[DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 01/06/2006
Susan Bennett
bennetsk at whitman.edu
Fri Jan 6 17:00:52 CST 2006
DIALOG and DISCCRS News
01/06/2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RESOURCES
MPOWIR (Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention)
MPOWIR is a community effort to increase the retention of women
with Ph.D.s in physical oceanography in all job sectors. To meet
this objective, we are designing a community mentoring program with
the support of NSF and ONR. To learn more about MPOWIR, please visit
www.mpowir.org.
New NSF Centers Encourage Collaboration Between Ocean Scientists,
Educators
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06001
NSF Releases Solicitation for IGERT Program - The National Science
Foundation has released a revised solicitation for the Integrative
Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT).
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06525.
SCIENCE NEWS
Next big tsunami may hit US west coast from, Expressindia.com
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=60471
Global Warming Can Trigger Extreme Ocean, Climate Changes (NSF news
release)
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06003
Tiny Marine Organisms Reflect Ocean Warming
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06004
Report: Great Lakes near ecological breakdown
(see below)
SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES
12th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy – April 28-29,
2006 - Groningen, The Netherlands.
(see below)
Inaugural Science Communication Postgraduate Conference
Science and the Public
(see below)
Cutting-Edge Workshops for new Geoscience Faculty and Postdocs
(see below)
JOBS
Postdoc, Investigating Estuarine Threshold Dynamics, Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland
(see below)
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Science News
Report: Great Lakes near ecological breakdown
CNN, Thursday, December 8, 2005 Posted: 2046 GMT (0446 HKT)
FACT BOX
THE GREAT LAKES
The Great Lakes are: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron,
Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.
You can remember the names of all five by thinking of the word
HOMES which takes the first letter of each lake to make the word.
Lake Superior is the largest lake.
The Great Lakes provide the largest supply of fresh water on the
Earth.
A series of dams, lakes and rivers connect the five lakes.
You could travel on Lake Superior from Duluth, Minnesota, and get
all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Source: NASA
CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- Stresses from polluted rivers to
invasive species threaten to trigger an ecological breakdown in the
Great Lakes, a group of scientists hoping to sway U.S. environmental
policy said Thursday.
Seventy-five scientists who study the world's largest collective
body of fresh water released their report on the myriad problems that
need cleanup or restoration ahead of two key policy announcements
next week.
"This is just a critical period for the Great Lakes," Andy
Buchsbaum, director of the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes
office, said about next week's announcements.
A task force comprising federal agencies, Congress, local
government officials and regional Indian tribes is scheduled to
release its much-anticipated final plan for preserving the Great
Lakes requested by President Bush in 2004.
The body's preliminary report in July recommended $20 billion in
federal, state and private funding over 15 years to upgrade
antiquated municipal sewer systems, restore 500,000 acres of
wetlands, clean polluted harbors and bays, and pay for other efforts.
But a federal oversight group subsequently suggested to the White
House that the budget was too tight to allow additional funding.
Federal spending on Great Lakes cleanup over the past decade was $800
million, according to the Government Accountability Office.
After the task force releases its plan Monday, governors representing
U.S. states and Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes will
announce revisions to century-old rules that restrict water
withdrawals and diversions from the lakes.
More than 30 million people rely on the Great Lakes for drinking
water, and large-scale diversions to far-off states or countries have
been forbidden.
Threats to the Great Lakes are converging, scientists who worked on
the report said.
"There's widespread agreement that the Great Lakes are under
tremendous stress," said Alfred Beeton of the University of Michigan.
"Toxic substances ... overfishing, invasive species, changes in
hydrology affecting rivers -- now we can add the effects of global
climate change.
"These have been dealt with individually. What we need to do is
look at the ecosystem -- the combination of stresses," Beeton said.
"Historical sources of stress have combined with new ones and we have
arrived at a tipping point. What we mean is that ecosystem changes
will occur rapidly and unexpectedly."
The report emphasized the need for large-scale ecosystem
restoration and not piecemeal efforts, coauthor Don Scavia said.
Particularly important was preserving or restoring shoreline "buffer
zones," such as wetlands and lake tributaries to help the lakes heal
themselves.
"These are the key areas for filtering the contaminants that
enter the lakes. It's also where most of the wildlife habitat is,"
Scavia said.
Shoreline pollution that fouls Great Lakes beaches is extending
into the middle of some of the five Great Lakes, sudden drops in
oxygen levels in the water threaten native species, and native fish
have been crowded out by invasive species that have changed the
character of the lakes, the scientists added.
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities
12th PhD Workshop on International Climate Policy – April 28-29,
2006 - Groningen, The Netherlands.
This Workshop is organised by the European PhD Network on
International Climate Policy, which is an independent scientific
community. As a vital part of the network, the PhD candidates meet
twice a year for a workshop session which gives them the opportunity
to present their theses and discuss them with other PhD students and
scientists working in the area of climate policy.
This workshop is organised by the European Ph.D. Network on
International Climate Policy, which is an independent scientific
community. It is open to Ph.D. students and researchers from all
disciplines working on different aspects of International Climate
Policy. As a vital part of the network, the Ph.D. candidates meet
twice a year for a workshop session which gives them the opportunity
to present their theses and discuss them with other Ph.D. students
and scientists working in the area of climate policy.
The purpose of the workshop is
to offer Ph.D. candidates a forum to present their research ideas
and results,
to provide them with valuable feedback from other scientists,
to encourage information exchange and mutual assistance among the
members.
The broad range of research topics may inspire the participants’
own research, thereby creating a more fertile research environment.
The meeting will be hosted by the research institute SOM of the
Faculty of Economics of the University of Groningen (http://
som.rug.nl) and the Energy Delta Research Center (http://www.rug.nl/
edrec/index). Both days of the event will take place in the
Conference Center “Het Kasteel“ (http://www.hetkasteel.com)
Participation:
Conference language: English.
Registration deadline: 28th February 2006.
For registration please send an email to Vlasis Oikonomou
v.oikonomou at rug.nl and inform directly about whether you want to
present or not the presentation title and the general field of work
your discipline (e.g. economics, law, engineering,...)
your actual working status (beginning, intermediate, advanced).
Submission of presentations (or papers) by 31st March 2006.
No registration fee. Due to our organisation form we are not able
to give any financial support to the participants.
Looking forward to meeting you in Groningen
Best regards, Vlasis Oikonomou - SOM, Department of Economics,
University of Groningen - http://som.rug.nl
Office: Olympiakade 14-2, 1076XP, Amsterdam
Tel: +31 206625340 Mob: +31 645380712 Fax: +31 205254254
Email: v.oikonomou at rug.nl
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Inaugural Science Communication Postgraduate Conference
Science and the Public:
Interdisciplinary approaches
Saturday May 20th 2006, Imperial College, London
CALL FOR PAPERS
This day-long postgraduate conference has been organised by Imperial
College and the London
PUS Seminar Group to help bring together researchers from the
disparate strands of academia that
consider science as it exists and influences public life.
We hope to attract delegates from a wide variety of disciplines;
bringing together researchers from
science and technology studies, science communication, history,
cultural studies, psychology,
anthropology, literary criticism, education, museum studies,
sociology, media studies, policy
studies, geography and others.
Abstracts for submission of a 20-minute paper around the topic of
science and the public are
welcomed from research postgraduate students in any field. Abstracts
should be no longer than
300 words and emailed to scienceandpublic at googlemail.com by 1st March
2006. Enquires to
alice.bell at imperail.ac.uk or sarah.davies at imperial.ac.uk.
The conference fee is £10 and there may be travel grants available to
those giving papers (details
will follow).
--
Alice Bell BSc MA
PhD Student
Science Communication Group
Imperial College London - South Ken & Wye Campus
alice.bell at imperial.ac.uk
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Cutting-Edge Workshops for new Geoscience Faculty and Postdocs
I'm pleased to announce the 2006 series of workshops for current
and future geoscience faculty. These workshops are part of the
professional development program, On the Cutting Edge, which is
funded by a grant from the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.
THE EARLIEST APPLICATION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 16, 2006.
Our website provides more information about the various workshops
and gives the deadline for each workshop - Most or all of the on-
site workshop expenses (including lodging and meals) are covered for
the workshops; participants or their departments pay for their travel
to the workshop.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/workshops.html
WORKSHOPS FOR FACULTY
Teaching Sedimentary Geology in the 21st Century, July 14-19.
2006, University of Utah. Co-conveners: Heather Macdonald, Kathy
Benison, Margie Chan, Tom Hickson, and Chris Paola. Co-sponsor:
National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics
NOTE - APPLICATION DEADLINE JAN 16
Discoveries from Mars: Using a Planetary Perspective to Enhance
Undergraduate Geoscience Courses (emerging theme workshop), April
27-29, 2006, Arizona State University. Co-conveners: Barbara
Tewksbury, Philip Christensen, Ronald Greeley, Tracy Gregg, and Eric
Grosfils
Early Career Faculty Workshop: Teaching, Research, and Managing
Your Career, June 7-12, 2006, College of William and Mary. Co-
conveners: Heather Macdonald, Richelle Allen-King, and Richard Yuretich
Designing Effective and Innovative Courses in the Geosciences,
July 31-August 4, 2006 (on-line workshop): May 31-June 4, 2006
College of the Siskiyous, Weed, CA (virtual workshop). Co-conveners:
Barbara Tewksbury and William Hirt
Teaching Public Policy in the Earth Sciences (emerging theme
workshop), April 20-23, 2006, American Geophysical Union, Washington,
DC, Co-conveners: David Mogk and Cathy O'Riordan (AGU). Co-sponsor:
American Geophysical Union
Teaching Climate Change: Lessons from the Past, August 14-15,
2006, Montana State University. Co-conveners: David Mogk, Allan
Ashworth, Sheri Fritz, and Cathy Whitlock. Co-sponsors:AMQUA and INQUA
WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST-DOCS
Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences: A Workshop
for Graduate Students and Post-doctoral Fellows, July 27-30, 2006,
Stanford University. Co-conveners: Cathryn Manduca and Robyn Wright
Dunbar
We also have a rich set of resources on a wide range of topics
and I encourage you to look at those resources as well. http://
serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/index.html
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Jobs
Planktonnet: Great listserv for aquatic-science jobs
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planktonnet-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
Or, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/planktonnet/ and click on
'Join this group'
Postdoc, Investigating Estuarine Threshold Dynamics, Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland
The position is on a project investigating threshold dynamics of
shallow-water estuarine communities of the southern New England and
how the distribution of distinct, easily recognized alternate
communities can be used to develop and measure the success of
management decisions on local to regional scales. We seek a
candidate with a Ph.D. in estuarine/marine ecology or a related
discipline. The ideal person will have broad experience in the
development and use of numerical models, in the study of food web
dynamics, a background in marine ecology, and a strong knowledge of
benthic systems. The selected candidate will work primarily with me
but will also interact with Bob Whitlatch and Roman Zajac.
The starting date is flexible but I would like to have someone in
place by early summer or sooner. The appointment would be as a
Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow and for 2 years subject to a review
after 1 year. The stipend includes an annual salary of $37,000 plus
funds to support research and travel. I will begin screening
applications soon but the position will remain open until filled. The
successful candidate will be housed at SERC. A fuller description of
the position can be found on the SERC website at http://
www.serc.si.edu/www.serc.si.edu.
Anyone interested or has questions should contact me as soon as
they can.
Richard Osman
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
P. O. Box 28
647 Contees Wharf Road
Edgewater, MD 21037
Phone: 443-482-2213
Fax: 443-482-2380
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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
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Office for Earth System Studies 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
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/
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