[DIALOGnews] DIALOG and DISCCRS News 05/19/2006
Susan Bennett
bennetsk at whitman.edu
Fri May 19 13:58:26 CDT 2006
DIALOG and DISCCRS News
05/19/2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RESOURCES
Census Of Marine Life Sabbatical Funding Opportunity - Joint Ocean
Biogeographic Information System (Obis)-Ocean.Us Project
(see below)
Presentations from Sharing Knowledge meeting in Darwin, Australia
(see below)
SCIENCE NEWS
Why global warming is to blame for Britain's hay fever epidemic
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article364611.ece
Americans and Climate Change: Problem Summary
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/12/164351/213
Scientists find new zooplankton
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1631423.htm (see below)
Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences" webpages are now
live at:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/careerprep/index.html
US$60 million to research African climate change
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?
fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2845&language=1
Water shortages in Northeast Linked to Human Activity
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2006/story05-12-06.php
Global Warming Has Devastating Effect on Coral Reefs
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/warming-coral.html
Linking Climate Change Across Time Scales
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060518175714.htm
Meltdown Fear as Arctic Ice Cover Falls to Record Winter Low
(see below)
Group: Global Warming Threatens Millions
(see below)
Fabled Equatorial African Icecaps to Disappear
(see below)
UN-Sponsored Efforts To Combat Climate Change Move To Next Level
(see below)
Coral reef reveals history of fickle weather in the central Pacific
(see below)
FORUM
A new ad campaign is being launched by the Competitive Enterprise
Institute (www.cei.org) in the USA to "counter global warming
alarmism". The ad can be viewed here:
Quicktime: http://interface.audiovideoweb.com/lnk/
avwebdsquick2235/eresources/cei/Global_Warming_Energy-high.mov/play.qtl
WindowsMedia: http://interface.audiovideoweb.com/lnk/ny60win16080/
eresources/cei/Global_Warming_Energy-high.wmv/play.asx
Paper in 12 May 2006 issue of Science – Vol. 312 p.829: Senate Panel
Chair Ask Why NSF Funds Social Sciences
(see below)
Proposed Amendment to curtail Behavioral (and probably Biological)
NSF Science Grants
(see below)
SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES
China-U.S. climate change forum: U.C. Berkeley May 23 & 24, free &
open to the public
http://chinausclimate.org/en/ (see below)
International Foundation for Science - research grant opportunities
for scientists resident in developing countries (Closing Date: 30
June 2006)
http://www.ifs.se/index.asp
American Society for Environmental History - Annual Meeting
Announcement and Call for Papers
(see below)
U.S. and Japan Partner to Promote Climate Change Actions and Co-
benefits-
(see below)
Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Workshop
(see below)
JOBS
IIASA: Postdoctoral Program 2006
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/pdoc/index.html
Postdoc - Regional Paleoclimate Analysis. Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln.
(see below)
Assistant Professor - tenure-track position in the Department of
Geography at the University of Utah
(see below)
Senior Research Associate (3 year contract); QUEST Earth System
Modelling Project
(see below)
Director, NOAA Climate Assessments and Services Division (CASD)
(see below)
Two positions at ESRC Center for Analysis of Risk and Regulation,
London School of Economics
(see below)
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Resources
Census Of Marine Life Sabbatical Funding Opportunity - Joint Ocean
Biogeographic Information System (Obis)-Ocean.Us Project
The Census of Marine Life and Ocean.US are jointly offering a
short-term (e.g., one semester) sabbatical or part-time fellowship
opportunity to work on a Joint Ocean Biogeographic Information System
(OBIS)-Ocean.US Project. One goal of the joint project is to
understand better the human resource needs and organizational
arrangements in Ocean.US to have a system that provides outstanding
services on data about living marine resources. A second goal is to
lead by example, i.e., to develop, implement, and document software
required for the integration of the OBIS global systematic,
ecological, and environmental data with IOOS data. For more
information about this unique opportunity and application procedure,
please see the full position description at http://coml.us/?
anchor=coml_us_funding_opportunities.
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Presentations from Sharing Knowledge meeting in Darwin, Australia
We’re pleased to announce that the Sharing Knowledge website is
now live at: http://www.dar.csiro.au/sharingknowledge/index.html
On the site you can find the presentations from the most recent
workshop in Darwin, downloadable regional climate projections for
Northern Australia, the initial environmental /climate experiences of
Traditional Owners and resources and links for further information on
related work.
We plan to extend the international comparative section in the
next few weeks as well as include scoping papers on climate change
and health, and on specific vulnerabilities as well as adaptation
options.
Please let me know if you have any comments on the web site, or
would like any information or links to be added.
Dr Donna Green
Climate Change Impacts & Risk
Pye Laboratory, Black Mountain
GPO Box 1666
Canberra ACT 2601
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Science News
Scientists find new zooplankton
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1631423.htm
This gelatinous zooplankton Athorybia was among the many species
scientists found deep in the ocean (Image: L Madin)
Scientists have found 10 to 20 new species of tiny creatures in
the depths of the Atlantic, says an international report.
The survey, of tropical waters between the eastern US and the mid-
Atlantic ridge, used special nets to catch thousands of species of
fragile zooplankton.
New finds included six types of ostracods, a shrimp-like
creature, and other species of zooplankton such as swimming snails
and worms.
Zooplankton are mostly millimeters long but range up to jellyfish
trailing long tails.
They live at lightless depths of 1 to 5 kilometres and are swept
by ocean currents.
"This was a voyage of exploration ... the deepest parts of the
oceans are hardly ever sampled," says Dr Peter Wiebe, the cruise's
scientific leader and senior scientist at the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution in the US.
"We found perhaps 10-20 new species of zooplankton," he says of
the voyage by 28 scientists from 14 nations, including Australia, in
April.
The scientists also found new fish.
Among 120 types of fish caught, the scientists found what may be
a new type of black dragonfish, with fang-like teeth, growing up to
about 40 centimetres, and a 20-centimetre-long great swallower, with
wide jaws and a light-producing organ to attract prey.
Most life, including commercial fish stocks, is in the top 1
kilometre of water, but the scientists say the survey shows a
surprising abundance even in the depths.
The survey will provide a benchmark to judge future changes to
the oceans, the scientists say.
"By 2010, the research ... will provide a baseline against which
future generations can measure changes to the zooplankton and their
provinces, caused by pollution, over-fishing, climate change, and
other shifting environmental conditions," says Professor Ann Bucklin,
lead scientist for the zooplankton census project at the University
of Connecticut.
The expedition was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
The findings are also part of a wider Census of Marine Life
trying to map the oceans.
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Meltdown Fear as Arctic Ice Cover Falls to Record Winter Low
from the Guardian (UK)
Record amounts of the Arctic ocean failed to freeze during the
recent winter, new figures show, spelling disaster for wildlife and
strengthening concerns that the region is locked into a destructive
cycle of irreversible climate change.
Satellite measurements show the area covered by Arctic winter sea
ice reached an all-time low in March, down some 300,000 square
kilometres on last year -an area bigger than the UK.
Scientists say the decline highlights an alarming new trend, with
recovery of the ice in winter no longer sufficient to compensate for
increased melting in the summer. If the cycle continues, the Arctic
ocean could lose all of its ice much earlier than expected, possibly
by 2030.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1774815,00.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/em7m5
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Group: Global Warming Threatens Millions
from Associated Press
LONDON -- Millions of people around the world face death and
devastation due to floods, famine, drought and violence caused by
global warming, according to a report by a charity group.
A report to be released Monday by Christian Aid said 162 million
people in sub-Saharan Africa alone could die of disease directly
attributable to global warming by the end of the century.
It urged the British government to lead the world's richer
countries in taking urgent action to curb global warming.
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-britain-climate-
change,0,10800.story
or
http://tinyurl.com/f3r3m
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Fabled Equatorial African Icecaps to Disappear
AGU Release No. 06-16
WASHINGTON - Fabled equatorial icecaps will disappear within two
decades, because of global warming, a study British and Ugandan
scientists has found. In a paper to be published 17 May in
Geophysical Research Letters, they report results from the first
survey in a decade of glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains of East
Africa. An increase in air temperature over the last four decades has
contributed to a substantial reduction in glacial cover, they say.
The Rwenzori Mountains--also known as the Mountains of the Moon--
straddle the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the
Republic of Uganda. They are home to one of four remaining tropical
ice fields outside of the Andes and are renowned for their
spectacular and rare flora and fauna. The mountains' legendary status
was set during the second century, when the Greek geographer Ptolemy
made a seemingly preposterous but ultimately accurate statement about
snow-capped mountains at the equator in Africa: "The Mountains of the
Moon whose snows feed the lakes, sources of the Nile."
The glaciers were first surveyed a century ago when glacial cover
over the entire range was estimated to be 6.5 square kilometers [2.5
square miles]. Recent field surveys and satellite mapping of glaciers
conducted by researchers from University College London, Uganda's
Makerere University, and the Ugandan Water Resources Management
Department show that some glaciers are receding tens of metres
[yards] each year and that the area covered by glaciers halved
between 1987 and 2003. With less than one square kilometer [half a
square mile] of glacier ice remaining, the researchers expect these
glaciers to disappear within the next 20 years.
Richard Taylor of the University College London Department of
Geography, who led the study, says: "Recession of these tropical
glaciers sends an unambiguous message of a changing climate in this
region of the tropics. Considerable scientific debate exists,
however, as to whether changes in temperature or precipitation are
responsible for the shrinking of glaciers in the East African
Highlands that also include Kilimanjaro [in Tanzania] and Mount
Kenya." Taylor and his colleagues found that in the Rwenzori
Mountains since the 1960s, there are clear trends toward increased
air temperature without significant changes in precipitation.
A key focus of the research is the impact of climate change on
water resources in Africa. Glacial recession in Rwenzori Mountains is
not expected to affect alpine river flow, the scientists say, due to
the small size of the remaining glaciers. It remains unclear,
however, how the projected loss of the glaciers will affect tourism
and local traditional belief systems that are based upon the snow and
ice, known locally as "Nzururu."
"Considering the continent's negligible contribution to global
greenhouse-gas emissions, it is a terrible irony that Africa,
according to current predictions, will be most affected by climate
change," added Taylor. "Furthermore, the rise in air temperature is
consistent with other regional studies that show how dramatic
increases in malaria in the East African Highlands may arise, in
part, from warmer temperatures, as mosquitoes are able to colonize
previously inhospitable highland areas."
The research was funded by The Royal Geographical Society and The
Royal Society.
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UN-Sponsored Efforts To Combat Climate Change Move To Next Level
Read the press release on our website:
English: http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/
press_releases_and_advisories/application/pdf/20060516_un-
sponsored_effort_to_combat_cc-english.pdf
French: http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/
press_releases_and_advisories/application/pdf/20060516_un-
sponsored_effort_to_combat_cc-french.pdf
Russian: http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/
press_releases_and_advisories/application/pdf/20060516_un-
sponsored_effort_to_combat_cc-russian3.pdf
Spanish: http://unfccc.int/files/press/news_room/
press_releases_and_advisories/application/pdf/20060516_un-
sponsored_effort_to_combat_cc-spanish2.pdf
(Bonn, 16 May 2006) The first stage of new talks on future
action under the UN-sponsored climate change process concluded today
in Bonn, Germany.
Delegates from 165 countries discussed how to further strengthen
international cooperation to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases
and to respond to climate change impacts.
"There is now a strong consensus on the need to reduce emissions
to protect the global climate. Much emphasis has been put on the
promotion of economic incentives to promote action to reduce
emissions - for both industrialized and developing countries", said
Richard Kinley, acting head of the United Nations Climate Change
Secretariat.
The wide-ranging presentations of possible approaches included
incentives for developing countries to mitigate climate change,
ensuring cooperation on research and development and the transfer of
cleaner technologies. Delegates also expressed strong support for the
role of the carbon market and the need to find new ways to involve
the private sector in climate protection.
Rona Ambrose, President of the 11th session of the Conference of
the Parties and Canadian Minister for the Environment, said that
there was strong consensus among governments on the fact that
humanity had a serious problem.
"In Canada’s Arctic region, the changes noted by the Inuit
community - such as melting permafrost, changes in sea ice and the
arrival of new migratory animal species - has raised the need to
address adaptation measures", she said.
The round of discussions in the form of a “Dialogue on long-term
cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing
implementation of the Convention” was facilitated by Howard Bamsey
of Australia and Sandea de Wet of the South Africa.
The dialogue workshop was the first of a series of four meetings
involving all 189 contracting Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The series will conclude at
the end of 2007. The next such meeting will be held in November 2006
in Nairobi, Kenya.
Another important round of talks involving the 163 Parties to the
Kyoto Protocol begins 17 May in Bonn and ends 25 May.
The focus of this "Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments
for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol" will be on further
measures to be taken by industrialized countries for the period after
2012, when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends.
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Coral reef reveals history of fickle weather in the central Pacific
Close examination of coral reef reveals that when the rest of the
world was experiencing warm weather, the Pacific was cold. And during
a period of cold weather elsewhere in the world, the Pacific was warm
and stormy.
For more than five decades, archaeologists, geographers, and
other researchers studying the Pacific Islands have used a model of
late Holocene climate change based largely on other regions of the
world. However, in a new study from the June issue of Current
Anthropology, Melinda Allen (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
uses evidence from the long-lived Pacific corals to suggest that the
climate in the Pacific diverged from the rest of the world during two
major climate periods: the "Little Ice Age" and the "Medieval Warm
Period."
"These findings have relevance for both ancient and modern
Pacific peoples," explains Allen. "Climate change, accelerated sea
rise, and deterioration of coral reefs, along with their associated
social and environmental costs, are among the most pressing concerns
of Pacific Island nations today."
The new climate models presented in this paper suggest that while
the rest of the world was experiencing certain weather patterns, the
Pacific island region and the people who lived there were
experiencing something else entirely. During the "Medieval Warm
Period" ca. A.D. 900-1200, conditions in the tropical Pacific were
cool and possibly dry. Similarly, during the "Little Ice Age" ca.
A.D. 1550-1900, the central Pacific was comparatively warm and wet,
with stormy conditions more common.
As Allen writes: "The ancient coral studies, in tandem with
archaeology, offer an opportunity for investigating the impact of
climate change on Pacific environment and Pacific peoples' responses
to these changes – conditions which their successors are again
facing in the 21st century."
Melinda Allen. "New ideas about late Holocene climate variability
in the central Pacific." Current Anthropology 47:3.
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Forum
Paper in 12 May 2006 issue of Science – Vol. 312 p.829: Senate Panel
Chair Ask Why NSF Funds Social Sciences
Submitted by C.S. Weiler
Dear all, the link between science and society has always been a
close one, and with the growing impact of humans on the environment
it us as important as ever, if not more so. I urge you to read the
article in the 12 May 2006 issue of science.
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Proposed Amendment to curtail Behavioral (and probably Biological)
NSF Science Grants
Sen Kay B Hutchison (R-TX) was scheduled to propose an amendment
on May 18 that will alter the future of the NSF by directing it to
curtail Behavioral (and probably Biological) Science grants from now on.
The American Institute of Biological Sciences posted an Action
Alert in response: http://www.aibs.org/announcements/
060517_action_alert_please_tell.html
A recent article also appeared in Inside Higher Ed on the topic:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/03/nsf
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities
American Society for Environmental History - Annual Meeting
Announcement and Call for Papers
Living on the Edge: Human Desires and Environmental Realities
Baton Rouge, LA, 28 February-3 March, 2007
Deadline For Submission: 1 July 2006
The program committee for the American Society for Environmental
History invites panel, paper, and poster proposals for its March 2007
meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Proposals may address any area of
environmental history, but in keeping with the conference’s theme,
the committee specifically solicits submissions examining perceptions
of risk and social responses to environmental disasters and the idea
of living on the edge: edges of danger, edges of continents, edges of
poverty, and the space between history and other disciplines. After
the enormous destruction along the Gulf Coast resulting from
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, it seems all the more essential
to consider the deep complexities of dealing with environmental
hazards, and the varying roles of science, government, politics, and
community.
The committee supports approaches ranging from the transnational
to the personal, from policy to politics, and we encourage proposals
by anthropologists, ecologists, economists, geographers, and
sociologists. Panels that integrate disparate geographic areas or
disciplinary approaches will be particularly favored. By seeking
interdisciplinary conversations about environmental disasters and
their implications, we hope to cast new light on this subject.
However, the committee strongly recommends proposals for complete
panels. Individual papers are welcome, but they are more difficult
to accommodate. To maximize the number of papers yet maintain
opportunities for creative exchanges among panelists and the
audience, the committee also requests that panel proposals be limited
either to three papers and a discussant or four papers and no
comment. Participants are limited to presenting only one formal
paper, but they may also engage in roundtable, chairing, or
commenting duties.
To submit a proposal, go to http://www.chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/
1725/, and type or paste in the standard information.
Should you have questions, please contact any member of the
program committee:
David Louter, Chair, National Park Service (David_Louter at nps.gov)
Betsy Mendelsohn, University of Maryland (bmendel at umd.edu)
Craig Colten, Louisiana State University (ccolten at lsu.edu)
Laura Watt, EDAW Inc. (lawatt at california.com)
Mission statement: The American Society for Environmental History
(ASEH), founded in 1977, seeks to promote scholarship and teaching in
environmental history, to support the professional needs of its
members, and to connect its undertakings with larger communities.
The ASEH aspires to advance a greater understanding of the history of
human interaction with the rest of the natural world, to foster
dialogue between humanistic scholarship, environmental science, and
other disciplines, and to support global environmental history
efforts that benefit the public as well as the general scholarly
community. It promotes these activities through publication of the
peer-reviewed journal Environmental History, annual conferences,
scholarly awards, on-line discussions, conversation with other
professional societies, and public outreach.
Brinda Sarathy, Doctoral Candidate
Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
University of California, Berkeley bsarathy at nature.berkeley.edu
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China-U.S. climate change forum - U.C. Berkeley May 23 & 24, free &
open to the public
By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 17 May 2006
BERKELEY – Top climate scientists from China and the United
States will gather May 23-24 with policymakers, Nobel laureates,
think tanks officials, business representatives, members of the media
and others at the University of California, Berkeley, to explore how
the world's two biggest producers of greenhouse gas emissions can
address global warming and minimize its impacts on the planet.
"If the globe has any hope of coming to grips with climate
change, the U.S. and China both have to get involved in this issue in
a big way - and so far they haven't," said Orville Schell, who is
dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, a China scholar
and an organizer of the conference.
Thomas Gold, a UC Berkeley sociologist and head of the Berkeley-
China Initiative that is helping to organize the conference, said
next week's two-day China-U.S. Climate Change Program will be the
initiative's first in a series of events on climate change and
environmental issues involving China, the United States, and other
regions of the world.
Topics of discussion at the forum will include various
perspectives on climate change, reports about the latest scientific
research and technological innovation, coal, economic development,
and social, policy and media-related dimensions of climate change.
"This is a place where two giants with enormous influence on the
planet get to talk to each other, scientist to scientist," said John
Harte, a UC Berkeley professor in the Energy and Resources Group who
will present an overview of the consequences of climate change. "We
(scientists) don't distrust each other, so we can have really good
exchanges and share our concerns and share our constructive ideas for
solving climate problems."
Steve Chu, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory director and
a Nobel Prize-winner in physics, will discuss historic climate data,
including evidence that shows climate over the last five years is the
warmest in the last 150 years. He calls carbon-based energy use and
increasing demand for energy "one of the most important societal
problems that science and technology can help solve," and he has
committed the Berkeley Lab to finding carbon-neutral forms of energy
that can sustain the world in an environmentally acceptable manner.
As the major oil users in the world and with growing economies
that promise more of the same, the United States and China have a
special responsibility to address this issue in forums such as the
one at UC Berkeley, said Chu. "If we don't solve this," he said, "the
life style of the world will change dramatically."
Schell said that traveling in China last fall, it became very
evident that climate change has already become a huge problem.
Elevating the concern, he said, are recent reports by Chinese
scientists who calculate that 7 percent of the Tibetan Plateau's ice
cap is disappearing each year, jeopardizing the glacial headwaters
for six of Asia's major rivers, including China's Yangzi and India's
Ganges.
Meanwhile, in the United States, President Bush has told
reporters that it is uncertain whether climate change is manmade or
natural.
Participants in the forum will include leading scientists from
institutions such as Harvard University, the Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Tsinghua University.
Participating business officials will include representatives from
the China National Petroleum Corp., Global Business Network, Royal
Dutch Shell and other firms.
Among participating think tanks will be the Woods Hole Research
Institute, Shanghai Institute of International Studies and the
Natural Resources Defense Council. In addition, members of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and Chinese
Meteorological Administration will be on hand, as will members of
major media outlets in the United States and China.
"That's the complete chain in the line of solutions to the
climate change problem," said Schell, "Our intent is to make this a
group of people whom we hope will knit together a sort of fabric for
ongoing relationships and exchanges."
The Berkeley-China Initiative, a group of UC Berkeley faculty
members and graduate students with interests and expertise relating
to China, is working to forge closer ties between China and UC
Berkeley and also is raising funds for scholarships to enable Chinese
students to pursue studies at UC Berkeley.
The Open Society Institute, a private organization founded by
financier George Soros to promote democratic governance, human rights
and social reform, provided the seed money to bring the two sides
together for next week's conference.
The forum is free, open to the public, and at Wheeler Hall
Auditorium.
More detailed information about the forum and participants is
online at: http://chinausclimate.org/en/.
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U.S. and Japan Partner to Promote Climate Change Actions and Co-
benefits-
On March 22 and 23, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment
(MOEJ), the Japan-based Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
(IGES) and U.S. EPA (EPA) held a workshop on Climate Change Actions
and Co-Benefits. Participants agreed to strengthen international
cooperation on actions that improve air quality and promote clean
energy, energy security, and economic opportunities at home and
abroad. EPA and its Japanese partners explored options for
collaborating on projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally
and encourage sustainable development.
MOEJ presented, in addition to other programs and policy
initiatives, Japan’s new Climate Change Program which includes
improved energy efficiency and an awareness campaign titled “Cool
Biz”. IGES highlighted Japan’s Voluntary Emissions Trading Scheme
which provides an economic incentive to corporations to reduce
emissions while building a base of knowledge and experience with
trading scenarios. EPA showcased its experience in several voluntary
and capacity building programs that reap environmental benefits,
including the Landfill Methane Outreach Program and the Integrated
Environmental Strategies Program.
The U.S.-Japan partnership supports the recently launched Asia-
Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate that promotes
projects and programs to protect the environment, improve public
health, and enhance economic growth worldwide.
All presentations from the March workshop, as well as a summary
of the workshop, are available on the internet at www.epa.gov/ies/
Workshop.
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Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Workshop
The summer OCB workshop (July 10-13th) is fast approaching, and
we have posted a web site for electronic registration http://
www.whoi.edu/sites/ocb2006workshop
The workshop will run all day Monday-Wednesday and half day on
Thursday (to allow people to return home Thursday afternoon if they
want). The meeting plenary talks will be organized around several
major themes:
-marine ecosystem-biogeochemical dynamics of the euphotic zone
and mesopelagic
-the ocean carbon cycle and climate
-air-sea CO2 fluxes (measurement, variability, impact on the
atmosphere)
In addition, there will be one (or more) poster sessions and some
either plenary discussions/breakout groups to discuss future research
opportunities on:
-ocean acidification (building on St. Petersburg report that will
be released shortly)
-work in the Southern Ocean leveraging proposed Gas-Ex3
experiment and proposed CLIVAR work
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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 - Regional Paleoclimate Analysis. Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln.
The successful candidate will have expertise in paleo time-series
reconstruction and analyses, especially from the marine environment.
Work on recreating sea surface temperatures and other climatic
indicators from corals would be especially desirable. The candidate
will work with the PI, who is a climate modeler, on analyzing
regional climate variability from the mid-Holocene to the present,
using a variety of model output and reconstructed datasets. The
position is for one year, with a second year of funding available if
performance is satisfactory during the first year. Subsequent years
would depend on receipt of additional research funding and could
include joint proposals with the PI.
The University of Nebraska is committed to a pluralistic campus
community through affirmative action and equal opportunity. We assure
reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act;
contact Dr. Robert Oglesby at 402-472-1507 for assistance.
Review of applications will begin June 5, 2006 and will continue
until the position is filled or the search closed.
To be considered for this position go to http://
employment.unl.edu, requisition 060346, complete the Faculty/
Administrative application and attach required documents.
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Assistant Professor - tenure-track position in the Department of
Geography at the University of Utah
The Department of Geography at the University of Utah invites
applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor
level starting July 2007. We seek a Physical Geographer interested
in environmental change and specializing in: (1) Biogeography with a
research emphasis in one or more of the following: past environments,
climate change, dendrochronology or landscape analysis and modeling,
or (2) Climatology with a research emphasis in paleoclimatology or
climate change. The applicant's research skills should complement
current departmental strengths in paleoecology, wildfire, fire
modeling, Quaternary geomorphology, glaciology, and remote sensing of
vegetation and the cryosphere. The ability to teach Cartography is
desirable, as is field experience, remote sensing, GIS, or spatial
statistical skills.
Submit a letter of application including research and teaching
interests, vitae, teaching evaluations (if available) and the names,
addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of exactly three
referees by 29 September 2006. Applications received after the
deadline may be considered until the position is filled. The
University of Utah is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
employer, encourages applications from women and minorities and
provides reasonable accommodations for the known disabilities of
applicants and employees.
Apply: Harvey J. Miller, Chair, University of Utah / Department
of Geography / 260 S Central Campus Dr Room 270 / Salt Lake City UT
84112-9155.
More information:
http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/documents/2006-
physical_geographer.pdf
http://www.geog.utah.edu/
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Senior Research Associate (3 year contract); QUEST Earth System
Modelling Project
Deadline for application: June 2 2006
We are seeking a highly motivated Research Associate to help
understand the feedbacks between marine ecosystems and climate, and
identify potentially dangerous climate paths. The Research Associate
will be based in the 5** School of Environmental Sciences and will
work with Dr Corinne Le Quéré and Professor Andy Watson as part of a
team coupling an existing ocean biogeochemistry model that is more
closely based on ecological principles to an appropriate version of
the Hadley's Earth System Model, and analysing the results in terms
of feedback direction, feedback intensity, and potential extreme
situations. The use of observations to constrain model behaviour is
highly encouraged in this project.
You must have a PhD and post doctoral experience in modelling of
ocean biogeochemistry, ocean physics, climate, or related and
transferable experience. The work will be done in collaboration with
the multi-disciplinary scientists from the Dynamic Green Ocean
Project (http://lgmacweb.env.uea.ac.uk/green_ocean). It is expected
that you will take some leadership in the project and attend
international conferences and co-ordination meetings.
The full job description and application form can be found on
http://lgmacweb.env.uea.ac.uk/green_ocean/jobs.shtml
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Director, NOAA Climate Assessments and Services Division (CASD)
Supervisory Physical Scientist, GS-1301- 15 or Supervisory Social
Scientist, GS-101-15, Salary range: $107,521-$139,774. The Climate
Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
is seeking an energetic individual with considerable experience in
outcome-oriented, applied environmental research to lead a new
division known as Climate Assessments and Services. The incumbent is
responsible for managing a division that leads the effort to connect
climate assessments, research and services to broader public interest
goals associated with adapting to climate variability and change. The
ideal candidate will have demonstrated themselves to be an innovator
and initiator, will have experience working across public and private
sector organizations, will have worked in the field of applied
climate and environmental research or in a setting which required on-
going interaction with the environmental research community, and will
have a vision for the implementation of federal investments linking
new climate-related interdisciplinary research with national needs
for building adaptive capacity for climate variability and change.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential as is
the ability to work in a team of senior program manager in support of
agency goals and mission requirements. Ph.D. or equivalent experience
required. Detailed job information and applicant instructions will be
found at https://jobs1.quickhire.com/scripts/doc.exe under vacancy
numbers OAR-HQ-2006-0092, 93, 94 and 96. Open to all U.S. Citizens.
Posting dates : May 12 to June 26. The U.S. Department of Commerce
is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Josh Foster, Program Coordinator
Transition of Research Applications to Climate Services (TRACS)
Program
(formerly NOAA Climate Transition Program (NCTP))
Climate Assessments and Services Division (CASD)
Climate Program Office (CPO)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1215
Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
P) 301-427-2370; Main: 301-427-2089 x 2370; F) 301-427-2073
H) 202-237-5643; M) 202-277-5643
josh.foster at noaa.gov; joshua.foster.for.93 at aya.yale.edu
http://www.climate.noaa.gov
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Two positions at ESRC Center for Analysis of Risk and Regulation,
London School of Economics
The ESRC Center for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the
London School of Economics is advertising two new postitions, a 3-
year research officership and a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship. More
details:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CARR/vacancies.htm
or
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/browse/education/research/
vacancy-1139423-1.html
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