[DIALOGnews] DISCCRS News 9/15/2006
Ruth Ladderud
ladderra at whitman.edu
Fri Sep 15 19:31:09 CDT 2006
DISCCRS News
9/15/2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
RESOURCES
U.S. NSF Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2007
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06604
Carbon Value Analysis Tool (CVAT) Update
The CVAT v1.1 is a screening tool to help companies integrate the
value of carbon dioxide emissions reductions into energy-related
investment decisions The Excel based tool is available for free
through World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Climate Northeast
Partnership website: www.climatenortheast.org.
"Climate Risk Management - Integrating Adaptation into World Bank
Group Operations” - The World Bank - Executive Summary (new publication)
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/
GLOBALENVIRONMENTFACILITYGEFOPERATIONS/Resources/Publications-
Presentations/GEFAdaptationAug06.pdf
(see RESOURCES 1 below)
Webconference and Online Workshop for Educators "Autosub Under Ice"
College of Exploration, 18 September - 6 October 2006
http://www.coexploration.org/autosub
(see RESOURCES 2 below)
Global Warming Educational Initiative Launched: “Focus the Nation”
Unveils Website, Tour of Colleges –January 31, 2007
www.focusthenation.org.
(see RESOURCES 3 below)
SCIENCE NEWS
Union of Concerned Scientists Cartoon Competition
http://ucsaction.org/campaign/vote_now_for_science_idol/?
qp_source=wacucs%5fhomearspotlig
The Heat Is On - Global warming, it now seems, is for real. (The
Economist)
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7852924-
Hurricane Breeding Grounds Heat Up
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06128
Greenhouse Gas Bubbling From Melting Permafrost Feeds Climate Warming
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/geowissenschaften/
bericht-70195.html
Report Links Global Warming
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/
MNG5HL3S611.DTL http://tinyurl.com/hp9h3
(see NEWS 1 below)
Arctic Sea Ice Diminished Rapidly in 2004 and 2005
(see NEWS 2 below)
Humans Affect Sea Warming In Hurricane Zones: Study.
http://tinyurl.com/fxms6
(see NEWS 3 below)
Changes in Solar Brightness Too Weak to Explain Global Warming
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/ncfa-cis091106.php
(see NEWS 4 below)
Study Considers Auto Industry And Consumer Behavior In Reducing
Greenhouse Gas Emissions -Rochester Institute Of Technology Wins $2
Million National Science Foundation Grant
(see NEWS 5 below)
Arctic Ice: It's Melting
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/14/
ICE.TMP&type=science http://tinyurl.com/evnob
(see NEWS 6 below)
Diversity Up for Grad Students
http://www.cgsnet.org/
(see NEWS 7 below)
SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES
Ecological Change, Climate Variation Addressed at International
Conference Sept. 20-24
URL : http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=pr06129
Final Announcement: International Climate Change Symposium –
Washington DC (USA)
http://www.ir-symposia.com
(see MEETING 1 below)
JOBS
Lecturer in Glaciology - Application Deadline: Friday, 6 October 2006
http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,
8404,en.asp
Chair/Reader in Earth Systems Science/Climate Modelling - Application
Deadline: Friday, 22 September 2006
http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,
7259,en.asp
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Earth System Science/Climate Modelling -
Application Deadline: Friday, 22 September 2006
http://www.swan.ac.uk/personnel/Vacancies/Academic/PostTitle,
7260,en.asp
Asst. Profs. tenure-track - Graduate School of Geography - Clark
University, Worcester, MA (USA) http://www.clarku.edu/departments/
geography/phd.cfm http://www.clarku.edu/departments/ES/
(see JOB 1 below)
Asst. Prof. tenure track - Physical Geography - University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, UT (USA) http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/documents/
2006-physical_geographer.pdf
(see JOB 2 below)
Asst. Prof tenure track - Land Change Science Component Of Human
Dimensions Of Global And Regional Change, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS (USA)
(see JOB 3 below)
Asst. Prof tenure track - Geographic Information Sciences, Kansas
State University Manhattan, KS (USA) (http://www.k-state.edu/giscommons/
(see JOB 4 below)
Asst. Prof tenure track - Physical Geographer With Expertise In
Hydrology Or Biogeography, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS
(USA) http://www.kstate.edu/geography/
(see JOB 5 below)
Postdoc/Visiting Scientist Program - University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research (UCAR) - NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory (GFDL), Princton, NJ (USA) www.vsp.ucar.edu
(see JOB 6 below)
Research Facilitator - Physical Climate Science, Department of Earth
Sciences and Sub-Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary
Physics - Univ of Oxford (UK) www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/resfac.pdf
(see JOB 7 below)
Postdoc - Atmospheric Dynamics - University of California, Irvine,
CA (USA)
(SEE JOB 8 below)
Postdoc. - The oceanic response to the North Atlantic Oscillation -
LOCEAN/IPSL, University Paris VI, (FRANCE) http://dynamite.nersc.no
http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr/
(see JOB 9 below)
Postdoc. Research Scientist - Rossby Center, Swedish Meterological &
Hydrological Institution (SWEDEN) www.smhi.se
(see JOB 10 below)
Grad. Student - marine physiological ecology - Dauphin Island Sea
Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama (USA)
http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/rcarmichael/index.shtml
(see JOB 11 below)
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Resources
(RESOURCES 1) "Climate Risk Management - Integrating Adaptation into
World Bank Group Operations” - The World Bank - Executive Summary
(new publication)
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/
GLOBALENVIRONMENTFACILITYGEFOPERATIONS/Resources/Publications-
Presentations/GEFAdaptationAug06.pdf
Climate change is already taking place, and further changes are
inevitable. Developing countries, and particularly the poorest people
in these countries, are most at risk. The impacts result not only
from gradual changes in temperature and sea level but also, in
particular, from increased climate variability and extremes,
including more intense floods, droughts, and storms. These changes
are already having major impacts on the economic performance of
developing countries and on the lives and livelihoods of millions of
poor people around the world.
Climate change thus directly affects the World Bank Group’s
mission of eradicating poverty. It also puts at risk many projects in
a wide range of sectors, including infrastructure, agriculture, human
health, water resources, and environment. The risks include physical
threats to the investments, potential underperformance, and the
possibility that projects will indirectly contribute to rising
vulnerability by, for example, triggering investment and settlement
in high-risk areas. The way to address these concerns is not to
separate climate change adaptation from other priorities but to
integrate comprehensive climate risk management into development
planning, programs, and projects.
While there is a great need to heighten awareness of climate risk
in Bank work, a large body of experience on climate risk management
is already available, in analytical work, in country dialogues, and
in a growing number of investment projects. This operational
experience highlights the general ingredients for successful
integration of climate risk management into the mainstream
development agenda: getting the right sectoral departments and senior
policy makers involved; incorporating risk management into economic
planning; engaging a wide range of nongovernmental actors
(businesses, nongovernmental organizations, communities, and so on);
giving attention to regulatory issues; and choosing strategies that
will pay off immediately under current climate conditions.
There are several ways in which the World Bank Group can continue
helping its clients better manage climate risks to poverty reduction
and sustainable development: (1) Integrating climate risk management
into the project cycle, by adopting early risk identification (for
instance by applying a quick and simple risk-screening tool) and
following up throughout the design process if necessary. (2)
Integrating climate risk management into country and sector
dialogues, especially in countries and sectors that are particularly
vulnerable. (3) Enhancing internal support for and coordination of
climate risk management by, for example, expanding analytical work
and capacity for cross-support by the Global Climate Change Team and
the Hazard Management Unit of the World Bank and by actively
developing climate risk management activities within regional
departments. (4) Supporting the establishment of proper financing
mechanisms for adaptation, using, for example, the Investment
Framework for Clean Energy and Development. New funding mechanisms
created under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) and being made operational by the Global Environment
Facility (GEF), as well as the Kyoto Protocol, should be used to
leverage maximum adaptation results within the Bank’s broad range of
development activities and investments.
By enhancing climate risk management, the World Bank Group will
be able to address the growing risks from climate change and, at the
same time, make current development investments more resilient to
climate variability and extreme weather events. In that way, climate
risk management will not only guard the Bank’s investments in a
changing climate but will also improve the impact of development
efforts right now.
Maarten van Aalst ( maarten.vanaalst at xs4all.nl ) Paulus
Potterstraat 12, 3583 SN Utrecht, the Netherlands. tel +31 30
2544413 mob +31 6 15086199 skype mkvaalst
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(RESOURCES 2) Webconference and Online Workshop for Educators
"Autosub Under Ice" College of Exploration, 18 September - 6 October
2006
http://www.coexploration.org/autosub
Educators are invited to participate in a three week long
webconference and online workshop that will focus on the science,
technology, and engineering of the Autosub Under Ice Programme from
2000 to 2006.
Autosub is a long range, deep diving, autonomous underwater
vehicle. It can carry a wide variety of physical, biological, and
chemical sensors to provide scientists with the capability to monitor
the oceans in ways not possible with conventional research ships.
More information about Autosub is available online at: http://
www.soc.soton.ac.uk/aui/
Autosub Under Ice (2000-2006) tackled science questions of global
importance and relevance, using innovative technology to obtain
information from beneath floating ice in some of the most hostile
parts of the world's oceans.
This webconference and online workshop will provide an
opportunity for educators of all ages to learn about this cutting
edge science and technology directly from the scientists and
engineers who participated in the program.
New discoveries will be shared, including unique pictures of the
underside of sea ice, details of the rate of thinning of the ice, and
the composition of water collected from under the ice to name just a
few. The presentations will be available in a variety of formats and
resources and lesson plans will be provided. Please note that
participation is free of charge. Graduate credit, however, is
available through Ashland University for a fee.
For further information and to register, please go to: http://
www.coexploration.org/autosub For further information, please
contact: Peter Tuddenham E-mail: peter at coexploration.net
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(RESOURCES 3) Global Warming Educational Initiative Launched: “Focus
the Nation” Unveils Website, Tour of Colleges –January 31, 2007
www.focusthenation.org.
Portland, OR—A major new educational initiative on global warming
is live today on the Internet. Focus the Nation will involve over
1000 universities, colleges and high schools in nationwide,
simultaneous one-day symposia that will explore the challenge of
“Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century”.
“Post Katrina, and with 2006 on track to be the hottest year on
record, Americans are getting seriously worried about global
warming”, said Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, and
author of the book Boiling Point. “Focus the Nation will generate a
critically-needed, non-partisan, national dialogue about the bold
steps we have to take if we are going to stabilize the climate.”
Students, faculty and staff can sign their schools up to
participate at www.focusthenation.org. “Although we are working
mostly with high schools and up, we also welcome participation by
middle school and elementary school teachers” said Project Director,
Dr. Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics at Lewis & Clark College.
In fact, building from a base in educational institutions, Focus the
Nation is also encouraging involvement by faith and civic
organizations, businesses, and cities and towns. “The decisions we
make over the next decade to either stabilize global warming
pollution-- or not-- will profoundly impact our children’s future. We
owe our young people a truly national day of focused conversation
about global warming solutions,” said Goodstein.
The symposia are scheduled for January 31st, 2008. The date falls
in between the New Hampshire and Super Tuesday political primaries,
and Focus the Nation organizers expect that with several million
students nationwide discussing global warming solutions, political
candidates and elected officials from all parties will join the
dialogue.
To launch the effort, Goodstein is touring campuses across the
country—including stops in the next few weeks at Columbia, Yale, U
Mass Amherst, SUNY Albany, Boise State, and the University of
Arizona. Regional launch events will be held on September 30th at
Middlebury College in Vermont; October 6th at Arizona State
University; November 18that the University of the South in Sewanee,
Tennessee; and on December 9th at Lewis & Clark College in Portland,
Oregon. A complete schedule can be found on the project web site at
www.focusthenation.org.
Focus the Nation intends to spark discussion about practical
solutions to stabilizing the climate. An important part of the
educational mission is being shouldered by the project’s business
partners, including Clif Bar and Stonyfield Farm. “There are
important lessons to be learned from companies that have been
successfully reducing their footprint on the planet, while also
gaining strength in the marketplace.” said Goodstein.
The Focus the Nation advisory board includes Dr. Bunyan Bryant,
School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan; Senator Gary
Hart (D-CO); Denis Hayes, Earth Day founder and President of the
Bullitt Foundation; Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capitalism,
Inc; Dr. William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental
Policy at Tufts University; Dr. David Orr, Professor of Environmental
Studies at Oberlin College; Billy Parish, Director of Energy Action;
the Honorable Claudine Schneider, former member of Congress (R-RI),
and Dr. James “Gus” Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies.
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Science News
(NEWS 1) Report Links Global Warming
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/
MNG5HL3S611.DTL http://tinyurl.com/hp9h3
San Francisco Chronicle - Scientists say they have found what
could be the key to ending a yearlong debate about what is making
hurricanes more violent and common – evidence that human-caused
global warming is heating the ocean and providing more fuel for the
world's deadliest storms.
Employing 80 computer simulations, scientists from Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory and other institutions concluded that
there is only one answer: that the burning of fossil fuels, which
warms the climate, is also heating the oceans.
Humans, Ben Santer, the report's lead author, told The Chronicle,
are making hurricanes globally more violent "and violent hurricanes
more common" – at least, in the latter case, in the northern Atlantic
Ocean. The findings were published Monday in the latest issue of the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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(NEWS 2)Arctic Sea Ice Diminished Rapidly in 2004 and 2005
WASHINGTON - The Arctic Ocean's perennial sea ice, which survives
the summer melt season and remains year-round, shrank abruptly by 14
percent between 2004 and 2005, according to a newly published study.
Researchers found that the loss of perennial ice in the East Arctic
Ocean, above Europe and Asia, neared 50 percent during that time as
some of the ice moved to the West Arctic Ocean, above North America.
The overall decrease in winter Arctic perennial sea ice totaled
730,000 square kilometers [280,000 square miles]--an area the size of
Texas. Perennial ice can be three meters [10 feet] thick, or more. It
was replaced in the winter by new, seasonal ice, which was only about
0.3 to two meters [one to seven feet] thick and more vulnerable to
summer melt. The study was funded by NASA. The research was published
7 September in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The decrease in perennial ice raises the possibility that Arctic
sea ice will retreat to another record low extent this year. This
follows four summers of very low ice-cover, as observed by active and
passive microwave instruments aboard NASA's Quick Scatterometer
(QuikSCAT) satellite, the researchers report.
A team of seven scientists, led by Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used satellite data to
measure the extent and distribution of perennial and seasonal sea ice
in the Arctic. While the total area of all Arctic sea ice was stable
in winter, the distribution of seasonal and perennial sea ice changed
significantly.
"Recent changes in Arctic sea ice are rapid and dramatic," said
Nghiem. "If the seasonal ice in the East Arctic Ocean were to be
removed by summer melt, a vast ice-free area would open up. Such an
ice-free area would have profound impacts on the environment, as well
as on marine transportation and commerce."
The researchers are examining what caused the rapid decrease in
the perennial sea ice. Data from the National Centers for
Environmental Prediction in Boulder, Colorado, suggest that winds
pushed perennial ice from the East to the West Arctic Ocean and moved
ice through the Fram Strait, a deep passage between Greenland and
Spitsbergen, Norway. This movement of ice out of the Arctic is a
different mechanism for ice shrinkage than the melting of Arctic sea
ice, but it produces the same result: a reduction in the amount of
perennial Arctic sea ice.
The researchers say that if the sea ice cover continues to
decline, the surrounding ocean will warm, further accelerating summer
ice melts and impeding fall freeze-ups. This longer melt season will,
in turn, further diminish the Arctic ice cover.
Nghiem cautioned that the recent Arctic changes are not well
understood and that many questions remain. "It's vital that we
continue to closely monitor this region, using both satellite and
surface-based data," he said.
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(NEWS 3) Humans Affect Sea Warming In Hurricane Zones: Study.
http://tinyurl.com/fxms6
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hurricanes feed on warm water, and a study
released on Monday shows a link between warmer ocean temperatures and
human use of fossil fuels, challenging skeptics who blame them on
natural climate cycles.
"Our paper suggests that it's human-induced burning of fossil
fuels that have altered the levels of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere that have led to this warming in regions where Atlantic
and Pacific hurricanes form," said Benjamin Santer, a climate
scientist and co-author of an article in this week's Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences.
Santer and his colleagues focused on these hurricane zones, and
used computer models to figure out what the world would have been
like if the Industrial Revolution had never happened. That way, they
could compare what Earth is like now with what all available computer
models -- 22 of them -- indicate it would have been like if humans
had never burned fossil fuels, Santer said in a telephone interview.
The question of whether humans cause global warming is a subject
of heated debate among scientists, but there is general agreement
that warm sea surface temperatures in hurricane zones contribute to
hurricane intensity.
Santer and the other researchers found only a combination of
human-made and natural climate influences could account for the rise
in sea surface temperatures by about 1 degree F (between 0.32 to 0.67
degrees Celsius) over the last century.
The scientists estimated an 84 percent chance that at least two-
thirds of the sea surface temperature increase were due to human
activity.
They started work on the project soon after Hurricane Katrina
slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast a year ago, said Santer, who is
based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The 22 computer models in the laboratory's international archive
were necessary, since it is impossible to directly observe what
Earth's climate might be without modern industry, he said.
Santer questioned U.S. government statements in 2005 that rising
global temperatures were due entirely to natural fluctuations.
His study did not deal with questions raised by Chris Landsea of
the U.S. National Hurricane Center about whether there has actually
has been an dramatic increase in hurricane intensity in recent years.
Landsea said the historical record is unreliable. Santer and his
colleagues did not address the historical hurricane intensity record.
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(NEWS 4) Changes in Solar Brightness Too Weak to Explain Global Warming
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/ncfa-cis091106.php
BOULDER---Changes in the Sun's brightness over the past
millennium have had only a small effect on Earth's climate, according
to a review of existing results and new calculations performed by
researchers in the United States, Switzerland, and Germany.
The review, led by Peter Foukal (Heliophysics, Inc.), appears in
the September 14 issue of Nature. Among the coauthors is Tom Wigley
of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. NCAR's primary
sponsor is the National Science Foundation.
"Our results imply that, over the past century, climate change
due to human influences must far outweigh the effects of changes in
the Sun's brightness," says Wigley. Reconstructions of climate over
the past millennium show a warming since the 17th century, which has
accelerated dramatically over the past 100 years. Many recent studies
have attributed the bulk of 20th-century global warming to an
increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. Natural
internal variability of Earth's climate system may also have played a
role. However, the discussion is complicated by a third possibility:
that the Sun's brightness could have increased.
The new review in Nature examines the factors observed by
astronomers that relate to solar brightness. It then analyzes how
those factors have changed along with global temperature over the
last 1,000 years.
Brightness variations are the result of changes in the amount of
the Sun's surface covered by dark sunspots and by bright points
called faculae. The sunspots act as thermal plugs, diverting heat
from the solar surface, while the faculae act as thermal leaks,
allowing heat from subsurface layers to escape more readily. During
times of high solar activity, both the sunspots and faculae increase,
but the effect of the faculae dominates, leading to an overall
increase in brightness.
The new study looked at observations of solar brightness since
1978 and at indirect measures before then, in order to assess how
sunspots and faculae affect the Sun's brightness. Data collected from
radiometers on U.S. and European spacecraft show that the Sun is
about 0.07 percent brighter in years of peak sunspot activity, such
as around 2000, than when spots are rare (as they are now, at the low
end of the 11-year solar cycle). Variations of this magnitude are too
small to have contributed appreciably to the accelerated global
warming observed since the mid-1970s, according to the study, and
there is no sign of a net increase in brightness over the period.
To assess the period before 1978, the authors used historical
records of sunspot activity and examined radioisotopes produced in
Earth's atmosphere and recorded in the Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets. During periods of high solar activity, the enhanced solar
wind shields Earth from cosmic rays that produce the isotopes, thus
giving
scientists a record of the activity.
The authors used a blend of seven recent reconstructions of
Northern Hemisphere temperature over the past millennium to test the
effects of long-term changes in brightness. They then assessed how
much the changes in solar brightness produced by sunspots and faculae
(as measured by the sunspot and radioisotope data) might have
affected temperature. Even though sunspots and faculae have increased
over the last 400 years, these phenomena explain only a small
fraction of global warming over the period, according to the authors.
Indirect evidence has suggested that there may be changes in
solar brightness, over periods of centuries, beyond changes
associated with sunspot numbers. However, the authors conclude on
theoretical grounds that these additional low-frequency changes are
unlikely.
"There is no plausible physical cause for long-term changes in
solar brightness other than changes caused by sunspots and faculae,"
says Wigley.
Apart from solar brightness, more subtle influences on climate
from cosmic rays or the Sun's ultraviolet radiation cannot be
excluded, say the authors. However, these influences cannot be
confirmed, they add, because physical models for such effects are
still too poorly developed.
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(NEWS 5) Study Considers Auto Industry And Consumer Behavior In
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions -Rochester Institute Of Technology
Wins $2 Million National Science Foundation Grant
Tougher environmental policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas
emissions from the U.S. transportation sector will affect more than
the production of cars and light trucks. Changes throughout the
automotive industry will impact consumer behavior and the environment
in uncertain ways.
In an effort to predict the ripple effect of environmental
policies, researchers James Winebrake, from Rochester Institute of
Technology, and Steven Skerlos, from the University of Michigan, are
creating a computer-based program for policymakers and analysts to
evaluate the impact of future scenarios.
Funded by $2 million from the National Science Foundation's
Materials Use: Science, Engineering and Society (MUSES) program, the
five-year study will build and link computer models to understand the
consumer and industry response to policy decisions, and how the state
of the market impacts the environment. The software program will
enable analysts to predict the complicated market dynamic between
consumers and producers by constructing scenarios.
For instance, a scenario may consider an increase in the
Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, one of the major tools or
regulations government can use to force car companies to produce
cleaner, more efficient vehicles.
"For 20 years the standards have remained flat until Bush's
recent small increase," says Winebrake, chair of Science Technology
and Society/Public Policy at RIT. He adds: "If the government passes
higher CAFE standards, how will the auto industry respond to using
new technology and producing new vehicles? How will consumers respond
to the safety, performance and aesthetics of these new vehicles? How
will those decisions play out in the market and with what
environmental impact?"
These scenarios also will consider such variables as the amount
of production material necessary to meet new regulations as well as
the environmental impact associated with the whole production of the
vehicle, its use and disposal. Predicting the life cycle of a vehicle
can illuminate unintended consequences in policymaking when one
action negatively affects something else.
Such a scenario might be that car owners choose to keep their old
vehicles longer, producing more pollution for a longer time. Or,
perhaps, the production of cleaner cars would introduce environmental
problems that would make it a dirtier alternative. Considering
intended and unintended environmental impacts will give analysts
valuable information they didn't have before.
"Right now policy analysts are working in the dark with
greenhouse gas emissions," Winebrake says. "They lack the tools to
effectively track the impact of policies."
The interdisciplinary study will draw upon economics,
environmental science, manufacturing issues, public policy and
software engineering using advanced computer modeling techniques. In
addition to RIT and UM, the team will include researchers from
Northeastern University and the University of California at Berkeley.
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(NEWS 6) Arctic Ice: It's Melting
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/14/
ICE.TMP&type=science
http://tinyurl.com/evnob
The San Francisco Chronicle -- The vast expanses of ice floating
in the Arctic Sea are melting in winter as well as in the summer,
likely because of global warming, NASA scientists said Thursday.
"This is the strongest evidence yet of global warming in the
Arctic,'' said Josefino Comiso, a research scientist at NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
And if the ice continued to melt at the current rate, Comiso
said, it could have profound effects on all life in the Arctic and
other consequences around the world.
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(NEWS 7) Diversity Up for Grad Students
http://www.cgsnet.org/
The enrollment of graduate students increased by 2 percent — to
more than 1.5 million — from 2004 to 2005, according to a report
released today by the Council of Graduate Schools.
While the 2 percent increase is modest, data in the report
suggest that those in the pool of faculty candidates in the future
may be less likely to be white males than they are today. The
enrollment increase for women outpaced that for men, 3 percent to 1
percent, leading to a one percentage point increase in the overall
female share of the grad student population, to 58 percent. The
gender gap is particularly pronounced among black graduate students,
71 percent of whom are female.
Underrepresented minority groups also saw healthy increases,
although their total share continues to lag. Black enrollment was up
6 percent. First-time Hispanic enrollment was up 10 percent. And
these increases took place during a period in which many universities
found themselves being forced to change the rules on fellowships for
minority graduate students, facing threats that they might be sued if
they didn’t do so.
Also notable in the data are increases for black and Hispanic
graduate students in selected science and technology fields where
their numbers have been extremely low. Black enrollment was up 11
percent in engineering and Hispanic enrollment was up 16 percent in
the biological sciences, for instance.
The study also confirmed reports previously conducted by the
council projecting a rebound for international graduate enrollments.
First-time enrollment of foreign graduate students was up 4 percent
in 2005, the first increase in four years. Total international
enrollment was down slightly (-1 percent), but it had been falling by
larger percentages in recent years. Foreign enrollment levels are
crucial for certain fields, as non-American students make up 48
percent of those in engineering programs and 40 percent in the
physical sciences.
Debra Stewart, president of the Council of Graduate Schools,
called the minority figures “the most encouraging of the numbers,”
and she noted the importance of this progress for creating future
faculty members. “This is the pool,” she said.
While she was pleased with the progress, she said that it was
clear that “a lot needs to be done” for colleges to continue both to
attract more students to graduate study and to diversify their
student bodies. She said that one important thing universities need
to do is show minority students “a clear career path” for pursing
graduate education. For those from families without a lot of money or
who are the first in their families to go to college, it’s vital that
people see the opportunities — in and out of academe — available to
those with graduate degrees.
The University of Washington provides an example of how colleges
are making progress. Underrepresented minority students make up about
8 percent of graduate students there, 50 percent more than five years
ago. Suzanne Ortega, vice provost and graduate dean, said that the
progress is now starting to take off, and that a wide range of
strategies are being used. The graduate program is trying to recruit
more undergraduates, promoting research careers in local schools, and
creating new partnerships.
For instance, Washington’s materials research center started a
partnership with Norfolk State University, a historically black
college clear across the country, more than two and a half years ago.
There have been faculty and student exchanges, joint research
projects, and many other activities. This fall, three Norfolk State
graduates are enrolling in the doctoral program at Washington.
“Our approach has been to create partnerships and also to give
them time to flourish,” Ortega said. “These things have a life of
their own,” she said. “If you attract a cohort of students, and
provide them with the mentoring they deserve, they will be doing a
lot of recruiting for you.”
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities
(MEETING 1) Final Announcement: International Climate Change
Symposium – Washington DC (USA)
http://www.ir-symposia.com
TITLE: Death by a Thousand Coasts: the Ethics of Climate Change
ORGANIZERS: Inter-Research Science Center, Oldendorf/Luhe,
Germany & Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University
DATE: 24-27 November 2006
LOCATION: Washington, D. C. (USA), The Melrose Hotel
DEADLINES: Early Registration & Abstracts: 30 September 2006.
Late registration: 24 November 2006
SYMPOSIUM FEES: US$ 350 per delegate; US$ 250 per student
residing at symposium venue; US$ 150 per student attending day
lectures only
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: http://www.ir-symposia.com
SESSIONS & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (1) Earth Systems & Climate Change:
Mark Pagani (Yale) Geologic Past; James McCarthy (Harvard) Next 100
y; (2) Climate Change & Human History: Daniel Sandweiss (Maine) Human
Adaptation; (3) Ecology & Biodiversity: Stuart Pimm (Duke)
Biodiversity Effects; (4) Economics & Climate Change: Richard Howarth
(Dartmouth) Economic Effects; (5) Ethics & Climate Change: Rock
Ethics Institute (Penn. State) Discussion
Mary C. BATSON, EEIU Coordinator. Eco-Ethics International
Union, Nordbuente 28, 21385 Oldendorf/Luhe, GERMANY Tel: +49 (0)
4132 7127 / Fax: +49 (0) 4132 8883 / E: eeiu at eeiu.org / URL: http://
www.eeiu.org
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(JOB 1) Asst. Profs. tenure-track - Graduate School of Geography -
Clark University, Worcester, MA (USA) http://www.clarku.edu/
departments/geography/phd.cfm http://www.clarku.edu/departments/ES/
The Graduate School of Geography seeks to fill two positions with
expertise in Earth Systems Science (ESS). Primary undergraduate
responsibilities will reside in the School's ESS concentration in the
new Environmental Science major at Clark (http://www.clarku.edu/
departments/ES/). Expertise and teaching proficiency in any ESS theme
will be considered, including earth science, climate change,
biodiversity, and landscape modeling. Graduate advising and research
responsibilities will be linked to one or more of the School's
graduate research foci, such as GIScience, remote sensing, or human-
environment geography (http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/
phd.cfm).
Applicants are expected to pursue cutting-edge scholarship at
the nexus of environmental science and our linked graduate research
foci, and be committed to securing extramural funding and engaging in
team-based research. Strong undergraduate and graduate teaching,
advising, and mentoring are a requisite in the "university college"
tradition of Clark.
PhD required at time of appointment. Send CV, a detailed
statement of professional experience and research and teaching
interests, and contact information for three references to Ms. Jean
Heffernan, Assistant to the Director, Graduate School of Geography,
Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610.
Positions start August 2007. Review of applications commences 15
October, 2006; applications will be accepted until the posts are
filled. AA/EOE Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply.
MASSACHUSETTS, WORCESTER 01610
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(JOB 2) Asst. Prof. tenure track - Physical Geography - University of
Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (USA) http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/
documents/2006-physical_geographer.pdf
The Department of Geography 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.
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(Job 3) Asst. Prof tenure track - Land Change Science Component Of
Human Dimensions Of Global And Regional Change, Kansas State
University Manhattan, KS (USA)
We seek a geographer with research interests in the. Individuals
with research experience in the social drivers of land use and land
cover change and/or in the modeling of land cover change are strongly
encouraged to apply. Expectations include a commitment to the pursuit
of extramural research grants and interdisciplinary collaboration
with ecologists to help delineate feedbacks within human and
ecological systems and associated changes in ecosystem goods and
services. This is a new tenure-track faculty line which is partially
supported by an interdisciplinary Ecological Forecasting grant from
the National Science Foundation.
Candidates should have completed a Ph.D. by the time of the
January, 2008, appointment and be able to demonstrate a capability
for high quality and effective classroom instruction. Teaching
responsibilities will be two classes per semester (four per year), at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Candidates can expect to
work with a wide range of constituencies and diverse student
populations. Successful candidates will value diversity in all of its
dimensions, employ innovative approaches in their research and
teaching, and consider different technical and cultural perspectives
to solving problems.
Send an application letter describing: your background, research
interests, teaching qualifications, and how you see yourself
contributing to the geography program at K-State. Additional
documentation to include are: a curriculum vitae, evidence of
scholarship, indicators of teaching effectiveness, and a list of
names, addresses, and e-mail addresses of at least three referees.
Send materials or direct questions to the address below. Apply: Dr.
Doug Goodin, Search Committee Chair, Department of Geography, 118
Seaton Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-2904.
Review of applications begins November 3, 2006, and will continue
until the position is filled. Kansas State University is an equal
opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees.
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(JOB 4) Asst. Prof tenure track - Geographic Information Sciences,
Kansas State University Manhattan, KS (USA) (http://www.k-state.edu/
giscommons/
We seek candidates with expertise in the to further strengthen
internationally recognized initiatives in agricultural biosecurity,
ecological forecasting, rural geography and/or human dimensions of
global change. Geographers whose research program addresses one or
more of the Grand Challenges in Environmental Sciences and places
emphasis on the spatial aspects of epidemiology, ecological
forecasting, human-environment interactions, rural systems,
agroecosystems, or natural/technological hazards, are strongly
encouraged to apply.
Candidates should have completed a Ph.D. by the time of the
either January or August 2007 appointment, be able to demonstrate a
capability for: development of a strong research program including
extramural grant awards in one of our interest areas, establishment
of an outstanding record of scholarly publications, and effective
geospatial instruction. Candidates will work with a wide range of
constituencies and diverse student populations and are expected to be
involved in cross-campus collaboration involving the GIS Commons
(http://www.k-state.edu/giscommons/). Teaching responsibilities will
be two classes per semester (possibly 3 per year, with an appropriate
level of grant activity), and include GISci instruction at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. Successful candidates will value
diversity in all of its dimensions, employ innovative approaches in
their research and teaching, and consider different technical and
cultural perspectives to solving problems. Evidence of, and a
commitment to quality teaching, the pursuit of extramural research
grants, and interdisciplinary collaboration are expected. This new
tenure-track faculty line supports the Kansas State University
Targeted Excellence program in GIScience Infrastructure Enhancement.
Send an application letter indicating your background
qualification, research interests, teaching experience and interests,
and how you see yourself contributing to the interdisciplinary GISci
program at Kansas State University. Additional documentation to
include are a curriculum vitae, evidence of scholarship and teaching
effectiveness, and a list of names, addresses, and e-mail addresses
of at least three referees to the contact person below. Review of
applications begins September 15, 2006 and will continue until the
position is filled. Kansas State University is an equal opportunity
employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees
Apply to: Dr. Max Lu (maxlu at ksu.edu), Search Committee Chair,
Department of Geography, 118 Seaton Hall, Kansas State University,
Manhattan, KS 66506-2904.
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(JOB 5) Asst. Prof tenure track - Physical Geographer With Expertise
In Hydrology Or Biogeography, Kansas State University Manhattan, KS
(USA) http://www.kstate.edu/geography/
For this new faculty line, we seek to complement our existing
areas of strength. Cutting-edge skills in GIS and/or quantitative
modeling of spatial complexity are highly desirable, and applicants
should have an appreciation for the study of coupled human and
natural systems. Visit http://www.kstate.edu/geography/ for
information about the department.
Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. by the time of the August
2007 appointment, and be able to demonstrate the potential to develop
a strong research program, including the pursuit of extramural
research grants, collaborative research, and publication in highly-
ranked journals. Candidates are expected to value diversity in all of
its dimensions and consider different technical and cultural
perspectives in solving problems appropriate to a land grant
institution. Excellence in undergraduate and graduate teaching and
advising is expected, as is a commitment to work with a wide range of
constituents and diverse student populations.
Submit an application letter that describes your qualifications
and the contributions you could offer to the department. Please also
provide a curriculum vita, evidence of scholarship and teaching
effectiveness, a plan for extramural funding, plus names and contact
information for three referees.
Review of applications begins 15 October 2006 and will continue
until the position is filled. Kansas State University is an equal
opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees.
Apply to: Dr. Charles W. Martin, Search Committee Chair,
Department of Geography, 118 Seaton Hall, Kansas State University,
Manhattan, KS 66506-2904.
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(JOB 6) Postdoc/Visiting Scientist Program - University Corporation
for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) - NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory (GFDL), Princton, NJ (USA) www.vsp.ucar.edu
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is
recruiting postdoctoral scientists and short-term senior visitors to
work in Princeton at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
(GFDL) as part of the Climate Change Research Initiative (CCRI).
GFDL conducts fundamental and applied oceanic and atmospheric
research on a variety of problems of importance to society and
central to NOAA's mission. These problems include global climate
change; hurricane prediction; modeling and prediction of El Nino and
its influence on the global atmosphere; atmospheric radiation,
aerosol and cloud physics; sea ice and land ice modeling; climate
variability and prediction; atmospheric chemistry; the circulation of
the atmosphere and ocean, the carbon cycle in the oceans and on land;
and fundamental problems in oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics of
relevance to climate change.
GFDL is a world leader in global change research, specializing in
the modeling of the climate system. In the past several years GFDL
has developed a new generation of climate and Earth system models to
support its research for the coming decade, including new
atmospheric, oceanic, land, atmospheric chemistry, and oceanic
biogeochemistry models which are currently being enhanced and
integrated into an interactive system for studies of variability and
change.
Some of these new postdoctoral positions may evolve into
permanent civil service hires as it expands its staff in the next
several years. Placement into permanent civil service positions will
require additional competition.
Areas of current interest include: (1) Development of a
numerical model of land-based ice sheets to be incorporated into the
Earth System Model. Modeling issues relevant to climate change in
high latitudes, including sea ice and Arctic ocean circulation. (2)
Studies of radiative forcing of climate, both natural and
anthropogenic; aerosol effects; and distributions, and related cloud
microphysical processes relevant for climate change. Studies of the
differences in equilibrium and transient responses to changes in
radiative forcing. (3) Detection of climate change and the
attribution of these changes to human and natural causes, including
extreme events and regional climate change. (4) Sensitivity of
midlatitude stormtracks and tropical storms to global warming and
their relation to natural variability on interannual and decadal time
scales. (5) Modeling of regional climate change with high
resolution global atmospheric models and/or limited area atmospheric
models. (6) Atmospheric subgrid parameterizations and model
development: planetary boundary layer, moist convection, and middle
atmospheric gravity waves; stratospheric processes affecting climate
variations and change. (7) Studies of climate variability and
predictability on interannual to multi-decadal timescales. (8)
Large-scale ocean dynamics and ocean circulation, and its effect on
the climate system and on climate variability. Studies of the ocean's
role in climate and climate change. Ocean model development. (9)
Data assimilation, including ocean data assimilation, for climate
prediction and circulation studies. (10) Modeling of land
hydrology and biogeochemical cycles in the land and ocean; the effect
of climate change on the carbon, nitrogen, iron, and silica cycles.
Incorporation of tracers and biogeochemistry into the Earth System
model.
In addition to junior postdoctoral applicants, GFDL is looking
for senior visitors interested in the areas listed above, including
visitors from other climate change modeling centers interested in
model intercomparisons.
How to apply: There is no application form. Send the following
materials to the UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs: --Cover letter
identifying this program --Curriculum vitae with a list of
publications in refereed journals --Names and addresses of three
references. It is the applicant's responsibility to contact the
references and request that they submit letters in support of your
application to VSP. --PhD thesis abstract for recent PhDs. --Proposed
project description, including a statement of relevance to the CCRI.
Proposal must be titled and not exceed three pages, including
references and figures.
Application deadlines are November 1 and April 15. Applications
are reviewed twice yearly by a steering committee and will not be
reviewed unless they are complete, including letters of reference.
Send applications and letters of reference to: Meg Austin,
Director, UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs, P.O. Box 3000,
Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA
You may send all this material electronically. For further
information, please call 303-497-8649, send e-mail to: vsp at ucar.edu
or visit the VSP website at: www.vsp.ucar.edu, or directly contact a
member of GFDL's scientific staff. UCAR is an EO/AAE who values and
encourages diversity in the workplace.
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(JOB 7)Research Facilitator - Physical Climate Science, Department of
Earth Sciences and Sub-Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and
Planetary Physics - Univ of Oxford (UK) www.earth.ox.ac.uk/
department/resfac.pdf
The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division invites
applications for the post of Research Facilitator for Physical
Climate Science. Understanding the climate system is a major research
challenge given urgency by global warming. The University has
significant climate-science research programmes in several
departments. The Research Facilitator will be the point of contact
for climate science within the Mathematical, Physical and Life
Sciences Division, helping to foster links and collaboration between
research groups. The Facilitator will play an active role in raising
funds for projects in the physical climate sciences, including:
seeking out funding from all relevant sources; matching funding
opportunities to expertise available within the departments; and
administering the submission of major grant applications. Through the
maintenance of a website and other outreach activities, they will
also present physical climate science to the public and to schools.
The successful candidate will have a PhD or equivalent experience
in a relevant discipline, and excellent organizational, communication
and teamwork skills. Previous experience in the facilitation of
research is desirable but not essential. This position presents an
opportunity for a scientist to enter the rapidly developing field of
research management and administration.
The post is initially for a period of three years. Further
particulars, including details of the application procedure and of
the duties attached to the appointment are available at
www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/resfac.pdf or from Mrs Sue Ling,
(Sue.Ling at earth.ox.ac.uk), Department of Earth Sciences, Parks Road,
Oxford OX1 3PR, UK. The closing date for applications is 30th
September, 2006.
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(JOB 8) Postdoc - Atmospheric Dynamics - University of California,
Irvine, CA (USA)
The Department of Earth System Science at the University of
California, Irvine seeks a postdoctoral research associate to work in
the area of atmospheric dynamics, both in analyzing re-analysis data
and dynamical modeling. The successful candidate will have the
opportunity to expamine the impacts of tropospheric Rossby wave
breaking on the large scale circulation, which is highly relevant to
climate variability as well as shorter timescale weather patterns.
This work has important implications for understanding teleconnection
mechanisms or climate patterns, including the NAO, as well as
understanding how the interaction between wave breaking and the Asian
and North American monsoons influences the large scale circulation.
Scientists with a strong dynamics background are encouraged to apply.
A PhD in atmospheric or related sciences is required. The initial
appointment is for one year that may be extended for up to three
years. Annual salary depends upon qualifications, starting at
$42,780. The appointment includes medical, dental and vision
insurance. Please send a CV with the names of three references to
Prof. Gudrun Magnusdottir, Dept. of Earth System Science, University
of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3100, or by email to gudrun at uci.edu.
The University of California Irvine is an equal opportunity employer
committed to excellence through diversity.
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(JOB 9) Postdoc. - The oceanic response to the North Atlantic
Oscillation - LOCEAN/IPSL, University Paris VI, (FRANCE) http://
dynamite.nersc.no http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr/
In the frame of the EU FP6 project DYNAMITE (Understanding the
DYNAMIcs of the Coupled ClimaTE System , see http://
dynamite.nersc.no), LOCEAN/IPSL is opening a postdoctoral position.
Deeper understanding of the intrinsic variability and stability
properties of the main climate variability modes is needed to assess
confidence in the detection, attribution and prediction of climate
change, to improve seasonal predictions, and to understand the
shortcomings of current prediction systems. DYNAMITE will explore the
fundamental dynamical mechanisms of two of the most important modes
of climate variability: the North Atlantic Oscillation/Arctic
Oscillation (NAO/AO) and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
The postdoctoral work will be to contribute to our understanding
of the processes that determine the response of the large-scale
circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean, both its horizontal gyre
component and its meridional overturning component, to variations in
the NAO. The Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) makes a major
contribution to the northward heat transport of the Atlantic Ocean,
and it is thought that variations in the MOC on decadal timescales
can modulate climate. MOC variations are driven partly by variations
in wind-stress and partly by anomalous buoyancy fluxes, especially
over the high latitude regions of deep oceanic convection. LOCEAN
participates in coordinated experiments in which coupled ocean/sea-
ice GCMs are forced with idealised surface wind stress and flux
fields representative of NAO variability. The post doc will
investigate the coupled ocean-sea ice processes that govern the
formation of salinity anomalies in the arctic, the influence of the
NAO on deep convection in the North Atlantic, and their subsequent
impact on the MOC. The changes in the northward flux of warm and
salty Atlantic surface water, and their back interaction on the
formation of deep water will also be analysed.
The position will be hosted by LOCEAN, University Pierre and
Marie Curie (Paris VI) (see http://www.lodyc.jussieu.fr/), which is
part of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL). Candidates should
have a Ph.D in ocean or / and atmosphere dynamics, and /or research
interests and experience in any aspect of large-scale ocean dynamics
or ocean modelling.
The position could be opened on October 1, and will end in
February 2007. Salary will depend on qualification and follow CNRS
scales. Applicants should submit a CV, a description of research
interests, and the names and e-mail of three references to Prof.
Claude Frankignoul, (cf at lodyc.jussieu.fr), For more information,
contact: Prof. Claude Frankignoul, LOCEAN, case 100, Universit Paris
6, Tour 45-55, 4 tage 4, Place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05,
France tel 33(0)144272732 fax 33(0)144273805
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(JOB 10) Postdoc Research Scientist - Rossby Center, Swedish
Meterological & Hydrological Institution (SWEDEN) www.smhi.se
The Rossby Centre, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological
Institute (SMHI) seeks a postdoctoral research scientist to work on
oceanographical analyses and the development of advanced ocean
modeling, with applications in climate and climate change research
especially in the Baltic Sea region and the Arctic. A successful
candidate will have the possibility to contribute to international
networks, such as BALTEX and DAMOCLES.
The candidate should have: - Ph.D in Oceanography, or in a
related field given, demonstrated experience on ocean research. -
Familiarity with Linux/UNIX and Fortran, and preferably MPI. -
Experience on 3-dimensional ocean and sea ice models. - Good command
of the English language. Good organization and communication skills,
to able to work on own initiative and an ability to prioritise is
important.
The Rossby Centre is the SMHI climate modelling research unit
with 14 co-workers with research and development of regional climate
modeling, meteorological, oceanographic and hydrological processes as
well as supercomputing. The Rossby Centre is involved in a number of
research projects carried out in co-operation on a national as well
as an international level, such as ENSEMBLES, DAMOCLES and BALTEX.
The oceanographic work is co-ordinated with the SMHI Oceanographic
research unit that works on short and medium range ice-ocean
forecasts in the Baltic and North Sea and in the Arctic Ocean, short-
range wave forecasts, seasonal forecasts, data assimilation, climate
analysis, coupled physical-biogeochemical modelling, and marine
remote sensing. For more information on the Rossby Centre and the
Oceanographical research unit, go to www.smhi.se
For further information please contact the Head of Rossby
Centre: Markku Rummukainen, tel +46 11-495 8605 (markku.rummukainen
at smhi.se) or Karin Aspeqvist, Human Resources,
(karin.aspeqvist at smhi.se.) Written applications marked with reference
number 1669 should be sent not later than the 30th of September to:
SMHI, SE-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden or by e-mail to registrator at
smhi.se. Assoc. Prof. Lars Bärring Department of Physical Geography
and Ecosystems Analysis, Geobiosphere Science Centre,
www.natgeo.lu.se, Lund University, Ph+46-(0)46-2229684
Sölvegatan 12, Fax+46-(0)46-2224011 SE-223 62 LUND, Sweden
(Hämtställe 16) AND Rossby Centre, Swedish Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute, SE-601 76 Norrköping, Sweden www.smhi.se
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(JOB 11) Grad. Student - marine physiological ecology - Dauphin
Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama (USA) http://
www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/rcarmichael/index.shtml
I am looking to recruit a graduate student interested in marine
physiological ecology. This would be a 2-3 year Master position with
the University of South Alabama and the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The
student would work with me at DISL. There are a number of possible
projects, including 1) tracing entry of anthropogenic N to estuaries
using N stable isotopes in bivalve shells, 2) cross-system
comparisons of the effects of dykes and wastewater treatment plants
on coastal systems in Gulf of Maine and Gulf of Mexico, 3) cross-
system comparison of population dynamics and feeding ecology of
horseshoe crabs in Gulf of Maine and Gulf of Mexico, 4) assessment of
natural diet of oysters in coastal reef systems, effects of oyster
filtration on local water quality, and implications for restoration
projects, among others. A strong background in Chemistry,
Biochemistry, and Ecology is preferred, as well as field and lab
experience. Start date is flexible, from March 2007, but ideally no
later than Sep 2007. Depending on level of interest, success, and
funding, there is potential for transition to Ph.D. candidacy. Please
refer promising interested students to me at the address below until
Dec 15, 2007 (then I will be on the go to Alabama). Thanks! Ruth
Ruth H. Carmichael, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Marine
Biology, University of Maine at Machias, 117 Science building, 9
O'Brien Ave. Machias, ME 04654 Phone: 207-255-1206 Fax:
207-255-1390 rcarmichael at maine.edu
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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
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message, and link to any appropriate websites. Do not send attachments.
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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
DISCCRS poster http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf
Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates in a
Changing Global Environment
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