[DIALOGnews] DISCCRS Symposium for early career climate change researchers

[Susan Weiler]

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                                                DISCCRS
      Interdisciplinary initiative for recent Ph.D. graduates dealing  
with
                                 Climate Change and its Impacts
                        http://www.aslo.org/phd/disccrsposter.pdf

                                                      DISCCRS III  
Symposium
                                      September 10 - 17, 2007
                                              Hawai'i Island

Eligibility:   Ph.D. requirements completed April 1, 2004 - March 31,  
2007
                     in any discipline related to climate change and  
impacts.
Application Deadline:   April 30, 2007
Participant Costs:   Funding is provided for symposium airfare,  
housing and meals.

DISCCRS Overview:
      DISCCRS (pronounced "discourse") targets recent Ph.D. graduates  
to catalyze international, interdisciplinary understanding and  
collaborations across the natural and social sciences, humanities.  
mathematics, engineering and other disciplines related to climate  
change and its impacts.
      Funding from NSF supports symposium participant costs, the  
http://disccrs.org website and an electronic newsletter. Symposia are  
currently funded for 2007 and 2008.
      Recent Ph.D. graduates from all disciplines and countries are  
invited to join the DISCCRS network and apply to be a DISCCRS  
symposium scholar.

DISCCRS III Symposium:
      Thirty-six recent Ph.D. graduates will be competitively  
selected to present their research in both oral and poster format and  
participate in the week-long symposium. Four scholars will be invited  
to serve as mentors for the group, and Stanford Professor Stephen H.  
Schneider has recently assented to serving as one of the mentors. A  
representative from the U.S. National Science Foundation will be  
invited to describe programs and funding opportunities. Strategies  
for collaborating across disciplines will be introduced and practiced  
in the context of developing an interdisciplinary research proposal.  
Techniques for communicating with non-specialist audiences will also  
be addressed.

Contact: Susan Weiler, weiler at whitman.edu

Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, NSF, through  
grants to Whitman College (EAR-0105201, C.S. Weiler PI) and  
University of Oregon (EAR-0435719. R.B. Mitchell PI).
Jointly sponsored by the following societies: AAG, AERE, AGU, AMS,  
ASLO, ESA, ESS-ISA.

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