[DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 07/16/04
Susan Weiler
weilercs at whitman.edu
Fri Jul 16 14:34:44 CDT 2004
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
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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/>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
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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
AGU Education Brief 04-08: Conference on Research and Undergraduate
Education; House Education Appropriates Update
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"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.
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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
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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
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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
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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 Jörgensen
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/
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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/
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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 at noaa.gov
Web: http://www.csc.noaa.gov
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