[DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News May 21, 2004
Susan Weiler
weilercs at whitman.edu
Fri May 21 16:24:41 CDT 2004
DIALOG and Disccrs News
May 21, 2004
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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 at agu.org
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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/
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings
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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 at 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 <mark.hay at biology.gatech.edu>
http://www.biology.gatech.edu/professors/hay.html
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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
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C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.
Biology Department Tel: 509-527-5948
Whitman College Fax: 509-527-5961
Walla Walla, WA 99362
weiler at 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
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