torrence Johnson has recently proclaimed the possibilities of exploring oceans of other planets in our solar system. Researchers are currently drawing up plans to send orbiters to Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa. It is predicted that Europa alone contains twice the water of the planet earth. Also, in July of 2004, the Cassini spacecraft, launched seven years ago, will be reaching Saturn's moon, Titan, to explore the implications of its surface chemistry. Many opportunities could arise from discoveries found in these vast, unexplored places.` http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/02/17/space.oceanography.ap/index.html NASA CURBS COMMENTS ON ICE AGE DISASTER MOVIE from The New York Times (Registration Required, but is free) "Urgent: HQ Direction," began a message e-mailed on April 1 to dozens of scientists and officials at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It was not an alert about an incoming asteroid, a problem w station or a solar storm. It was a warning about a movie. In "The Day After Tomorrow," a $125 million disaster film set to open on May 28, global warming from accumulating smokestack and tailpipe gases disrupts warm ocean currents and sets off an instant ice age. Few climate experts think such a prospect is likely, especially in the near future. But the prospect that moviegoers will be alarmed enough to blame the Bush administration for inattention to climate change has stirred alarm at the space agency, scientists there say. http://snipurl.com/5yhp *************************************************** Science News BLAIR WARNS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AS THREAT from Associated Press LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that the threat of climate change was the most pressing long term issue facing the world and reaffirmed Britain's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. "We have to act and we have to act now," said Blair, at the launch of a new organization that aims to speed up cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The prime minister said it was important the issue of global warming was discussed at the forthcoming G8 summit in the United States. http://snipurl.com/5ziv Rita Colwell Rejoins NCSE Board of Directors Dr. Rita Colwell, former Director of the National Science Foundation, has rejoined the Board of Directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). Dr. Colwell served as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1998 to February 2004, and as President of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute from 1991 to 1998. She stepped down from the NCSE Board of Directors when President Clinton appointed her Director of the National Science Foundation. Ambassador Richard Benedick, President of NCSE, said, "Rita Colwell is a visionary leader who has made enormous contributions to the nation during her service as Director of the National Science Foundation. We are truly delighted to welcome her back to the NCSE Board of Directors." Under Dr. Colwell's leadership, the National Science Foundation budget grew by over 68 percent, surpassing $5 billion for the first time in 2003, and the agency was recognized for excellence in both science and management. During her tenure at NSF, Colwell oversaw a major increase in the Foundation's support for environmental research and education through such initiatives as the interdisciplinary priority area on Biocomplexity and the Environment. Upon her departure from NSF, Colwell became Chairman of Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., a newly created Washington-based subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. whose goal is to identify and develop life-science solutions with potential applications in diagnostics and medical instrumentation. She will also serve as Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and on the faculty of The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. There she will help develop a new international center for the study of infectious diseases, water, and health. Dr. Colwell has co-authored 16 books and over 600 scientific publications, and has received many awards, including the Medal of Distinction from Columbia University; the Gold Medal of Charles University, Prague; the UCLA Medal from the University of California, Los Angeles; and the Alumna Summa Laude Dignata from the University of Washington, Seattle. She holds a B.S. in Bacteriology and an M.S. in Genetics from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Washington. Dr. Colwell presented the 3rd John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture at the 2003 NCSE Conference on Education for a Sustainable and Secure Future. Her lecture, entitled "Obstinate Issues, Sophisticated Solutions," is available at http://www.NCSEonline.org/NCSEconference/. *************************************************** Forum *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs US NSF: Oceanographer (Associate Program Director), AD-1360-4 GEO/OCE (Closes: 06/25/2004) URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?e20040072 ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. 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URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040503/3812d6d9/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Sun May 9 15:03:06 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Sun May 9 15:04:04 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News May 9, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News May 9, 2004 *************************************************** Resources Proposal Workshop for New Investigators in the Antarctic National Science Foundation 23-24 August 2004 Letter of Intent Deadline: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 - Midnight, EDT For further information, please go to: http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm ------------------------------------- A workshop will be held 23-24 August 2004 at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to encourage proposals from investigators who are new to the U.S. Antarctic Program. Staff of the Foundation's Office of Polar Programs (OPP), which funds and manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, will discuss: - Opportunities for NSF support of antarctic research and education - NSF's field program for operational support of antarctic research - Proposal preparation and proposal review criteria - NSF policies and other funding programs The workshop will include presentations and opportunities to meet with NSF antarctic program managers. Attendance will be limited to researchers who have not been a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on an NSF/OPP antarctic research grant and who are, or will be, eligible to apply for an NSF antarctic research grant by the 2 June 2005 proposal deadline for NSF Antarctic Research. Ph.D. candidates within 1 year of graduation, postdoctoral fellows, and new faculty are particularly encouraged to apply. Airline tickets for attendance at the workshop will be provided to a limited number of applicants who meet the requirements described in NSF 04-32 (http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm). All participants will assume the cost of meals and housing. To apply: (1) Carefully review the description of the NSF Antarctic Research Program (NSF 04-559) at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04559/nsf04559.htm and NSF 04-32 available at: http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm (2) If you are interested in pursuing scientific research in the Antarctic, e-mail a letter of intent to: NewInvestigatorAntarctic@nsf.gov Letter of Intent Deadline: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 - Midnight, EDT (3) In one page or less, list your name, contact information, and your current academic status, including your graduation date. Also summarize your general research interests and your research plans. (4) State whether or not you are requesting an airline ticket, your airport of origin, and your requested destination (Baltimore-Washington, Reagan National, or Washington-Dulles). Additional information, including the conference agenda, can be found on the NSF web site at: http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/workshop/nsf0432.htm *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience WARM CLIMATE'S EFFECTS STRIKING IN WEST from The Los Angeles Times (Registration Required) FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Just outside this mountain town, where the acres of ponderosa pine turn into a Christmas green blur, Tom Whitham eyes the weary, struggling forest. Death is everywhere. Their limbs bare and bark brittle, the trees quickly turn this forest into an aching reminder of the devastation of drought and a massive bark beetle infestation. Whitham pulls his pickup truck over and gestures to the dead trees -- 75 percent in this area alone. Forget talk of global warming and speculation of what it might do in 50 years, or 100. Here and across the West, climate change already is happening. Temperatures are warmer, ocean levels are rising, the snowpack is dwindling and melting earlier, flowers bloom earlier, mountain glaciers are disappearing and a six-year drought is killing trees by the millions. http://snipurl.com/64ar *************************************************** Forum NSF Environmental Research and Education Lags in FY 2005 Budget From Craig Schiffries, Ph.D. Director of Science Policy National Council for Science and the Environment Funding for the Environmental Research and Education (ERE) portfolio of the National Science Foundation (NSF) would decline by 0.2 percent--to $932.2 million--under the President's budget request for FY 2005. This is the first time that ERE funding would decline since the National Science Board identified environmental research as one of NSF's "highest priorities" in 2000. In contrast to the proposed cut for ERE funding, the total NSF budget would increase by 3 percent in FY 2005. The ERE portfolio is a crosscutting "virtual directorate" that coordinates environmental activities across the entire agency. The 2000 National Science Board (NSB) report, "Environmental Science and Engineering for the 21st Century: The Role of the National Science Foundation," recommended raising NSF's ERE budget 167 percent, from approximately $600 million to $1.6 billion over a period of five years. The report directs NSF to develop budget requests that are consistent with this recommendation. The lagging growth of the Environmental Research and Education budget relative to the total NSF budget in recent years raises serious concerns about its status as one of the agency's "highest priorities." In the years immediately following the National Science Board report, growth in the ERE budget reflected its priority status: from FY 1999 to 2001 the ERE account grew more rapidly than the overall NSF budget (30.7 percent for ERE versus 20.3 percent for total NSF). However, the ERE growth rate has trailed the total NSF growth rate since that time (Table 2). From FY 2002 to FY 2005 (request), the ERE budget grew by only 13.1 percent while the total NSF budget grew by 20.3 percent. For the entire period from FY 1999 to 2005 (request), the ERE budget grew by 56.6 percent--an increase that is almost indistinguishable from NSF's overall growth of 55.7 percent over the same interval. The National Science Board proposed a 167 percent increase for environmental research and education in the context of doubling the overall NSF budget. The doubling has not materialized. Nevertheless, the lagging growth of the Environmental Research and Education portfolio relative to the total NSF budget in recent years is surprising in light of the recommendation of the National Science Board, which is the agency?s governing body. All of NSF's disciplinary directorates include support for ERE, with the majority in Geosciences (55 percent) and Biological Sciences (23 percent). According to the FY 2005 budget request, ERE funding in the Engineering directorate would decrease by $2.0 million, and ERE funding in all other Directorates would remain flat. The budget for every disciplinary directorate would increase under the FY 2005 budget request, but the budget for the ERE component would not increase. After several years of rapid growth, funding for the priority area on Biocomplexity in the Environment--the flagship program of the ERE portfolio--would be flat at $99.8 million in FY 2005. For an extended verion of this article, including budget tables, please visit http://www.ncseonline.org/updates/page.cfm?fID=3672 *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings NSF Proposal Workshop for New Investigators in the Antarctic > A workshop will be held 23-24 August 2004 at the National Science > Foundation (NSF) to encourage proposals from investigators who are new to > the U.S. Antarctic Program. Staff of the Foundation's Office of Polar > Programs (OPP), which funds and manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, will > discuss: > * Opportunities for NSF support of antarctic research and education > * NSF's field program for operational support of antarctic research > * Proposal preparation and proposal review criteria > * NSF policies and other funding programs > The workshop will include presentations and opportunities to meet with NSF > antarctic program managers. > Attendance will be limited to researchers who have not been a Principal > Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on an NSF/OPP antarctic research > grant and who are, or will be, eligible to apply for an NSF antarctic > research grant by the 2 June 2005 proposal deadline for NSF Antarctic > Research. Ph.D. candidates within 1 year of graduation, postdoctoral > fellows, and new faculty are particularly encouraged to apply. > Airline tickets for attendance at the workshop will be provided to a > limited number of applicants who meet the requirements described in NSF > 04-32 (). All > To apply: > * Carefully review the description of the NSF Antarctic Research > Program (NSF 04-559) at > and NSF 04-32 > (). > * If you are interested in pursuing scientific research in the > Antarctic, e-mail a letter of intent to NewInvestigatorAntarctic@nsf.gov > , by midnight, EDT, June 15, > 2004. > * In one page or less, list your name, contact information, and your > current academic status, including your graduation date. Also summarize > your general research interests and your research plans. > * State whether or not you are requesting an airline ticket, your > airport of origin, and your requested destination (Baltimore-Washington, > Reagan National or Washington-Dulles). > Additional information, including the conference agenda, can be found on > the NSF web site at > . > Scott Borg > Head, Antarctic Sciences Section > Office of Polar Programs > National Science Foundation > Winifred Reuning > Antarctic Sciences Section > Office of Polar Programs > National Science Foundation > 703/292-8033 > wreuning@nsf.gov > *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040509/52a229e7/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri May 14 19:04:05 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri May 14 19:04:35 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News *************************************************** Resources Workshop Applications, OPP Workshop From: "Reuning, Winifred M." To: "Reuning, Winifred M." Subject: Corrected email address OPP new investigators workshop Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:26:32 -0400 Please note that the previous email concerning the OPP workshop for correct email address for workshop applications is NewInvestigator@nsf.gov We hope that this has not caused any inconvenience. Thank you. Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction (RESGI), Mark Francek, CMU, this site replaces the old RESGI page. The new site has a search capability and contains over 1000 earth science, environmental, and other teaching resources organized alphabetically. Most of the resources mentioned in this mailing over the last five years are catalogued here. I will be phasing out the old site http://personal.cmich.edu/~franc1m/homepage.htm this summer. NEW SITE IS: http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi/ *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience GLOBE GROWS DARKER AS SUNSHINE DIMINISHES 10% to 37% from The New York Times (Registration Required) In the second half of the 20th century, the world became, quite literally, a darker place. Defying expectation and easy explanation, hundreds of instruments around the world recorded a drop in sunshine reaching the surface of Earth, as much as 10 percent from the late 1950's to the early 90's, or 2 percent to 3 percent a decade. In some regions like Asia, the United States and Europe, the drop was even steeper. In Hong Kong, sunlight decreased 37 percent. No one is predicting that it may soon be night all day, and some scientists theorize that the skies have brightened in the last decade as the suspected cause of global dimming, air pollution, clears up in many parts of the world. http://snipurl.com/6ei4 A BREEDING GROUND OF DEATH Hood Canal looks beautiful, but pollution is nourishing plankton blooms from The Los Angeles Times (Registration Required) BELFAIR, Wash. - Scuba diver Jerry Ehrlich saw the signs of something ominous in Hood Canal starting in the summer of 2002. The blunt-nosed six-gill sharks swimming in the shallows caught his attention first. You never see that, he thought. Such sharks, which have a strong aversion to light, almost never leave deep water. There were other deep-water dwellers -dogfish, octopuses, shrimp - squirming in the shallows, as if trying to escape to shore. Deeper down, Ehrlich spotted wolf eels, which usually stay close to their dens, meandering in open water. He saw rockfish that couldn't swim straight. He found abandoned octopus dens full of rotting eggs, and sea anemones, normally bright and erect, slumped flaccidly against hard ground. http://snipurl.com/670e STATE AIMS TO CUT GREENHOUSE GASES from The Boston Globe Governor Mitt Romney plans to unveil a comprehensive agenda on climate change today, which officials said would make Massachusetts the first state to consider the impact on greenhouse gases when state regulators evaluate highway projects and other public construction plans. Massachusetts, which was the first state to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, would go further by basing its transportation planning and funding decisions in part on the greenhouse gases that projects would produce. The plan also suggests giving the owners of hybrid cars tax breaks and the right to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes even without passengers. The Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan represents the state's effort to meet regional emissions goals that New England's governors and Eastern Canada's premiers embraced in 2001. http://snipurl.com/670f GLOBAL WARMING IGNITES TEMPERS, EVEN IN A MOVIE from The New York Times (Registration Required) LOS ANGELES, May 11 - Any studio that makes a $125 million movie about global warming is courting controversy. But 20th Century Fox does not seem to have fully anticipated the political firestorm being whipped up by its film "The Day After Tomorrow." Environmental advocates are using the film's release, scheduled for May 28, as an opening to slam the Bush administration, whose global warming policies they oppose. Industry groups in Washington are lobbying on Capitol Hill to make sure the film does not help passage of a bill limiting carbon-dioxide emissions, which many scientists say contribute to global warming. http://snipurl.com/6btl *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings >SOLAS Science 2004: Travel Fund for Young Scientists >Halifax, Canada, Oct 13-16 2004 > >We are pleased to announce a call for applications for travel >support for young scientists wishing to attend SOLAS Science 2004. >The application form and more details can be found at: >http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/ss04/support/youngsupport.html > >** The deadline for us to receive completed application forms is >23rd May 2004 ** > >The travel fund aims to support the attendance of the high quality, >young or early career scientists who could not otherwise attend, >with an emphasis on scientists from developing countries and regions >where SOLAS networks are not well developed. > >Please view the website above for full details of the call, or >contact solas@uea.ac.uk with any queries. > >Please circulate this message to any colleagues who might be interested. > > >-- >Casey Ryan > >The Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study >International Project Office >School of Environmental Sciences >University of East Anglia >Norwich NR4 7TJ >UK > >Tel: + 44 (0)1603 593 516 >Fax: +44 (0)1603 591327 >e-mail: casey.ryan@uea.ac.uk http://www.solas-int.org ********************************* Workshop Announcement "Bridging the Poles: Education Linked with Research" National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs 23 - 25 June 2004 Washington, D.C. Registration Deadline: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 For further information, please contact the convenors: Stephanie Pfirman (spfirman@barnard.columbia.edu) Robin Bell (robinb@ldeo.columbia.edu) ------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to build stronger partnerships between Arctic and Antarctic communities, and between education and polar research in order to engage the next generation of scientists, engineers, and leaders, and inspire and educate the general public. A report coming out of the workshop will define future directions for polar education, including needed infrastructure, that will also maximize the educational impact of the International Polar Year beginning in 2007. The workshop will identify strategies that will enable polar scientists to conduct meaningful education and outreach, and for educators to include polar research in their classrooms and outreach activities. The audience that we will target runs from K through gray: elementary school through undergraduate, and the general public. Polar scientists and educators interested in attending this workshop or being on our mailing list should send the following information to Margie Turrin (mkt@ldeo.columbia.edu): (1) Name (2) Institution (3) Address (4) Email (5) Phone (6) Whether or not you are planning to attend the workshop (7) Whether or not you are interested in contributing to the report but unable to attend (8) Brief Statement of interest (maximum 100 words) Registration Deadline: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 For further information, please contact the convenors: Stephanie Pfirman (spfirman@barnard.columbia.edu) Robin Bell (robinb@ldeo.columbia.edu) *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040514/b47fd704/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri May 21 16:24:41 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri May 21 16:25:29 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News May 21, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News May 21, 2004 *************************************************** Resources GREAT PROGRAM FOR MINORITY SCHOLARS: Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence, Minority Scholar-in-Residence program http://www.grinnell.edu/offices/dean/csmp/ The Minority Scholar-in-Residence Program grows out of the conviction that a strong representation of minority scholars on the faculties of liberal arts colleges is essential. Member institutions of the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at Liberal Arts Colleges, an association of selective undergraduate institutions, have developed a program to meet this challenge. Its immediate aim is to assist minority scholars in the early stages of their careers. The further aim of the program is to produce a pool of minority scholars who will have firsthand experience teaching at liberal arts colleges and may, therefore, choose to apply for positions at member institutions of the consortium or at similar institutions as these become available. START YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD Below please find the 2004 START Young Scientist Award Program Announcement. As you know, this is an annual program where START recognizes the achievements of outstanding young scientists from Oceania, Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean for their contributions to global change science as measured by a peer-reviewed paper. Please distribute widely throughout your networks and encourage any qualified candidates to apply. Thank you for your assistance. With best regards, Patricia Sipher ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CY 2004 START Young Scientist Award The International START Secretariat is soliciting nominations/applications for the CY 2004 START Young Scientist Awards. These awards recognize the research accomplishments of outstanding young scientists from developing countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Mediterranean. Nominations must be for young scientists who have published a paper in an established peer-reviewed journal (preferably in English). In keeping with START's mission of conducting research on regional aspects of global change, the paper must be on an aspect of global change in the context of the research projects of START's program sponsor, the Earth System Science Partnership comprising the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP - www.ihdp.uni-bonn.de), the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP - www.igbp.kva.se), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP - www.wmo.ch/web/wcrp/wcrp-home.html) and DIVERSITAS (www.diversitas-international.org). Preference will be given to papers on the following themes: - Land Use Change and its Impacts - Regional Climate Variability and Change - Changes in Atmospheric Composition and its Impacts - Global Change and Coastal Zones, and - Vulnerability and Adaptation to Global Change Candidates for the 2004 START Young Scientist Awards must be 40 years of age or younger as of the application deadline on Friday 23 July 2004. In the case of multi-authored articles, the candidate must be the lead author of the paper. The paper should have been published within the last two years. Papers not yet published but accepted for publication and in press can qualify for the award. In this case, a copy of the letter of acceptance from the journal must accompany the application materials. Candidates for the START Young Scientist Award are strongly encouraged to submit articles they may have published based on research conducted with START support or in one of START's regional projects. The deadline for submission of nominations/applications is Friday 23 July 2004. All nominations/applications will be reviewed in consultation with the respective START Regional Centers/Secretariats and by a special review committee established by the International START Secretariat. Award announcements will be made during September 2004. Completed nominations/applications must consist of the following: - ONE journal paper (multiple papers will not be accepted) - A brief curriculum vitae (3-5 pages, max) - Copy of letter of acceptance from the journal, if the paper is not yet in print Electronic submissions of nominations/Applications are encouraged. Please submit nominations/applications to: Kathleen Landauer International START Secretariat 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20009 USA Phone: (+1-202) 462-2213 Fax: (+1-202) 457-5859 E-mail: klandauer@agu.org *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience AUSTRALIA TO CREATE WORLD'S LARGEST MARINE RESERVE SYSTEM The largest marine protected area in the world will also include the largest network of no-take areas. In late March, the Australian Parliament passed a bill to re-zone the multiple-use Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, setting aside one-third of the 344,000-square-kilometer park as off-limits to all extractive activity. In doing so, legislators created a 115,000-square-kilometer network of no-take zones, representing all 70 marine bioregions throughout the park. The new no-take network will raise the no-take percentage of the park from its current 4.7 percent to 33 percent?making it roughly the size of Bulgaria. The law takes effect July 1. To read the in-depth story and discussions with several key players in the process leading to this law, go to: http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html ---SOURCE: MPA News, volume 5, number 10, May 2004 via SeaSpan COD COULD BE GONE BY 2020 Cod stocks around the world could be eliminated by 2020 because of overfishing, illegal catches, and oil exploration, according to a new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). According to the report, the global catch has declined from 3.1 million tons in 1970 to 950,000 tons in 2000, and if this trend continues, cod stocks will disappear in 15 years. The Barents Sea, north of Russia and Norway, which is home to one of the last healthy cod fisheries, is especially threatened. For more details or to download the WWF report, go to: http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/news/news.cfm?uNewsID=13051 ---SOURCE: Boston Globe, May 13, 2004, http://www.boston.com/globe via SeaSpan BACKGROUND NOISE INFLUENCES COMMUNICATION AMONG WHALES A study reported in Nature finds that killer whales (Orcinus orca) living in the nearshore waters of Washington state (USA) adjust their behavior to compensate for anthropogenic noise once it reaches a threshold level. The authors found longer call durations in the presence of boats for all three pods of whales studied, but only in recent recordings made following a period of increasing boat traffic. ---SOURCE: Andrew D. Foote, Richard W. Osborne, and A. Rus Hoelzel: Environment: Whale-call response to masking boat noise. Nature, volume 428, page 910, April 29, 2004. http://www.nature.com/ *************************************************** Forum *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Georgia Tech?s Schools of Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Civil and Environmental Engineering are searching for 2 Post-Doctoral Fellows to join an NSF (IGERT) funded interdisciplinary group working in the areas of Aquatic Chemical Signaling (including Ecology, Chemistry, Fluid Dynamics, Sensory Biology, and Behavior) http://www.biology.gatech.edu/postdoc_openings.html Georgia Tech?s program in Aquatic Chemical Signaling invites recent Ph.D.s to apply for post-doctoral positions working with faculty and graduate students in a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and well-funded research effort combining chemistry, ecology, fluid dynamics, sensory biology and behavior. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. We are especially interested in candidates who bridge disciplinary borders between chemistry, biology and physics, as well as highly trained scientists from a single discipline who now want to broaden their approach to include interdisciplinary questions. We seek applicants to conduct research and help train IGERT graduate students at the juncture of two, or more, of the above disciplines. This program is devoted to training graduate students and post-docs in investigations of how chemical signals are produced, transported, received, and processed in aquatic systems, as well as the role of chemical signaling in affecting population and community structure. Post-docs will be funded 50% by NSF IGERT funds and 50% by a PI with whom they will be closely associated. Depending on the PI involved, post-docs may have considerable flexibility in choices of processes (defense, mate selection, prey sensing) and systems (coral reefs, plankton, microbes) to investigate. For additional information contact Dr. Mark Hay at mark.hay@biology.gatech.edu or any of the IGERT faculty listed at http://www.biology.gatech.edu/igert.htm. Salary will be about $36,000/yr with benefits. Applicants should send a resume, up to 3 reprints, a statement of research interests, and have 3 letters of references sent to: Signals-in-the-Sea Post-Doc Search, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0230. Applications will be considered beginning August 1, 2004. Georgia Institute of Technology is a unit of the University System of Georgia and an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Mark Hay Teasley Professor of Environmental Biology School of Biology Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0230 Phone office - 404-894-8429 FAX - 404-385-4440 internet http://www.biology.gatech.edu/professors/hay.html ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040521/75a992c3/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Mon May 24 17:20:34 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Mon May 24 17:20:57 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] Fwd: Scholarships for NECSI Summer School Message-ID: Forgive my cluttering your box with this messge if you are not interested. But they are operating on first-come first served and need basis so I thought it best to send this message out ASAP. It looks like a really nice opportunity. cheers, sue > >Delivered-To: weiler@whitman.edu >List-Unsubscribe: >List-ID: >Sender: "Complex Systems Announcements" >To: "Complex Systems Announcements" >Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:04:33 -0400 > > >We have funding for a limited number of partial >scholarships to attend the summer school's >intensive courses on complex systems concepts >and methods from June 28 - July 9. > >Applications should be sent to >programs@necsi.net. We will provide these >scholarships on a first come first served and >need basis. > >Please note that course credit can be arranged >at home institutions. > >Registration: >http://necsi.net/education/school/summer04.html > >A brief description of the program follows, and >more details can be found at >http://necsi.net/education/school/summer04.html > >All best, >Yaneer >------------------------------------- >Yaneer Bar-Yam >President >New England Complex Systems Institute >http://necsi.org >------------------------------------- > >Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems > >Dates: June 28 - July 9 >Lecturers: Yaneer Bar-Yam, Stuart Kauffman, >Charles Goodnight > >This program includes two semester equivalent >courses. > >SUBJECT MATTER: >The first course offers an introduction to the >essential concepts of complex systems and >related mathematical methods and simulation >strategies with application to physical, >biological and social systems. The second course >offers a systematic study of three key complex >systems areas: modeling, networks and evolution. > >TARGET AUDIENCE: >These courses are intended for faculty, graduate >students, post-doctoral fellows and others who >would like to gain an understanding of the >fundamentals of complex systems, and develop >methodological tools for conducting research in >their respective fields. > >For more information and registration: >http://necsi.net/education/school/summer04.html >============================== -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates in a Changing Global Environment http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040524/1a04765d/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri May 28 15:12:59 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri May 28 15:13:43 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 05/28/04 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News 05/28/04 *************************************************** Resources Folks, be sure to look at this--it truely is an awesome resource!! Sue Donella Meadows Archive Goes Public On-Line Press Release, Sustainability Institute Educators and others interested in sustainability have a new resource - the Donella Meadows Archive. The Archive is an on-line library containing nearly 800 sort essays written by the late Donella H. Meadows. Donella Meadows was a systems analyst, journalist, college professor, international coordinator of resource management institutions, and a farmer. She authored or co-authored eight books on global systems and environmental and human problems, including the newly updated Limits to Growth. In 1985, she began a weekly newspaper column, "The Global Citizen," commenting on world events from a systems point of view. The column was awarded second place in the 1985 Champion-Tuck national competition for outstanding journalism in the fields of business and economics. It also received the Walter C. Paine Science Education Award in 1990 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1991. The column appeared in more than 20 papers every week for 15 years. Donella Meadows was extraordinarily productive and inspiring, and her influence continues to be felt in many ways. She helped people understand global systems with long delays and complex feedbacks, while also inspiring many to think about individual choices in our daily living. Both of these themes are reflected in her Global Citizen columns - engaging short essays filled with insights into how the world works now and how it might work better. These columns remain immensely useful in helping frame issues and understand the complexities of current human and natural systems. That is why Sustainability Institute has established the Donella Meadows Archive which now provides public access to a collection of 15 years worth of Global Citizen columns. In the future the Archive will house other writings and speeches of Donella Meadows, plus teaching resources developed from her work. To visit the Donella Meadows Archive, go to: http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/search.php About The Sustainability Institute The Sustainability Institute (SI) was founded by Donella Meadows in 1996 to apply systems thinking and organizational learning to economic, environmental and social challenges. Staff at SI conduct research on natural resource systems and provide training and consulting in system dynamics to dozens of organizations and companies working toward sustainability. Contact Diana Wright, DWright@sustainer.org Sustainability Institute 3 Linden Road Hartland, VT 05048 (802) 436-1277 *************** PEW CENTER REPORT A new Pew Center report, "A Synthesis of Potential Climate Change Impacts on the United States," details the possible effects of global climate change on health, natural resources and various economic sectors of the United States. Read the full report: http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=436458&l=37660 ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA REPORT "Ecologists must take their science in bold new directions if humans and the natural systems on which they depend are to coexist in the future." So states the just-released Ecological Visions action plan, "Ecological Science and Sustainability for a Crowded Planet." The Report ( http://www.esa.org/ecovisions/ppfiles/EcologicalVisionsReport.pdf ), officially made public today, was prepared by a 20-member committee of ESA members and colleagues at the request of the Society's Governing Board. The Report is the outcome of many hours of deliberations, debates and discussions, which included participation of the Society's 8,000 members, as well as colleagues within other scientific societies, government agencies, industry, and non-governmental organizations. More information on the Ecological Visions Project can be found at www.esa.org/ecovisions . An article, "Ecology for a Crowded Planet" was also prepared by the committee, and will appear in this week's "Science". Margaret Palmer the Committee Chair, explains that the article lays out the intellectual framework for the ESA action plan, calling for a research agenda focused on ecosystem services and the science of ecological restoration and design. *************************************************** Forum Report Available: "A Vision for the International Polar Year 2007-2008" Submitted by Sheldon Drobot The 4-page summary for this report is available at: http://us-ipy.org/download/IPY_Summary.pdf The full prepublication report is available for online reading at: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11013.html Additional information on the IPY is available at: http://us-ipy.org and http://www.ipy.org ----------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The Polar Research Board recently released a report on the US vision for participation in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008. The report presents an overview of potential science themes, enabling technologies, and public outreach opportunities. The report recommends that the IPY should be designed to: - Initiate a sustained effort aimed at assessing large-scale environmental change and variability in the polar regions - Include studies of coupled polar human-natural systems critical to societal, economic, and strategic interests in the International Polar Year - Explore new scientific frontiers from the molecular to the planetary scale - Design and implement multidisciplinary polar observing networks that will provide a long-term perspective - Invest in critical infrastructure (both physical and human) and technology to guarantee that the International Polar Year 2007-2008 leaves enduring benefits for the nation and for the residents of northern regions - Excite and engage the public, with the goals of increasing understanding of the importance of polar regions in the global system and, at the same time, advancing general science literacy in the nation *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 104 Ocean Admin Building ? Corvallis, Oregon 97331?5503 Telephone 541?737?3504 ? Fax 541?737?2064 Position 005-549 POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT The College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) announces the availability of a twelve-month tenure track faculty position in Marine Geology and Geophysics with a specialty in sub-seafloor physical processes. COAS is one of the leading oceanographic and atmospheric research institutions in the United States with more than 200 faculty and staff members, and a wide variety of assets, including a superb computing infrastructure, cutting-edge analytical laboratories, an active instrumentation program, tethered and autonomous underwater vehicles, and two research vessels. We seek a colleague whose research will complement and enhance COAS? internationally recognized research program in marine geology and marine and terrestrial geophysics. TITLE: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications APPLICATION CLOSING DATE: For full consideration complete applications must arrive by August 15, 2004. RESPONSIBILITIES: The appointee will be expected to develop and maintain a vigorous, externally funded research program of international significance, to interact with faculty colleagues, to advise and mentor graduate students, and to participate in the COAS teaching program. QUALIFICATIONS: Essential qualifications include a Ph.D. in marine geophysics or a closely related field, a record of significant and innovative research, and the clear potential to attract external funding. The applicant should have a strong background in one or more of the following: seismic/acoustic imaging; electromagnetic induction; geodesy; heat flow; hydrogeology; instrumentation development and numerical modeling. A demonstrated interest in integrating field data acquisition with quantitative modeling and geological interpretation is a primary criterion. It is desirable that the candidate show an interest in collaborating with COAS faculty involved in new national initiatives such as ORION, IODP and EARTHSCOPE. Interest or experience in mentoring or teaching of graduate students is also desirable. Preferred qualifications include a demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity. This position is open at the Assistant Professor level, however, applicants with an exceptional record of research achievements and other relevant experience may be considered at the Associate or Full Professor level. To be appointed at the Associate or Full Professor rank, an applicant must have sufficient experience to qualify for promotion according to the University guidelines. TO APPLY: Applications should consist of a letter of scientific interest referencing position 005-549, a detailed curriculum vitae that includes a description of current and future research interests, a list of publications, and the names and addresses of at least four references to: Mark R. Abbott, Dean College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University 104 Ocean Admin Bldg Corvallis, OR 97331-5503 Inquiries about the position may be directed to Dr. Anne Trehu by phone (541-737-2655), electronic mail (trehu@coas.oregonstate.edu) or by FAX (541-737-2064). OSU AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY OSU is one of only ten American universities to hold the Land Grant, Sea Grant, and Space Grant designation and is a Carnegie Doctoral/Research-Extensive university. OSU is located in Corvallis, a community of 50,000 people situated in the Willamette Valley between Portland and Eugene. Ocean beaches, lakes, rivers, forests, high desert, the rugged Cascade and Coast Ranges, and the urban amenities of the Portland metropolitan area are all within a 100-mile drive of Corvallis. Approximately 15,600 undergraduate and 3,400 graduate students are enrolled at OSU, including 2,600 U.S. students of color and 1,100 international students. The university has an institution-wide commitment to diversity, multiculturalism, and community. We actively engage in recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and student body that includes members of historically underrepresented groups. We strive to build and sustain a welcoming and supportive campus environment. OSU provides outstanding leadership opportunities for people interested in promoting and enhancing diversity, nurturing creativity, and building community. For more information about the College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, OSU, Corvallis, and the environment, please consult our web site http://www.coas.oregonstate.edu. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND HAS A POLICY OF BEING RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF DUAL-CAREER COUPLES. ******************************************************** Sesqui Associate Professor in Marine Ecology School of Biological Sciences The University of Sydney Reference: A19/004897 Applications are invited for a University of Sydney Sesquicentenary Associate Professor (equivalent to Professor in US system) in the School of Biological Sciences. The successful candidate, who will be attached to the Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities, will have a PhD in Marine Ecology or a related field and a demonstrated record of published research and success in obtaining competitive grants. The appointee will be skilled in managing research teams and have the capacity to assume directorship of the Centre, within a few years of appointment. While pursuing his/her own research, the successful candidate will also play a major role in ensuring financial support for and further strategic development of the Centre through interactions with end-users of research in government and corporate institutions. More information about the position, include a complete job description, is available at http://bull.ucc.usyd.edu.au/personnel/FMPro The position is full-time continuing (equivalent to tenurable), subject to the completion of a satisfactory probation and/or confirmation period for new appointees. Membership of a University approved superannuation (retirement) scheme is a condition of employment for new appointees. Remuneration Package: $105,219 - $115,821 p.a. (which includes a base salary Associate Professor Level D $89,135 - $98,197 p.a., leave loading and up to 17% employer?s contribution to superannuation). Closing Date: 1/7/2004 It is strongly recommended that interested applicants contact Dr Arthur Dye, Deputy Director of the Centre, before applying, on (+61 2) 9351 4933, fax 9351 6713 or e-mail: adye@bio.usyd.edu.au ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. 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URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040528/d7c372b1/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Jun 18 11:32:14 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Jun 18 11:32:50 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 6/18/04 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News *************************************************** Resources ****DIALOG WEBPAGE CHANGES*** I'm in the process of reorganizing the http://aslo.org/phd.html webpage. One big difference is that all the resources developed for and from the DIALOG symposia are now on a separate "resources" page--you can get to it from the main phd page above, or go directly to: http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/DIALOGresourcepage/ Resources are now in the form of an annotated list. -- Be sure to check out the new resource developed from DIALOG V for teaching slides--itis on the resource page, or you can go directly to: http://www.dialog.741.com/ Stacey Etheridge took the lead on putting this together, and it will be an ongoing project--see message directly below: --DISCCRS group: It would be *great* to have a similar resource for climate change--Please let me know if you would be interested in developing such a resource. :) cheers, sue, weiler@whitman.edu Aquatic Science Teaching Slides: http://www.dialog.741.com/ This webpage was developed by DIALOG V participant Stacey Etheridge, to make slides developed by the DIALOG V symposium participants available to a larger audience. DIALOG symposium participants are each required to develop a 10-minute oral presentation in plenary format, to make their work understandable to scientists outside their own discipline. So many of the DIALOG V participants were requesting slides from each other's presentations for teaching purposes that Stacey kindly volunteered to put the slides together as an electronic resource. This page will be expanded with each symposia. Etheridge, S. et al. 2004. DIALOG V educational slides: Interdisciplinary topics in aquatic science. http://www.dialog.741.com/ Rethinking the Science of Politics - Multiple Methods Strengthen Scientific Inference http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr04080 Qs and AAAs About Global Climate Change http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0603climate.shtml AAAS held a conference on climate change June 15, 2004, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm in Washington, DC. Hopefully they will be publishing the talks on the above website. I'm sending it to you just in case. :) Here is the press release describing the conference: AAAS is pleased to invite you to an important conference on the science of climate change: "Qs And AAAs About Global Climate Change." The meeting, co-sponsored by the Conference Board, will feature 11 of the nation's leading climate scientists discussing what is known and what is not known about global climate change in a series of objective, nonpartisan presentations..... The conference, planned and presented by the journal Science and the AAAS Directorate for Science and Policy Programs, responds to the Washington policy community's need for unbiased, clear-eyed analysis by scientific experts of what is known, what is likely but unproven, and what is a plausible but untested prospect. The introductory presentation by Professor Sherwood Rowland of the University of California, Irvine, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, will be followed by panels of specialists covering a wide range of climate change topics: history, role of greenhouse gases, models and their limitations, the fates of glaciers, and more. The agenda and the full meeting announcement is available on the AAAS web site at http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2004/0603climate.shtml *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience UNITED STATES ADOPTS ECOSYSTEM VIEW OF OCEANS MANAGEMENT U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans says that the Bush administration is ready to endorse some recommendations made in a recent report issued by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. The congressionally appointed panel released a draft set of recommendations in April after three years of study and public hearings. In remarks he made at the Oceans Week Conference on Capitol Hill, Evans said, "We're committed to developing new approaches and partnerships to build on our successes, and restore and sustain healthy oceans." Addressing delegates from business, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies, Evans continued: "Ecosystems are highly complex. A better understanding of species, habitat, and their interactions is central to our efforts to protect and manage the nation's ocean and coastal resources." ---SOURCE: AmeriScan, Environment News Service, June 11, 2003. Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2003. Republished with permission from ENS online at: http://ens-news.com A NEW ICE AGE? NONE SOON, SNOW 2 MILES DEEP IMPLIES from The New York Times (Registration Required) from Sigma Xi Science iin the News Despite the recent trend toward global warming, scientists have long wondered whether the earth is nearing another ice age, an end to the 12,000- year temperate spell in which modern civilizations arose. Some have said such a transition is overdue, given that each of the three temperate intervals that immediately preceded the current one lasted only about 10,000 years. But now, in an eagerly awaited study, a group of climate and ice experts say they have new evidence that earth is not even halfway through the current warm era. The evidence comes from the oldest layers of Antarctic ice ever sampled. Some scientists earlier proposed similar hypotheses, basing them on the current configuration of earth's orbit, which seems to set the metronome that ice ages dance to. Temperature patterns deciphered in sea-bottom sediments in recent years supported the theory. http://snipurl.com/6z7y COALITION SEEKS HALT TO DEEP SEA DESTRUCTION From Pew SeaSpan A broad international coalition of environmentalists, The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, has called on the United Nations to declare an immediate moratorium on bottom-trawl fishing to protect the world?s underwater mountains, or seamounts, and their vulnerable inhabitants. In parallel with the United Nations Open-Ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea, experts of the coalition spoke on the conservation and management of sea beds in areas outside international jurisdiction, and specifically on the threat of deep-sea trawling on seamounts and their rich sea life. The press conference participants were Daniel Pauly, director of the Fisheries Centre, University of British Colombia; Elliot Norse (PF '97), president of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute; and Matthew Gianni, former fisherman turned international fisheries expert. Coalition members include Conservation International, Greenpeace International, World Conservation, the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the New England Aquarium, among others. To read the press briefing, go to: http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2004/deepseapc.doc.htm ---SOURCE: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0406/S00067.htm Norse 's Pew Fellowship supported national and international outreach, education, and policy development for marine stewardship and initiatives that advance the field of marine conservation biology. For more on Norse, go to: http://www.pewmarine.org/pewFellowsDirectoryTemplate.php?PEWSerialInt=3669 SEA CHANGE SINCE ERA OF STEINBECK from The Los Angeles Times (Registration Required) ISLA CORONADO, Mexico ? As warm salt water lapped against his legs, Chuck Baxter took delight in the creatures clinging to rocks and skittering around the tidal shallows. His sunburned hands dipped beneath the shimmering surface for a closer examination of starfish, crabs and sponges forming a palette of red, orange, yellow and brown. Out of this bustling seascape surfaced a question: Why does the marine life look so rich here, when 64 years earlier author John Steinbeck considered this same spot so devoid of life that it appeared "burned," as if exposed to mild "radio-activity"? That question also rolled around the rear deck of the Gus D., a shrimp trawler jury-rigged into a marine lab. Baxter, a retired Stanford University marine biology professor, and his mates from Monterey, were retracing the 1940 voyage of Steinbeck and his pal, marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts. Steinbeck made the 4,000-mile trip famous in his nonfiction book, "The Log From the Sea of Cortez." http://snipurl.com/74i0 CONSERVATIVE GROUPS BLOCK INTERNATIONAL SEA TREATY Taken from SeaSpan 6/16/04 The United Nations' Convention on the Law of the Sea--a comprehensive international accord governing the use of oceans for shipping, fishing, mining, and naval operations--has been signed by the United States and unanimously approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but it languishes in the Senate nonetheless, awaiting a final vote. Environmental groups have supported the treaty for years, saying it provides important tools to protect ocean ecosystems. A thwarted treaty supported by environmentalists is not big news, but this treaty is also supported by oil and mining companies, as well as the Defense and State departments. So what's the holdup? A vocal coalition of far-right groups objects to the multinational agreement because ... well, because it's multinational. "All these U.N. treaties are invasions of our sovereignty," said Phyllis Schlafly of the conservative Eagle Forum. An aide to Richard Lugar, the treaty's main Senate advocate, said the conservative objections were expected, but "what did surprise us is that the administration kowtowed to them so quickly." To read the full story, go to: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sea1jun01,1,2319383.story ---SOURCE: Grist Magazine, June 1, 2003. To subscribe to Grist Magazine's free daily environmental news email, go to: http://www.gristmagazine.com/signup/subgrist.asp ALARM SOUNDED ON GLOBAL WARMING from The Washington Post (Registration Required) Ten of the nation's top climate researchers warned yesterday that policymakers must act soon to address the dangers associated with global warming, which they described as a looming threat that will hit hardest and soonest at the world's poor and at farmers. "By mid-century, millions more poor children around the world are likely to face displacement, malnourishment, disease and even starvation unless all countries take action now to slow global warming" and sea-level rises that will follow, Michael Oppenheimer, who teaches geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said at a conference. "Imagine the difficulties faced by families in Bangladesh. An area where about 8 million people now live would be underwater if global sea level were to rise half a meter. Where are they going to go?" http://snipurl.com/74f7 Associated Press version (No registration required) http://snipurl.com/74i3 SUMMERTIME, WHEN PEOPLE AND PARASITES HEAD FOR THE WATER from The New York Times (Registration Required) The more you know about microbiology, the harder it is to go swimming. The ocean not only has the odd macrobiotic sting ray and shark but various sorts of bacteria, dinoflagellates and viruses. That's in a healthy ocean. As Dr. Michael Beach (his real name), an epidemiologist in the parasitic disease section of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said, "A lot of these bugs just live in the wild and we get in their way." Dr. Beach is involved in the healthy swimming campaign for the agency. The seashore and rivers, ponds and lakes are part of its concern, because they can certainly contain health hazards, even if they are not polluted. But the current focus is on pools and a parasite called cryptosporidium. http://snipurl.com/6xh3 *************************************************** Forum Support Basic Research in Europe Sugmitted by Konstantinor Kormos >Dear Colleague, > Sign for a petition for European support to basic research. > http://fer.apinc.org *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings **************************************************** ASLA 04-08: New Jefferson Science Fellowship at U.S. State Department **************************************************** "Now, more than ever, American science must enlighten American statecraft." - Secretary of State Colin Powell A new program will help the State Department tap into the scientific expertise of senior faculty at the nation's universities. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to members of the scientific, philanthropic, and diplomatic communities on 26 May about how scientists and the State Department can work together for the benefit of the nation and the world. "Just as in the days of Franklin and Jefferson, American scientists and diplomats share a common goal today: They both seek to apply the best knowledge we have to the most significant challenges we face," Powell said at an event celebrating a new program to bring scientific expertise into the State Department. The new Jefferson Science Fellowship program is based upon existing fellowship programs at the State Department, initiated by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AIP's first State Department Science Fellow, George Atkinson, who was named the Science and Technology Advisor to Secretary Powell after serving his AIP fellowship, was the driving force behind establishment of the Jefferson Fellowship. This new program, a partnership between the State Department, U.S. institutions of higher education, and several philanthropic foundations, will bring tenured science and engineering faculty members from participating universities to the State Department. They will join the fellows from AIP, AAAS, and several other professional science and engineering societies, working in various bureaus throughout the Department, and contributing their expertise to the scientific and technological aspects of foreign policy issues. As Powell remarked, "They will observe and participate in the day-to-day working of American foreign policy. They'll see how science and statecraft work together to improve the lives of people around the world. They'll gain an appreciation for the daily challenges confronting the men and women of the State Department...[and] take their experiences with them back into our nation's classrooms and laboratories." A key element of the Jefferson Fellowship is that fellows, once they return to their universities, will remain available as consultants to the Department for several years. Powell concluded, "I look to our new Jefferson Fellows and to all the men and women of America's scientific community to help us in government build a safer, healthier and better world. We have unprecedented opportunities before us, and, with imagination, with compassion, and in partnership, we can seize these opportunities." The various fellowship programs at the State Department provide opportunities for many in the science community to contribute their know-how to America's foreign policy. Qualified members of any of the 10 AIP Member Societies are eligible to apply for the AIP State Department Science Fellowship; see www.aip.org/gov/sdf.html for details on the AIP program. Applications for the AIP Fellowship are due by 1 November 2004 for the Fellowship selection in early 2005. Readers interested in learning more about the Jefferson Fellowship should see www.national-academies.org/jsf. The full text of Secretary Powell's May 26 speech can be viewed at www.state.gov/secretary/rm/32864.htm. *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION A post-doctoral position is available in the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Montana State University (http://www.montana.edu/wwwes/) in the field of geoscience education. Responsibilities include: ? Development of exemplars in the effective use of digital instructional materials at the undergraduate level, with emphasis on integrating research and education (2-year funding from NSF, Digital Library for Earth System Education DLESE program). ? Teach one course/semester in the Dept. of Earth Sciences (to be determined) In addition, there is the opportunity to ? Assist with curriculum development of new introductory courses and labs in Earth system science, and ? Develop and teach on-line courses in the MSU Master's of Science and Science Education program (www.montana.edu/msse) and other distance-learning courses through the MSU Burns Telecommunications Center (http://btc.montana.edu; e.g. the Nationals Teachers Enhancement Network, www.scienceteacher.org) This is a great opportunity to jump start an academic career by building a portfolio of teaching experiences such as course and curriculum design, instructional materials development, and related research on learning activities. A completed PhD in the geosciences, with evidence of contributions to geoscience education is required. Experience developing digital instructional materials and designing curricula is preferred. Please send your CV and the names of three references and their contact information. The position is currently available. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until a successful candidate has been identified. Please contact: David Mogk Dept. Earth Sciences Montana State University (406) 994-6916; mogk@montana.edu MSU is an ADA/EO/AA/Veteran's Preference Employer GEO EDUCATION POSTDOCS AT CARLETON Greetings- I would like to bring to your attention several opportunities here at SERC for those interested in a sabbatical or postdoctoral position that focuses on geoscience education. For the 2004-2005 academic year, we have two positions working on websites and associated resource collections addressing on-going issues in geoscience education: Teaching Quantitative Skills and Preparing Teachers to Teach Earth Sciences. The Quantitative Skills appointment can be up to 5 months. The Preparing Teachers appointment can be up to 3 months. For those of you who would like to plan further ahead, we anticipate three openings for the 2005-2006 academic year. Positions up to 2.5 months will be available to add to and develop further the Teaching Quantitative Skills and Preparing Teachers to Teach Earth Sciences sites. In addition, we will have a position for up to four months to work on developing web resources that bring Cutting Edge workshops to the broader community. For further information, please visit our website: or contact me. Cathy Manduca Dr. Cathryn A. Manduca Director, Science Education Resource Center Carleton College Northfield, MN 55057 507 646-7096 cmanduca@carleton.edu serc.carleton.edu ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. 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For more information, see: http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/index.cfm New ARCUS Polar Education Discussion List ARCUS has set up an electronic discussion list to facilitate discussions among educators, researchers, and community members and to support the development of a networked virtual community of people working in various aspects of polar science education. This list allows educators, researchers, and learners to exchange information about opportunities, challenges, methods, resources, important events, and other useful topics. The list is moderated but participatory so any subscribed user may post information or respond to posts. If you wish to subscribe to this electronic discussion list, follow the information located at: http://www.arcus.org/education/educationlist/index.html New Version of Premier Global Climate Model Released URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?pr04086 *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience CLIMATE FILM PUT TO COMPUTER TEST from BBC Online A worldwide experiment to test the plausibility of the disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow starts on 22 June. Computer users across the world are being invited to download and run a climate model of what may happen this century. The test will see how predictions may change if the behaviour of the Gulf Stream is affected, as the film shows. The project is the work of climateprediction.net, a consortium of UK universities and the Met Office. http://snipurl.com/7970 ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. 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URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040625/1c09fa66/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Thu Jul 1 15:18:34 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Thu Jul 1 15:19:11 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News July 1, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News July 1, 2004 *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience DEEP SEA FISH STOCKS IN CRISIS from BBC Online Over-fishing in the north Atlantic is seriously damaging fish stocks, which are being "mined" at over twice the recommended rate, say conservationists. Fishing vessels currently catch stocks of blue whiting to feed farmed salmon. The North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission, which fixed the last quota for blue whiting at 650,000 tons, says fishermen caught 2.3m tons in 2003. http://snipurl.com/7gi9 STUDY: CLIMATE THREAT TO RICE CROP from Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- An average daily temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius results in a 10 percent reduction in the rice crop, says a study that shows global warming could be bad news for one of the world's most important crops. Increased nighttime temperatures were associated with significant declines in crop yield at the International Rice Research Institute Farm in the Philippines, according to a report in Monday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Increasing temperatures, thought to be a result of heat trapped by industrial and other chemicals in the atmosphere, have caused mounting concern in recent years. http://snipurl.com/7eky Arctic Census of Marine Life FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 24, 2004 (ENS) - A multinational partnership of polar scientists is poised to take an historic census of marine life in the Arctic Ocean, including the planet's oldest seawater - a vast, still pool unstirred for millennia, walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice. Experts in biology, geology and physics from the circumpolar and other nations will use submersibles, modern sonar detection and traditional techniques to record and inventory biodiversity in the Arctic Ocean in anticipation of additional climatic warming that, if realized, could remove the ice cap and dramatically alter aquatic life in the region. The project is part of the 10 year, $1 billion Census of Marine Life (CoML), an unprecedented cooperative initiative involving leading marine scientists from every world region. The Arctic CoML has been seeded with a $600,000 grant from the New York based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced today. "The tremendous on-going changes make the effort to identify the diversity of life in the three major realms - sea ice, water column and sea floor - an urgent issue," say researchers Rolf Gradinger, Russ Hopcroft and Bodil Bluhm of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, the project's headquarters. International bathymetric chart of the Arctic Ocean. The dark blue mass at left center is the Canada Basin. (Map courtesy NOAA) More than 300 scientists from 53 countries are at work on the Census, designed to assess the diversity, distribution and abundance of ocean life and explain how it changes over time. The scientists, their institutions and government agencies are pooling their findings to create a comprehensive and authoritative portrait of life in the oceans today, yesterday and tomorrow. The magnitude of predicted environmental change on marine life requires long-term monitoring, crucial to which is the availability of baseline data. "Species level information is essential to discussions of climate change, its expressions and effects," the researchers say. A particular focus of the Arctic project will be the Canada Basin, a huge, largely unknown underwater ice-lidded hole 3,800 meters deep immediately north of the Yukon Territory and Alaska. It connects to the Pacific Ocean through the 70 meter deep Bering Strait, and is sheltered from the North Atlantic's influence by the narrow Fram Strait and Lomonossov ridge, which juts up to within 1,400 metres of the surface. Many species existing in the extreme frigid depths of the Canada Basin do not travel to shallower waters and are thought to have been there isolated for millions of years. The genetic characteristics that enable 'extremophile' species to survive in such an environment are of interest to science. Among animals scientists expect to discover are cephalopods, known to exist around Greenland and Russia, that the researchers say, "probably occur in the Canadian Basin although none have yet been recorded." "The shelf breaks and the deep-sea basins of the Arctic Ocean are poorly studied for all taxonomic groups, with the deep Canadian Basin being the least known of all," the researchers say. "Given the Canada Basin's long-time separation with little exchange to other deep-sea basins, it will be a particularly interesting area." They will study life in the three main layers of the water column - a low-density surface layer, an intermediate layer which receives warm, salty water from the Atlantic, and a deep dense layer formed through convection. Supercomputer Finds Climate Likely to Heat Up Fast BOULDER, Colorado, June 24, 2004 (ENS) - A powerful new supercomputer climate modeling system at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has found that global temperatures may rise more than previous projections if humans continue to emit large quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The system, known as the Community Climate System Model, version 3 (CCSM3) was unveiled Wednesday in Boulder. CCSM3 shows that global temperatures could rise by 2.6 degrees Celsius (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in a hypothetical scenario in which atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide are suddenly doubled. That is greater than the two degree Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) increase that had been indicated by the previous version of the model. William Collins, a NCAR scientist who oversaw the development of the new system, says researchers have yet to pin down exactly what is making the model more sensitive to an increased level of carbon dioxide. But he says the model overall is "significantly more accurate" than its predecessor. "This model makes substantial improvements in simulating atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial processes," Collins said. "It has done remarkably well in reproducing the climate of the last century, and we're now ready to begin using it to study the climate of the next century." CCSM3 is one of the world's leading general circulation climate models, sophisticated computer tools that incorporate phenomena ranging from the effect that volcanic eruptions have on temperature patterns to the impact of shifting sea ice on sunlight absorbed by the oceans. Climate models work by solving mathematical formulas, which represent the chemical and physical processes that drive Earth's climate, for thousands of points in the atmosphere, oceans, sea ice, and land surface. CCSM3 is so complex that it requires about three trillion computer calculations to simulate a single day of global climate, NCAR explains. NCAR developed the model in collaboration with researchers at universities and laboratories across the country, with funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NCAR is sharing the model results and the underlying computer codes with atmospheric researchers and other users worldwide. As scientists learn more about the atmosphere, the world's most powerful climate models are in general agreement over the climatic effects of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent greenhouse gas, which is emitted by burning of fossil fuels in motor vehicles and industrial plants. Observations show that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have increased from 280 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in preindustrial times to more than 370 ppmv today, and the increase is continuing. A doubling of carbon dioxide over present-day levels would significantly increase global temperatures, according to all the major models. The models do not always agree, however, on the complex impacts of clouds, sea ice, and other pieces of the climate system. Scientists will contribute findings from CCSM3 to the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an international research body that advises policymakers on the likely impacts of climate change. *************************************************** Forum *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Post-Doctoral Opportunity Polar Research Board (PRB) The National Academies Application Deadline: Wednesday, 1 September 2004 To apply online and for further information, please go to: http://www.national-academies.org/basc For further information on the PRB, please go to: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/prb ------------------------------------ BACKGROUND The National Academies, the collective name for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, are nonprofit organizations chartered by Congress to provide a unique public service by working outside the framework of government to ensure independent advice to government on matters of science, technology, and medicine. The Polar Research Board (PRB) is a unit of the National Academies that provides independent analysis on research needs and management, environment and natural resources, and other science issues in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and cold regions in general. The PRB is seeking an exceptional person with strong scientific expertise and an interest in applying science in the policy arena. The person selected will be part of a small group responsible for all aspects of the Board's work - participating in the design of new studies, interacting with agency decision makers, working with committees of experts, analyzing complex issues, and contributing to our scientific reports. This is a dynamic work environment - the National Academies' staff is composed of more than 1000 people addressing all the issues in today's headlines, from stem cell research to alternative energy sources to climate change. RESPONSIBILITIES - Assist in planning and conducting studies related to a range of scientific issues in the polar sciences, such as ship needs in polar regions and design of observing networks - Assist in the study process, including committee selection, meetings, gathering and analyzing information, research and writing of reports, and report review and dissemination - Express complex technical and policy information in various written forms, including status reports, project summaries, and detailed committee reports - Work on special projects such as planning for International Polar Year 2007-2008 JOB SPECIFICS The position is open to all recent PhD's. Requires the ability to review and analyze scientific literature; good organization, interpersonal, and leadership skills; and the ability to work productively in a team environment. Excellent oral and written communication skills are essential. Open to backgrounds in any discipline of polar science (oceanography, atmospheric science, geology, ecology, social science, engineering, or interdisciplinary areas). The job is located in Washington D.C. Some travel is required. This job is an appointment for 12 months. To apply online, please go to http://www.national-academies.org. Under "Employment" click on "Job opportunities," select "Department - Division on Earth & Life Studies" and hit search. Look for Postdoctoral Research Associate #040164-7. or go directly to: http://nationalacademies.wfrecruiter.com/jobs_details1.asp?Job_id=31585& Page_Id=5911&Published=1 Or send a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three references to: The National Academies Office of Human Resources, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Keck M-105 Washington, DC 20001 Cite position #040164-7 and send a copy of your application and cover letter directly to Chris Elfring, Director, Polar Research Board at: celfring@nas.edu Application Deadline: Wednesday, 1 September 2004 For further information on the PRB, please go to: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/prb ************************ INTERDISCIPLINARY PUBLISHING JOB IN EUROPE Dear colleagues, I?m writing to inform you of an open position as manager for the publishing department of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), located just outside Vienna, Austria. IIASA is an international institution, supported by the U.S. and sixteen other governments, that engages in scientific research aimed at providing policy insight on issues of regional and global importance. More information about the Institute is available on its web site (). The publications manager is responsible for the general administration of institution publishing, including oversight of the production of camera-ready copy; supervising an office of seven editors, typesetters, graphics designers, and printing & mailing personnel; and dealing with scientific publishers and manuscript reviewers. The publications manager also should be an able science writer, capable of working with IIASA researchers in developing popular articles based on their research work. IIASA?s working language is English, and therefore the publications manager should be a native English speaker, able to work with authors from many countries. A scientific background is essential, as are computer skills, familiarity with the Internet and Internet publishing, and managerial and supervisory experience. The position is available immediately, and applications are due by 15 July. Initial appointment will be for one year, with expectation of extension. Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, two recent examples of published work, plus the names, addresses (including e-mail), telephone and fax numbers of two work-related references to: Walter Foith, Personnel Administrator International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: (+43) 2236 807-243 Fax: (+43) 2236-713-13 E-mail: foithw@iiasa.ac.at More details about the position can be found on the IIASA Website at If you have questions, get in touch with the contacts listed on the IIASA website, or email or call me at the address below. Sincerely, Maggie Goud Collins Margaret R. Goud Collins, PhD Program Director, US Committee for IIASA The National Academies Board on International Scientific Organizations Policy and Global Affairs The National Academies, W541 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 phone: (508)548-2502 email: mcollins@nas.edu mailing address: 29 Loop Rd. Falmouth, MA 02540 Staff Assistant: Amy Franklin TEL (+1) 202-334-2807 FAX (+1) 202-334-2231 email: afranklin@nas.edu ******************************************************** Research technician position in dissolved organic matter cycling A research technician is sought to work on a large interdisciplinary Biocomplexity project based at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. The goal of the project is to provide a conceptual and mechanistic understanding of DOC and DON production via the three processes of direct release, viral lysis, and zooplankton grazing. Research will be conducted in three systems: batch cultures of phytoplankton, Chesapeake Bay, and Monterey Bay. The position will be open September 1 2004 with a negotiable start date. The successful applicant will be expected to perform analyses and experiments in chemical and biological oceanography and stable isotope biogeochemistry. This position will also be charged with coordinating research activities with other VIMS researchers as well as other marine institutes as appropriate. Minimum Qualifications: Advanced knowledge of lab and field programs in biological and chemical oceanography and analytical methods used to study the cycling of nitrogen or dissolved organic matter in aquatic systems. Ability to work without supervision and to supervise students in the laboratory. To be comfortable working at sea and have a willingness to travel. B.S in some aspect of biology, chemistry, marine science, or oceanography. Preferred Qualifications: M. S. in some aspect of biology, chemistry, marine science, or oceanography. Experience operating an isotope ratio mass spectrometer, automated nutrient analyzer, and/or certified in the use of radioisotopes. This position will be filled for two years with possible extension into a third. Starting salary is up to $34,000 with full health and retirement benefits. Interested individuals should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and names of three references (address, e-mail, and phone number). Deborah Bronk Physical Science Department Virginia Institute of Marine Science College of William and Mary Route 1208; Greate Rd. Gloucester Point, VA 23062-1346 phone: (804) 684-7779 fax: (804) 684-7786 e-mail: bronk@vims.edu ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The book covers topics such as: * Obtaining and Negotiating a Faculty Position and Planning for Tenure * The Scientific Investigator Within the University Structure Defining and Implementing Your Mission * Staffing Your Laboratory Mentoring and Being Mentored *Time Management, Project Management, Data Management and Laboratory Notebooks * Getting Funded, Getting Published and Increasing Your Visibility * Understanding Technology Transfer *Setting Up Collaborations --It is 273 pages long.... *************************************************** ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040712/1cd6e922/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Jul 16 14:34:44 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Jul 16 14:35:34 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 07/16/04 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News 07/16/04 ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 2004 The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) Fellowship is an innovative program dedicated to training and supporting a diverse network of action-oriented emerging environmental leaders from the United States. The fellowships provide training, project funding, and a vibrant peer network for 20-25 individuals each year engaged in environmental and social change work. ELP fellows come from nonprofits, businesses, government, tribal government, and higher education, and include activists, artists, writers, lawyers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and scientists. ELP is committed to fostering a reflective, diverse environmental movement capable of responding to our complex social and environmental challenges. For more information and application materials, go to: http://www.elpnet.org/fellowship.html *************************************************** Resources The spring/summer issue of Passport to the Sea, the electronic newsletter of SouthEast COSEE is now on our website: http://www.scseagrant.org/se-cosee/ Just click on the words ?Passport to the Sea.? If you want to read the winter issue, just click on ?Archives.? Please complete the Reader?s Survey at the top of the newsletter to assist us in meeting needs. Your input is valuable. Please pass this announcement to your friends and colleagues. If they would like to receive this newsletter and other information, please ask them to complete the Research and Education Inventory on the home page of the SouthEast COSEE web. We will have great stories of the upcoming 2004 Ocean Sciences Education Leadership Institute, hosted by the University of Georgia Marine Education Center and Aquarium, Savannah Georgia and the 2004 Coastal Legacy Workshop, Charleston, SC. We are proud of the SouthEast COSEE staff, contributing organizations, educators and scientists who enable us to offer these high-quality programs. Sincerely, Lundie Spence, Ph.D. U.S. CLIMATE POLICY: TOWARD A SENSIBLE CENTER The Pew Center on Global Climate Change and the Brookings Institution co-sponsored a conference bringing together senators, CEOs, federal and state officials, and other prominent leaders to debate the future of U.S. policy on climate change. To view archived webcasts or read the transcripts for individual speakers: http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=436458&l=43904 ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NEW PEW CENTER REPORT A new Pew Center report, "Coping with Global Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the United States," discusses the importance of adapting to climate change, the options available, and the challenges involved. Read the full report: http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=436458&l=43905 *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience AGU Education Brief 04-08: Conference on Research and Undergraduate Education; House Education Appropriates Update *************** "Integrating Research into Undergraduate Education: The Value Added" November 18-19, 2004; Washington, DC. This national conference, being convened by The Reinvention Center and co-sponsored by The National Science Foundation and The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will bring together faculty, administrators, professional staff and graduate students to consider ways that research universities can re-conceive their undergraduate education so that it builds on their unique assets and impacts their large and diverse student populations. Colleagues from disciplinary societies, government agencies, and private foundations are invited to join in the discussions as well. The conference program and registration materials are posted on the Reinvention Center Web site at: http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference%2004/urconfabout.htm. The conference encompasses a wide range of subjects and has numerous sessions that should be of special interest to faculty and professional staff in the geosciences. Two sessions will focus on curriculum and pedagogy exclusively within the context of physical science disciplines. Other sessions will address challenges and opportunities that are unique to research universities. These cover such varied topics as bringing research to the fore in large introductory courses, to translating ongoing research into the curriculum, to forming multi-campus partnerships. The speakers and breakout session leaders are all distinguished individuals, well known both for their expertise in their fields and their efforts to improve undergraduate education. Carl Wieman, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Fellow of JILA at the University of Colorado-Boulder and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, will give a talk at the opening plenary session. The Reinvention Center was established in 2000 as an outgrowth of the Boyer Commission report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities (1998), which offered a vision of undergraduate education that is synergistic with its research and graduate program. The Reinvention Center's mission is to bring together colleagues from research universities to work collectively to implement this vision and to be an active and informed voice for promoting change. The Center carries out its activities through four regional network it has formed, conferences, special initiatives and multi-campus experimental projects. Thus far over 200 faculty, administrators, and professional staff have participated in its regional networks meetings, and 400 individuals, including colleagues from 100 public and private universities and 11 professional and disciplinary societies, attended the Center's first major conference in 2002. ************* STUDY: BAD AIR HURTS SEA LIFE from Newsday WASHINGTON - The oceans have soaked up nearly half of the carbon dioxide released by industrial activity during the past two centuries, researchers say, and changes in ocean chemistry could pose a long-term risk to corals and shell-forming marine life. The findings suggest that burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil could have ecological consequences by the end of the century that go beyond current concerns about global warming. The research is reported in a pair of papers published today in the journal Science. Oceanographer Christopher Sabine of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and his colleagues found that oceans absorbed 48 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement manufacturing between 1800 and 1994, or about 118 billion metric tons of carbon. http://snipurl.com/7sxu ****************** SOMETHING'S FISHY ABOUT SO-CALLED RED SNAPPER from Scripps Howard News Service Just because it says "red snapper" at the fish market counter doesn't make it the tasty whitefish that you would expect. A new genetic study done by graduate students at the University of North Carolina found that more than three in four fish tested and sold as red snapper in eight eastern and central states were actually other species. How much of the mislabeling, which violates federal law, was intentional or due to mistaken identification by fishermen and wholesalers is unknown, but the result may be that catches of the prized species are being dramatically overstated, said Peter Marko, a professor of marine sciences and lead author of a report on the findings published today in the journal Nature. "Red snapper is the most sought-after snapper species and has the highest prices, and many people, including me, believe it tastes best," Marko said. "Mislabeling to this extent not only defrauds consumers, but also risks adversely affecting estimates of stock size of this species." http://snipurl.com/7sz3 *************** SUNSPOTS REACHING 1,000-YEAR HIGH from BBC Online A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,000 years. Scientists based at the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich used ice cores from Greenland to construct a picture of our star's activity in the past. They say that over the last century the number of sunspots rose at the same time that the Earth's climate became steadily warmer. http://snipurl.com/7kw3 *************************************************** Forum *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Berlin Conference on Greening Policies and academic environmental teaching programs As every year our Environmental Policy Research centre organizes a Berlin Conference which will take place in December 2005. This year our topic is: Greening of Policies  Interlinkages and Policy Integration. In addition to this research focus we will host a special panel on academic environmental teaching programs: For more information: http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2004/ For more information please don?t hesitate to contact me: Kirsten Dr. Kirsten J?rgensen Environmental Policy Research Centre Ihnestr. 22/14195 Berlin fon: (+)49 - 30 - 838 550 97 fax: (+)49 - 30 - 838 566 85 Master?s Program Public and Private Environmental Management http://www.fu-berlin.de/ffu/ *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs HDGEC Coastal Management Specialist-Team Leader position The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center in Charleston, SC has a vacancy for a Coastal Management Specialist-Team Leader. This individual serves as the Program Manager for the Outreach Program, located in the Center's Coastal Management Services Branch. The Outreach program develops and provides products and services that increase the capabilities of federal, state, and local coastal and marine resource managers to incorporate sound social science information, techniques, and skills into their management strategies, ultimately resulting in improved resource management decision making. Preferred experience in: a state or local coastal resource management agency; applying social science concepts and methods to coastal management decision making. The position closes July 26, 2004. To view a full description and/or apply for the position, click on the link below and search for position: ECS-4063001.KLD http://www.jobs.doc.gov/ -- o>-< <;>< o>-< <;>< o>-< <;>< Thomas E. Fish, Ph.D. Human Dimensions Specialist U.S. Department of Commerce NOAA Coastal Services Center 2234 South Hobson Avenue Charleston, SC 29405 Tel: 843.740.1271 Fax: 843.740.1313 Email: Tom.Fish@noaa.gov Web: http://www.csc.noaa.gov ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. 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Prof. Ricardo Erthal Santelli 4th International Symposium Environmental Geochemistry in Tropical Countries http://www.uff.br/geoquimica/isegtc2004/ Departamento de Geoqu?mica da Universidade Federal Fluminense Outeiro de S?o Jo?o Batista s/n - Centro - Niter?i/RJ - CEP 24020-007 Brazil. -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv?rus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040813/bd65e2db/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Wed Sep 1 12:39:12 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Wed Sep 1 12:40:58 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] US RESOURCES Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News *************************************************** Resources Gender differences in the careers of academic scientists and engineers: special report. NSF, 2004. nsf04323 http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf04323 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities. NSF, 2004. nsf04317 http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf04317 Graduate Enrollment in Science and Engineering Fields Reaches New Peak; First-Time Enrollment of Foreign Students Declines. NSF, 2004. nsf04326 http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf04326 Emigration of U.S.-Born S&E Doctorate Recipients. NSF, 2004. nsf04327 http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf04327 Employment Sector, Salaries, Publishing, and Patenting Activities of S&E Doctorate Holders. NSF, 2004. nsf04328 http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf04328 Remoe, Svend Otto. Gorvernance of the science, technology and innovation system in Norway: an overview. STEP, 2004. http://www.step.no/monit/wp1bc-norway.pdf Eliasson, Kerstin. American science - the envy of the world?: an overview of the science system and policies in the United States. ITPS, 2004. http://www.itps.se/pdf/A2004_004.pdf Karlsson, Eva. From Doctoral Student to Professor - The Academic Career Path in the United States. ITPS, 2004. http://www.itps.se/pdf/A2004_005.pdf Stenberg, Lennert. Government Research and Innovation Policies in Japan. ITPS, 2004. http://www.itps.se/pdf/A2004_001. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The goal could be achieved within the next 50 years by more widespread use of a portfolio of at least 15 approaches - from energy efficiency, solar energy, and wind power to nuclear energy and the preservation or enhancement of "natural" sinks for carbon dioxide such as rain forests, or the conservation tillage techniques on farms worldwide, say two Princeton University researchers in a study published Friday. The list of technologies has been around for years, the researchers acknowledge. But past studies, such as one conducted by five US national laboratories four years ago, tended to focus on whether these approaches could be used to reach the emissions goals and deadlines in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol without trashing the economy, as some critics of the pact have warned. http://snipurl.com/8glj POSSIBLE START OF WARMING TREND IN PACIFIC HINTS OF NEW EL NINO from Associated Press WASHINGTON ? Warming water temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific last month may indicate the start of a new El Ni?o. El Ni?o, which can affect weather conditions around the world, is often first seen as increased sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific along with changes in wind patterns. Sea-surface temperatures rose nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit above normal in July, with even higher readings to the east, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center said yesterday. The temperature increases, the agency said, "indicate the possible early stages of a warm episode." http://snipurl.com/89v8 IT'S THE BLOOMIN' HEAT from Newsday Flowering plants in Boston's Arnold Arboretum are blossoming about a week earlier than they did a century ago, according to a new study by researchers at Boston University who say the primary culprit is higher temperatures. "In the last 20 years, plants have been flowering about eight days earlier than the early 1900s," said Richard Primack, the study's lead researcher and a biologist at Boston University. In looking for an explanation, researchers discovered that Boston's average temperature has risen nearly 3 degrees since the early 1900s. About half of this increase was attributed to climate change, while the rest was attributed to increased urbanization. http://snipurl.com/84mp NEW SPECIES OF WORMS DISCOVERED IN OCEAN from Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Two strange new species of worms, without eyes or stomachs or even mouths, have been discovered living on the bones of dead whales in California's Monterey Bay. "Who knows what we can learn here," researcher Robert Vrijenhoek said. "There are many things left to discover in this world. Some we find by accident ... and some we find because we look in places that few people have explored before, as in much of our work in the deep oceans." In this case, it was a bit of both because the unexpected discovery was made about 9,400 feet below the surface. Lead researcher Greg Rouse of the South Australian Museum added: "Deep-sea exploration continues to reveal biological novelties" such as this "remarkable" worm. http://snipurl.com/84nm 'DEAD ZONE' SPREADS IN GULF OF MEXICO from Reuters HOUSTON - A huge ?dead zone? of water so devoid of oxygen that sea life cannot live in it has spread across 5,800 square miles (15,000 square kilometers) of the Gulf of Mexico this summer, in what has become an annual occurrence caused by pollution. The extensive area of uninhabitable water may be contributing indirectly to an unusual spate of shark bites along the Texas coast, experts said. A scientist at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium said Tuesday that measurements showed the dead zone extended from the mouth of the Mississippi River in southeastern Louisiana 250 miles (400 kilometers) west to near the Texas border, and was closer to shore than usual because winds and currents. http://snipurl.com/886g A BIOLOGICAL MYSTERY: EUROPE'S EEL POPULATION IS COLLAPSING from Associated Press AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- When a poacher with a baseball bat mugged Willem Dekker for his baby eels, it was further confirmation for the Dutch biologist that the species is in trouble. The European Eel, a snakelike fish with a mysterious life cycle, has managed to survive in rivers and on farms despite overfishing and a loss of natural habitat, thanks to artificial restocking with "glass eel" -- tiny eel fry. But for reasons not entirely clear, the eel population is collapsing. For the 25,000 eel fishers and countless animals that live off them, the future is uncertain. http://snipurl.com/8gj7 Jobs for PhDs Postdoctoral Position Institute for Arctic Studies Dartmouth College For further information, please e-mail: arctic@dartmouth.edu ------------------------------------- This two-year term position with full benefits is supported by the Evelyn Stefansson Nef fund in Northern and Polar Studies at Dartmouth College, in collaboration with the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Rauner Special Collections Library. The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline with significant research experience in Northern issues and/or cultures. Areas of interest emphasize the human dimensions of environmental change, language and culture, and the history of settlements in and expeditions to the region. The Postdoctoral fellow reports to the Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding. Primary responsibilities will include scholarly and administrative support for a major research conference and accompanying museum displays to take place at Dartmouth College in Fall 2006 with a focus around the theme of 100 years of Arctic change. Research will draw upon extensive primary and secondary materials from the Stefansson Polar Exploration Collection of Dartmouth's Baker-Berry Library, as well as artifact collections housed at the Hood Museum of Art. In addition, the candidate will teach one course per year in his or her field as part of the Dickey program in Northern and Polar Studies. The opportunity to edit/author an exhibition catalogue in conjunction with an exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art also exists. Review of applications will begin immediately for a position beginning in Fall 2004 or Winter 2005. When applying, please include the following: (1) Statement of interest (2) Curriculum vitae (3) Names and addresses of three professional references Applications should be sent to: Stefansson Postdoctoral Search Committee Dickey Center Institute of Arctic Studies 6214 Fairchild Hall Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 USA Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a demonstrated commitment to diversity. Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply. For further information, please contact: arctic@dartmouth.edu ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Master's level students may receive support for a maximum of two years. Doctoral students may be supported for a maximum of three years with funding available, under certain circumstances, over a period of four years. The fellowship program provides up to $37,000 per year of support. See: http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2004/2005_star_grad_fellow.html for more information. WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Department of Environmental Sciences Huxley College of the Environment Assistant Professor of Riparian Ecology Position: Huxley College of the Environment seeks to hire an Assistant Professor of Riparian Ecology with expertise in Terrestrial/Aquatic Interactions and Restoration. This is a nine-month, tenure-track position with a full benefits package. Appointment date: September 16, 2005 Required qualifications: Completed Ph.D. in ecology, environmental sciences or related field at the time of application. Evidence of successful teaching experience at the university level and excellent communication skills. Evidence of scholarly research, presentations, and peer-reviewed publications. Required research specialty: Biotic and abiotic factors that influence the structure and function of riparian ecosystems. Emphasis on the interactions between aquatic and terrestrial systems. Preferred qualifications: Knowledge of watershed restoration techniques. Strong commitment to multidisciplinary environmental research and education. Ability to work with a diverse student population, staff and faculty. Postdoctoral experience. Duties: Teaching responsibilities may include: lower-division general environmental science courses; upper-division courses in ecosystem management, restoration, global change, and the incumbent's area of specialization. Development of an active research program involving graduate and undergraduate students. Undergraduate and graduate student mentoring and advisement. Participation in department, college, and university committees. The University: Western Washington University is a comprehensive state university of over 12,500 students located between Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Situated on a beautiful campus overlooking Bellingham Bay, the University includes seven colleges, a graduate school, and a number of teaching and research centers and institutes. The University has received national recognition for its academic endeavors and is characterized by a faculty and student body of strong preparation and accomplishment. The College: Huxley College of the Environment, founded in 1968, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the broad field of environmental studies. The College has two departments: Environmental Science and Environmental Studies. Courses encompass environmental toxicology and chemistry, ecology, environmental policy and planning, geography, and environmental education. The College includes the Institute for Watershed Studies, the Institute of Environmental Toxicology, a GIS laboratory, and a map library. Huxley College course work is mostly offered at the junior, senior, and graduate levels. There are 24 faculty members, 400 undergraduates, and 90 graduate students. Additional information about Huxley College may be found at http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~huxley/ Application: Please send a letter of application addressing qualifications; resume; statement of teaching philosophy and interests; evidence of successful teaching, including course syllabi and evaluations; reprints of recent research articles; and names and addresses of four references to: Riparian Ecologist Search Committee, 04HUX-02 Department of Environmental Sciences Huxley College of the Environment Western Washington University 516 High Street Bellingham WA 98225-9181 phone: 360-650-2844 fax: 360-650-7284 Application Deadline: To ensure full consideration, application materials must be received by October 10, 2004. WWU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained faculty and staff. Women, minorities, persons with disabilities, Vietnam-era veterans and disabled veterans are encouraged to apply. For disability accommodation, call the Employee Relations-Disability Specialist/ADA Coordinator at (360) 650-7410 or (360) 650-7696 (TTY). All new employees must complete the Measles Immunization Report Form and show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service before beginning work at WWU. WWU is committed to fostering a safe learning and working environment. Our Annual Campus Security Report can be viewed at www.wwu.edu/depts/vpsa/asr.htm and includes information on campus crime and WWU safety policies and procedures. For a paper copy, call Human Resources at (360) 650-3774, TTY (360) 650-7696. For alternate formats, call (360) 650-3839. A criminal conviction background review will be completed prior to an official hire. *********************************************** USGS MENDENHALL POSTDOC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS The USGS has just announced the FY06 opportunities for the Mendenhall Postdoc Research Fellowship Program. Application due date is Dec. 1, 2004. More info can be found at the Mendenhall Website (http://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc/). The Mendenhall Program provides an opportunity for postdoctoral fellows to conduct concentrated research in association with selected members of the USGS professional staff, often as a final element to their formal career preparation. The Program is also intended to provide research experiences that enhance their personal scientific stature and credentials. The Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program is envisioned to bring current expertise in the earth sciences to assist in the implementation of the USGS Strategic Plan and the science strategy of its programs (for example, http://pubs.usgs.gov/circular/c1172/). Mendenhall Fellows are appointed to the USGS for two years and receive full salary and benefits at the GS-12 level. The 2004 base salary for a GS-12 is $58,665. This amount might be higher depending on the amount of locality pay for the geographic area of the assignment (for example, $65,706 for Menlo Park, Calif.; $61,712 for Denver, Colo.; and $60,638 for Reston, Va.). A 4.1 percent pay raise is estimated for 2005. The appropriate personnel office can provide the exact salary for other areas. Jonathan A. Warrick, PhD US Geological Survey Coastal & Marine Geology 345 Middlefield Road, MS 999 Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-329-5376 phone 650-329-5190 fax jwarrick@usgs.gov ================ ************************************************ Executive Secretary International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Application Deadline: Friday, 1 October 2004 Further information is available from: Professor Patrick J. Webber, President International Arctic Science Committee Phone: +1 517 355 1284 E-mail: webber@msu.edu and Professor Olav Orheim, Director Norwegian Polar Institute Phone: +47 77 75 05 00 E-mail: orheim@npolar.no Information about IASC is available at: http://www.iasc.no The International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is a non-governmental, international membership organisation that encourages, promotes, and facilitates cooperation in all aspects of Arctic research, in all countries engaged in Arctic research, and in all parts of the Arctic. IASC strives to integrate human, social, and natural sciences concerned with the Arctic and provide scientific advice on Arctic issues. As the present Executive Secretary is retiring by 1 August 2005, IASC is seeking a successor. Applicants should preferably have the following qualifications: - Extensive knowledge of international Arctic research - Broad experience in cooperative, international scientific programmes or activities - Considerable insight into Arctic problems and policy issues - Relevant science management and administrative experience Good oral and written knowledge of English is required. Applicants should be enterprising, open-minded, and creative. The Executive Secretary will serve on a four-year contract with possible extensions. Salary is negotiable, and annual salary will start above NOK 450000 (64,733 USD). It will be commensurate with the qualifications of the successful applicant. The Secretariat will be located at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso, Norway. The Executive Secretary will be assisted by an administrative secretary. For a complete job description, please contact the IASC Secretariat at iasc@iasc.no. The application must briefly list the candidate's qualifications related to those mentioned in the announcement, as well as the names of two referees. Applications should be sent to: The IASC Secretariat PO Box 5156 Majorstuen Oslo N-0320 Norway An electronic copy of the application should be sent to: iasc@iasc.no ************** ECOLOGIST University of Notre Dame, US The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level starting Fall 2005. Applicants must have a Ph.D., postdoctoral experience, and a demonstrated record of research excellence. Individuals bridging terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems using quantitative approaches are especially encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will bring new research expertise to the Ecology, Evolution, and Environment group, complement other research strengths in the department (Infectious Disease, Cell/Molecular Biology, and Physiology), and teach one undergraduate and one graduate course per year. The University of Notre Dame provides modern laboratory facilities in the Hank Center for Environmental Science, state-of-the-art instrumentation in the Center for Environmental Science and Technology, and protected field sites at the Environmental Research Center in northern Wisconsin. Additional information on the department and its 35 faculty is available at http://biology.nd.edu including links to the above centers. The University of Notre Dame offers competitive salaries and start-up packages. Applications will be accepted until November 1, 2004, but review will commence immediately. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a description of research accomplishments and goals, a statement of teaching experience and interests, up to three recent publications, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to: Dr. Gary A. Lamberti, Ecology Search Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-0369. For more information, email the search chair at glambert@nd.edu The University of Notre Dame is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience SCIENTISTS PLAN 'FULL-BODY SCAN' OF EARTH from Associated Press WASHINGTON - Scientists are planning to take the pulse of the planet - and more - in an effort to improve weather forecasts, predict energy needs months in advance, anticipate disease outbreaks and even tell fishermen where the catch will be abundant. Forty-nine countries have agreed to participate in a 10- year project to collect and share thousands of measurements of the Earth, ranging from weather to streamflow to ground tremors to air pollution, Conrad C. Lautenbacher, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said yesterday. "The Earth needs a full-body scan, and that is what we're talking about," Lautenbacher said at a briefing on the project. http://snipurl.com/8ix3 COMPENSATION OF LIFE SCIENTISTS IN THE US-2004 Submitted by the Compensation of Life Scientists Survey group Compensation of Life Scientists in the U.S. - 2004 has just been published. Brief articles, based on the survey report, will appear in The Scientist magazine and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology periodical, the sponsors of the survey (together with the American Society for Microbiology). This unique, 985-page publication reports the base salaries, other cash compensation, and total cash compensation of 14,057 life scientists in the U.S. Also available is findpay for Life Scientists in the U.S. - 2004, a computer program which quickly and easily delivers all the information in the 985-page survey report - and more - by allowing unlimited searches on pay levels for each survey job on the basis of two or more variables simultaneously. Nationwide, the median income of those in the life sciences is $66,480. The median income of some of the benchmark jobs investigated were: College/University Department Head (11/12 month appt.- tenured) $149,250 Research Vice President/Director $145,000 "Distinguished" Researcher $130,000 President/Managing Director (with financial interest in firm) $128,000 Professor (11/12 month appointment - tenured) $121,000 College/University Department Head (11/12 month appt. - not on tenure track) $100,500 Government Manager (excluding Academic, Research, and Laboratory Positions) $99,500 Laboratory Director $96,600 Professor (9/10-month appointment - tenured) $84,104 Intermediate Researcher $50,335 Secondary School Teacher $43,536 College Instructor (9/10 month appt.) $43,000 Post-Doctoral Researcher (11/12-month appointment) $37,233 Intermediate Research Technician $33,943 U.S. REPORT, IN SHIFT, TURNS FOCUS TO GREENHOUSE GASES from The New York Times In a striking shift in the way the Bush administration has portrayed the science of climate change, a new report to Congress focuses on federal research indicating that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat- trapping gases are the only likely explanation for global warming over the last three decades. In delivering the report to Congress yesterday, an administration official, Dr. James R Mahoney, said it reflected "the best possible scientific information" on climate change. Previously, President Bush and other officials had emphasized uncertainties in understanding the causes and consequences of warming as a reason for rejecting binding restrictions on heat-trapping gases. The report is among those submitted regularly to Congress as a summary of recent and planned federal research on shifting global conditions of all sorts. It also says the accumulating emissions pose newly identified risks to farmers, citing studies showing that carbon dioxide promotes the growth of invasive weeds far more than it stimulates crops and that it reduces the nutritional value of some rangeland grasses. http://snipurl.com/8o8b WARMING OCEAN LINKED TO SHIFT IN LIFE CYCLES OF NORTH SEA PLANKTON As ocean temperatures in the North Sea have warmed in recent decades, the life cycles of some species low in the food chain have accelerated significantly, sometimes setting off ecological havoc, a new analysis suggests. Martin Edwards, a marine ecologist at the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science at Plymouth, England, and his colleague Anthony J. Richardson have analyzed more than two decades of census figures for 66 species that appear in the lowest three levels of the food chain in the central North Sea. Between 1958 and 2002, the timing of the spring bloom diatoms did not shift significantly. However, peak populations of copepods, the next level up the food chain, occurred in recent years about 10 days earlier than they did in 1958. For the complete report (requires subscription), go to: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040821/fob5.asp ---SOURCE: Sid Perkins: North Sea plankton and fish move out of sync. Science News, volume 166, issue 8, p. 117. August 21, 2004. Via Above the Fold: Daily Links to Top Stories in the News about Environmental Health. A news service provided by www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org. August 21, 2004. ANCIENT ROME'S FISH PENS CONFIRM SEA-LEVEL FEARS Coastal fish pens built by the Romans have unexpectedly provided the most accurate record so far of changes in sea level over the past 2000 years. It appears that nearly all the rise in sea level since Roman times has happened in the past 100 years, and is most likely the result of human activity. The Romans dug these fish pens into bedrock, and the water line in these well-preserved structures shows that the sea level along the Italian coast 2000 years ago was 1.35 meters below today's levels. Kurt Lambeck of the Australian National University in Canberra analyzed how land elevations changed along the Italian coast due to both plate tectonics and the after-effects of the last ice age. In a paper to appear in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, he concludes that geological processes affecting land levels over the past two millennia accounted for 1.22 meters of the change, which means that the global sea level rose by 13 centimeters. ---SOURCE: New Scientist, August 16, 2004 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996269&lpos=home1 Via Above the Fold: Daily Links to Top Stories in the News about Environmental Health. A news service provided by www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org, August 21, 2004. ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. 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The proposal, posted on the agency's Web site late Friday and subject to a 60-day public comment period, would mark a significant departure from current practice, in which scientific journals that publish those results retain control over that information. Subscriptions to those journals can run into the thousands of dollars. Nonsubscribers typically pay about $30 for each individual article - fees that can quickly add up. Although patient advocacy groups and other organizations have been lobbying hard for the proposed shift, the scientific publishing industry and related interests are crying foul. The move could drive some journals out of business, they say, and bankrupt some scientific societies that are dependent on journal profits to fulfill their research and education missions. http://snipurl.com/8wo8 ************************* EXTINCTION MAY HAVE TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT from Associated Press WASHINGTON - Conservationists concerned about the extinction of plants and animals may be overlooking the danger to thousands of other species that depend on the threatened ones. A team of researchers led by Lian Pin Koh of the National University of Singapore studied about 12,200 plants and animals considered threatened or endangered, and calculated that an additional 6,300 dependent insects, mites, fungi and other species could be considered endangered as a consequence. "What we found is that with the extinction of a bird, or a mammal or a plant, you aren't just necessarily wiping out just one, single species. We're also allowing all these unsung dependent species to be wiped out as well," one member of the team, Heather Proctor of the University of Alberta, in Canada, said in a statement. http://snipurl.com/8za4 ************************* PREDICTING IVAN'S COURSE REMAINS INEXACT SCIENCE from The Orlando Sentinel Where will Hurricane Ivan come ashore? Supercomputers in facilities from Florida to Maryland to California have been trying to answer that question for days. Programmed with decades of hurricane history, updated with wind speed and barometric pressure and humidity from dozens of satellites, buoys and airplane-dropped sensors, they whir and process for an hour or more to produce -- on Thursday, at least -- this answer: Anywhere from Louisiana on the west to Savannah, Ga., on the east. And maybe not there. http://snipurl.com/8zew *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Postdoctoral Research Associate in Applied Stream Ecology, University of Notre Dame We are seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a recently- funded research project examining the effects of agriculture and genetically-modified crop byproducts (e.g. non-harvested foliage) on carbon cycling in stream ecosystems. We are looking for a broadly trained stream ecosystem ecologist to join a dynamic research team composed of four co-PIs, graduate and undergraduate students. Research will be conducted in south/central Indiana and the postdoctoral research associate will coordinate research design, field measurements, data analysis and publication. Qualifications: PhD in stream/aquatic ecology. Salary (including benefits) will be commensurate with educational and work experience. APPLICATION DEADLINE: Review of applications will begin October 1, 2004 and will continue until the position is filled. To apply, please submit the following: (1) a cover letter explaining your interest in this work, any relevant work experiences, and available work dates; (2) your curriculum vitae; and (3) a list of at least 3 references, including name, title, address, email, and telephone. Inquiries and applications submitted through email are encouraged. Send applications to: Dr. Jennifer Tank, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, tank.1@nd.edu. The University of Notre Dame is an equal opportunity employer. Emma J. Rosi-Marshall Departments of Biology and Natural Science Loyola University Chicago 6525 N. Sheridan Rd Chicago IL 60626 Phone: 773-508-8859 email:erosi@luc.edu ************************* USGS JOB IN ALASKA The Alaska Science Center, a research center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), is advertising to all sources a science management position within its offices in Anchorage, Alaska. The position will be filled as a GS 14 scientist. The Alaska Science Center integrates the biological, geology, geography, and water science activities of the USGS offices in Alaska. The advertised position is a senior leader for USGS biological studies in Alaska with primary assignment in the general area of marine and coastal studies with emphasis on marine mammals, anadromous fisheries, sea birds, and ecological issues associated with areas such as Glacier Bay, Prince William Sound, the Beaufort Sea, and the national parks and refuges of Alaska. The incumbent serves as the Chief of the Marine and Freshwater Ecology Branch of the Biology/Geography Office, supervises a diversity of research staff, and is responsible for science policy implementation, budget development, and strategic planning to support the science needs of the Department of the Interior and its management agencies. For more information contact: Dr. Joy Geiselman USGS Alaska Science Center Phone: 907-786-3668 E-mail: joy_geiselman@usgs.gov ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040910/a3ca9ee9/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Thu Sep 16 16:54:51 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Thu Sep 16 16:55:05 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 9/16/04 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News 9/16/04 GLOBAL CHANGE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS U.S. COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY TO RELEASE FINAL REPORT BLAIR CALLS FOR UK TO LEAD ON CLIMATE CHANGE SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM TO GET $60 MILLION EXHIBIT FUEL SUSPECTED DEEP INSIDE EARTH President Bush Nominates Ardent Bement as NSF Director Mathematical Statistician position - Seattle, WA *************************************************** Resources GLOBAL CHANGE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROPOSALS On behalf of the IAI, we are pleased to announce the 2nd round of the IAI Collaborative Research Network (CRN II) program. Building upon the successes of the first round of IAI CRNs, the program is expected to provide a second major thrust to global change research in the Americas within the framework of the IAI Science Agenda. It is designed to create networks of scientists throughout the region who will synergistically work on global change problems of importance to the Americas. The individual projects are expected to significantly contribute to the development and strengthening of the regional capacity to deal with global environmental change issues and their socio-economic impacts in the region. The approach will be integrative - involving the natural and social sciences in a collaborative way - and the program seeks to provide sound scientific understanding in support of sustainable development in the region. The program is intended to support 10-12 global change research networks selected on a competitive basis. Projects must be collaborative efforts with Principal Investigators (PIs) and Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs) representing institutions from at least four IAI member countries. Under this program, proposals may be submitted for support for a period of five years, with annual budgets up to US$ 200K, however, we also encourage smaller projects to be presented. The application process for CRN II consists of two phases. This letter is inviting submission of pre-proposals and comprises Phase 1. After evaluation of Phase 1, the IAI will invite 25-30 selected pre-proposals to develop full proposals in Phase 2. Submission of a pre-proposal in Phase 1 is prerequisite to be eligible for submission of a full proposal in Phase 2. A detailed description of this announcement and all other necessary documents to prepare and submit a pre-proposal can be found on "http://www.iai.int/CRN2" Please download the 'CRNII Pre-proposal General Guidelines' and other documents and strictly follow the instructions given. Pre-proposals must be in English language and must be RECEIVED by the IAI Directorate no later than midnight (24:00) - Sao Paulo (Brazil) time - on Wednesday, 20 October 2004. Please note that you will be required to submit your pre-proposal electronically via "http://www.iai.int/CRN2" and that the submission process will require a valid Account & Password. To obtain a valid Account & Password please contact iaiweb@dir.iai.int. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU OBTAIN YOUR ACCOUNT & PASSWORD WELL IN ADVANCE TO DEADLINE FOR PRE-PROPOSAL SUBMISSION. If you have any questions regarding pre-proposals for IAI CRN II, please contact Dr. Gerhard Breulmann, IAI Scientific Officer, phone 55-12-3945.6865, fax (55-12-3941.4410) or e-mail gerhard@dir.iai.int Gustavo V. Necco Director *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience U.S. COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY TO RELEASE FINAL REPORT Source: SeaSpan. The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, a program of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science. http://www.pewoceanscience.org As mandated by the Oceans Act of 2000, the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy will submit its final report, "An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century," to the President and Congress on September 20. Under the Act, the President must then submit his statement of proposals to implement or respond to the Commission's findings and recommendations to Congress within 90 days. The "Summary of Changes to the Preliminary Report," which is available on the website, is a selective summary of significant changes proposed by Governors and Tribal Leaders, non-gubernatorial stakeholders, and other experts and advisers, as well as technical corrections provided from federal agencies, that have been incorporated in the Commission's final report. The final report will also be posted on the website after September 20. http://www.oceancommission.gov/documents/welcome.html BLAIR CALLS FOR UK TO LEAD ON CLIMATE CHANGE from The Guardian (UK) Tony Blair has called a world scientific conference for next February to decide an upper limit on how much the temperature can rise before the world faces the "catastrophic consequences of climate change". He said the idea was to put pressure on the US administration to take action and to include China and India in a programme of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking last night in London to an audience mainly of business people but including the Prince of Wales and environmental groups, he said global warming "has become alarming and was simply unsustainable in the long term". It was not just a question of adjustment. "I mean a challenge so far- reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence." He said it was not some distant threat centuries ahead. "I mean in the lifetime of my children certainly; and possibly within my own." http://snipurl.com/9364 SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM TO GET $60 MILLION EXHIBIT from The Washington Post (Registration Required) The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History plans to announce today the largest renovation in its nearly 95-year history, creating Ocean Hall, an unusual hybrid of public display and research. Ocean Hall will cost $60 million and cover 28,000 square feet -- 3,000 more than the successful makeover of the Hall of Mammals last year. It will bring together for the first time all 50 of the museum's marine scientists and government specialists in what's being called the Smithsonian Ocean Science Initiative. "Oceans are going to be the most important topic for the public in the next decade. They will be the rainforest issue," says Robert Sullivan, the museum's associate director for public programs. "The hall will be a provocative starting point for those discussions. We are going to do what has been impossible for a natural history museum. We are going to do what is current." http://snipurl.com/940x FUEL SUSPECTED DEEP INSIDE EARTH from The San Francisco Chronicle Oceans of fossil fuel-like gases and fluids, enough to support a high-tech society for many millennia to come, might exist far deeper inside the Earth than we've ever drilled before, researchers speculate. Since the mid-19th century, a small but enthusiastic minority of scientists have argued that petroleum and other fuels are formed by purely chemical, or abiogenic, processes hundreds of miles inside Earth. An early champion was the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, pioneer of the periodic table that hangs on the wall of virtually every high school chemistry classroom. But most experts scoff at the idea. According to traditional theory, fossil fuels -- energy-rich, carbon-based molecules -- are formed over millions of years by biological processes, the disintegration of primeval plants and animals into smelly or gunky hydrocarbons like methane and petroleum. Such biogenic fossil fuels exist fairly close to Earth's surface, in reservoirs such as the oil fields of the Middle East. http://snipurl.com/931a President Bush Nominates Ardent Bement as NSF Director From National Council for Science and the Environment September 16, 2004 -- President George W. Bush announced his nomination of Arden L. Bement, Jr. as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) at an Oval Office meeting yesterday. Bement's nomination was sent to the U.S. Senate just three days before the expiration of his 210-day appointment as Acting Director of NSF. If confirmed by the Senate, he will serve for the remainder of a six-year term expiring August 2, 2010. In a memorandum to NSF staff, Bement stated, "The Foundation has a rich history of strong and independent Directors, and I look forward to continuing with that tradition." He continued, "Although NSF faces significant challenges in the near future due to Federal budget issues, I am committed to the policies and operations that have stood the test of time and have helped make NSF an extraordinary agency." Bement said, "This is an extraordinary and inspiring honor for me -- and one that I feel very humble in accepting." Rep. Sherwood Bohlert, Chairman of the House Science Committee, said, "I'm delighted that the President has nominated Arden Bement to be the Director of the National Science Foundation. Arden knows the agency well and brings a wealth of experience in industry, government and academia to the job. His calm, soft-spoken, steady, open-minded and firm leadership has already left its mark on NSF. With a permanent appointment, he will be able to be an even more forceful, effective and inventive director. It would be hard to think of a better person for the job." Arden Bement became Acting Director of the National Science Foundation on February 22, 2004. He joined NSF from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he has been Director since December 7, 2001. Prior to his appointment as NIST director, Bement served as the David A. Ross Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. He previously held a variety of positions in academia, industry and government, including senior positions with the Department of Defense. Bement has served on the National Science Board, which is the governing body of NSF. He earned his bachelor's degree from the Colorado School of Mines, his master's degree from the University of Idaho, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Bement will continue serving as Acting NSF Director while his nomination is pending before the Senate. His nomination ended speculation that NSF might be left without a strong leader as Congress completes action on its FY 2005 budget and the agency prepares its FY 2006 budget request. Bement was appointed Acting Director of NSF when Rita Colwell stepped down as Director in February. Shortly after leaving NSF, Rita Colwell rejoined the Board of Directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment. *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Mathematical Statistician position - Seattle, WA Sugmitted by Alex De Robertis" Alex notes: We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants with a background in applied statistics, spatially explicit analyses, and quantitative methods. Applicants must be US citizens. see https://www.jobs.doc.gov/cool/doc/APP_VAC_LIST?F_AG_ID=11 The incumbent will serve in the fisheries acoustics group within the Midwater Assessment and Conservation Engineering (MACE) Program, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service. The MACE program is located at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington. The incumbent carries out assignments in accordance with established fisheries acoustics research methodology. He/she serves as a member of a team that applies spatial statistical methods and other statistical analyses to acoustic-trawl survey data and conducts experiments related to acoustic-survey research needs. Most research is designed to identify and quantify sources of uncertainty and bias in acoustic-trawl survey estimates of fish distribution and abundance. Research and survey efforts focus on the Alaska fishery resources. Duties include providing expertise in statistical analysis and mathematical model development to current and developing fisheries research projects within the MACE program. Included in these duties, for example, will be collaboration with other researchers to design and execute a multi-year field research project to compare the acoustic-trawl survey performance of a new, large, noise-quieted research vessel with other more conventional research vessels. The project will 1) develop a standardized field sampling data collection protocol for inter-vessel comparison studies: 2) develop analytical procedures, including statistical analysis for processing data from inter-vessel comparison studies; and 3) provide guidance for the use of the inter-vessel comparison results in stock assessment efforts to monitor and manage living marine resources. Research projects are expected to result in publications in the scientific literature. For additional information, contact Dr. Chris Wilson (chris.wilson@noaa.gov, 206-526-6435). ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Department of Commerce has a site called "Commerce Opportunities On-Line or COOL" (soon to be replace by a new system called "QuickHire") http://www.jobs.doc.gov/. *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience FEELING HURRICANE FATIGUE? IT COULD BE ONLY THE BEGINNING, STORM FORECASTERS SAY from Associated Press courtesy of Sigma Xi Science in the News Ivan, Frances and Charley delivered three staggering blows to the Gulf Coast and Florida, as well as Caribbean island nations, all in just five weeks. Now here comes Jeanne, which could be lashing north Florida and Georgia by Monday. Homeowners ritualistically re-hammering the same plywood over their windows figure it can't get much worse, right? Brace yourselves: Scientists say 65 million Americans living on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts should expect weather like this for another 30 years. Maybe more. http://snipurl.com/94vy SCIENTISTS: GLOBAL WARMING NOT LIKELY CAUSE FOR SURGE IN HURRICANES from The Baltimore Sun (Registration Required) courtesy of Sigma Xi Science in the News As hurricane after hurricane strikes the U.S. Southeast, many people wonder whether the rash of storms is the result of global warming. The answer from scientists: Probably not. Although many experts think global warming could increase the number or the intensity of hurricanes 50 years from now, they say this year's storms were caused by natural changes in the ocean and atmosphere. These include a multi-decade cycle of warm water moving through the Atlantic Ocean, and the unusual mildness of the hurricane-suppressing patch of warm water in the Pacific called El Ni?o. http://snipurl.com/991g GLACIERS SURGE WHEN ICE SHELF BREAKS UP NASA PRESS RELEASE 04-302 Since 2002, when the Larsen B ice shelf broke away from the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists have witnessed profound increases in the flow of nearby glaciers into the Weddell Sea. These observations were made possible through NASA, Canadian and European satellite data. Two NASA-funded reports, appearing in the Geophysical Research Letters journal, used different techniques to arrive at similar results. Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Md., and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Boulder, Colo., said the findings prove ice shelves act as "brakes" on the glaciers that flow into them. The results also suggest climate warming can rapidly lead to rises in sea level. Large ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated in 1995 and 2002, as a result of climate warming. Almost immediately after the 2002 Larsen B ice shelf collapse, researchers observed nearby glaciers flowing up to eight times faster than prior to the breakup. The speed-up also caused glacier elevations to drop, lowering them by as much as 38 meters (124 feet) in six months. "Glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula accelerated in response to the removal of the Larsen B ice shelf," said Eric Rignot, a JPL researcher and lead author of one of the studies. "These two papers clearly illustrate, for the first time, the relationship between ice shelf collapses caused by climate warming, and accelerated glacier flow," Rignot added. Rignot's study used data from European Space Agency Remote Sensing Satellites (ERS) and Canadian Space Agency RADARSAT satellite. The United States and Canada share a joint agreement on RADARSAT, which NASA launched. "If anyone was waiting to find out whether Antarctica would respond quickly to climate warming, I think the answer is yes," said Ted Scambos, an NSIDC glaciologist and lead author of the second study. "We've seen 150 miles of coastline change drastically in just 15 years," he added. He used data from ICESat, a NASA laser altimetry mission launched in 2003, and Landsat 7, jointly run by NASA and the U. S. Geological Survey. According to Rignot's study, the Hektoria, Green and Evans glaciers flowed eight times faster in 2003 than in 2000. They slowed moderately in late 2003. The Jorum and Crane glaciers accelerated two-fold in early 2003 and three-fold by the end of 2003. Adjacent glaciers, where the shelves remained intact, showed no significant changes according to both studies. The studies provide clear evidence ice shelves restrain glaciers, and indicate present climate is more closely linked to sea level rise than once thought, Scambos added. For information and images of this research on the Internet, visit: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0913larsen.html STUDY: ANTARCTIC GLACIERS MELTING FASTER from Reuters http://snipurl.com/9b2b HIGHEST ICEFIELDS WILL NOT LAST 100 YEARS, STUDY FINDS from The Guardian (UK) The world's highest ice fields are melting so quickly that they are on course to disappear within 100 years, driving up sea levels, increasing floods and turning verdant mountain slopes into deserts, Chinese scientists warned yesterday. After the most detailed study ever undertaken of China's glaciers, which are said to account for 15% of the planet's ice, researchers from the Academy of Science said that urgent measures were needed to prepare for the impact of climate change at high altitude. Their study, the Glacier Inventory, was approved for publication last week after a quarter of a century of exploration in China and Tibet. It will heighten alarm at global warming. http://snipurl.com/9b26 *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs NSF ADVANCE FACULTY POSITION AT UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND I hope that you will post the job ad below to the DIALOG/DISCCRS group. This is part of a larger NSF program at URI designed to increase the number of women faculty members in science and engineering. It is not a typical ad so I encourage anyone interested to call for more information. David C. Smith, PhD Associate Professor Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island Narragansett, RI 02882 dcsmith@gso.uri.edu Research Fellow, Oceanography The Graduate School of Oceanography (http://www.gso.uri.edu/research_fellow) at the University of Rhode Island seeks applications for a Research Fellow in Oceanography. The position is funded through an NSF ADVANCE Faculty Program for Women grant designed to enhance the careers of women in science and engineering. This appointment will begin on or after January 1, 2005. The goal of the ADVANCE program is for the Research Fellow position to lead directly to a tenure-track faculty position with 8 months state support at the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Time spent as a Research Fellow (1 to 3 years) will count toward tenure, at the candidate's discretion. During this time there are no formal teaching or service requirements, allowing the candidate to develop a strong research program. A doctoral degree in one of the following is required: biological, chemical, or physical oceanography, marine geology and geophysics, or a related field; effective communication skills; demonstrated ability to develop an externally-funded research program. Visit our website at http://www.uri.edu/human_resources for additional information. Review of applications will begin on October 25 and continue until the position is filled. Submit resume, cover letter, transcripts, names and telephone numbers of three references, and a statement of teaching and research interests to: Edward Durbin, Search Chair, (Req # 010864), UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, P.O. Box G, Kingston, RI 02881. URI is an AA/EEO employer and values diversity. ***************** TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor position The Department of Biology at Texas A&M University (TAMU) is seeking applications for a faculty position at the ASSISTANT PROFESSOR level. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain a vigorous externally funded research program focusing on microbial biodiversity in the deep sea environment. This position is part of a university effort to foster interdisciplinary research by linking the strengths of the Department of Biology (http://www.bio.tamu.edu) with the strategic research themes of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (http://www.iodp-usio.org). We are interested in a Ph.D. scientist who will interact with faculty colleagues in Biology and Geosciences (http://geosciences.tamu.edu) and who will contribute to the teaching of undergraduate and graduate students. We encourage applications from candidates who will increase the exposure of our students to a diverse culture. >We offer a highly interactive research >environment, a strong modern infrastructure, and >a competitive startup package. Applicants should >send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, >statement of research and teaching interests, >and three letters of recommendation to: >Biology Faculty Search Committee >Department of Biology >Texas A&M University >3258 TAMU >College Station, TX 77843-3258 ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20040924/73d00b67/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Oct 1 13:45:53 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Oct 1 13:46:06 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Oct. 1, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News Oct. 1, 2004 *************************************************** Resources Intergovernment Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Report, The ocean in a high-CO2 world. he Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO convened an open symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World on 10-12 May 2004 in Paris, France. The symposium addressed the biological and biogeochemical consequences of increasing atmospheric and oceanic CO2 levels, and possible strategies for mitigating atmospheric increases. Topics ranged from ocean physics, to chemistry and biology, including the impacts of elevated CO2 levels on marine life, the dissolution of calcium carbonate, and the impacts on coral reefs. Speakers also evaluated the possible benefits and impacts of surface fertilization and deep-ocean CO2 injection strategies. Symposium participants did not address whether it would be a good policy choice to sequester carbon dioxide in the ocean, but did identify what scientific information is available, and what is still needed, to make informed policy decisions. See http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/CO2panel/HighOceanCO2.htm *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience ARAL SEA: (VM) Aral Sea: University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility, two images of the Aral Sea, once the 4th largest lake in the world, show the dramatic change in size of the Aral Sea. The changes have affected the climate of the area and most consider the death of the southern portion of the sea to be inevitable as salt concentrations are estimated to have climbed from 10% to over 20% in the last 30 years. Currently measures are being taken to recover the smaller northern portion of the Sea. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16277 See more lakes at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16298 ***************** SMALL ISLANDS CAUTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE from Associated Press UNITED NATIONS -- Small island states pleaded for more aid as they face a devastating hurricane season and warned that the threat of climate change was as urgent as the fight against terrorism and should get the same attention. Leaders and foreign ministers from the Pacific island of Kiribati to the Caribbean paradise of St. Kitts and Nevis issued pleas for countries to ratify the Kyoto treaty on global warming, saying in many instances their very existence was at stake. "We have demonstrated remarkable solidarity in the fight against global terrorism. Can we not demonstrate the same in the fight against climate change and sea level rise?" Kiribati's President Anote Tong said Tuesday in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting. http://snipurl.com/9eyi *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs TENURE-TRACK POSITION AT U. ARKANSAS Message from DIALOGer Susan Ziegler: I wanted to send out a notice regarding a tenure-track position we have open in ecology. We are looking for applicants from a wide array of fields who will compliment some of our strengths in stable isotopic ecology and biogeochemistry, plant ecology, animal ecophysiology, and GIS technologies among others. Fayetteville is a beautiful college town located adjacent to the Ozark National Forest. The Buffalo National River and National Park is only about a 45 minute drive from campus. Kayaking and canoing are very popular on both flat and white waters of the area. ECOLOGIST - The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas announces a tenure-track opening at the Assistant level to start 15 August 2005. We seek candidates whose research and teaching expertise focuses on ecology/environmental biology. Examples of relevant areas include but are not limited to biogeochemistry, conservation biology and landscape/ecosystem ecology. Possible areas of specialization include biological invasions, the effects of elevated CO2, land use change, or nutrient cycling. The successful applicant is expected to establish an externally funded research program and to be actively committed to teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The University has state of the art facilities to support environmental research including the University of Arkansas Stable Isotope Laboratory (UASIL: http://www.uark.edu/ua/isotope) and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST: www.cast.uark.edu), a GIS and remote sensing facility. The University has doctoral programs in Biology, Environmental Dynamics, and Cellular and Molecular Biology. The candidate will be expected to contribute to the development and the strengthening of these programs and to have an active research laboratory supported by extramural grants. Applicants must have a Ph.D., and postdoctoral (or equivalent professional) experience is preferred. Please send a statement of research and teaching interests and goals, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to Dr. Cindy Sagers, Chair, Ecology Search, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701. For further information, visit the Biological Sciences website at: http://biology.uark.edu/bisc.html, or contact C. Sagers at csagers@uark.edu, or (479) 575-7195. Target date for receipt of applications is 15 October, 2004, but applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. The University of Arkansas is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, Title IX employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Arkansas has a student population (undergraduate and graduate) of approximately 15,000, and is ranked among the nation's top 100 Federally-funded research institutions. The Department of Biological Sciences supports a well-funded, research-active faculty, with an administration committed to the expansion of the department. The University of Arkansas is located in Fayetteville, a city with a population of 50,000 nestled in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas. This environment provides unique opportunities for local field research. In addition, the Department of Biological Sciences now occupies a new research building (Ferritor Hall) designed to support high tech research. We offer a competitive tenure-track position for qualified candidates in an academic and social community of high quality. Susan Ziegler Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences -632 Science-Engineering University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 479-575-6944 (6342 lab) fax. 479-575-4010 email: susanz@uark.edu http://www.uark.edu/~susanz ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041001/3a21f119/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Oct 8 13:58:46 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Oct 8 13:59:08 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Oct. 8, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News Oct. 8, 2004 Recources TEACHING TIP: CITATION MACHINE TEACHING TIP: from former Harvard Dean Making Google searches more effective Announcement of Opportunity: START Fellowship/Visiting Scientist Program Science News San Francisco Climate Plan Taps Pacific Institute Research Jobs Two faculty positions at Occidental College. Assistant Professorship in Marine Animal Ecology, Western Washington University GALAPAGOS HEAD OF MARINE RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION *************************************************** Resources TEACHING TIP: CITATION MACHINE From Mark Francek Landmark Project, just in case you need a shortcut to properly cite journals, books, web pages, or interviews in MLA or APA format, check the Citation Machine, This is an automated tool for proper citation format for books, web pages, magazines, interviews, encyclopedias, journals, newspapers and more. http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php TEACHING TIP: from former Harvard Dean from Theodore R. Sizer, Former Dean, Harvard University College of Education, via Geo-Ed: some excerpts: --always expect a bit more of a student than he expects of himself --accentuate the positive; be careful always to praise good work. No one learns anything faster than when he feels he is successful --exhibit the greatest possible friendliness that one can honestly exhibit to a student one doesn't like, and try to repress personal annoyances --be friends with students, but not buddies; the obligations of the latter relationship limit one's freedom to teach well --never give up on a student, or categorize or 'brand' him permanently http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/goodteac.htm Making Google searches more effective (suggested by Cathy Manduca, SERC Center), Tired of 10,000 hits when searching El Nino? Search with "Images" option, located above the search box, instead of a text "Web" search. The images will often tell you more about what you are looking for than having to waste time reading through text. Announcement of Opportunity: START Fellowship/Visiting Scientist Program (Round 13) This program, funded by DGIS, the Netherlands, is designed to increase the number of developing country scientists who serve as active partners in global change research in START regional networks and in the Joint and Core Projects of the Earth System Science Partnership (IGBP, WCRP, IHDP, and DIVERSITAS). Through this effort, these scientists will also be able to contribute to related aspects of sustainable development for their respective countries and regions. START Fellowships are offered at the graduate and post-graduate levels to young scientists from Africa, Asia, and Oceania. START fellows may work under senior mentors in leading laboratories or institutions in any part of the world, where research is conducted on relevant regional aspects of global change. Long-term collaboration between the individuals and institution involved is one important preferred outcome of the programme. The duration of these fellowships is ordinarily one or two semesters (i.e. typically 4-8 months). A parallel activity, the START Visiting Scientist Award, allows more senior scientists from developing countries the opportunity to undertake short-term visits to major international laboratories to become acquainted with recent advances in research and develop long-term programmatic linkages and partnerships. The duration of these awards is usually 1-2 months. Both the fellowship and visiting scientist awards will provide economy-class, roundtrip airfare and a modest subsistence allowance. Nominations/Applications The following information must be included in applications for the START Fellowship and Visiting Scientist Programmes: 1) The START Fellowship/Visiting Scientist Application Form [available from the START website (www.start.org) in various formats; 3 pages]. 2) A brief description (3-5 pages) of the proposed fellowship/visiting scientist program, including expected outcomes and benefits. Linkages to the international global change research programmes should be made explicit. 3) Indication of willingness of host institution to receive fellow or visiting scientist (e.g. letter of support; 1 page); 4) Curriculum vitae of candidate, including relevant qualifications and experience (1-2 pages); and 5) Proposed budget requirements (airfare and subsistence as appropriate for host country). All budget items should be justified (1 page). Applications (of no more than 12 pages total) can be submitted electronically, via fax, or by mail (postmarked by the deadline). Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. DEADLINE for the thirteenth round of awards is: December 1, 2004. For further information, contact: Ms. Patricia Sipher, Program Associate International START Secretariat 2000 Florida Avenue, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20009 USA Tel: (1-202) 462-2213; Fax: (1-202) 457-5859 E-mail: psipher@agu.org *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience San Francisco Climate Plan Taps Pacific Institute Research From the Pacific Institute October Online Update With climate change accelerating and the United States government paralyzed at the federal level, the City of San Francisco released an aggressive Climate Action Plan to combat global warming. The plan aims, by 2012, to bring San Francisco's green-house emissions down to 20 percent below 1990 levels. At a September 27 press conference, attended by Mayor Gavin Newsom and staff from the city's Department of the Environment and Public Utilities Commission, Dr. Peter Gleick made the case that climate change will have severe impacts for San Francisco and the Bay Area -- unless we begin to take action. The San Francisco Climate Action Plan also includes a map the Pacific Institute created of areas around the Bay that are vulnerable to flooding from rising sea levels. The San Francisco Climate Action Plan is available online. Jobs for PhDs Two faculty positions are open in the Biology Department at Occidental College. Note from Sue: Review has begun, but they are still seeking more applicants so it is NOT TOO LATE to apply!!!!! 1. Marine Biology. The Department of Biology at Occidental College invites applications for a tenure track faculty position, in Marine Biology. Rank and salary are subject to qualifications; hires at a senior level will be considered. Applicants should have a strong commitment to educating undergraduates through teaching and research. For both positions the successful candidate is expected to develop a rigorous research program involving undergraduates. Faculty members are expected to participate in teaching introductory and intermediate level biology courses and to develop an upper level course in their area of specialty. Many opportunities exist for faculty to participate in interdisciplinary programs such as Biochemistry, Cognitive Science, the Core Program, Psychobiology, or Women's Studies. Faculty are expected to participate in the College Core program, either by teaching introductory science classes or teaching interdisciplinary core classes. Occidental is a nationally ranked small liberal arts college with excellent research and teaching facilities, located in Los Angeles, near Caltech and other research institutions. The College's location allows for outstanding opportunities for access to marine research facilities. Occidental is nationally recognized for its broadly diverse student body, and for its outstanding undergraduate research program. Applicants should submit a letter of interest demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence in a diverse liberal arts environment, curriculum vitae, separate statements of research and teaching interests, copies of significant publications, and have three letters of reference sent to: Faculty Search Office M8888 Search Chair Attention: Dr. Elizabeth Braker Marine Biologist Search Chair Occidental College; 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA 90041-3314 Review will begin September 30, 2004 and continue until the position is filled Occidental College is an equal opportunity employer. The College is committed to academic excellence in a diverse community and supporting interdisciplinary and multicultural academic programs that provide a gifted and diverse group of students with an educational experience that prepares them for leadership in a pluralistic world. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. 2. Vertebrate Physiology. The Department of Biology at Occidental College invites applications for a tenure track faculty position, in Vertebrate Physiology. Rank and salary are subject to qualifications; hires at a senior level will be considered. Applicants should have a strong commitment to educating undergraduates through teaching and research. For both positions the successful candidate is expected to develop a rigorous research program involving undergraduates. Faculty members are expected to participate in teaching introductory and intermediate level biology courses and to develop an upper level course in their area of specialty. Many opportunities exist for faculty to participate in interdisciplinary programs such as Biochemistry, Cognitive Science, the Core Program, Psychobiology, or Women's Studies. Faculty are expected to participate in the College Core program, either by teaching introductory science classes or teaching interdisciplinary core classes. Occidental is a nationally ranked small liberal arts college with excellent research and teaching facilities, located in Los Angeles, near Caltech and other research institutions. The College's location allows for outstanding opportunities for access to marine research facilities. Occidental is nationally recognized for its broadly diverse student body, and for its outstanding undergraduate research program. Applicants should submit a letter of interest demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence in a diverse liberal arts environment, curriculum vitae, separate statements of research and teaching interests, copies of significant publications, and have three letters of reference sent to: Faculty Search Office M8888 Search Chair Attention: Dr. Roberta Pollock Vertebrate Physiology Search Chair Occidental College; 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA 90041-3314 Review will begin September 30, 2004 and continue until the position is filled Occidental College is an equal opportunity employer. The College is committed to academic excellence in a diverse community and supporting interdisciplinary and multicultural academic programs that provide a gifted and diverse group of students with an educational experience that prepares them for leadership in a pluralistic world. Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. ********************************** Assistant Professorship in Marine Animal Ecology, Biology Department, Western Washington University Qualifications: Ph.D. by Aug. 2005; post-doctoral experience preferred. The specific area of marine zoological and ecological expertise is open, but a scientist who uses quantitative methods of study and/or integrates research across biological sub-disciplines is preferred. The applicant should provide evidence of the ability to teach courses in introductory biology, general ecology, and marine ecology. Given the expertise of the person, s/he may also teach invertebrate zoology or biometrics. The applicant should provide evidence of scholarship and the potential to establish a vigorous research program that also includes mentoring undergraduate and graduate (Masters) research, both on the main campus and at the Shannon Point Marine Center. Responsibilities: Teach core courses in introductory biology at the 200-level and ecology and/or biometrics at the 300-level. Contribute to the zoology and marine biology curriculum at the 400 and graduate levels, including marine ecology. Maintain an active program in biological research involving undergraduate and graduate students and seek extramural funding. For more information, please visit: http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/young/search_04.html ******************** GALAPAGOS HEAD OF MARINE RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION The Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (CDF) are seeking a Head of Marine Research and Conservation, to work at the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS), based on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. The CDF is an international non-government organization, whose mission is "To provide the knowledge and support to ensure the conservation of the biodiversity in the Galapagos Archipelago through scientific research and complementary actions". All the work of the CDF is carried out in close collaboration with the Galapagos National Park Service (GNPS), which is the authority responsible for managing both the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR) and the Galapagos National Park. The CDF also collaborates with other authorities, fishermen, and tourist operators in the GMR, through a participatory management system. For more information about CDF and position, visit the website: http://www.darwinfoundation.org ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041008/9b9f590c/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Oct 15 15:51:46 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Oct 15 15:52:31 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Oct. 14 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News Oct. 14, 2004 *************************************************** Resources ONR Proposal deadline extended to 25 October Message from ONR Ocean Optics and Biology Program Program: Hi All - were any of you planning on submitting a proposal in response to the recent NOPP BAA (ONR BAA 04-022, deadline this Thursday 14 October), or know of someone who is? If not, read no further. If so ?? We were contacted this morning by some intended proposers in Florida who have been severely impacted by recent hurricanes, and who have been shut out of their offices for the last two weeks. They have begged more time in submitting their proposals in response to the ONR BAA, and we are completely sympathetic. We cannot grant individual extensions - only a general one. So ... this afternoon we are publishing an announcement that the deadline for submitting NOPP proposals is being extended until 4:00 pm Eastern time on Monday 25 October. You are welcome to submit your proposals sooner, but you can feel free to use the extra time, if it would be useful. An altruistic request - if you know of others who might find this information helpful, please feel free to let them know. Developing Effective On-Line Educational Resources in the Geosciences, (suggested by John McDaris, SERC Center, Carleton College), taken from Mark Francek's Geo-ed This resource provides information, activities, references and links to help faculty in creating on-line teaching materials in the Geosciences. This site addresses how to begin the process of putting resources on the web, how to design the educational content of those resources and how to design and build the actual resource. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/webdesign/index.html *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience SIR DAVID KING: CARBON 'REACHING DANGER LEVELS' from BBC News Online via Sigma Xi Science-in-the-News The UK government's leading scientist says levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere already represent a danger. Professor Sir David King told a London audience the world had to adapt to prepare for significant changes ahead, and also to reduce greenhouse gases. He said climate change was "the most serious issue facing us this centuryand beyond", needing global solutions. On present trends, Sir David said, the world was just 60 years from triggering an irreversible climate disaster. http://snipurl.com/9qly AMPHIBIAN SPECIES IMPERILED WORLDWIDE from The San Francisco Chronicle via Sigma Xi Science-in-the-News Disease, climate change and habitat loss are threatening one-third of the world's fragile species of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, according to the first global assessment of amphibians. The results of the survey, published today in the journal Science, show that 1,856 of the known 5,743 species are "globally threatened'' in their forest, stream or underground homes. The delicate creatures, which have thin, porous skins and need fresh water to stay moist, are faring much worse around the world than either birds or mammals, the scientists say. Around a tenth of bird species and a quarter of mammal species are threatened. http://snipurl.com/9sik *************************************************** Forum *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs The department of Geological Science and the Science Education program are inviting applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Earth Science Education. The posting is for an Assistant or Associate Professor, and we welcome applications at both levels. Ellensburg is a great location for field geologists and a beautiful place to live on the eastern (dry) slopes of the Cascade Mountains. The geology department is very strong, with undergraduate majors in geology, environmental geology, and earth science (the future teacher's degree) and an M.S. focused on Environmental Geology and Natural Hazards. The Ellensburg campus serves about 8,000 students. We are looking for someone to who is interested in the education of future teachers and in helping with our education and outreach role. The advertisment for this position is posted below. Visit our web site www.geology.cwu.edu for a full position description and application procedures. Please feel free to contact Lisa Ely (ely@cwu.edu or 509-963-2177) for more information. Earth Science/Science Education: The Geological Sciences Department and Science Education Program at Central Washington University invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level beginning September 16, 2005. The faculty member will hold a joint appointment between the two departments. Responsibilities include teaching science methods and appropriate geological sciences courses and developing a program of scholarship suitable for student participation. Applicants in all disciplines of research in geological sciences are invited to apply. A Ph.D. in Geological Sciences with experience/potential for developing science education programs OR a Ph.D. in Science Education with course work equivalent to a Master's Degree in Geological Sciences is required. For position and application information, visit www.geology.cwu.edu. Screening begins 12/1/04 and continues until position is filled. Central Washington University is located in Ellensburg, population 15,000, which provides one of the finest living environments in the Pacific Northwest. AA/EOE/Title IX Institution. Dr. Lisa L. Ely, Chair Department of Geological Sciences Central Washington University 400 E. University Way Ellensburg, WA 98926-7418 Tel: 509-963-2177 FAX: 509-963-2821 ely@cwu.edu **************** Job Announcement for EarthScope Education and Outreach Manager EarthScope (www.earthscope.org) invites applications for the position of EarthScope Education and Outreach Manager at the EarthScope Headquarters Office in Washington, DC. The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating the development of a high-profile education program for EarthScope that emphasizes the integrated nature of the project and the importance of EarthScope?s research initiatives. EarthScope is the National Science Foundation?s largest undertaking in solid Earth Sciences. It provides a unique opportunity for integrating scientific research and education while advancing the Earth Sciences with a diverse national audience. EarthScope has the potential to enable a broad range of students and the public to participate in a national experiment, and for the first time to observe and measure geological processes within the time frame of an academic school year. As EarthScope observatories are installed at over 3,000 geographical locations across the nation, students and the public will be introduced to scientific questions and to the role their region plays in understanding the formation of the North American continent. To do so, EarthScope will develop and coordinate educational activities, provide science and data products that are accessible to students, and create teaching modules that will allow EarthScope resources to be incorporated into an inquiry-based learning experience consistent with national educational standards. Qualifications: The ideal candidate is an outstanding individual with a Ph.D. in Earth Science or equivalent experience, broad interests, a demonstrated record in education, and a reputation and interest commensurate with that of university academic responsibility, or equivalent rank from government or industry. Applicant must have demonstrated leadership and community-building skills, demonstrated communication and organizational skills, the ability to develop funding for educational and outreach activities, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment. To apply, please mail your curriculum vitae, a statement of experience and interest, and contact information for three references to: Ms. Patricia Sheatsley psheatsley@earthscope.org EarthScope 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005 EarthScope is an equal opportunity employer. Women, members of underrepresented groups, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. 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URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041015/563945ab/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Oct 22 18:52:17 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Oct 22 18:52:32 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Oct. 22, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News Oct. 22, 2004 BRINGING TOGETHER NATIONS TO CHECK EARTH'S PULSE POWER-KICKS FROM A CRUSTACEAN LAND CAL SCIENTIST IN THE SPOTLIGHT NOAA SEA GRANT REVIEW PROCESS Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program Now accepting applications for 2005-2006 Tenure-Track Position in Marine Science, U. Texas at Austin Postdoctoral Researcher in Deep-Sea Ecology/Biogeography, University of California at San Diego *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience BRINGING TOGETHER NATIONS TO CHECK EARTH'S PULSE from The Washington Post (Registration Required) To hear the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tell it, NOAA represents America's best bet for solving widespread problems including poor air quality and coping with an expanding global population. "Almost everything you do, NOAA's connected to it," NOAA Administrator Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr. said. "The ocean and the atmosphere, there's only one other piece and that's solid earth. Seventy percent of the world is ocean, and the atmosphere is 100 percent. We're talking about a significant piece that nurtures life on Earth." Lautenbacher, a retired three-star admiral, is working to transform a 12,500-person agency that has sometimes struggled to get attention into one of the administration's key research branches. From assessing climate change to providing transportation-related weather forecasts, Lautenbacher is trying to position NOAA as an information center for U.S. and international officials. http://snipurl.com/9ut2 POWER-KICKS FROM A CRUSTACEAN LAND CAL SCIENTIST IN THE SPOTLIGHT Profile from The San Francisco Chronicle To be perfectly honest, Sheila Patek's parents didn't know what to do with her. Growing up in New York, she was a little girl with energy to burn. They gave her chores and jobs. She played the clarinet. From the time she was 4 years old, she and her father would go for a run every morning. Even Patek jokes that she was a "wacky, hyper child." With one exception. "I would spend hours in my parents' front yard," says Patek, "just sitting and thinking about how things work." Right. Like that was going to be helpful. What kind of job would she get doing that? Yard-watcher? Professional thinker? http://snipurl.com/9zi5 *************************************************** Forum NOAA SEA GRANT REVIEW PROCESS Your input is requested regarding nominations for committee membership for an upcoming study being conducted by the National Research Council's Ocean Studies Board. Feel free to pass this memo on to contacts who may have suggestions for members with expertise in the areas mentioned below. Evaluation of the Sea Grant Program Review Process In response to a Congressional request (P.L. 107-299, the National Sea Grant College Program Act Amendments of 2002), a committee of approximately 12 members will be formed to conduct a study to evaluate the Sea Grant program review process. The committee will be formed according to National Research Council (NRC) guidelines regarding balance and conflict of interest. In particular, we are seeking suggestions for panel members with expertise in: aquatic ecology; environmental engineering; biological, physical and chemical oceanography; sociology; and public administration; however, we welcome all suggestions. The committee will address the following Task: This study will assess the procedures adopted by the National Sea Grant Program since the publication of the 1994 NRC report A Review of NOAA National Sea Grant College Program. Specifically, the study will: ? Study and review the changes in procedures implemented by the National Sea Grant College Program since the 1994 NRC report with regard to individual program performance and quality. ? Review the effectiveness of the evaluation and rating system in determining relative performance of programs with regard to the management and quality of research, education, extension, and training activities. ? Evaluate whether there have been improvements in the individual Sea Grant programs as a result of this process. ? Evaluate the current review procedures for their ability to meaningfully segregate individual programs into five categories. ? Compare the effectiveness of the previous (1998-2002) review procedures to the current (2003 and beyond) review procedures with regard to the dual objectives of maximizing the quality of each program and of rating programs relative to each other for the purpose of determining performance-based funding, including an: o assessment of the usefulness and fairness of metrics developed to evaluate programs with different operational constraints, resources, and local priorities; o evaluation of metrics for relevance and clarity; o determination of whether metrics provide a quantitative measure of quality of performance; and an o assessment of whether metrics improve consistency and objectivity of reviews from different teams evaluating a diverse portfolio of state Sea Grant programs. ? Make recommendations for improving the overall effectiveness of the evaluation process to ensure fairness, consistency, and enhancement of performance. Please send your nominations for the committee by email or phone-be sure to include complete, pertinent information (name, area of expertise, affiliation, phone and/or email of nominees). Please be aware that individuals employed by Sea Grant and current members of the National Sea Grant Review Panel (FACA panel) are ineligible for membership on this committee. Nominations should be sent to Ms. Nancy Caputo, Research Associate (ncaputo@nas.edu; 202.334.2273) no later than October 25, 2004. More information about the Ocean Studies Board can be found at: http://dels.nas.edu/osb/ For information about this project, please contact Jennifer Merrill, Study Director (jmerrill@nas.edu; 202.334.2714). Nancy A. Caputo (for Jennifer Merrill) Research Associate Ocean Studies Board The National Academies 500 Fifth Street, N.W, Room 752 Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 334-2273 (202) 334-2885 FAX ncaputo@nas.edu http://www.dels.nas.edu/osb/ *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program Now accepting applications for 2005-2006 Sustainability Institute is now accepting applications for the 2005-2006 class of Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows. The Donella Meadows Leadership Fellows Program was launched in 2002 to honor and build on the life example of Dr. Donella Meadows (www.sustainer.org/meadows/) by empowering a new generation of sustainability leaders to incorporate systems thinking, reflection, and vision in their work and life. The Fellows Program seeks to increase the effectiveness of people whose approach to sustainability displays analytic clarity, systemic change, and attention to spirit, values, and meaning. Making the shift to a sustainable society involves changing complex environmental, social, and economic systems. This is a challenge that requires strategic analysis and action coupled with excellent interpersonal and leadership skills. Donella's system tools enabled her to see clearly the root causes of seemingly intractable problems - poverty, war, environmental degradation - and her deep affection for people and the earth gave her a unique power to reach others. The Fellowship integrates rigorous analysis with skill in articulating feelings, values, and vision because we believe that people with this combination of talents, like Donella, are deeply needed in the world. At least two-thirds of the class will be women in order to support more women becoming leaders in the field of sustainability. The Fellows Program trains sixteen to twenty influential mid-career environmental and social leaders in two-year programs of four workshops and personal coaching. Fellows learn to analyze an issue's drivers and then identify leverage points and actions that would improve system performance. Fellows complement the rigorous analytical work with skills such as visioning, inquiry, and personal reflection that are critical for leading change in systems with diverse goals and stakeholders. Coaching throughout the two years focuses on Fellows' application of the newly-acquired tools in their workplace. Skill development includes systems thinking, reflective conversation, personal mastery, and leadership for sustainability. Selected Fellows will be drawn from the NGO, government, philanthropy, business, tribal, and policy sectors. Criteria for selecting Fellows include a desire to learn and apply systems thinking, the ability to apply learning organization methodology to one's work and home institutions, a commitment to personal reflection and growth, demonstrated leadership ability, and the potential to influence thinking in wide circles of people. Logistics: Four 4-day workshops will be held at the Cobb Hill Cohousing community (www.cobbhill.org) that Donella co-founded in Hartland, Vermont. 1st workshop: May 15-19, 2005 2nd workshop: October 16-20, 2005 2006 workshops dates will be decided in 2005. Attendance at all four workshops, participation in periodic coaching telephone conferences, and completion of exercises between workshops is mandatory. Cost: Travel expenses, plus $400 per 4-day workshop to cover meals, lodging, venue and materials. Scholarships are available. Sustainability Institute provides all workshop coordination, design, curriculum and delivery. Financial support for the 2005-2006 class of Fellows so far is from the Morgan Family Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, SEED Systems, Stonyfield Farm, Inc. and many individuals. Applicants should be active practitioners in their field; applicants who are primarily students, teachers or researchers will not be accepted. This is not a train the trainer program; it is designed to give hands-on sustainability leaders tools to be more effective. Application deadline is December 15, 2004. The application form is available at http://www.sustainer.org/. See reports of previous workshops at: www.sustainer.org/fellows/reports.html For details on how the first class of Fellows are applying what they have learned see: www.sustainer.org/fellows/currentwork.html *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Postdoctoral Researcher in Deep-Sea Ecology/Biogeography, University of California at San Diego An interdisciplinary project to build an information system for marine ecology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to conduct a case study on the ecology/biogeography of seamounts using an existing database of seamount sampling (SeamountsOnline: seamounts.sdsc.edu). The researcher will be responsible for carrying out an ecological/biogeographical research project, but will be expected to help guide the development of a larger aquatic ecology information system by evaluating prototype tools and features, and advising on desired features. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in biological oceanography, marine ecology, or a similar field (experience with deep-sea biology or biogeography is a plus), and good quantitative/statistical skills. Experience with database systems or website development would be beneficial, but is not required. An inquiring mind and the ability to communicate with an interdisciplinary team is a must. A candidate with a master?s degree and relevant experience may also be considered. This two-year position is located at the University of California at Diego in sunny southern California. The project has ties to the Center for Research in Biological Systems, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, providing a stimulating environment for a marine scientist. Consideration of applications will begin immediately and continue until a suitable candidate is found. The ability to start quickly (within a few months) is important for this 2-year grant. Salary will be commensurate with experience. To apply send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information for three referees to Karen Stocks (kstocks@sdsc.edu). <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Karen Stocks, PhD Assistant Research Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center Lecturer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Mailing Address: University of California at San Diego SDSC, MC 0505 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0505, USA tel: +1 858 534-5009 fax: +1 858 822-3631 kstocks@sdsc.edu http://seamounts.sdsc.edu ******************** Tenure-Track Position in Marine Science, U. Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Marine Science and Marine Science Institute invite applications for a faculty position in ecological modeling, such as but not limited to, modeling ecosystems, wetlands, watershed-coastal interactions, or estuarine processes. The position is based at the Marine Science Institute (www.utmsi.utexas.edu) in Port Aransas, TX, and is at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department and Research Assistant Professor in the Institute. Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree at the time of appointment; postdoctoral experience and a strong research and publication record are preferred. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an externally-funded research program and contribute to graduate and undergraduate education. Primary graduate teaching responsibility will be in ecosystem modeling. The position receives nine months of annual salary support from the state. Applicants should send a statement of research and teaching interests (3 pages maximum), curriculum vitae, and five letters of recommendation to: Search Committee Chair, The University of Texas Marine Science Institute, 750 Channel View Dr., Port Aransas, Texas 78373-5015. The statement of research interests should mention how the research program would benefit from being based on the Gulf Coast, and how the applicant might interact with existing research programs. Review of applications will start November 15, 2004 and will continue until the position is filled. Background check conducted on applicant selected. The University of Texas at Austin is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041022/c1f38ad3/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Nov 12 17:26:41 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Nov 12 17:27:08 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Nov. 10, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News Nov. 10, 2004 RESOURCES Ocean Commission Final Report Released, California Responds New Edition of "The World's Water" Set for Release US Sea Grant community going international International Polar Year Funding Opportunity! START Call for Proposals, Climate change in Africa SCIENCE NEWS 'Sudden jump' in greenhouse gases Global warming study shows real changes in America NSF Polar Press Clips 2004 Available FORUM Volunteer to work as a mentor, judge, speaker, etc. with a local school INTERNSHIPS Fellowships in for scientists, formulating policy from AIP JOBS Marine Ecological Physiologist Romberg Tiburon Center Biological Oceanographer. The College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX will hire 20 new faculty over the next four years 3 Positions, Biology Dept. at the Georgia Institute of Technology *************************************************** Resources ASLA 04-12: Ocean Commission Final Report Released, California Responds From AGU "Our oceans...are in trouble," Admiral James Watkins testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on 22 April, 2004. On 20 September Watkins delivered the final report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy to the Administration and Congress. Appearing again before the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee the following day, he said the commission's "overriding message is... the need to act now, while it is still possible to reverse the distressing declines." The Ocean Commission's final report contained 212 recommendations, aimed primarily at the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, and which, according to Watkins, constitute "balanced, workable solutions for some of the most pressing problems." Major recommendations in the report include the establishment of a Cabinet-level National Ocean Council, a President's Council of Advisors on Ocean Policy, and regional councils to bring together the many state and local stakeholders. The report calls for a five-year doubling of the federal investment in ocean and coastal research, development of an Integrated Ocean Observing System, enhancement of public education and outreach, and passage of an organic act that codifies the existence of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The total cost to implement all 212 suggestions is estimated by the Ocean Commission to be approximately $1.3 billion in the first year, $2.4 billion the second year, and $3.2 billion annually thereafter. At the 21 September hearing, a second panel of witnesses commended the commission's report, although some suggested that it did not go far enough. Berrien Moore of the University of New Hampshire, who chaired a NOAA Science Advisory Board Research Review Team, said that his team's conclusions on strengthening NOAA were "generally consistent" with the relevant commission recommendations. D. James Baker of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and former NOAA Administrator under President Bill Clinton, supported the commission's report but agreed that NOAA was "hampered by having to operate within the Department of Commerce," thus, "critical programs are constrained and budget priorities are ignored." On 18 October, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) released the first state-level response to the Ocean Commission report. The plan, entitled "Protecting Our Ocean, California's Action Strategy," calls for the establishment of a three member, cabinet-level Ocean Protection Council, and earmarks $21 million for the development of an ocean currents monitoring system. The Schwarzenegger administration has also reinstituted plans to develop a network of marine reserves that will be off-limits to fishing to help depleted populations rebound. The Bush Administration has 90 days from the date of the report's release to produce a response. NOAA Administrator Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr. stated that much of the report was "in line with" existing Administration programs and priorities, and promised that the Administration would take "the commission's findings and recommendations very seriously." The public comment period ends on 1 November. The final report is available at http://www.oceancommission.gov/. The White House Council on Environmental Quality created another web site, http://ocean.ceq.gov to describe existing programs and give future responses to the report. ---------------- Sources: AIP's FYI, Medill News Service, Los Angeles Times Author: Brad Keelor, AGU Questions or comments about ASLA? Need to change your e-mail address? Contact Peter Folger (pfolger@agu.org). To read previous ASLAs, visit http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/sci_pol.html ******************** New Edition of "The World's Water" Set for Release The 2004-2005 edition of "The World's Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources" (Island Press) will be released on November 17 in Washington, DC at The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. In conjunction with the release, Dr. Peter Gleick will present a talk on "The World's Water Crisis and the Need for U.S. Leadership." The talk, scheduled to start at 10:30 am, will be available online via web cast. The book is available from Island Press, Amazon.com and other outlets. The fourth edition of this well-regarded series covers a wide range of important water-related topics: how to meet the basic needs of over 1 billion people without access to clean water, the controversy over public vs. private water, the role of conservation and efficiency in solving water problems, and concerns about skyrocketing bottled water use. Other chapters delve into the economic value of water, the unsustainable use of groundwater, and water policy and climate change, while the Data Section contains updated and new data on many critical water issues. To find out more, purchase the book or RSVP for the release please visit us online. ********************* US Sea Grant community going international From Jim Murray via Sarah Goldthwait On behalf of the NSGO and together with the SGA's international committee, I have been working with Dr. Hillary Egna, Director of the Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program (ACRSP) at Oregon State University, to develop a program that furthers the international expansion of the Sea Grant model. ACRSP has been funded by the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) since 1982, typically in five-year grants. As the current ACRSP grant winds down and in anticipation of the next granting cycle, ACRSP wants to develop linkages and explore how the successful Sea Grant model can be used and adapted to other countries (those host countries where ACRSP has developed strengths). By December 1, 2004, Oregon State University will distribute a $300K RFP to the Sea Grant community and it is anticipated that three awards will be made by March 1, 2005. The due date for proposal submission will be in late January. Since the proposal turnaround time will be only about eight weeks, the purpose of this note is to give the Sea Grant community a heads up to begin thinking about possible ideas. Further information about ACRSP can be fund at http://pdacrsp.oregonstate.edu/ In my view, Sea Grant will benefit from this opportunity because, 1) it helps coalesce our mostly ad hoc international program, 2) there is excellent leveraging with USAID funds and 3) with success, we will be both positioned and encouraged to be significant participants in the next 5-year CSRP grant. Please let me know if you have questions. Sincerely, Jim Murray ***************** IPY Expression of Intent Information Available Polar Research Board U.S. National Academy of Sciences For further information, please go to: http://us-ipy.org ---------------------------------- International Polar Year Funding Opportunity! The International Council for Science (ICSU) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued a call for preliminary expressions of intent from those seeking to participate in the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008. The U.S. National Committee to the IPY has made these available on our web site: http://us-ipy.org Briefly, there are three relevant documents: - A letter from ICSU-WMO explaining the procedure and deadline (14 January) - Annex 1: Expression of Intent Form - Annex 2: Criteria for Identifying IPY Activities These materials are also posted at: http://www.ipy.org The ICSU-WMO letter is sure to raise some questions, and here are some advance answers: - Regarding the use of the term "proposal": In the United States, please ignore the use of the term "proposal" in the cover memo; the term of preference in the U.S. setting and that used on the form is "expression of intent." - Clarification of the purpose of the Expression of Intent process: The purpose of this call is to provide the new ICSU-WMO Joint Committee with information it needs to facilitate projects and activities within IPY that are consistent with the themes and observational goals outlined in IPY planning documents. In essence, they are beginning the process of assigning the IPY imprimatur. This is not a process by which proposals will be funded (that will be accomplished via normal funding opportunities, such as the recent NSF-OPP Arctic Research Opportunity, Program Solicitation 05-514). - Regarding the "size" of activities that should be submitted: Although a key motivation for this call is to encourage larger, more complex and logistics-dependent activities to take more formal steps toward implementation, ALL levels of projects and activities are encouraged to submit. Large umbrella programs (e.g., SEARCH, GEOSS, CoML) might be represented by multiple submissions of projects. When in doubt, submit your idea so that the full range of activities is considered. - Finally, for U.S. scientists, when you are answering Question 2.6 in the Expression of Intent Form, which asks if the submitted idea has been "endorsed at national or international levels," please enter that your expression of interest is in the process of being considered by the U.S. National Committee for IPY. The USNC for IPY will look at all the U.S. submissions from the main ICSU-WMO database and provide feedback to all after the January 14 deadline and before the June deadline for full Expressions of Intent. ************** START Call for Proposals, Climate change in Africa START, through funding from the United States Climate Change Science Project (Global Change Research Program), is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals. Proposals are being solicited from scientists based at African institutions for research projects related to: 1) Climate Variability and Climate Change in Africa 2) Impacts/Adaptations/Vulnerability to Global Change 3) Land Use and Ecosystem Change 4) Bio-geochemical Fluxes, and 5) Biodiversity. For more information, visit http://www.start.org/project_pages/Start_pacom_2005.html *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience 'Sudden jump' in greenhouse gases CNN, Monday, October 11, 2004 Posted: 11:45 AM EDT (1545 GMT) LONDON, England -- A U.S. scientist is reported to have observed a surprising jump in the amount of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. The Guardian and the Independent newspapers said on Monday the finding was the first time the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere had risen by more than two parts per million over two consecutive years. The rise cannot be explained by any corresponding increase in CO2 emissions from power stations or motor vehicles because there has been none, the Independent said. Some scientists believe the abrupt rise may be evidence of the climate change "feedback" mechanism, by which global warming alters the earth's natural systems causing warming to increase even faster than before, according to the report. Details of the increase came from an observatory 4,000 meters (12,000ft) up a mountain in Hawaii, which has been measuring the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1958. The average rise in CO2 levels has been about 1.6 parts per million by volume in recent decades, although there have been several peaks associated with El Nino -- a disruptive weather pattern in the tropical Pacific. However, in the last two years the level has risen by 2.08ppm and 2.54ppm and neither were El Nino years. Dr. Charles Keeling, the American physicist in charge of the project in Hawaii, told the newspaper the rise might be something to do with a pattern of high and low atmospheric pressure, known as the Southern Oscillation, or it could be something new. "The rise in the annual rate of CO2 increase to above two parts per million for two consecutive years is a real phenomenon," he said. "It is possible this is merely a reflection of the Southern Oscillation, like previous peaks in the rate, but it is possible it is the beginning of a natural process unprecedented in records." Only last month UK Prime Minister Tony Blair delivered an impassioned speech warning of the "catastrophic consequences" climate change could bring. He insisted timely action must be taken now to avert potential disaster brought about by rising temperatures. In his speech, Blair said the emission of greenhouse gases was causing global warming "at a rate that began as significant, has become alarming and is simply unsustainable in the long-term." The Guardian said the figures would be discussed Tuesday at a Greenpeace conference in London attended by Blair's scientific adviser, David King. *********************** GLOBAL WARMING STUDY FINDS REAL CHANGE IN AMERICA from Cox News Service WASHINGTON -- From Florida to Alaska and from coast to coast, nature's indicators show strong evidence of global warming in America, scientists said yesterday. A report co-written by University of Texas biologist Camille Parmesan concluded that more than 40 scientific studies link climate change with observed ecological changes. In half of the studies, the link is strong, the report stated. Satellite data and a century of temperature records have shown an overall increase in global temperatures to parallel the buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. But in a report released by the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, Parmesan and University of Colorado ecologist Hector Galbraith say there is growing and scientific evidence that now shows specific trends in the United States. http://snipurl.com/ajex *************** NSF Polar Press Clips 2004 Available The Office of Legislative and Public Affairs of the National Science Foundation, in conjunction with the Office of Polar Programs, has produced a 402-page book entitled "Polar Press Clips 2004." This book highlights press coverage of both Arctic and Antarctic topics of scientific interest in such areas as astronomy, oceanography, glaciology, and atmospheric sciences. There are also interesting sections on International News, the Teachers Experiencing the Arctic and Antarctic (TEA) program, as well as Press Releases and Broadcast News. This book is available free of charge to inquirers (limit two copies per inquiry please) by going to the following web site to order a copy: http://www.nsf.gov/home/orderpub.htm You may order by the NSF number which is: NSF 04-040. *************************************************** Forum VOLUNTEER TO WORK AS A MENTOR, JUDGE, SPEAKER, ETC. WITH A LOCAL SCHOOL The Sigma Xi Volunteer Database is up and running. It is a database that connects scientist and engineering volunteers to K-12 teachers. The volunteer activities range from science fair judges to career day speakers to mentors on research projects. The Volunteer Database allows you to specify the type of activity you would be interested in, your field of expertise and a full range of other details so that teachers interested in finding scientists and engineers for activities in their classroom can pinpoint the right volunteer. All of the teachers who have access to the database are required to submit references and workplace information that will be verified before they are given passwords to the database. For more information please visit http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/education/volunteer.php *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Folks, AGU is a member society of AIP and this program is open to all Earth scientists. In addition, AAAS offers several policy positions. Sue FELLOWSHIPS FOR SCIENTISTS FROM AIP http://www.aip.org/fyi/2004/141.html Through its State Department Science Fellowship, the American Institute of Physics enables one or more scientists a year to contribute S&T expertise to the formulation of the nation's foreign policy. AIP has now begun the selection process for a 2005-2006 Fellow (FYI #133). Other Fellowship opportunities are also available to scientists in physics-related fields, including Congressional Science Fellowships sponsored by several AIP Member Societies, and White House Fellowships (FYI #141). *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Marine Ecological Physiologist Romberg Tiburon Center The Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (RTC) and the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University are searching for a Marine Ecological Physiologist for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor rank. The scientist we are seeking should study the ecological physiology of marine organisms. Scientists with interests in estuarine and coastal organisms would likely have the greatest degree of interaction with colleagues, but the taxonomic orientation of the research is open. Disciplinary areas may include, but are not limited to, ecotoxicology, comparative ecophysiology, and community ecology. Ph.D. required; postdoctoral experience preferred. The successful applicant's laboratory space and research facilities will be at RTC, and she/he will be expected to teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level at RTC and on the main campus. Applicants are expected to maintain externally funded research involving master's students and to interact with faculty and researchers at RTC and the Biology Department. San Francisco State University, a member of the California State University system, serves a diverse student body of 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The mission of the University is to promote scholarship, freedom, human diversity, excellence in instruction, and intellectual accomplishment. SFSU faculty are expected to be effective teachers and demonstrate professional achievement and growth through continued research, publications, and/or creative activities. See the web sites for the Romberg Tiburon Center (http://rtc.sfsu.edu) and Biology Department (http://www.sfsu.edu/~biology) for further information. Send curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching interests, a detailed description of proposed research projects, and three letters of reference to: Carlos E Crocker, Chair, Marine Ecological Physiology Search Committee, Biology Department, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132. Applications will be reviewed beginning November 15, 2004. San Francisco State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ********************** Biological Oceanographer. The College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX will hire 20 new faculty over the next four years in three target areas: Climate Change; Oceans. Atmospheres, and Environmental/Human Health; and Environmental and Hydrological Geosciences. As part of this effort, the Department of Oceanography is seeking applications for a faculty position in Biological Oceanography that would complement an on-going program in ocean observing systems. This is a tenure-track faculty position which provides 9 months per year of state support. Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in Oceanography or closely related field. Examples of relevant interests include (but are not limited to): development of new sensor technologies suitable for deployment on an observing platform, remote sensing of the marine environment, use of optical or acoustical technologies for studying biological processes, and modeling of biological systems that incorporates data from observing platforms. The position is at the Assistant Professor level, although exceptional candidates will be considered for Associate or Full Professor status. The successful candidate is expected to teach and mentor graduate and undergraduate students, and develop a strong research program with extramural funding. We encourage applications from candidates who will increase the exposure of our students to a diverse culture. See http://oceanography.tamu.edu for more information about our program. Interested candidates should send current curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, and the names, postal addresses, and email addresses of three references to Professor George Jackson, Search Committee Chair, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3146, USA, gjackson@tamu.edu. The review of applications will begin 15 December 2004 for a potential start date of 1 September 2005. Texas A&M University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity. Texas A&M University encourages applications from minorities, women, veterans, and persons with disabilities. 3 Positions, Biology Dept. at the Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.biology.gatech.edu/ is looking for several faculty. I am most interested in recruiting good ecologists for the three Ecology positions listed below, but I?ve attached other sub-disciplinary areas in hopes that you might know good candidates for those positions as well. Please note especially the (1) Full Professor in Aquatic Community/Ecosystem Ecology and the Assistant/Associate Professor positions for (2) a molecular/chemical signaling ecologist and (3) a microbial ecologist. Georgia Tech and the Biology Dept. in particular are undergoing dramatic change. Since I arrived in 1999, we have hired 20 new faculty in Biology, built 3 dramatic new buildings (at a cost of > $200,000,000 so far) for biology and related disciplines. Other buildings are being built and planned, we are presently searching for as many as 7 faculty slots in biology, and this unusual growth is scheduled to continue for years into the future. Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the consistently top ranked educational/research institutions in the country, is committed to the continuation of significant growth in the biological sciences. Candidates should forward a letter of application, full curriculum vitae and contact information for four references to the contact individuals indicated below at the School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 310 Ferst Street, Atlanta, GA 30332. Ecology Full Professor in Aquatic Community/Ecosystem Ecology: We are seeking a senior level community/ecosystem ecologist with demonstrated leadership and experience with cross-cutting, multidisciplinary programs and environmental policy to help build a multidisciplinary center focused on ecosystem engineering where the scientific infrastructure of ecology and evolution will combine with proactive engineering /policy approaches to leverage communities or ecosystems back to desired states of structure/function. Contact: Aquatic Community/Ecosystem Search, % Professor Mark Hay. Assistant/Associate Professors of Ecology: We are searching for (1) a molecular/chemical signaling ecologist using molecular biological approaches to study chemical signaling among organisms and (2) a microbial ecologist investigating fundamental ecological principles and processes and how these may scale-up to affect community and ecosystem-level patterns Contact: Microbial Ecologist/Molecular Ecologist Search, % Dr. Julia Kubanek Bioinformatics Cell and Molecular Biology Chaired Professorship: We are searching for an individual with an outstanding record of research accomplishments and with the desire to provide intellectual leadership in areas of molecular/cellular biology. We are particularly interested in identifying individuals with research programs that will integrate with established strengths in bioinformatics/ systems biology. Contact: Professor/Chair John McDonald Assistant/Associate Professors of Molecular/Cellular Biology: Applications are invited for Assistant/Associate Professor positions in molecular/cellular biology. Outstanding candidates in all areas of molecular/cellular biology are encouraged to apply including prokaryotic and eukaryotic molecular geneticists, plant and animal developmental biologists and those working on macromolecular structure and function or cell signaling. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research programs will integrate with existing strengths in systems biology and genomics. Contact: Molecular Search , % Dr. Yury Chernoff. Assistant/Associate/Full Professors in Cryo-electron microscopy: As part of an expanding effort in structural biology, we are searching for investigators who are using cryo-electron microscopy to investigate important biological problems. Senior scientists are especially encouraged to apply for this position, but entry-level faculty may also be considered. Contact: Structural Biology Search, % Professor Steve Harvey. Bioinformatics Assistant/Associate Professors of Bioinformatics. We are searching for systems biologists who will integrate computational with molecular/biochemical approaches to the study of cell function and for bioinformaticists pursuing innovative research in areas such as the development of methods for DNA and protein sequence analysis, protein function prediction, genomics (microarray) and/or proteomics data analysis, mathematical and statistical modeling of molecular evolution. Contact: Bioinformatics Search, % Professor Mark Borodovsky Mark Hay Teasley Professor of Environmental Biology School of Biology Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0230 Phone office - 404-894-8429 FAX - 404-385-4440 internet http://www.biology.gatech.edu/professors/hay.html ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. 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URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041112/846a7cb0/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Nov 19 15:54:08 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Nov 19 15:54:30 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Nov. 19, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News Nov. 19, 2004 GOOGLE PLANS NEW SERVICE FOR SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS CLIMATE WARMING IN THE ARCTIC SCIENCE ETHICS Assistant professor, Hydrology World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Research position *************************************************** Resources GOOGLE PLANS NEW SERVICE FOR SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS from The New York Times (Registration Required) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 - Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go online Wednesday evening at scholar.google.com, is a result of the company's collaboration with a number of scientific and academic publishers and is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports. Google executives declined to say how many additional documents and books had been indexed and made searchable through the service. While the great majority of recent scholarly papers and periodicals are indexed on the Web, many have not been easily accessible to the public. http://snipurl.com/aq4b *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience CLIMATE WARMING IN THE ARCTIC New research on the effects of global warming on the Arctic has been released recently. Why is the arctic warming faster than the rest of the world? What will the impacts on the United States be? Is Alaska already being affected? Answers to these frequently asked questions can be found here: http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=436458&l=67977 *************************************************** Forum SCIENCE ETHICS The November, 2004 issue of Physics Today has a Special-Focus section on Ethics. While it is geared towards physics, the concerns are universal. I encourage you all to read it. Submitted by Sue Weiler, weiler@whitman.edu *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs Good site: http://www.higheredjobs.com/about/ Assistant professor, Hydrology The Department of Aquatic, Watershed and Earth Resources (AWER) at Utah State University requests applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in surface water hydrology. The Department houses faculty working in hydrology, geomorphology, water quality, aquatic ecology, fisheries, biogeochemistry, limnology, remote sensing, global change, and ecosystem modeling. The successful applicant will be expected to develop a vigorous, externally-funded research program that compliments our existing expertise. We seek applicants eager to participate in collaborative research with applications to the broad field of natural resource science and management. Strong communication and teaching skills are essential. The successful applicant will teach two undergraduate courses and a graduate course annually in their area of specialization. To apply, send curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching experience, up to three reprints, and the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of three references to Wayne Wurtsbaugh, Hydrology Search Chair, AWER Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5230. Application review will begin 5 January, 2005 and will continue until the position is filled. See http://personnel.usu.edu/jobs.htm or contact the search chair at wurts@cc.usu.edu for the full announcement. We especially encourage applications from women and minorities. AA/EOE. World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the global conservation organization, leads international efforts for a living planet. The Conservation Science Program at WWF-US seeks a highly motivated Marine Scientist to blend rigorous marine research with practical applications in our conservation programs worldwide. Responsibilities of this position include: * Working closely with program, policy, and field staff to ensure WWF's marine conservation efforts are based strongly on science * Conducting innovative research projects on topics and in regions of focal interest to WWF and publishing results in peer- reviewed journals * Developing tools and guidelines for WWF field programs regarding emerging issues, e.g. marine zoning, integrating natural and social science to enhance marine protected area design and implementation, sustainable fisheries, ecosystem-based fisheries management, climate change impacts on marine systems, etc. * Collaborating with scientists at universities, research institutes, and other conservation organizations * Representing WWF at meetings, conventions, and in the media to present scientific results and to raise awareness of marine conservation * Fund-raising for marine conservation science and implementation projects The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in a related field (Conservation Science, Marine Ecology, Fisheries Biology, etc.), at least three years of conservation experience, and an ability to blend rigorous interdisciplinary science with field applications to achieve meaningful conservation results. Strong statistical and data management skills, experience with field-based conservation, a familiarity with GIS techniques, excellent writing, speaking, and interpersonal skills, and management experience are preferred. The ability to work independently is critical. Willingness and ability to travel frequently, often to remote locations, is required. This position is based in our Washington, DC office. AA/EOE; Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Please apply online at www.worldwildlife.org or send cover letter and resume (include job #25047) by fax to (202) 293-9211, or by mail to World Wildlife Fund, Human Resources Dept. #25047, 1250 24th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037. NO TELEPHONE INQUIRIES PLEASE. Reviews of applications will begin December 1, 2004 ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. 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URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041119/cb894f88/attachment.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Tue Nov 23 16:45:38 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Tue Nov 23 16:45:56 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 11/23/04 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News 11/23/04 RESOURCES Congress Passes Omnibus Budget Bill Funding NSF, NASA, NOAA, USGS, Energy, EPA Advice on Designing a Good Poster Great Workshops for New Academic Faculty NEWS Research on warmer sea water runs hot and cold in California FORUM NSF Director talks on "The Conduct of Science is Not What It Used to Be" JOBS Graduate-Student Opportunity at U. Georgia *************************************************** Resources **************************************************** Congress Passes Omnibus Budget Bill Funding NSF, NASA, NOAA, USGS, Energy, EPA From AGU ASLA 04-25 **************************************************** "The nine appropriations bills that are wrapped into this early Thanksgiving turkey should have been dealt with by the House months ago," said Representative David R. Obey of Wisconsin, senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. Obey's quote referred to the omnibus, a gigantic appropriations bill passed by the House of Representatives and then by the Senate in the evening hours of 20 November. An omnibus bill is designed to cover many separate but related items. In this case, the omnibus (H.R. 4818) combines all the appropriation bills for fiscal year 2005 that Congress failed to pass individually. In addition to budget reductions for several agencies that fund science, all agencies covered in the omnibus bill are subject to an additional 0.80 percent cut agreed to by Congress and the Administration. Following are some of the individual agency appropriations for FY2005. Please note that all FY2005 numbers given are before the 0.80 percent cut. The National Science Foundation budget was cut by $61 million compared to FY2004, to $5.5 billion. Within NSF, Research and Related Activities saw a $3 million increase to $4.255 billion, and Major Research Equipment and Facilities received an increase of $20 million to $175.5 million. Education and Human Resources was cut by $90 million, from $938 million to $848 million. The biggest winner among earth and space science funding agencies in the omnibus was NASA. The agency requested $16.2 billion for FY 2005, and was appropriated exactly that. This represents an $822 million increase from FY 2004. The budget is designed to return the space shuttles to flight, begin the process of replacing Columbia, and to further the plans for Moon and Mars missions laid out by President Bush in January 2004. The Commerce Department would receive $6.7 billion, of which $3.94 billion would go to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA will be hit by an additional 0.54 percent cut beyond the 0.80 imposed across the board, as will all other Commerce, State, and Judiciary Department offices and programs. The US Geological Survey received an $11 million increase over FY 2004 for a total of $949 million. Elsewhere in the Interior Department, the Bureau of Reclamation would get $1 billion, an increase of $40 million over last year, while Interior's Fossil Energy R&D program was cut by $93 million to $580 million. The Department of Energy would receive $23 billion overall, nearly matching the president's FY 2005 request. Congress provides $577 million for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the same amount as FY2004. DOE's Office of Science received an increase of emerged from the budget process a modest winner with $3.6 billion, up from $3.45 billion for FY 2004. The Office's programs in high energy physics, fusion research, nuclear physics, computing research, and basic energy sciences would all receive modest increases. The Environmental Protection Agency will receive $8.1 billion this year, a $278 million reduction from FY 2004 funding levels. The majority of the EPA cuts are targeted at grants and loans for state and local water projects. With the exception of NASA, most agencies funding Earth and space sciences face flat or declining budgets, with inflation factored in. The National Institutes of Health, by contrast, will receive $28.5 billion in FY2004, an increase of $849 million over 2004. By way of comparison, the increase in funding alone for NIH this year represents 90% of the total USGS budget. ---------------- Author: Brad Keelor, AGU Sources: New York Times, Congressional Quarterly, AAAS, National Science Foundation, US House of Representatives Republican Conference Questions or comments about ASLA? Need to change your e-mail address? Contact Peter Folger (pfolger@agu.org). To read previous ASLAs, visit http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/sci_pol.html Advice on Designing a good Poster There are a lot of "how to make a good poster" sites out there, but I found this one more helpful than most and rather amusing. Thought I'd pass it along. Submitted by Karen Stocks http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm GREAT WORKSHOPS FOR NEW ACADEMIC FACULTY We'd like to announce the 2004-2005 Cutting Edge workshop series. The workshops are listed below. More information about each workshop (including the on-line application form and the application DEADLINES) is given on the Cutting Edge website Most workshops are intended for faculty; the one on preparing for an academic career is intended for graduate students and post-docs. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops Also, we encourage you to recommend workshop topics for the 2005-2006 program at http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/topic.html The deadline for submitting your suggestions is Dec 27, 2004 Finally, if you haven't done so, check out our topical resources drawn from previous workshops http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/topics/index.html WORKSHOPS http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/current_workshops/index.html Understanding What Our Geoscience Students are Learning: Observing and Assessing (emerging theme workshop), May 12-14, Carleton College, Northfield, MN Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences, May 23-June 23 (on-line workshop), June 1-5, 2005, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA Early Career Faculty in the Geosciences Workshop: Teaching, Research, and Managing Your Career, June 8-12, 2005, with optional trip to NSF on June 13, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA Teaching About the Ocean System Using New Research Technique: Data, Models, and Visualizations (emerging theme workshop), July 6-9, 2005, University of Washington, Seattle Teaching Hydrogeology in the 21st Century, July 23-28, 2005, University of Nebraska, Lincoln note date change) A WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences, July 21-24, 2005, Pennsylvania State University Heather Macdonald Department of Geology College of William and Mary 757-221-2443 fax: 757-221-2093 rhmacd@wm.edu *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience RESEARCH ON WARMER SEAWATER RUNS HOT AND COLD IN CALIFORNIA from San Francisco Chronicle As the world's climate continues warming, drastic changes are inevitable in the lives of all the plants and animals that live in the oceans and along their margins. Scientists may try to predict the future of ocean life by observing changes that have already occurred as sea temperatures rise, and by experiments that seek to model the impact of limited warming events -- but results so far have proved confusing at best and conflicting at worst. One ingenious experiment, for example, measured the effect of warm seawater that has been flowing out of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant near San Luis Obispo for nearly 20 years. It showed that the warming dramatically changed the lives of some 150 tiny marine animals and different seaweeds living in the rocky cove. http://snipurl.com/at6a *************************************************** Forum NSF Director talks on "The Conduct of Science is Not What It Used to Be" On October 22, 2004, Dr. Arden L. Bement, Jr., Acting Director, National Science Foundation gave a speech to the Philosophical Society of Washington on " "The Conduct of Science Is Not What It Used to Be." The link to his speech is http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/forum/bement/alb041022_philos.htm. *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs http://www.higheredjobs.com/about/ Graduate-Student Opportunity at U. Georgia Ph.D. level graduate student positions to study the microbiology and/or biogeochemistry of coastal Environments (Coastal Georgia/South Carolina, Belize or Panama) or to work on microbiology and/or biogeochemistry in extreme environments (hypersaline Mono Lake or Gulf of Mexico cold seeps) are available in Dr. Mandy Joye's lab at the University of Georgia. Students with field/lab experience experience obtained either as an undergraduate or as an MSc student will receive more serious consideration. A strong academic background in chemistry, biology or microbiology is essential. While experience with small boats and SCUBA is a plus, this is not essential. PhD-level graduate students in the Marine Sciences department are supported by research or teaching assistantships for up to five years. Information about the Joye Research Group is available at: http://www.marsci.uga.edu/FacultyPages/Joye/index.html Information about the Marine Sciences department at UGA is available at: http://www.marsci.uga.edu/ ************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041123/c6faa173/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Dec 3 13:58:19 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Dec 3 13:58:43 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG AND DISCCRS NEWS: NEW FORMAT Message-ID: Dear all, I just got word that Ron Mitchell and my proposal to continue the DISCCRS program has been recommended for funding by NSF--it includes funds for symposia in spring of 2006, 2007 and 2008. The 2996 symposium (DISCCRS II) will be held March 26 - April 2, 2006 Asilomar Conference center in Pacific Grove, CA. Eligibility will iinclude anyone with a PhD completed between October 1, 2002 - September 31, 2005. I am working feverishly trying to get a poster ready by early next week--I will send a link to the file as soon as I get it up. In the interim, please alert your colleagues to this wonderful opportunity. FYI, the DIALOG VII symposium will be held in Autumn, 2005--still working on dates and location. Hope to have that info soon. DIALOG and DISCCRS News December 3, 2004 Resources: New Website for Geoscience Faculty Development http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ NOAA's Science on a Sphere This is Sues' pick-of-the-year it's awesome!!!! http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/sos/description.html Science News: Heat Wave Risk Rising With Emissions http://snipurl.com/b1eo Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings: Solas Summer School 2005 http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/summerschool/ Women as Global Leaders: Educating the Next Generation http://www.zuglobaleaders.org/ Jobs for PhDs: Duke University Marine Laboratory and Blue Ocean Institute Solas-Related Studentship. http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/institut/forschung/groups/atmosphere/modell Resources New Website for Geoscience Faculty Development Stay up-to-date with both geoscience research, teaching methods and early-career development using the On the Cutting Edge website http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ NOAA Science on a Sphere I'm embarrassed to admit that I only now came across this resource, even though it has been around since 2002! This is really worth taking a look at--I'll say no more. Go to the website! http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/sos/description.html Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience Heat Wave Risk Rising With Emissions Heat wave risk rising with emissions from The Christian Science Monitor via SigmaXi Science-in-the-News. Europe's summer of 2003 seared itself into the record books as the hottest, deadliest summer the continent has endured in at least 500 years. Temperatures in Paris topped 104 degrees. Even nightfall brought little or no relief. Now, a new analysis from researchers at the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research and Oxford University in Britain suggests more than half of the risk that the heat wave would occur can be traced to human influence on climate. If concentrations of heat-trapping "greenhouse" gases from power plants and factories continue to increase, even at a modest pace, they say, by 2040 more than half of Europe's summers are likely top those record temperatures of 2003. By 2100, the summer of 2003 could even stand as an unusually cool one http://snipurl.com/b1eo Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings Solas Summer School 2005 29 Aug -10 Sept 2005, at the Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Carg?se in Corsica, France. The SOLAS Summer School is a biennial, international event that brings together over 70 students and 20 lecturers for a mix of lectures and practical workshops. It aims to teach the skills and knowledge of the many disciplines needed to understand the nature of ocean-atmosphere interactions. It allows doctoral students and early-career researchers to see how their work fits into the broad canvas of SOLAS, and global change research more generally. We encourage applications from any doctoral student or early-career scientist interested in SOLAS science and have some funds to support attendance. Please circulate this announcement widely. Application for the 2005 school is now open. For online application, details of the programme and more information see: http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/summerschool/ Women as Global Leaders: Educating the Next Generation March 14-16, 2005 Zayed University Dubai, United Arab Emirates www.zuglobaleaders.org Request for Program Submissions: Although communication, capitalism and other transnational processes are bringing corners of the world together in new and interesting ways, the global environment is also becoming an increasingly complex and diverse place as different cultures, religions and nations intermix. This student leadership conference will explore what leadership roles women have and will play in this global environment, as well as the specific challenges, benefits and needs of different local and global communities. By focusing on women's leadership education, the conference also addresses key questions concerning how to create and transmit engaged and dynamic pedagogies for educating women as global leaders. For instance, how do we teach leadership so women can bridge both local and global arenas? What new trends are emerging with regard to global leadership and women? Are there specific requirements and challenges for serving as global leaders or leading in international contexts? "Women as Global Leaders: Educating the Next Generation" will seek to answer these and other questions. The conference format will include presentations by prominent world leaders and personalities, and opportunities for participants to interact with these leaders, as well as papers, presentations, simulations and workshops. While student participation is limited to female students, leadership practitioners and educators of both genders are invited. Parallel and interactive sessions are planned for all participants, and all sessions will be in English. Several conference sub-themes have been identified, and submissions are encouraged to address any theme; submissions across themes are also welcome. Sub-Themes: For a full description of each sub-theme, see the conference Web site at http://www.zuglobaleaders.org/. 1. Educating for and about Women's Leadership: Lessons from the Classroom and Beyond 2. Between University and Community: Leadership Programs and their Applications 3. Responsible Leadership: Ethics, Gender, and Society 4. Is There "Women's" Leadership? Explorations into Gender, Roles, and Behaviors 5. Global Change, Cultural Traditions, and the Question of Women's Leadership 6. Global Trends in Leadership: Women in Cross-Cultural Comparison 7. Women at Home, Women at Work: Leadership Changes, Challenges, and Collaborations 8. Women as Peacemakers and Negotiators Conference presentations may be in the form of an academic paper, panel discussion, poster session or workshop. Deadline for Program Submissions: February 1, 2005 Submit proposals online at www.zuglobaleaders.org. Jobs for PhDs http://www.higheredjobs.com/about/ Duke University Marine Laboratory and Blue Ocean Institute Reversing Declines of Seabirds, Sea Turtles, and Marine Mammals: An Integrated Assessment of Bycatch in Fisheries" We are looking for up to six post-doctoral researchers, two Ph.D. students, and a project manager to participate in a recently funded project to develop a global perspective on incidental catch for seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals, including both US and international fisheries. Building on efforts from existing databases, our primary activity will be to update datasets to generate a comprehensive picture of fishing effort for key fisheries. For fisheries monitored by international fisheries commissions, this will extend across all ocean basins. For some fisheries, however, this will cover regional hotspots where data are available. We will develop a network of scientists and managers in key regions where conflicts between fishing activity and protected species are thought to occur. We also will invite data holders to participate in data sharing workshops, where participants can bring data to the table for synthetic analyses. For all species with available demographic data, our objective is to put bycatch levels into a population-level context. Qualifications for Post-doctoral applicants: Recent Ph.D. in ecology, oceanography, fisheries, marine policy, marine conservation, geospatial analysis or related fields. Strong quantitative, statistical, and geospatial analysis skills preferred. Strong written and oral communication skills are required. Travel experience and foreign language skills desirable; applications from international scientists are encouraged. The grant will support up to six post-doctoral researchers, four at Duke University and two at Blue Ocean Institute. Qualifications for Ph.D.: Undergraduate or Master's degrees in ecology, oceanography, fisheries, marine policy, marine conservation, geospatial analysis or related fields. Strong quantitative, statistical, and geospatial analysis skills preferred. Travel experience and foreign language skills desirable. Applications from international students are encouraged. The grant will support two Ph.D. students at Duke University. Qualifications for project manager: The successful applicant will act as the point of contact for project investigators to organize report writing, coordinate regular meetings of the principal investigators and staff, compile annual progress reports, and track grant spending. In addition, the associate will provide general administrative support by facilitating communication among project staff (approximately 15 members), coordinating domestic and international travel, purchasing equipment, writing abstracts, planning and executing scientific workshops and conference sessions, and communicating with the Duke University administration. The research associate will also engage in data analysis, literature review, report writing and manuscript preparation. Excellent written and oral communication skills are required. The project manager will be responsible for organizing meetings of data providers in foreign countries, so travel experience and foreign language skills are strongly preferred. Undergraduate or Master's degrees in ecology, oceanography, fisheries, marine policy, marine conservation, geospatial analysis or related fields. Very strong organizational, communication, and project management skills are required. For more information please contact: Larry Crowder, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University Marine Laboratory, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd., Beaufort, NC 28516 (lcrowder@duke.edu). Please direct post-doctoral applications including CV, personal statement, and 3 letters of recommendation to Sloan Freeman (sloan.freeman@duke.edu) by January 1, 2005. Ph.D. applications are due to the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences no later than December 31, 2004. Please contact Andy Read (aread@duke.edu) regarding admission to the Ph.D. program. Please direct project manager applications including CV, personal statement, and 3 references to Sloan Freeman (sloan.freeman@duke.edu) by January 1, 2005. Solas-Related Studentship. One PhD student positions at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Topic: Numerical modeling of the photochemistry of the marine troposphere, and chemical air-sea exchange. One PhD student position is available in the group MarHal at the Institute for Environmental Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. The foci of this position are the investigation of the photochemistry in the marine troposphere, the exchange of gases and particles between the ocean and the atmosphere, and the physical, chemical, and biological processes in the ocean that lead to degassing. Gases released from the oceal can have an influence on the chemistry of the marine boundary layer and even the upper troposphere. They can also affect the climate, for example by leading to the growth and production of cloud condensation nuclei which determine cloud aldebo. A set of box, one-dimensional and/or three-dimensional numerical models will be used for this study. Analysis of available field data might also be part of this project. This position is in a recently funded junior research group with the overall goals of investigating the reactive tropospheric halogen chemistry; the importance of the exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere for tropospheric chemistry; chemistry - climate links in the marine troposphere such as cloud microphysics feedbacks. The focus of our group is to develop and apply numerical models (box, 1D, 3D) and model - data comparisons. Requirements: - Fluency in English. German knowledge is of advantage but not required. - Diplom or Masters (B.Sc. is not sufficient) in a relevant field: meteorology, chemistry, physics - Familiarity with programming in a Unix/Linux environment desirable. - Familiarity with atmospheric chemistry desirable. The position is available immediately. For further information please contact Roland von Glasow or visit http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/institut/forschung/groups/atmosphere/modell. To apply, please send your application with CV, a short (1-2 page) statement of research interests, and two references (with email addresses) to Dr. Roland von Glasow Roland.von.Glasow@iup.uni-heidelberg.de. -- C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D. Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948 Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961 Walla Walla, WA 99362 weiler@whitman.edu Programs for Recent PhDs http://aslo.org/phd.html Minorities in the Aquatic Sciences http://www.aslo.org/mas.html DIALOG poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/dialogposter.pdf DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates in a Changing Global Environment http://marcus.whitman.edu/~weilercs/biocomplexity/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041203/5708ac45/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Fri Dec 10 13:52:57 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Fri Dec 10 13:52:58 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Dec. 10, 2004 Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News Resources BALANCING FACULTY CAREERS AND FAMILY WORK AAAS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY FELLOWSHIPS, News NETWORK OF OCEAN ROBOTIC INSTRUMENTS COVERS MOST OF THE GLOBE CORAL REEF DAMAGE RISING WORLDWIDE STUDENT'S SEA-ENERGY DEVICE WINS $100,000 ECOSYSTEM-BASED FISHERY MANAGEMENT PUBLICIZED IN D.C. Forum ASLA 04-16: National Science Foundation Funding in FY2005 Meeting First DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference - Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being *************************************************** Resources BALANCING FACULTY CAREERS AND FAMILY WORK Taken from Ecolog-L@listserv.umd.edu The current issue of Academe, the Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, has a series of articles about balancing faculty careers and family work that might be of interest to ECOLOG-L subscribers. They're available through the AAUP web site, at http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/index.htm. AAAS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY FELLOWSHIPS, 2005-2006 APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 10, 2005 LOCATION: Washington DC, USA Scientists and engineers are invited to apply for one-year Science and Technology Policy Fellowships, which begin in September 2005. These 10 fellowships, administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), are designed to provide a unique public policy learning experience and to bring technical backgrounds and external perspectives to decision-making in the U.S. government. Fellows serve in the Congress, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Agency for International Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and other federal offices. Applicants must be U.S. citizens with a PhD or an equivalent doctoral degree by the application deadline from any physical, biological or social science, any field of engineering or any relevant interdisciplinary field. Federal employees are not eligible. For more information, go to: http://fellowships.aaas.org *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience Watch your local newspapers next week--the Press always picks up stories from the AGU meeting. NETWORK OF OCEAN ROBOTIC INSTRUMENTS COVERS MOST OF THE GLOBE Provided by Pew Scientists have crossed an important threshold in an international effort to deploy a global network of robotic instruments to monitor and investigate important changes in the world's oceans. Researchers with the international Argo program announced they have reached the point where 1,500 ocean-traveling float instruments--half the target 3,000-float array--are now operating. This marks an important milestone in the program's mission to capture valuable data around the globe. The Argo floats, which are robotically programmed to record and transmit data, are uniquely positioned to provide important information about climate and weather phenomena. Other applications of Argo information include ocean heat storage and climate change; ocean salinity changes due to rainfall; ocean-driven events such as El Ni?o; impacts of ocean temperature on fisheries and regional ecosystems; interactions between the ocean and monsoons; and how the oceans drive hurricanes and typhoons. For more information, go to: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/uoc--ari120104.php ---SOURCE: EurekAlert, December 6, 2004. CORAL REEF DAMAGE RISING WORLDWIDE from Associated Press via Sigma Xi Science in the News WASHINGTON (AP) -- Only about 30 percent of the world's coral reefs are healthy, down from 41 percent two years ago, according to a study released Monday that lists global warming as the top threat. The study found as many as one-fifth of the world's coral reefs have been destroyed. Another half are damaged but could be saved, it said. Coral reefs are among the oldest and most diverse forms of life. They provide food and shelter to fish and protect shores from erosion. http://snipurl.com/b6lp STUDENT'S SEA-ENERGY DEVICE WINS $100,000 from The San Diego Union-Tribune via Sigma Xi Science in the News Encinitas high school student Aaron Goldin has parlayed some old appliance parts plucked from his garage into a $100,000 college scholarship, the top prize in one of the country's most prestigious science and math competitions. Yesterday, the San Dieguito High School Academy senior won the national Siemens Westinghouse contest. During a two-year period using the scavenged parts, Aaron built his device, which can convert ocean energy into electricity in a method that doesn't harm the environment. His entry was narrowed down from 1,250 in the competition sponsored by Siemens Foundation, an extension of the international telecommunications and engineering conglomerate. "Wow, my heart just skipped a beat when I found out I had won," Aaron said yesterday from Washington, D.C., in between interviews with CNN, NPR and The New York Times. "When I started working on this out of my garage, I had no idea this would even be part of a competition. Coming from wondering if this thing would even work to here in such a short time span is kind of amazing." http://snipurl.com/b6ig ECOSYSTEM-BASED FISHERY MANAGEMENT PUBLICIZED IN D.C. In the Washington Post, Michelle Boorstein reports on a growing movement toward managing fisheries as an ecosystem rather than species by species. "Government regulators had set population targets for each species and type separately, aiming only to maintain certain numbers. But now regulators say they want to manage the nation's fisheries as one big ecosystem, basing their targets on many elements, including the diet of water birds, the quality of the water and whether predator fish have enough prey," writes Boorstein. The epicenter of the movement is the Chesapeake Bay, where federal regulators are launching a test case for "ecosystem-based management." At issue are two of the nation's most important fish: the striped bass and the Atlantic menhaden. According to Duke University?s Michael Orbach (PF Advisor), "Many people feel fisheries management has generally failed to preserve fish, and they're looking to a new holy grail." To read the story (free registration required), go to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33743-2004Dec3.html ---SOURCE: Washington Post, December 4, 2004, Page B01, via Above The Fold, a news service provided by www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org. *************************************************** Forum **************************************************** ASLA 04-16: National Science Foundation Funding in FY2005 **************************************************** NOTE: This is the first in a series of ASLAs outlining the FY2005 federal budget for specific agencies and programs supporting Earth and space sciences. All figures indicated below take into account a 0.80 percent rescission, which applies to all non-defense and non-homeland security agencies and programs for FY2005. On 20 November Congress passed the omnibus appropriations bill, H.R. 4818, which provides the National Science Foundation (NSF) with $5.47 billion for FY2005. This amount represents an overall decrease of $107 million, or 1.9 percent, compared to FY2004. President Bush had proposed boosting NSF spending by 3 percent in FY2005. The Research and Related Activities (R&RA) account, which funds most of NSF's Earth and space science research, would receive $4.22 billion for FY2005, down $32 million, or 0.8 percent, from FY2004. Funding levels for specific directorates were not included in the report accompanying the funding bill. However, the report language states that "the Foundation is urged to maintain the proper balance between interdisciplinary research and single-issue research in core disciplines." The report does specify funding for the Office of Polar Programs, which will receive $347.2 million, an increase of $5.1 million, or 1.5 percent over last year. The Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) account would receive $18.7 million over last year's levels, a 12.1% increase. Congress funded EarthScope at $47 million, matching the President's request. Scientific Ocean Drilling will receive $14.9 million in FY2005, well short of the $40.9 million requested by the White House. Other large facilities funded include the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the IceCube neutrino observatory, funded at $49.3 million and $47.6 million, respectively. Funding for the Education and Human Resources (EHR) account declines $97.6 million, or 10.4 percent, to $841 million. The bill provides $79.4 million for the Math and Science Partnerships (MSP) program and keeps the program in the EHR directorate. The Bush Administration had proposed funding MSP at $80.0 million and moving it to the R&RA account. The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), a program to boost research dollars to states that have historically received lesser amounts of funding, received a cut only because of the rescission, from $94.4 million to $93.7 million. After Congress passed the omnibus appropriations bill, Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), a member of the House Committee on Science, said his vote for the bill was "under protest," and that his "most serious concern with the omnibus bill is the appropriation for the National Science Foundation." He continued "I do not see the wisdom in putting science funding far behind other priorities. We have cut NSF despite the fact that this omnibus bill increases spending for the 2005 fiscal year, so clearly we could find room to grow basic research while maintaining fiscal constraint. But not only are we not keeping pace with inflationary growth, we are actually cutting the portion basic research receives in the overall budget." Congress passed the NSF Doubling Act in 2002, an authorization bill that laid out a path of steadily increasing NSF funding leading to a doubling of the agency's budget in 5 years. This year's NSF budget falls $1.9 billion short of the target envisioned in the Doubling Act. A detailed table of FY2005 NSF appropriations is available at http://www.osa.org/publicpolicy/current/ *************************************************** Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings First DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference - DIVERSITAS: OSC1 0-12 November 2005 Hotel Mision de Los Angeles Oaxaca, Mexico Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being Bringing together experts from biological, ecological and social disciplines, DIVERSITAS: OSC1 offers a unique opportunity to explore recent advances and probe pressing issues across the breadth of biodiversity science. Plenary, parallel and poster sessions will be complemented by a Round Table on future trends and field trips that highlight biodiversity in the Oaxaca region. 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URL: http://aslo.org/pipermail/dialognews/attachments/20041210/137a4b05/attachment-0001.htm From weilercs at whitman.edu Tue Dec 28 14:30:52 2004 From: weilercs at whitman.edu (Susan Weiler) Date: Tue Dec 28 14:31:34 2004 Subject: [DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News Message-ID: DIALOG and Disccrs News *************************************************** TABLE OF CONTENTS RESOURCES Science Magazine's Top Employers http://recruit.sciencemag.org/feature/advice/foc_112604.shl Science & Technology Web Awards 2004 http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00085684-2613-115C-A61383414B7F0000 SCIENCE NEWS PHOTO ARCHIVES: SHRINKING GLACIERS EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING http://snipurl.com/bfpj SCIENTISTS DEBATE DECLINE OF OIL STORES: SOONER OR LATER? http://snipurl.com/bdty 1 IN 10 BIRD SPECIES COULD VANISH WITHIN 100 YEARS http://snipurl.com/bcrn New Panel to Direct U.S. Policy on Oceans LAKE TAHOE WARMING MIRRORS WORLD TREND http://snipurl.com/bihf FORUM The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/306/5702/1686 Policy Recommendations from New Approaches on Energy and the Environment. http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/NewApproachesonEnergyandtheEnvironment/NewApproache *************************************************** Resources Science Magazine's Top Employers http://recruit.sciencemag.org/feature/advice/foc_112604.shl ***************** Science & Technology Web Awards 2004 http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00085684-2613-115C-A61383414B7F0000 *************************************************** Science News Check out this section both for news tidbits, and for examples of how to communicate science to a non-scientist audience PHOTO ARCHIVES: SHRINKING GLACIERS EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING from San Francisco Chronicle Glaciers throughout Alaska are shrinking more and more rapidly, and scientists comparing old photos taken up to a century ago with digital images made during climbing expeditions today say the pictures provide the most dramatic evidence yet that global warming is real. And it's not only the glaciers reflecting the climate change. Everywhere on the treeless tundra north of the jagged slopes of Alaska's Brooks Range, explosive bursts of vegetation -- willows, alders, birch and many shrubs -- are thriving where permafrost once kept the tundra surface frozen in winter. Two geophysicists and a government geologist who spend much of their working lives exploring changes in the Arctic displayed dozens of photographs from the thousands in their files Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.http://snipurl.com/bfpj ***************** SCIENTISTS DEBATE DECLINE OF OIL STORES: SOONER OR LATER? from San Francisco Chronicle Scientists meeting at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco debated Tuesday whether the world has plenty of oil for centuries to come -- or if it faces impending shortages that might trigger economic chaos, even war, in coming decades. On the one hand, optimists are confident that vast untapped oil reserves and continual improvement in drilling methods will assure plenty of cheap, abundant oil for Earth through this century and perhaps the next. On the other hand, some experts fear a global-scale repeat of scientists' past failure, in the 1950s, to heed a warning from the Cassandra of petroleum geology: M. King Hubbert, who prophesied the oil shocks of the 1970s.http://snipurl.com/bdty ***************** 1 IN 10 BIRD SPECIES COULD VANISH WITHIN 100 YEARS from USA Today By 2100, about 10% of all bird species probably will be extinct, killed off by habitat loss, hunting and climate change, conservation biologists estimate. "We are changing the world so much that even birds cannot adapt," says biologist Cagan Sekercioglu of Stanford University, who led the extinction analysis. Roughly 1,200 bird species, about 12% of the total, are threatened with extinction. A "critically endangered" 179 of those species face an extremely high risk of immediate disappearance. Last month, for example, the last known Hawaiian po'ouli bird died. http://snipurl.com/bcrn ***************** New Panel to Direct U.S. Policy on Oceans by Jim VandeHei and Juliet Eilperin (from vcarroll@coreocean.org as a courtesy of washingtonpost.com) President Bush created a White House panel yesterday to consider ways to clean up the world's oceans by better managing fish populations, regulating pollution and more thoroughly examining future threats to ocean life. But some environmentalists charged that Bush is moving too slowly and timidly to address what they called a serious environmental crisis off the coasts of the United States. Responding to recommendations of a presidential commission that spent nearly three years investigating ways to restore the oceans to health, Bush issued an executive order to begin revising the nation's policies through a Cabinet-level Committee on Ocean Policy. The commission, which issued its final report three months ago, said that the nation's fisheries are in trouble and that the federal government must change how it manages the seas and must spend more on ocean research and conservation within the next five years. The United States spends $8 billion on ocean-related activities each year. The new committee will begin reviewing government programs dealing with everything from protecting coral reefs off the Florida coast to managing fisheries, according to James L. Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Connaughton, who will head the committee, told reporters the president wants "strong management from the top" for the 4.5 million square miles of ocean under U.S. jurisdiction. Connaughton said the White House will act immediately on 40 of the commission's 200-plus recommendations, although most of these actions would not lead to noticeable changes in the nation's oceans policies. The White House did not offer an opinion on some of the most sweeping proposed changes, including creating a $4 billion trust fund for new ocean initiatives. The fund would require congressional approval and would be financed by diverting about 80 percent of the government's oil and gas royalties. Retired Adm. James D. Watkins, who chaired the commission, has warned that it would be a tough sell politically because lawmakers prefer tapping those funds for other programs. The only new funding Connaughton announced was $2.7 million that will be requested in the fiscal 2006 budget for coral reef improvements in Florida and elsewhere. He said it is unclear how much the other 39 changes will cost. "For the president and the administration to recognize there is a crisis in the oceans is an important step," said Leon E. Panetta, a White House chief of staff during the Clinton administration, who has been a strong advocate for a new policy. "One can quarrel with the [details], but I have to look at this as a good first step." Some environmentalists said they are pleased the president has taken initiatives to address the ocean's current plight, but others said the White House is not devoting enough money or attention to the problem. Sarah Chasis, director of water and coastal programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the new commission needs "clear policy direction" from the president and questioned why the administration is not doing more to reform fishery management councils. These councils are often dominated by commercial and recreational fishing interests and often allow bigger catches than many scientists recommend. The administration backs individual fishing quotas that would allow fishermen to buy and trade commercial allowances. "We were looking for bold leadership, and what we've seen today indicates a tepid response with minimal detail," said Ted Morton, federal policy director at Oceana, a conservation group. ? 2004 The Washington Post Company ***************** LAKE TAHOE WARMING MIRRORS WORLD TREND from San Francisco Chronicle Tahoe City -- Global warming seems to have reached the lowest depths of Lake Tahoe, scientists warned Monday, potentially complicating plans to preserve the lake's fabled water clarity and biological health. A new study by researchers at UC Davis suggests the lake has heated by nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit since the early 1970s, when readings began. The warming may be significantly altering the dynamics of Lake Tahoe's cold-water upwellings and seasonal mixing of sediments and nutrients, the scientists said. http://snipurl.com/bihf *************************************************** Forum The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Essay by Naomi Oreskes Science, Vol 306, Issue 5702, 1686 , 3 December 2004 "Policy-makers and the public who are not members of the relevant research community have had to form opinions about the reality of global climate change on the basis of often conflicting descriptions provided by the media regarding the level of scientific certainty attached to studies of climate. In this Essay, Oreskes analyzes the existing scientific literature to show that there is a robust consensus that anthropogenic global climate change is occurring. Thus, despite claims sometimes made by some groups that there is not good evidence that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities, the scientific community is in overwhelming agreement that such evidence is clear and persuasive. The 928 papers were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. S..Of all the papers, 75% fell into the first three categories, either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change. Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position." http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/306/5702/1686 ***************** Policy Recommendations from New Approaches on Energy and the Environment. http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/NewApproachesonEnergyandtheEnvironment/NewApproache "This collection of twenty-five "memos to the President" from economists and policy analysts at Resources for the Future, a Washington DC think tank with a tradition for independent, objective research, offers constructive policy options on critical challenges related to energy, the environment, and natural resources. Each contributor was asked to address the question: "Based on your research and knowledge, what policy recommendation would you like to make to the next U.S. President?" Writing in advance of the 2004 election so as to keep their essay free of partisan interpretations, the authors took pains to make their ideas accessible to a busy president as well as a wide range of readers interested in a concise, authoritative overview of the nation's energy and environmental policy choices." The book is available for purchase, but the policies section has videos of the scientists presenting their recommendations available for free viewing. Taken from Sci-Tech (NF) Library Newsletter *************************************************** Jobs for PhDs http://www.higheredjobs.com/about/ *************************************************** This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler for the purpose of distributing information of potential interest to recent PhDs engaged in interdisciplinary aquatic science or climate change research, and to build an international sense of community among recent grads. It provides an international forum for the exchange of information and opinions regarding research, professional and social issues. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of C.S. Weiler or of the individual who has submitted a particular item for distribution. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler serves as producer and editor and reserves the right to edit or reject material submitted to the list. Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to phd@whitman.edu or weiler@whitman.edu. For ease of transmission, please do not send attachments. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail message, and link to any appropriate websites. -- C. 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