[DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 05/05/2006
Susan Bennett
bennetsk at whitman.edu
Mon May 8 10:59:28 CDT 2006
DIALOG and DISCCRS News
05/05/2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RESOURCES
Pew Center on Global Climate Change Summary of Latest Research:
"Global Fingerprints of Greenhouse Warming".
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=436458&l=122554
View a graph of U.S GHG Emissions from 1990 through 2004:
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=436458&l=122561
Call for Proposals: Advancing Capacity to Support Climate Change
Adaptation (ACCCA)
(see below)
FORUM
Call for Submissions: Women and Climate Change Spring 2007
(see below)
16,000 Species Said to Face Extinction
(see below)
Please Help With Our Online Grad Student Survey
(see below)
SCIENCE NEWS
Federal Study Finds Accord on Warming
(see below)
Spacecraft Seek Climate Clarity
(see below)
Earlier Spring Starves Migratory Birds
(see below)
Deep Ocean Trawl Nets New "Bugs"
(see below)
Global Warming Differences Resolved
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060502/ap_on_sc/warming_temperatures
US Posts Draft Of Sensitive Climate Report For Public Debate
http://info.nature.com/cgi-bin24/DM/y/eX4K0MCRns0ElJ0z2m0ET
Global warming weakens Pacific trade winds
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12612965/
Global Warming May Deprive Chicks of Food, Study Says (Update2)
http://tinyurl.com/rc7p3
Wind Turbines Send Wildlife Diving For Cover
http://tinyurl.com/f6seb
Plants' role in global warming re-examined in ORNL Science paper
http://tinyurl.com/ozu4u
China's glaciers in rapid retreat due to climate change
http://tinyurl.com/osyyk
SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES
International Conference on Complex Systems
(see below)
Summer School on Participatory Analysis of Sustainability
3rd Liphe4 Summer School 2006 (see below)
Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
(see below)
JOBS
Postdoctoral Research Position - Atmospheric Biogeochemical Data
Assimilation - Max Planck Institute
(see below)
Earth System Modeler - The Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry,
Jena, Germany
(see below)
Scientific Programmer - Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry,
Jena, Germany
(see below)
2 Senior Researchers / Heads of Research Group
(see below)
USGS research technician, Woods Hole, MA
(see below)
Executive Director, Alaska Bird Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska
(see below)
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Resources
Call for Proposals: Advancing Capacity to Support Climate Change
Adaptation (ACCCA)
Outline proposals are invited for climate change adaptation
projects to participate in the ACCCA project. Information about the
ACCCA project, the call for proposals, and an application form are
contained in the attachment to this email. The call will also be
available for download from www.accca.unitar.org (website to go on-
line week of April 10).
Proposals are sought for projects in Africa and Asia that would:
Identify and prioritize climate risks of targeted stakeholders
and identify the climate influenced decisions that they face;
Assess available knowledge about risks and adaptation
opportunities, as well as synthesize the knowledge in terms that are
directly relevant to stakeholder concerns and decision-making needs;
Develop, test and disseminate risk communication materials that
are designed to assist adaptation decisions;
Use the risk communication materials in stakeholder forums to
develop recommendations for climate change adaptation and promote
their adoption; and
Identify critical knowledge gaps that impede effective adaptation
decisions and design assessment activities that would generate new
knowledge to fill them.
Summary Information:
Deadline for application: 22 May 2006. Applicants must use the
form included in the call.
Available funding: 9 projects are expected to be awarded grants
of up to USD 70,000 each. Project development grants of up to USD
5000 are also available.
Regional scope: Developing countries of Africa and Asia.
Eligibility: The lead applicant must be employed with an
institution based in a developing country of Africa or Asia;
proposals must have at least two institutional partners that include
one stakeholder organization and one scientific organization.
Award process: Outline proposals received by 22 May 2006 will be
reviewed based upon criteria described in the call. Roughly 12
applicants will be invited by end of June to prepare a full proposal
and to attend a project initiation workshop (tentatively scheduled
for late August). Full proposals will be due in early September and
final award decisions will be made by November.
Project Period: Projects selected for awards are expected to
begin in January 2007 and be completed by June 2008 (18 month duration).
ACCCA Donors: ACCCA is funded by grants from the European
Commission EuropeAid Cooperation Office and the United Kingdom
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
ACCCA Management Team: ACCCA is managed by UNITAR in partnership
with the International START Secretariat, the Stockholm Environment
Institute - Oxford, the Climate System Analysis Group of the
University of Cape Town, Environnement et Development du Tiers Monde,
the Southeast Asia START Regional Center and the Temperate East Asia
START Regional Center.
Contacts: For further information, please contact Annie Roncerel
<annie.roncerel at unitar.org> or Neil Leary <nleary at agu.org>.
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Forum
Call for Submissions: Women and Climate Change Spring 2007
Women and Environments International Magazine is looking for
submissions for its upcoming issue on climate change. This issue will
contribute to meetings and discussions of the UN Commission on
Sustainable Development and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
in 2006 and 2007. We encourage submissions that analyze climate
change from diverse perspectives of gender, sexual identity, race,
class, ability, age, socio-cultural and regional differences among
others.
Suggested (but not exhaustive) areas of interest are listed
below. Case studies are particularly welcome.
Gender Perspective on Climate Change in relation to:
Science of global warming - ·Energy and transportation -·Health
and reproductive health -·Water and biodiversity - Economic impacts
and cost-benefit analysis - Human settlements and livelihoods -
·Agriculture, fisheries, and natural resources management -·Disasters
and Conflict.
Theoretical Perspectives:
Framing the problem of climate change; framing the solutions -
Alternative theoretical approaches to climate change - Neoliberal vs.
'subsistence' constructions of the problem of climate change -
Historicizing and engendering the discourse of climate change.
Instruments (Gender/Climate Change):
Young women's leadership - Gender mainstreaming methods and tools
- Women's participation, leadership, and empowerment - Flexible
mechanisms (clean development, emissions trading, joint implementation).
Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies:
Natural disasters, emergency preparedness and reconstruction -
Consumption and production - Energy efficiency and renewable energy -
Corporate and institutional accountability
Gender Advocacy Opportunities such as:
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol - UN
Commission on Sustainable Development -National governments and
global institutions - Community-based and non-governmental initiatives.
Deadlines:
Abstracts or indications of interest by June 15, 2006
Final Manuscripts by Aug 30th, 2006.
Writer's Guidelines:
Features should not exceed 2500 words. Shorter pieces, book and
film reviews, poetry and artistic expressions are welcome. If you
would like to submit an article written in a language other than
English, let us know and we'll do our best to facilitate translation.
All written work must be original and not previously published.
Detailed editorial guidelines and information can be found on our
website http://www.weimag.com
Women and Environments International:
Women & Environments International Magazine is a unique Canadian
magazine that examines women's relations to their natural, built, and
social environments from feminist perspectives. WEI Mag provides a
forum for academic research and theory as well as professional and
community practices and experiences. Published by a volunteer
editorial board since 1976 WEI Mag aims to contribute to feminist
social change.
Women and Gender Studies Institute, New College, University of
Toronto
40 Willcocks Street, Toronto, ON Canada M5S 1C6
p: 416.978.5259 f: 416.946.5561 we.mag at utoronto.ca www.weimag.com
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16,000 Species Said to Face Extinction
from Associated Press
GENEVA - Polar bears and hippos are among more than 16,000
species of animals and plants threatened with global extinction, the
World Conservation Union said Tuesday.
According to the Swiss-based conservation group, known by its
acronym IUCN, the number of species classified as being in serious
danger of extinction rose from about 15,500 in its previous "Red
List" report, published in 2004.
The list includes one in three amphibians, a quarter of the
world's mammals and coniferous trees, and one in eight birds,
according to a preview of the 2006 Red List. The full report is
published later this week. http://tinyurl.com/qagpt
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Please Help With Our Online Grad Student Survey
Submitted to STGRAD for distribution
We are in the Research Methods class at a small Midwestern
University, Spring Arbor University, and are doing a study on gender
and online graduate student expectations of their instructors.
If you would be willing to help us, would you please email me
indicating your willingness to help, and I will send you the survey.
It is about online classes and expectations of graduate students
regarding their instructors. The survey takes around 5 minutes to
complete. Thanks for your assistance.
Sincerely, Darlene Mokrycki and Sharon Berry. dizzydar1 at cox.net
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Science News
Federal Study Finds Accord on Warming
By ANDREW C. REVKIN New York Times May 3, 2006
A scientific study commissioned by the Bush administration
concluded yesterday that the lower atmosphere was indeed growing
warmer and that there was "clear evidence of human influences on the
climate system." The finding eliminates a significant area of
uncertainty in the debate over global warming, one that the
administration has long cited as a rationale for proceeding
cautiously on what it says would be costly limits on emissions of
heat-trapping gases.
But White House officials noted that this was just the first of
21 assessments planned by the federal Climate Change Science Program,
which was created by the administration in 2002 to address what it
called unresolved questions. The officials said that while the new
finding was important, the administration's policy remained focused
on studying the remaining questions and using voluntary means to slow
the growth in emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide.
The focus of the new federal study was conflicting records of
atmospheric temperature trends. For more than a decade, scientists
using different methods had come up with differing rates of warming
at Earth's surface and in the midsection of the atmosphere, called
the troposphere. These disparities had been cited by a small group
of scientists, and by the administration and its allies, to question
a growing consensus among climatologists that warming from heat-
trapping gases could dangerously heat Earth. The new study found
that "there is no longer a discrepancy in the rate of global average
temperature increase for the surface compared with higher levels in
the atmosphere," in the words of a news release issued by the
Commerce Department and approved by the White House. The report was
published yesterday online at climatescience.gov.
The report's authors all agreed that their review of the data
showed that the atmosphere was, in fact, warming in ways that
generally meshed with computer simulations. The study said that the
only factor that could explain the measured warming of Earth's
average temperature over the last 50 years was the buildup heat-
trapping gases, which are mainly emitted by burning coal and oil. All
other industrial powers except Australia have accepted mandatory
restrictions on such gases under the Kyoto Protocol, but efforts to
extend and expand that treaty face hurdles.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations
body that conducts an exhaustive periodic review of causes and
impacts of warming, has just finished reviewing drafts of its next
assessment, to be published next year.
Scientists involved in that effort, while refusing to comment on
specific findings, said that research since the last assessment, in
2001, had generated much greater certainty that humans are the main
force behind recent warming, and that much more warming is in store
unless emissions are curtailed.
Michele St. Martin, a spokeswoman for the White House Council on
Environmental Quality, said, "We welcome today's report" and added
that it showed that President Bush's decision to focus nearly $2
billion a year on climate monitoring and research was "working."
Thomas Karl, the director of the National Climatic Data Center in
the Commerce Department and the lead editor of the report, said it
was not simply a review of existing work but also, by forcing
scientists with differing views to meet repeatedly, resulted in
breakthroughs. "The evidence continues to support a substantial human
impact on global temperature increases," Dr. Karl said.
John R. Christy, an author of the new report whose analysis of
satellite temperature records long showed little warming above
Earth's surface, said he endorsed the conclusion that "part of what
has happened over the last 50 years has clearly been caused by humans."
But Dr. Christy, who teaches at the University of Alabama,
Huntsville, said the report also noted that computer simulations of
the climate system, while good at replicating the globally averaged
temperature changes, still strayed in projecting details,
particularly in the tropics.
This implied that the models remained laden with uncertainties
when used to study future trends, he said.
Dr. Christy also said that even given what the models projected,
it would be impossible to slow warming noticeably in the coming
decades. Countries would be wise to seek ways to adapt to warming, he
added, even as they seek new sources of energy that do not emit heat-
trapping gases.
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Spacecraft Seek Climate Clarity
from BBC News
Some of the gaping holes that exist in our understanding of the
Earth's atmosphere will be answered by two new satellites launched on
Friday.
The Cloudsat and Calipso missions will study how clouds and
aerosols (fine particles) form, evolve and affect our climate, the
weather and air quality.
Scientists say knowledge gaps in such areas severely hamper their
ability to forecast future climate change. http://tinyurl.com/glpxk
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Earlier Spring Starves Migratory Birds
from Live Science
Trees are blossoming, plants are flowering, and temperatures are
warming up. Spring is finally is here and everyone seems happier.
Well, except for the pied flycatcher, a small bird that can't
schedule its breeding time to cope with the earlier spring season
caused by climate change.
The pied flycatcher winters in West Africa then migrates to The
Netherlands for spring breeding. Offspring feed on caterpillars.
Because spring is arriving sooner than in the past, the
caterpillar population peaks earlier than the flycatcher's arrival,
resulting in scarcity of food for the chicks, a new study reports.
http://tinyurl.com/o6n7e
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Deep Ocean Trawl Nets New "Bugs"
from BBC News Online
A three-week voyage of discovery in the Atlantic has returned
with tiny animals which appear new to science.
They include waif-like plankton with delicate translucent bodies
related to jellyfish, hundreds of microscopic shrimps, and several
kinds of fish.
The voyage is part of the ongoing Census of Marine Life (CoML)
which aims to map ocean life throughout the world. http://tinyurl.com/
ouuvn
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities
International Conference on Complex Systems
We are pleased to announce that NSF will be co-sponsoring the
International Conference on Complex Systems. Applications for
financial aid should be sent to Luke Evans at rlevans at necsi.org
Financial aid will be available for students / postdocs / junior
faculty and others who do not have adequate sources of funding.
Please bring this to the attention of your colleagues and students.
Members of underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.
A preliminary program is available at http://www.necsi.org/
community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06
The ICCS program committee is still able to accept abstracts for
oral or poster sessions. These should be submitted as soon as
possible. Applications to attend and submission of abstracts can be
done on-line through: http://www.necsi.org/events/iccs6/
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Summer School on Participatory Analysis of Sustainability
3rd Liphe4 Summer School 2006
PROCEDURES AND TOOLKITS FOR INTEGRATED AND PARTICIPATORY ANALYSIS OF
SUSTAINABILITY
The purpose of the summer school is to provide a reference point
on the state of the art in the field of sustainable development
studies to young researchers and advanced students. In particular,
the school will present a complete overview, both theoretical and
applied, of recent analytical and participatory approaches for
promoting sustainable development. The main objective of the school
will be to provide an understanding of the fundamental character of
the interaction of social and natural systems and of interventions
aiming for enhancing sustainability. Resources draw from the fields
of Integrated Assessment, Social Multicriteria Evaluation, Integrated
Analysis of Social Metabolism, Participatory Approaches, as well as
Spatial and Biophysical Analysis. Students will experience an intense
level of interaction with peers and senior researchers during a 6-day
residential course.
Participants
The summer school invites PhD and Master students, as well as
young professionals, interested in problems related to sustainable
development and natural resource management. Participants should have
proficiency in English, which is the working language of the event.
In addition, a basic knowledge of analytical tools used in the field
of Ecological Economics is preferred. The total number of
participants will not exceed 30 to allow for close interaction
between participants and teachers.
The application form is available at:
http://www.liphe4.org/application.html
Send the application form along with one-page CV to Reza
Nourbakhch-Sabet reza at liphe4.org not later than May 15th, 2006.
Organization of summer school
The summer school is scheduled from 16th to 22nd July 2006. The
program is organized along five days of morning presentations and
related interactive afternoon sessions, plus introduction and
conclusion.
The summer school will take place at CEMACAM Torre Guil, an
Environmental Education Centre of the Caja de Ahorros del
Mediterraneo, in Sangonera la Verde, close to the city of Murcia,
Spain. For a look at the Torre Guil facility go to http://
obrasocial.cam.es/medio/torreguil/guil.htm and then click on
Multimedia and Galeria de Imagenes.
Themes for the 2006 summer school on integrated and participative
analyses of scenarios in relation to sustainable development.
(i) Integrated Assessment for sustainability - epistemological
and conceptual issues
(ii) Resource use patterns in industrialized and developing
countries
(iii) Tools and methods for organizing scientific information for
decision making
(iv) Resources, time, and land - operationalizing the analysis of
biophysical constraints
(v) Geographical Information Systems applied to the Integrated
Analysis of Sustainability
(vi) Participatory approaches and Multicriteria Evaluation Methods
In the facilitated working groups the participants will apply the
theoretical inputs to case studies. The case studies will be
referring to the sustainability of regional development in the South
of Spain where competing socio-economic activities of agriculture,
tourism and the building sector lead to severe problems in water
availability, landscape and soil degradation and social
disintegration. The working groups will seek to identify useful
narratives based on multi-scale integrated analysis to be used in a
debate about sustainable pathways of development for the region. The
program is completed by an excursion to a site of contested socio-
economic activities.
List of resource persons
(i) Mario Giampietro (Complex Systems)
(ii) Jesus Ramos Martin (Ecological Economics)
(iii) Heinz Schandl (Social Ecology)
(iv) Clemens M. Grünbühel (Ecological Anthropology, Rural
Development)
(v) Richard Aspinall (GIS, geography)
(vi) Begüm Özkaynak (Participatory Approaches)
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Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowships in
the Social Sciences and Humanities 2007-2008
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is
announcing the opening of its 2007-2008 Fellowship competition. The
Center awards approximately 20-25 academic year residential
fellowships to individuals from any country with outstanding project
proposals on national and/or international issues. Topics and
scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide
the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues
of contemporary importance. Applicants must hold a doctorate or have
equivalent professional experience. Fellows are provided stipends
(which include round trip travel), private offices, access to the
Library of Congress, Windows-based personal computers, and research
assistants.
For more information and application guidelines please contact
the Center at:
Tel: 202-691-4170; Fax: 202-691-4001; E-mail:
fellowships at wilsoncenter.org .
You can download the application from the Center's website at
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowships . Application deadline:
October 2, 2006
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Jobs
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Postdoctoral Research Position - Atmospheric Biogeochemical Data
Assimilation - Max Planck Institute
The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (http://www.bgc-
jena.mpg.de), a multidisciplinary institute for research in
biogeochemical cycles in the Earth System, located in Jena, Germany,
has a vacancy for a postdoctoral fellow in the field of atmospheric
modeling of CO2 and other long-lived trace gases. The proposed work
includes validation of model simulations against satellite based
remote sensing data, inverse modeling of atmospheric measurements for
the quantification of sources and sinks, and data assimilation into a
coupled atmosphere-land surface carbon cycle model. Knowledge of
global biogeochemistry is desirable, but not indispensable. The work
will be conducted in part as a contribution to the EU-funded GEMS
project (http://www.ecmwf.int/research/EU_projects/GEMS/).
Applicants are expected to have a strong background in
meteorology and climatology, good experience in programming
(FORTRAN90, Unix) and running complex numerical computer simulation
models and preferably knowledge of data assimilation techniques. The
postdoctoral position is paid either as a tax-free stipend, or
according to the German TVöD E13/14 scale depending on experience. It
is initially limited to two years with a possibility of an extension
until the end of the GEMS project (three years). The MPI-Society
seeks to increase the number of female scientists and encourages them
to apply. Handicapped persons with comparable qualifications receive
preferential status.
Please submit your application, together with curriculum vitae
and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of two references,
until May 21, 2006 in electronic form to Martin Heimann, Managing
Director (martin.heimann at bgc-jena.mpg.de).
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Earth System Modeler - The Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry,
Jena, Germany
The successful candidate will join and coordinate a newly formed
team of Earth system modelers in the framework of ENIGMA (Earth
System Network of Integrated Modeling and Assessment), a joint
project of the Max-Planck-Institutes for Meteorology, Hamburg, for
Chemistry, Mainz, for Biogeochemistry in Jena, and the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact research. The team will develop,
evaluate and optimize an advanced next generation comprehensive
numerical model of the Earth system. This model will be applied it in
a suite of key simulation experiments for a better understanding of
the Earth system behavior under a variety of past, present and future
conditions and external forcing factors. The ENIGMA team has access
to high-performance computing systems, a.o. at the German Climate
Computing Center (DKRZ) in Hamburg.
A PhD degree in Earth system science or related fields is
required. Preference will be given to candidates with a proven
publication record and experience in climate and/or Earth system
modeling. Knowledge of biogeochemical cycles is advantageous. Good
oral and written communication skills in English are required.
The position is available for three years according to a civil
service position (TVöD E13/E14, level according to experience)
including extensive social security plans. An extension of the
position is possible. The conditions of employment, including
upgrades and duration follow the rules of the Max Planck Society for
the Advancement of Sciences and those of the German civil service.
The MPI-Society seeks to increase the number of female scientists and
encourages them to apply. Handicapped persons with comparable
qualifications receive preferential status.
Please submit your application, together with curriculum vitae
and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of two references,
until May 21, 2006 in electronic form to Martin Heimann,
(martin.heimann at bgc-jena.mpg.de).
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Scientific Programmer - Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry,
Jena, Germany
The successful candidate will adapt and run Earth system models
and model components used within the framework of ENIGMA (Earth
System Network of Integrated Modeling and Assessment), a joint
project of the Max-Planck-Institutes for Meteorology, Hamburg, for
Chemistry, Mainz, for Biogeochemistry in Jena, and the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact research. He or she will be responsible
for implementing and optimizing model codes for the high-performance
computing systems (vector and parallel architectures) at the German
Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) in Hamburg, the compilation of input
data sets and the post processing and visualization of the results.
An academic degree in mathematics, computer sciences, geophysical
or related sciences is required. Excellent programming skills
(FORTRAN90, C/C++, Unix) are required as well as fluent proficiency
of the English language. Experience in working with large computer
code systems, e.g. climate models, is advantageous.
The position is available for three years according to a civil
service position (TVöD E13/E14) including extensive social security
plans. An extension of the position is possible. The conditions of
employment, including upgrades and duration follow the rules of the
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Sciences and those of the
German civil service. The MPI-Society seeks to increase the number of
female scientists and encourages them to apply. Handicapped persons
with comparable qualifications receive preferential status.
Please submit your application, together with curriculum vitae
and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of two references,
until May 21, 2006 in electronic form to Martin Heimann, Managing
Director (martin.heimann at bgc-jena.mpg.de).
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2 Senior Researchers / Heads of Research Group
Eawag is the Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and
Technology, a Swiss-based and internationally linked aquatic research
institute within the ETH domain.
Cirus - Innovation Research in Utility Sectors - is a young and
growing social science department at Eawag that is dealing with
sustainable innovation in and transformation of infrastructure
systems. Its empirical focus lies on water and energy related utility
sectors.
Cirus is planning to build up two new research groups and
therefore invites applications for:
Tenure track positions, starting fall 2006, location Duebendorf/
ZurichApplications are invited from individuals with a strong
interest in conducting high-level research and building up a research
team in one of the following fields:
Organisation of infrastructure systems: Strategic planning, risk-
and innovation management, public private partnerships, demand side
management, financial aspects of infrastructure planning, water
pricing, etc.
Governance of infrastructure systems: Policy integration and -
evaluation (technology/innovation and infrastructure policies),
regional governance, liberalisation, deregulation, policy approaches
in the field of sustainable innovation and transformation.
We expect: An excellent track record in research and publication
in domains such as science and technology studies, political
sciences, institutional or evolutionary economics, management science/
business administration, or in related fields. Ph D is required.
Further requirements are an extensive international contact
network, the willingness and ability to attract external research
funds, the capacity and interest to collaborate in interdisciplinary
research projects and to communicate research results to stakeholders
from business, government and civil society. Finally, the capability
to work in a multilingual environment, in which a good knowledge of
both spoken and written English are essential and fluency in other
languages, particularly in German are an additional asset.
Applications should include a letter describing their particular
interest in the position and pertinent experience, a curriculum
vitae, including a list of publications, the names and addresses of
at least two referees, and copies of the certificates of academic
qualifications held.
Please send your application to Eawag, Human Resources Dept., J.
Voegelin, Ueberlandstrasse 133, CH-8600 Duebendorf.
For additional information please consult www.cirus.ch or contact
Dr. B. Truffer, +41-41-349 21 15, _bernhard.truffer at eawag.ch_
Deadline for applications is May 19, 2006 (post mark).
Dr. Kornelia Konrad, Cirus - Innovation Research in Utility Sectors
Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Sciences and Technology
Seestrasse 79 CH - 6047 Kastanienbaum
Tel.: +41 41 349 2164 Fax: +41 41 349 2162
kornelia.konrad at eawag.ch www.cirus.ch, www.eawag.ch
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USGS research technician, Woods Hole, MA
Contract research technician position available with the
U.S.Geological Survey in Woods Hole, MA to work on projects examining
submarine groundwater discharge, and other biogeochemical processes
in the coastal ocean. Must be willing to travel and to participate
in and lead field efforts at both nearshore locations and on sea-
going research vessels. The position will also involve laboratory
analyses of geochemical tracers of groundwater discharge, nutrients,
and dissolved gases, as well as data processing and instrument
calibration and troubleshooting. Additional responsibilities are also
possible depending on the qualifications and interests of the
individual.
salary: $36-$49k, depending on experience (w/ health benefits)
approximate start date: June 1, 2006
minimum appointment: two years
necessary qualifications: B.S. or M.S. degree in chemistry,
geochemistry, oceanography, or related field.
Send cv/resume with names and contact info of 3 references to
John Crusius (jcrusius at usgs.gov). It is anticipated that this
position will be filled by mid to late April.
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Executive Director, Alaska Bird Observatory, Fairbanks, Alaska
Application Review Begins: Monday, 29 May 2006
Fur further information, please go to: http://www.alaskabird.org
The Alaska Bird Observatory (ABO) is a non-profit corporation
dedicated to advancing the appreciation, understanding, and
conservation of birds and their habitats through research and
education. Founded in 1991, ABO is the only observatory specializing
in long-term studies of migrant and resident landbirds of Alaska.
The Alaska Bird Observatory is looking for an experienced leader
with a proven record of non-profit or general business management who
is committed to the mission and work of ABO. The ability to sustain
and nourish organization-wide vision and cohesion are essential.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, experience
developing and managing budgets, and the ability to manage research
and education programs are critical qualities. The position requires
experience with fundraising, supervision, and human resource management.
Responsibilities of the Executive Director include program
administration, fundraising, community relations, financial
management, human resource management, and facilities and technology
development and oversight.
Applicants should provide a cover letter, detailed resume, and
contact information for three references. Direct inquires and
application materials can be addressed to the search committee in
care of Kelly Wien (KWien at alaskabird.org). Application review will
begin Monday, 29 May 2006 and will continue until a suitable
candidate is selected.
For position details, please see: http://www.alaskabird.org
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This newsletter has been developed by C. Susan Weiler to distribute
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 do not necessarily reflect those of the
funding agencies or sponsoring societies. Dr. Weiler reserves the
right to edit or reject material submitted to the list.
Please submit announcements of interest to recent PhDs to
phd at whitman.edu. Send a short message in the body of an e-mail
message, and link to any appropriate websites. Do not send attachments.
Moving? Send address changes to dialog at whitman.edu or
disccrs at whitman.edu
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C. Susan Weiler, Ph.D.
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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