[DIALOGnews] DISCCRS News 10/5/2007
Ruth Ladderud
ladderra at whitman.edu
Fri Oct 5 15:44:28 CDT 2007
DISCCRS News
10/5/2007
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FORUM
Research project linking seasonal climate forecasts with natural
resource management in Alabama, Florida and Georgia
(see FORUM 1 below)
Energy Saving Google Screen: If Google had a black screen, taking in
account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, 750
mega watts/hour per year would be saved.
In response Google created a black version of its search engine,
called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version,
but obviously with lower energy consumption. Bookmark it today and
pass it along.
http://www.blackle.com
Carbon emissions/footprint calculator/tool that lets you project
forward needed: forum question: Has anyone come across a carbon
emissions/footprint calculator/tool that lets you project forward --
to see what impact various actions you could take would have (at the
individual scale or national or global)? If you've seen anything like
this, please email jennmarlon at gmail.com
SCIENCE NEWS
Climate change, gender and poverty linked
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?
fileid=20071001.F03&irec=2
(see NEWS 1 below)
How Old Masters are Helping Study of Global Warming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/01/
climatechange.scienceofclimatechange Or: http://tinyurl.com/2e9hov
(see NEWS 2 below)
NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading to Record Low In 2007
(see NEWS 3 below)
In Japan, Going Solar Costly Despite Market Surge
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14031247
(see NEWS 4 below)
Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html Or:
http://tinyurl.com/34uhoj
(see NEWS 5 below)
Yale Launches Climate, Media Forum: Aims to improve communication
between scientists and the press.
(see NEWS 6 below)
Climate Warming Skeptics: Is the Research Too Political?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1004/p13s03-sten.html Or: http://
tinyurl.com/3ctfzk
(see NEWS 7 below)
Impact Of Arctic Heat Wave Stuns Climate Change Researchers
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/
2007/2007092625668.html
SUMMER PROGRAMS, COURSES, INTERNSHIPS, MEETINGS, OPPORTUNITIES
IPY NGPR Symposium - Early-Career Polar Researchers: Become Part of
the International Polar Year (IPY) Legacy - May 4 - 11, 2008 - La
Foret Conference Center - Colorado Springs, CO (USA)
http://www.disccrs.org/ngpr/
Application Deadline: October 15, 2007 Most or all of expenses for
participant travel and symposium attendance covered by NSF grants!
(see MEETING 1 below)
Call for Papers - Climate Change, Uncertainty, and Strategic
Management - January 27th - February 1st, 2008
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) - Zurich (Switzerland)
For a full PDF version please visit: http://www.sustec.ethz.ch/
education/PhD_Academy/Academy08/ETH_PhDAcademy_Call08.pdf
For information regarding this year’s academy go to: http://
www.sustec.ethz.ch/education/PhD_Academy/Academy07
(see MEETING 2 below)
Symposium and Celebration - 50th Anniversary of the Global Carbon
Dioxide Record - November 28-30, 2007 - Kona, Hawaii
www.co2conference.org
(see MEETING 3 below)
Call for Papers: The Politics of Climate Change - Cambridge Review of
International Affairs
(see MEETING 4 below)
JOBS
Asst Prof - Biology (Ecology) – Whitman College – Walla Walla WA
(USA)
(see JOB 1 below)
Post-doc - NOAA C&GC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - UCAR –
Various US Institutions
(see JOB 2 below)
Asst Prof - Land-Use/Land-Cover Change - Department of Geography -
University Of California - Santa Barbara CA (USA)
(see JOB 3 below)
Faculty Positions - Terrestrial Biogeochemistry and Climate Change -
Appalachian Laboratory (AL) - University of Maryland Center
(see JOB 4 below)
Professorship - Department of Technology and Social Change -
Linköping University - (Sweden)
(see JOB 5 below)
Asst Prof - Geology - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
(EPS) - UC Santa Cruz CA (USA)
(see JOB 6 below)
Post-Doc – Paleoclimate modeling - University of Colorado –
Boulder CO (USA)
http://cires.colorado.edu/jobs/
(see JOB 7 below)
Asst. Prof. - Paleobiologist/Paleooceanographer - Dept. of Geology -
San José State University CA (USA)
(see JOB 8 below)
Asst/Assoc Prof - Climate, Society, and Environmental Change –
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey – Rutgers, NJ (USA)
(see JOB 9 below)
Post-Doc - Atlantic multi-decadal climate variability and
predictability - Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) -
University of Kiel - Kiel (Germany)
(see JOB 10 below)
Asst Staff Scientist or Assoc Staff Scientist - University of
Arizona's Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
www.uacareertrack.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=189463
(see JOB 11 below)
Environmental Scientist - Coastal Climate. NOAA Coastal Services
Center - Charlston
http://www.imsg.com/career_center/JobDetail.asp?JobID=378
(see JOB 12 below)
Asst. Prof. - Physical Geographer - Urban environments/Climatologist
- University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee WI (USA)
(see JOB 13 below)
Asst. Prof. - Meteorology/Climate - Department of Geography and
Geology - Western Kentucky University
(see JOB 14 below)
Asst. Prof. - Physical Geography/Atmos. Science - Department of
Geography - Simon Fraser University
(see JOB 15 below)
Asst. Prof. - Meteorology - San Jose State University – San Jose CA
(USA)
http://www.met.sjsu.edu/
(see JOB 16 below)
Research Assc / Post-doc - Regional Arctic Climate Modeling -
Department of Oceanography - Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)
http://www.oc.nps.navy.mi;l/NAME/name.html
(see JOB 17 below)
Senior (5 yrs exp) researcher - Adaptation to climate change and
international development – Center for International Climate and
Environmental Research (CICERO) – Oslo (Norway)
(see JOB 18 below)
Asst. Prof. - Climate Scientist - Environmental Studies Department -
Macalester College - St. Paul, MN (USA)
(see JOB 19 below)
10 New Faculty Positions - Sustainability - Michigan Technological
University
- Houghton MI (USA)
(see JOB 20 below)
Post-Doc Research Assoc - The Western Water Assessment (NOAA-funded
Regional Integrated Science and Assessment (RISA) programs) - NOAA
Earth Systems Research Labs – Boulder CO (USA)
The review of applications will start October 15, 2007 and
continue until the position is filled.
http://cires.colorado.edu/jobs/; the WWA webpage is: http://
wwa.colorado.edu/ Contact: Andrea Ray andrea.ray at noaa.gov
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Forum
(FORUM 1) Research project linking seasonal climate forecasts with
natural resource management in Alabama, Florida and Georgia
The Southeast Climate Consortium, where I have spent the last
year as a post-doc, is a multidisciplinary applied research project
linking seasonal climate forecasts with natural resource management
in Alabama, Florida and Georgia. It is a NOAA-funded Regional
Integrated Science and Assessment research group. Our primary end-
users have thus far been farmers, ranchers and foresters, though we
are starting to branch out to water managers. The overarching idea is
that as regional seasonal forecasts improve, resource managers can
use those forecasts in their planning and decision-making.
Fortunately, our colleagues in biophysical sciences have been very
receptive to the benefits of anthropological research on end-users
perspectives. The preponderance of researchers are climatologists and
agronomists, but they have hired a few anthropologists to work on
farmers' risk-management, decision-making processes, and interactions
with climate information systems (namely our own, see
www.agclimate.org). I, along with several colleagues, will be
submitting articles for publication on this topic soon. The project
focuses more on climate variability (seasonal, inter-annual) than
climate change (decadal +) as such, but I think the distinction is
subtle. From the perspective of human experience, long-term climate
change will manifest itself as increasing seasonal and inter-annual
variability in climate patterns. Also the climate models for long-
term and short-term, global and regional will only continue to get
better integrated. The project is starting to come around on directly
addressing long-term climate change in our content, largely due to
popular demand.
Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about the
project.
Todd Crane, PhD. Post-doctoral research anthropologist,
Southeast Climate Consortium, Department of Biological and
Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia email: tcrane at uga.edu
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Science News
(NEWS 1) Climate change, gender and poverty linked
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?
fileid=20071001.F03&irec=2
Indonesia - Climate change is a poverty issue. No one argues
against this. However, debates will immediately occur when one argues
that climate change is a gender issue as well. Discussion on the
natural aspects of climate change may be a gender-neutral issue, but
this is not the case for the human causes and impacts of climate
change, especially when 70 percent of the world's poor are women.
Sadly, this is what has occurred for more than 15 years of debate
on climate change. This is apparent in the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change in 1992 and the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, in which
gender consideration is absent from the discussion.
Thinking positively, I would rather argue that this is due to the
lack of understanding of the concept of gender and its importance,
rather than a simple ignorance of the gender issues surrounding
climate change.
Why analyze gender?
Analyzing gender in the human causes and impacts of climate change
is important. It provides a substantial ground for the development
and implementation of appropriate policies and practices, especially
on mitigation and adaptation. The concept of gender, which refers to
the social constructions of women and men in accordance to their sex,
facilitates an elaboration on the patterns of access and control over
resources, benefits and decision-making processes, as well as power
relations between women and men.
It is worth noting, however, some general confusion over the
concept of gender. One of the prominent confusions is that gender is
a western feminist principle whereby women take the lead and exercise
power over men. This notion is misleading. It creates tensions,
suspicions, avoidance and, worse, rejection.
Gender, as a time and space-bound social construction, embraces a
certain cultural context which can be any culture. As a movement, the
alternate goal is a society in which women and men relate equally;
partnering and helping each other for a better world. Nobody exerts
power over anybody.
The reason why climate change is both a poverty and gender issue
relies on the fact that climate change affects the poor more than the
affluent and is not a gender-neutral process. Different access and
control over resources, decision-making processes, and their
benefits, make women and men experience and respond to the effects of
climate change differently.
Generally, poor women are more vulnerable to the effects of
climate change since they are relatively more dependent on natural
resources. The task of providing food, clean water and fuel to
households is seen as a woman's. During calamities, poor women
shoulder the main responsibility for household coping strategies.
More severe cyclones, floods and droughts resulting from climate
change will make women's lives harder.
Poor women will be more severely affected and challenged to have
a larger scale adaptation to the effects of climate change. This is
an incomparable and unjust situation considering that their
contribution to the human causes of climate change is substantially
less than industrialized countries. This makes climate change a human
rights issue for poor women.
Recognizing climate change as a poverty, gender and human rights
issue means putting poor women's vulnerability to the effects of
climate change up front, as well as documenting and adopting poor
women's knowledge and experiences in adaptation and mitigation
policies and practices. Clean development projects, for example, need
to have this as one of their main concerns and strategies.
When the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was formulated,
the rights of women were assumed to be embodied within. A few years
later, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was developed as it was realized
that the Universal Declaration was not enough to address women's
special concerns. If only this was realized before, extra meetings
for the CEDAW would not have been needed and the world could have
saved a lot of resources.
Looking at these arguments and learning from the experience of
the CEDAW, it is essential to adopt gender in the upcoming UN meeting
on climate change in Bali on Dec. 3-14. Otherwise, the meeting will
only lead to inappropriate policies and practices for the adaptation
and mitigation of climate change.
The writer is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology,
Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University.
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(NEWS 2) How Old Masters are Helping Study of Global Warming
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/01/
climatechange.scienceofclimatechange Or: http://tinyurl.com/2e9hov
Guardian (UK) - The English landscape painter JMW Turner said his
work was not to be understood but "to show what such a scene was
like." Now global warming experts are taking advantage of his prosaic
nature to improve their predictions of the consequences of climate
change.
The scientists are analysing the striking sunsets painted by
Turner and dozens of other artists to work out the cooling effects of
huge volcanic eruptions. By working out how the climate varied
naturally in the past they hope to improve the computer models used
to simulate global warming.
The team, at the National Observatory of Athens, is using the
works of old masters to work out the amount of natural pollution
spewed into the skies by eruptions such as Mount Krakatoa in 1883.
Reports from the time describe stunning sunsets for several years
afterwards, as the retreating light was scattered by reflective
particles thrown high into the atmosphere. By studying the colour of
sunsets painted before and after such eruptions, the researchers say
they can calculate the amount of material in the sky at the time.
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(NEWS 3) NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading to Record Low
In 2007
Oct. 1, 2007
RELEASE: 07-216 - WASHINGTON - A new NASA-led study found a 23-
percent loss in the extent of the Arctic's thick, year-round sea ice
cover during the past two winters. This drastic reduction of
perennial winter sea ice is the primary cause of this summer's
fastest-ever sea ice retreat on record and subsequent smallest-ever
extent of total Arctic coverage.
A team led by Son Nghiem of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif., studied trends in Arctic perennial ice cover by
combining data from NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) satellite
with a computing model based on observations of sea ice drift from
the International Arctic Buoy Programme. QuikScat can identify and
map different classes of sea ice, including older, thicker perennial
ice and younger, thinner seasonal ice. Between winter 2005 and winter
2007, the perennial ice shrunk by an area the size of Texas and
California combined. This severe loss continues a trend of rapid
decreases in perennial ice extent in this decade. Study results will
be published Oct. 4 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The scientists observed less perennial ice cover in March 2007
than ever before, with the thick ice confined to the Arctic Ocean
north of Canada. Consequently, the Arctic Ocean was dominated by
thinner seasonal ice that melts faster. This ice is more easily
compressed and responds more quickly to being pushed out of the
Arctic by winds. Those conditions facilitated the ice loss, leading
to this year's record low amount of total Arctic sea ice.
Nghiem said the rapid decline in winter perennial ice the past
two years was caused by unusual winds. "Unusual atmospheric
conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded
it into the Transpolar Drift Stream and then sped its flow out of the
Arctic," he said. When that sea ice reached lower latitudes, it
rapidly melted in the warmer waters.
"The winds causing this trend in ice reduction were set up by an
unusual pattern of atmospheric pressure that began at the beginning
of this century," Nghiem said.
The Arctic Ocean's shift from perennial to seasonal ice is
preconditioning the sea ice cover there for more efficient melting
and further ice reductions each summer. The shift to seasonal ice
decreases the reflectivity of Earth's surface and allows more solar
energy to be absorbed in the ice-ocean system.
The perennial sea ice pattern change was deduced by using the
buoy computing model infused with 50 years of data from drifting
buoys and measurement camps to track sea ice movement around the
Arctic Ocean. From the 1970s through the 1990s, perennial ice
declined by about 193,000 square miles each decade. Since 2000, that
rate of decline as nearly tripled.
Results from the buoy model were verified against the past eight
years of QuikScat observations, which have much better resolution and
coverage. The QuikScat data were verified with field experiments
conducted aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy as well as by
sea ice charts derived from multiple satellite data sources by
analysts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
National Ice Center in Suitland, Md.
The new study differs significantly from other recent studies
that only looked at the Arctic's total sea ice extent. "Our study
applies QuikScat's unique capabilities to examine how the composition
of Arctic sea ice is changing, which is crucial to understanding
Arctic sea ice mass balance and overall Arctic climate stability,"
Nghiem said.
Pablo Clemente-Coln of the National Ice Center said the rapid
reduction of Arctic perennial sea ice requires an urgent reassessment
of sea ice forecast model predictions and of potential impacts to
local weather and climate, as well as shipping and other maritime
operations in the region. "Improving ice forecast models will require
new physical insights and understanding of complex Arctic processes
and interactions."
Other organizations participating in the study include the
University of Washington's Polar Science Center, Seattle, and the
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover,
N.H.
Media also may contact: Sandra Hines, University of Washington,
206-543-2580; Marie Darling, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and
Engineering Laboratory, 603-646-4292; Lt. James Brinkley, National
Ice Center, 301-394-3018; and Peter Weiss, American Geophysical
Union, Washington, 202-777-7507.
For more information about QuikScat, visit: http://
winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/index.cfm
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(NEWS 4) In Japan, Going Solar Costly Despite Market Surge
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14031247
(thanks DG!) - All Things Considered, October 1, 2007 - It's hard
not to like the idea of solar power. Put some panels on your roof and
there you have it — free electricity from sunlight running your TV
and appliances. No greenhouse gases, no pollution and no guilt. The
catch: Solar power has always been expensive. But costs have come
down. And over the last few years, solar companies are finding
themselves in unfamiliar territory: They are making a profit
Houses with solar panels are still unusual in Japan, but you can
get a glimpse of where things are headed in Kobe. In one new
development there, the houses come with solar panels pre-installed.
It's row after row of plain box houses. You have to tilt your
head back to see the solar panels on the roofs. A neighborhood boy
wearing a "Dinosaur Power" T-shirt sets off to find his mother, Rika
Suzuki. She says she doesn't consider herself an environmentalist.
What she likes is not paying electric bills. "It depends on
sunlight," Suzuki says. "But on a nice sunny day. Even though we use
all the electronic devices, I feel like we are receiving energy from
the sun."
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(NEWS 5) Arctic Melt Unnerves the Experts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html Or:
http://tinyurl.com/34uhoj
New York Times (Registration Required) - The Arctic ice cap
shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-
imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada
and the Northern Sea Route over Russia. Over all, the floating ice
dwindled to an extent unparalleled in a century or more, by several
estimates.
Now the six-month dark season has returned to the North Pole. In
the deepening chill, new ice is already spreading over vast stretches
of the Arctic Ocean.
Astonished by the summer's changes, scientists are studying the
forces that exposed one million square miles of open water - six
Californias – beyond the average since satellites started
measurements in 1979. At a recent gathering of sea-ice experts at the
University of Alaska in Fairbanks, Hajo Eicken, a geophysicist,
summarized it this way: "Our stock in trade seems to be going away."
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the
future, and their ability to predict it.
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(NEWS 6) Yale Launches Climate, Media Forum: Aims to improve
communication between scientists and the press.
(The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media is an initiative of
the Yale Project on Climate Change, directed by Anthony Leiserowitz,
DISCCRS II participant).
The Columbia Journalism Review - Behind the News - The consensus
on how to improve news stories about climate change is even more
solid than the consensus on global warming itself: reporters and
scientists need to communicate better with each other. It’s a two-
way street, and if you spend much time talking with either group, you
will hear this again and again.
Identifying the need for better communication and actually
improving it are two different things, however, much like declaring
the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and actually doing so.
That’s where editor Bud Ward and a new Web site, The Yale Forum on
Climate Change and the Media, come in.
The Forum focuses on how the media covers climate change, Ward
told me before Monday’s launch. It’s what’s been driving me for
the last few years.” An exclusively online publication, it will be
updated weekly.
Ward has been an environmental journalist and educator since
1974. Over the last three years, he has directed a series of six
workshops, funded by the National Science Foundation, which brought
members of the press face-to-face with scientists in the hope of
improving dialogue between them. The meetings, one of which I
attended two years ago, provided a lot of the grist for what I’m
doing with this Yale project,” Ward told me.
The inaugural issue of the Forum includes a long account of the
most recent workshop, which took place in September before the annual
meeting of the Society of Environmental Journalists, of which Ward is
a founding member. It was the highest-profile meeting of the series,
bringing eighteen news executives from the nation’s major newspapers
and magazines together with nine of the country’s preeminent climate
scientists. It was the kind of meeting that any rookie environment
reporter would give his right arm to attend. For those who chatter
about how to improve journalism on climate change, the Yale Forum
article, authored by Ward, is a window into what is actually being
done. It might not be the kind of story most lay readers would find
interesting, but that doesn’t matter. Ward expects most of the
Forum’s readers will come from within the media industry.
“It’s a class audience, not a mass audience,” he told me.
“I’ll be happy if I get 800 to 1,000 journalists looking for
edification and inspiration, and maybe 600 to 700 scientists.”
Those readers will find variety at the Yale Forum. There is an
analysis of a new study that was designed to refute a widely quoted
report from 2004, which found that no peer-reviewed science has
challenged the consensus that Earth is getting warmer. Authored by a
graduate student in Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies, the analysis concludes that the new study “is unlikely to
unseat” the established wisdom.
Under the heading, “Words Matter,” there is a good critique
from former San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Bruce Lieberman of the
implications of using either “climate change” or “global
warming” in stories or when speaking. Semantics have become
incredibly important to the environmental beat, and it is nice to see
the subject get attention in the forum. Lieberman’s piece is the
first of two installments and hopefully, in the next one, he will
scrutinize some of the finer points of the relevant language, such as
the consequences of ratcheting the term “climate skeptic” up to
“climate denier,” which has become more common lately.
There is also an item by former Houston Chronicle reporter Bill
Dawson that defends a controversial Newsweek article from August
about the “Climate Denial Machine.” The debate about this report
is getting a bit stale now, but Dawson has some fresh comments from
the author, Sharon Begley, and his piece is part of a department
called “How I Did That Story,” which sounds promising.
In another, more traditional department, Ward profiles The
Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen, the only climatologist in America
who has her own weekly science program, “Forecast Earth.”
Cullen’s fascinating transition from scientist to journalist is also
a bit of aging news, but Ward manages to push it forward a bit,
reporting that her show will expand from a half hour to a full hour.
Also in the inaugural issue is an essay by journalism scholar
Phil Meyer titled, “Giving Objectivity a Bad Name.” Fed up with
stories that give equal space to both mainstream and fringe climate
scientists in order to achieve “balance,” a number of journalists,
bloggers, and pundits are calling for an and to the strictures of
“traditional” journalism:
In the age of the Internet, mere transmission no longer adds
value to information. The way to add value to the surplus of data is
to process it to help the reader select it and make sense of it Š All
that needs to be abandoned is the primitive belief that
interpretation-free reporting of what “both sides” say is
objectivity.
Difficult considerations such as this are the forum’s raison
d’être. When it comes to global warming and climate change, “the
science and journalism on solutions is going to be just as
controversial as the science and journalism on the causes,” Ward
told me.
Contributions so far have come exclusively from journalists and
students, but Ward hopes to get pieces from leading climate
scientists down the road. This variety is the Yale Forum’s strength.
It needs pieces that are a bit more unique and timely in the coming
issues, but Ward and his small staff are off to a good start.
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(NEWS 7) Climate Warming Skeptics: Is the Research Too Political?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1004/p13s03-sten.html Or: http://
tinyurl.com/3ctfzk
Christian Science Monitor - In May, based on the work of hundreds
of scientists from around the world, the United Nations issued a
groundbreaking report on Earth's climate.
Its findings were sobering: Most of the increase in temperatures
seen in the last 50 years, it said, is very likely - with more than
90 percent certainty - to be due to greenhouse gases produced by
human activities.
The report ... [is] considered to be the definitive distillations
of humankind's understanding of human-driven climate change. ... Yet
a small but vocal minority continues to question the reports'
conclusions. Because the IPCC is an organ of the United Nations, they
say, the reports are politically skewed.
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Summer Programs, Courses, Internships, Meetings, Opportunities
(MEETING 1) IPY NGPR Symposium - Early-Career Polar Researchers:
Become Part of the International Polar Year (IPY) Legacy - May 4 -
11, 2008 - La Foret Conference Center - Colorado Springs, CO (USA)
http://www.disccrs.org/ngpr/
Application Deadline: October 15, 2007 Most or all of expenses for
participant travel and symposium attendance covered by NSF grants!
IPY NGPR SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW: The IPY 2007-2009 is a unique
opportunity to blaze a new trail for polar research, one that will
include pathways across the natural and social sciences to benefit
the scientific research enterprise and society. The symposium will
bring together 36 advanced graduate students and recent Ph.D.
graduates conducting independent research during the 2007–2009 IPY.
Scholars will present and discuss their research to increase
awareness of work conducted by their peers during this IPY, establish
an interdisciplinary collegial network, and provide a foundation for
future collaborations.
The symposium represents a unique opportunity to provide a new
generation of polar researchers with a common sense of history and
purpose. Several internationally recognized polar experts, including
veteran polar scientists who were actively engaged in the 1957–1958
IGY, will join the new scholars to share perspectives on the history
and future of polar research. The setting will provide an open forum
for discussions and interactions that should provide a lasting
contribution to the IPY Legacy, and lead to new research directions
advance science at the intersection of science and society.
SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS: Participants will be competitively
selected by committee through a rigorous application process with the
goal of identifying a diverse group of early career scientists who
are likely to become part of the IPY legacy, just as David Keeling
and others who were “early career” during the 1957/58
International Geophysical Year (IGY) went on to make major
contributions to our understanding of the Earth system through polar
research.
ELIGIBILITY: Advanced students and Ph.D. graduates conducting
research in the Arctic or Antarctic region during the IPY and who
complete their degree between January 1, 2002 - March 31, 2009 are
eligible to apply. Applicants must be conducting polar research
during the IPY, but they do NOT need to be part of an IPY-approved
project.
Scholars from the full range of natural and social sciences are
eligible. While the focus is on the US system with preference given
for American citizens and U.S. residents, a few slots will be
reserved for citizens of any country who are residing outside the US
and demonstrate interests in working with U.S. researchers.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: http://www.disccrs.org/ngpr/apply.html.
For more details contact Susan Weiler (weilercs at whitman.edu) or
Sheldon Drobot (drobot at colorado.edu).
The NGPR is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation's
Office of Polar Programs through grant #ARC-0632324 to Whitman
College, C.S. Weiler PI, and #ARC-0632312 to University of Colorado,
Sheldon Drobot PI.
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(MEETING 2) Call for Papers - Climate Change, Uncertainty, and
Strategic Management - January 27th - February 1st, 2008
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) - Zurich (Switzerland)
For a full PDF version please visit: http://www.sustec.ethz.ch/
education/PhD_Academy/Academy08/ETH_PhDAcademy_Call08.pdf
For information regarding this year’s academy go to: http://
www.sustec.ethz.ch/education/PhD_Academy/Academy07
Climate change is a major issue facing the world in the 21st
century. Drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are crucial
for stabilizing the world’s ecosystems. The business sector needs to
mitigate the sources of climate change and adapt to its effects even
while both its magnitude and economic implications are uncertain.
Consequently, the appropriate management of carbon resources becomes
a cornerstone of competitive strategy.
The aim of the annual ETH PhD-Academy is to promote excellent PhD
research in the area of sustainability and technology and to develop
responsible leaders for tomorrow. While the 2008 academy focuses on
climate change, it is also open to PhD students working on similar
challenges with respect to environmental sustainability. The first
four days of the academy focus on improving the research design and
methodology of participants’ PhD projects. One additional day will
be reserved for discussions with leading business representatives. We
invite PhD students with a background in strategic management,
technology/innovation management, or institutional change to
participate in the academy. Besides content-related discussions,
students will get valuable feedback from their peers and three well-
respected professors: 1) Prof. Dr. Pratima Bansal
Shurniak Professor in International Business, Richard Ivey School of
Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada. 2) Prof. Dr. Andrew
Griffiths,
Professor for Strategy and Sustainability, UQ Business School,
University of Queensland, Australia and 3) Prof. Dr. Volker Hoffmann,
Professor for Sustainability and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Papers should focus on – but are not limited to – the
following topics: 1) Corporate strategy and investment decisions
under uncertainty 2) Clean technologies and innovation strategies 3)
Carbon risk assessment & analysis 4) Future development of climate
regulation & carbon markets 5) Corporate perceptions of and
adaptation to climate change
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(MEETING 3) Symposium and Celebration - 50th Anniversary of the
Global Carbon Dioxide Record - November 28-30, 2007 - Kona, Hawaii
www.co2conference.org
Leaders of science, business, and government will celebrate the
50th anniversary of the global CO2 record and look to the future with
presentations, panel discussions, posters and exhibits addressing
topics relevant to the atmospheric carbon dioxide record and climate
change.
• What We’ve Learned from the Global Record
• Terrestrial & Oceanic Impacts, Feedbacks and Human Adaptation
• Energy Alternatives; Mitigation Options
• Regional Efforts to Control Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Economic Impacts and Financial Incentives
• Communicating Science to the Public
• What Future Measurements and Research Will Be Needed?
This is a unique opportunity to interact with researchers,
business leaders, and policy-makers to discuss the challenge of
meeting society’s energy needs while reducing carbon dioxide
emissions.
Note from Todd Crane, DISCCRS III (KMC Volcanoes National Park,
Hawaii) participant: Anyone want to fly all the way back out Big
Island to discuss mitigation of climate change via reduction of
carbon emissions? Note combination of mild sarcasm, moderate irony
and sincere interest.
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(MEETING 4) Call for Papers: The Politics of Climate Change -
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Climate change is now a mainstream part of the political agenda.
It has become clear that it is not solely a technical issue, to be
resolved by scientists, but a political issue with political
implications at all levels of global governance. Indeed, some may
argue that few long-term problems in international affairs are more
important than this one.
With this in mind, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs
(www.cria.org.uk), a peer reviewed journal of international
relations, law and political economy, is devoting a special issue to
The Politics of Climate Change. Professor Paul G. Harris will be the
special issue editor. The purpose of this special issue s to tease
out the latest thinking on the implications of climate change for
international affairs, and to explore how various proposals for
tackling climate change will affect inter-state relations in coming
years. It therefore aims to encourage scholars of international
relations, international political economy and international law to
contribute to current discussions of climate change. Some questions
to consider are: How has the discussion of climate change affected
inter-state relations? How does this problem, and how do
environmental issues more generally, challenge international
relations theory? What are the distributional effects of climate
change? How would climate change or action taken to tackle climate
change affect the balance of power or balance of influence? Does the
prominence of climate change on the international political agenda
represent the continuing soft power of the European states which have
been the 'champion' of global awareness of climate change? What
groups of states are likely to benefit or suffer from the various
proposals to tackle climate change? What are the legal and ethical
implications?
Deadline for submission of proposals: 31 October 2007.
Notification of acceptance of proposals: December 2007. Deadline for
submission of manuscripts for accepted proposals: 31 February 2007.
Expected publication date of accepted articles: End of 2008. Please
note that all articles will be subject to our peer review process and
that the Editors retain the discretion at all stages of the
publication process to accept or reject an article.
Proposals should be about 600 to 800 words in length. They must
clearly describe the proposed approach, and explain the contribution
that would be made to the special issue and to our understanding of
international relations more generally. Please email proposals by 31
October 2007 to the Editors at criacis at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Proposals which offer high quality conceptual and practical
contributions to the topic of the politics of climate change will be
favoured. In addition, preference may be given to proposals which: -
offer a useful, new perspective on environmental concerns and
international relations theory - integrate theory and practice - are
useful to academics and practitioners in generating theory and
understanding complement the other papers in the special issue.
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(JOB 1) Asst Prof - Biology (Ecology) – Whitman College – Walla
Walla WA (USA)
Ph.D. required, post-doctoral experience preferred. We seek a
field biologist with expertise in ecology whose teaching/research
interests consider ecological phenomena (such as animal behavior or
interactions) in evolutionary contexts. Teaching duties will include
courses and laboratories in ecology and field biology, contributions
to Whitman’s interdisciplinary environmental studies program, and
supervision of student research in biology. Whitman College wishes
to reinforce its commitment to enhance diversity, broadly defined,
recognizing that to provide a diverse learning environment is to
prepare students for personal and professional success in an
increasingly multicultural and global society. In their application,
candidates are strongly encouraged to address their potential
contribution to the promotion of diversity, a core value of the
Whitman College community; their interest in working with
undergraduates as teachers and scholars in a liberal arts environment
that emphasizes close student-faculty interaction; and their interest
in participating in the College's general education offerings.
Deadline: October 19, 2007. Materials should include a letter of
application; curriculum vitae; three letters of reference;
undergraduate and graduate transcripts; teaching evaluations or other
evidence of demonstrated or potential excellence in undergraduate
instruction; and separate statements on the candidate’s teaching
interests and scholarly agenda. Send to: Patti Moss, Biology
Department, Whitman College, 345 Boyer Ave, Walla Walla, WA 99362.
Whitman College, located in the scenic Columbia Basin, is a small,
selective, liberal arts college dedicated to providing excellent
educational opportunities for students. The College has a generous
sabbatical leave program and professional development support for
both research and teaching. For additional information about Whitman
College and the Walla Walla area, see www.whitman.edu and
www.wallawalla.org.
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(JOB 2) Post-doc - NOAA C&GC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - UCAR
– Various US Institutions
UCAR manages this NOAA-sponsored program, which pairs recently
graduated postdoctorates with host scientists at U.S. institutions to
work in an area of mutual interest. The objective of this program is
to help create the next generation of researchers needed for climate
studies. It endeavors to attract recent PhDs in sciences which
address studies of relevance to the NOAA Climate and Global Change
Program (refer to NOAA's Web site at: <http://www.climate.noaa.gov>).
The NOAA C&GC Program seeks to provide an effective national
climate service based on the development and application of global
and regional climate forecast information. The Program focuses on
observing, understanding, modeling, and predicting the climate system
on seasonal to centennial time scales and assessing the regionally
specific socioeconomic consequences of climate variability.
The program offers two-year postdoctoral fellowships reviewed
annually. Fellows receive a fixed annual salary and receive a full
line of UCAR employee benefits. Application and recommendation
letter deadline: 15 January 2008. Applications must be submitted in
electronic form and preferably (pdf), send e-mail attachments to:
vspapply.ucar.edu. Reference letters should be sent electronically,
but hard copies or faxes are accepted.
If unable to send electronically, please mail to: Meg Austin,
Director, UCAR/VSP, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 USA.
Full text announcement available at: <http://www.vsp.ucar.edu>. NOAA
Climate Program Office (Chester J. Koblinsky, Director) sponsors this
program.
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(JOB 3) Asst Prof - Land-Use/Land-Cover Change - Department of
Geography - University Of California - Santa Barbara CA (USA)
The University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of
Geography, seeks candidates whose research and teaching interests
focus on compelling science questions and approaches towards
observing and modeling the causes and consequences of Land-use Land-
cover Change. The successful candidate is expected to have research
expertise in remote sensing in addition to one or more of the
following technical areas: agent-based, numerical, predictive and/or
statistical modeling and/or integrative surveys. Areas of particular
interest to the department include but are not limited to 1) impacts
of anthropogenic and natural disturbances on climate, biogeochemistry
and ecosystems; 2) large-scale changes in food production and
security; 3) population, development and health linkages; 4)
urbanization and 5) modeling of dynamic land-cover. The Department
has strengths in three systematic areas: (1) modeling, measurement,
and computation; (2) human-envi! ronment r ystem science. Candidates
will support one or more of these areas in teaching and research and
contribute to the teaching of remote sensing.
The Department has a strong commitment to multidisciplinary
research and teaching, and provides opportunities for interactions
with other departments and research units on the campus, including
unique facilities such as the Center for SPOT Imagery
(www.spot.ucsb.edu). Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree by July 1,
2008 in Geography or a related field, excellent promise for quality
teaching, and evidence of outstanding potential for developing a
vigorous research program. The department is especially interested in
candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the
academic community. The application deadline is November 30 The
starting date is July 1, 2008. Qualified applicants should send their
complete curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching
interests, and names of three referees with addresses preferably by
email to lucc_search at geog.ucsb.edu, or by mail to Search Committee,
Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
93106-4060. To learn more about the department, visit our website at
www.geog.ucsb.edu.
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(JOB 4) Faculty Positions - Terrestrial Biogeochemistry and Climate
Change - Appalachian Laboratory (AL) - University of Maryland Center
The Appalachian Laboratory (AL) of the University of Maryland
Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) seeks two individuals for
full-time faculty positions at either the Assistant or Associate
Professor level to enhance our strengths in terrestrial and aquatic
ecology, landscape and watershed ecology, and remote sensing.
Excellent research and computing facilities are available at AL,
including plant, soil, and water analysis laboratories with state-of-
the-art analytical instrumentation, [Cat1] growth chambers, and a
greenhouse. The main responsibility of these positions is research,
but UMCES faculty also participate in graduate education, outreach,
and application of basic science to regional (e.g., restoration of
Chesapeake Bay) and global (e.g., land use and climate change)
environmental problems. We will interview candidates who are
interested in collaborative research, are published in top scientific
journals, and can acquire external funding to support their
research. We are particularly interested in:
Effects of climate change on terrestrial and/or aquatic
ecosystems. We seek an ecologist who applies climate change data and
forecasts to address the problem of ecosystem change, including
issues such as invasive species, mitigation of ecosystem impacts,
ecosystem restoration, adaptation of land and aquatic resource
management, and ecosystem/climate feedback processes.
Terrestrial biogeochemistry in multi-use landscapes. We seek an
outstanding researcher who may address topics such as carbon
sequestration by soils, forest nutrient transformations, and effects
of land use change and ecosystem disturbances on elemental cycles.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae; statement of research
interests; a brief discussion of how the applicant’s research would
complement ongoing research at AL/UMCES; selected reprints; and list
of four references (name, title, mailing address, telephone, FAX, and
e-mail address) to either the Climate Change or Terrestrial
Biogeochemistry Search Committee, Appalachian Laboratory, UMCES, 301
Braddock Road, Frostburg, MD 21532. Review of applications will
begin on December 1, 2007. Information about AL and UMCES can be
found at: http://www.al.umces.edu/ and http://www.umces.edu/.
[Cat1]Can we add something about our computing facilities—e.g., XX
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(JOB 5) Professorship - Department of Technology and Social Change -
Linköping University - Sweden
The Department of Technology and Social Change is oriented
towards critical studies of scientific and technical change, of
technology's importance in society, and of the different
understandings and practices constructed around technology and
science in society. The Department has around 40 members, whereof
about half are graduate students. We also have an international
Master's Programme within the European ESST network.
We are now looking for a Professor with a broad social science
competence within the fields of politics, economics, or organization,
of relevance for the understanding of the institutional context and
social dynamics of technology. Relevant academic backgrounds are, for
example, (in alphabetical order) economical history, business
economics, cultural geography, macroeconomics, sociology, political
science, or an interdisciplinary competency within a relevant field.
For more information about the post and application procedures,
see http://www.liu.se/en/job/ or contact Professor Boel Berner
(boebe at tema.liu.se).
Closing date for the application: 12 November 2007
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(JOB 6) Asst Prof - Geology - Department of Earth and Planetary
Sciences (EPS) - UC Santa Cruz CA (USA)
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) at the
University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks a geologist whose
research focuses on the dynamics and evolution of continental and
marine lithosphere, including its surface. We are particularly
interested in candidates concentrating on research areas that
incorporate, but are not restricted to: evolution of mountain belts,
geomorphology, active tectonics, and climate-tectonics interactions.
We welcome qualified applicants whose technical expertise will build
upon or complement our existing strengths in areas such as:
geochemistry, field geophysics, and remote sensing. The successful
applicant is expected to develop a vigorous, externally funded
research program and supervise research by graduate and undergraduate
students. The campus is especially interested in candidates who can
contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community
through their research, teaching and/or service.
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (http://
www.es.ucsc.edu) consists of 21 faculty, ~60 graduate students, ~100
undergraduate majors, and an outstanding technical support and
administrative staff. Additionally, EPS faculty can take advantage of
existing collaborations, or establish new ones, with researchers in
the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, the Institute of
Marine Sciences, and faculty from other affiliated departments.
Diverse analytical and computational resources are available at UCSC
and our faculty have access to UC-wide and regional science
communities and facilities in the greater Bay Area.
To apply: To ensure full consideration, send curriculum vitae, a
brief summary of research and teaching interests, reprints, and
arrange to have five letters of recommendation* sent to the address
below. Applicants are invited to submit a statement addressing their
contributions to diversity through their research, service, and/or
teaching.
Assistant Professor Search Committee
c/o Judy Van Leuven, MSO
University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
1156 High Street Please refer to position #357-08 in all correspondence.
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(Inquiries only: judy at pmc.ucsc.edu; 831-459-4478)
*All letters are considered as confidential documents. Please direct
your letter writers to the UCSC Confidentiality Statement at
http://www2.ucsc.edu/ahr/academic_policies_and_procedures/cappm/
confstm.htm
Screening will begin with applications postmarked by December 1,
2007.
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(JOB 7) Post-Doc – Paleoclimate modeling - University of Colorado
– Boulder CO (USA)
http://cires.colorado.edu/jobs/
The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
(CIRES) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has an immediate
opening for a postdoctoral research associate in paleoclimate
modeling. This position is co-located at the NOAA National Climatic
Data Center Paleoclimatology Branch, also in Boulder. The successful
candidate will conduct research using the NCAR coupled climate model,
examining the effects of North Atlantic freshwater forcing during the
early Holocene. There will be many opportunities for collaboration
with scientists at CU, NOAA, and NCAR.
The appointment will be made for one year, with the possibility
of extension for two additional years. For more information, please
visit http://cires.colorado.edu/jobs/ or contact Dr. Carrie Morrill
(carrie.morrill at colorado.edu). To apply, please send a cover letter
describing your research experience and interests, a CV, salary
history, the names of three references, and the job code (NCDC-2) by
email (jobs at cires.colorado.edu), fax (303-492-1149), or regular mail
to: CIRES Human Resources, 216 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0216. Reviews
will begin immediately and continue until position is filled.
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(JOB 8) Asst. Prof. - Paleobiologist/Paleooceanographer - Dept. of
Geology - San José State University CA (USA)
The Department of Geology at SJSU is seeking applicants for a
tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor. We are
looking for a field-oriented colleague who has a strong background in
paleobiology, paleooceanography, or both. A Ph.D. in an appropriate
earth science is required at the time of appointment. Applicants
should have awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of
a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-
cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.
Starting date is Fall 2008.
The successful candidate will teach courses in his or her area of
expertise, including earth system science, to undergraduate majors
and graduate students; will teach general education courses for non-
science majors; will supervise master's thesis research; and will
conduct an independent research program. The interest and ability to
teach an undergraduate course in Paleontology is highly desired. The
candidate must address the needs of a student population of great
diversity—in age, cultural background, ethnicity, primary language,
and academic preparation—through course materials, teaching
strategies, and advisement.
For full consideration, send a letter of application, curriculum
vitae, statement of teaching interests/philosophy and research plans,
and contact information (including e-mail addresses) for at least
three references by 12 November 2007 to: Dr. Richard Sedlock,
Department of Geology, San José State University, One Washington
Square, San José, CA 95192-0102.
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(JOB 9) Asst/Assoc Prof - Climate, Society, and Environmental Change
– Rutgers the State University of New Jersey – Rutgers, NJ (USA)
Description of Position: The Department of Human Ecology is a
dynamic group of social scientists within the School of Environmental
and Biological Sciences at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers the
State University of New Jersey. We wish to hire an active scholar and
effective teacher in the area of climate, society, and environmental
change. This person will be expected to develop courses that support
and complement the offerings of the Department of Human Ecology and
to take a leading role within an emerging multi-disciplinary Climate
Change, Social Policy, and Politics Initiative at the University.
Disciplinary area is open; the Human Ecology Department currently
consists of anthropologists, communication researchers,
psychologists, and sociologists and has strong linkages with
geography, public policy, and ecology and natural resources. The
successful candidate will have a Ph.D degree, show ability to teach
and to work across disciplines both within the social sciences of the
environment and with physical and life scientists working on
environmental problems, and have experience obtaining competitive
grants and/or working with diverse organizations and publics, as
appropriate to a Land-Grant Institution.
This is an academic year tenure-track position at the assistant
to associate professor levels. Salary will be competitive and
commensurable with qualifications. Excellent personal benefits
package is provided, including one month of annual leave per year,
health insurance, retirement program and other institutional
benefits. Interested persons should submit a letter of application
and curriculum vitae and arrange to have letters of recommendation
sent directly by three (3) professional references. The deadline for
applications is December 5th, 2007 or until a suitable candidate is
found. Nominations are also invited. The position is expected to be
filled by September 1, 2008, pending university approval.
Applications should be sent to:
Dr. Bonnie J. McCay, Chair of Search Committee
Chair, Department of Human Ecology
School of Environmental & Biological Sciences
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
55 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520
Tel: 732-932-9153 x 314
HEsearch at SEBS.rutgers.edu
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(JOB 10) Post-Doc - Atlantic multi-decadal climate variability and
predictability - Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) -
University of Kiel - Kiel (Germany)
Three positions are sought for a DFG funded project on improving
our understanding of Atlantic multi-decadal climate variability and
predictability, beginning January 1st, 2008.
1. Postdoctoral scientist shall be employed to develop and apply
a hybrid-coupled model for investigating the solution space of
Atlantic climate variability with respect to key parameters. Results
will be used to reduce uncertainties in the mechanisms of Atlantic
multi-decadal variability, and to explain variability of climate models.
2. PhD student shall be employed to analyse the simulated
variability in climate models and in idealized model experiments.
3. PhD student shall be employed to investigate statistical/
dynamical methods for ocean reconstruction using historical data. The
work will involve running coupled and uncoupled climate models.
Applicants for the postdoctoral position must have a PhD in
meteorology, oceanography, mathematics, or physics. Applicants for
the PhD positions must have a university degree in mathematics,
physics, meteorology, or oceanography. Experience in dynamical
systems theory, climate modelling, and analysis of observational/
model data are desired.
The postdoctoral position is initially for two years, but with
possible extension to a third year. The PhD positions are each for
three years.
Applications must be in writing, and include a cover letter, CV,
contact details of at least two referees, and a one-page statement
outlining the applicant's research interests.
Applications are to be sent by the 31st of October 2007 to:
Position - Decadal-Variability
Leibniz-Institut fuer Meereswissenschaften IFM-GEOMAR
Personalbuero
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
D-24148 Kiel , Germany
Questions are to be directed towards the project leader Dr. Noel
Keenlyside ( nkeenlyside at ifm-geomar.de) Phone: +49(0)431 600 4054.
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(JOB 11) Asst Staff Scientist or Assoc Staff Scientist - University
of Arizona's Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
www.uacareertrack.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=189463
The University of Arizona's Institute for the Study of Planet
Earth seeks to fill a full time academic professional position in the
Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS) project. The successful
candidate will conduct outreach and applied climate research on the
impacts of climate variability and climate change on human and
natural systems in the US Southwest and also provide administrative
support for the CLIMAS project. The outreach and research will
involve developing collaborative relationships with a broad cross-
section of stakeholders and decision makers in Arizona and New
Mexico. In addition, the successful candidate will coordinate with
CLIMAS team members to develop information for dissemination to the
public and to other researchers. The successful candidate will work
independently and in collaboration with CLIMAS team members.
Occasional travel will be required.
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(JOB 12) Environmental Scientist - Coastal Climate. NOAA Coastal
Services Center - Charlston
http://www.imsg.com/career_center/JobDetail.asp?JobID=378
Please assist the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's Coastal Services Center with getting the word out
about an Environmental Scientist position with a Coastal Climate
Focus. The successful applicant for this position with I.M. Systems
Group at CSC in Charleston will manage project teams that focus on
the scoping, planning and development of new applications of climate
information for coastal resource managers. An understanding of
coastal ecology and its response to climate-related stressors, as
well as applications of climate science to coastal resource
management is required.
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(JOB 13) Asst. Prof. - Physical Geographer - Urban environments/
Climatologist - University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee WI (USA)
Climatologists with research interests in the urban environment
are encouraged to apply for the following position. Please contact
Mark D. Schwartz <mds at uwm.edu> if you wish more information about
this opportunity.
Pending Budgetary Approval. Assistant Professor tenure track
appointment beginning Fall 2008. Ph.D. required at the time of
appointment. We are searching for highly motivated individuals,
interested in contributing to a graduate program focused on Urban
Environments.
We seek a physical geographer whose interests are explicitly
urban to facilitate multidisciplinary linkages within the department
and among other units on campus. The new faculty member will be
expected to play a central role in developing and coordinating new
collaborative extramural grant proposals.
Example specialties include: 1) geomorphologists examining urban
dimensions of geomorphic processes; 2) biogeographers focusing on
human-dominated ecosystems, urban landscapes, and restoration
ecology; or, 3) climatologists examining aspects of the urban energy
balance. Additional expertise in geographic information systems and
statistical techniques is highly desirable. The successful applicants
will be encouraged to develop an active research program which
includes a Milwaukee-area focus and to establish connections with the
local community. Send a letter of application clearly stating how you
can contribute, curriculum vitae, and names of three references.
Applications will be reviewed beginning 5 November 2007 and
continue until a suitable candidate is found. UWM is an affirmative
action, equal opportunity employer. Apply: Faculty Search Committee,
Department of Geography, P.O. Box 413. Phone: (414) 229-4866. Fax:
(414)229-3981.
E-mail: <jkenny at uwm.edu> To learn more about Geography and UWM,
please see: < http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Geography>
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(JOB 14) Asst. Prof. - Meteorology/Climate - Department of Geography
and Geology - Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University, Department of Geography and Geology,
is seeking applicants for a new tenure-track Assistant Professor of
Meteorology/Climate position beginning August 2008. The area of
specialization within meteorology/climate is open. The successful
candidate is expected to teach meso-scale, physical, and introductory
meteorology courses in support of the new B.S. Meteorology degree
program. The Department of Geography and Geology is home to the
Kentucky Climate Center, the State Climatologist, and the Kentucky
Mesonet and the successful candidate is expected to collaborate with
these entities. More information about the department and its
research centers is online at: <http://www.wku.edu/geoweb/>, <http://
kyclim.wku.edu/ >, and <http://www.kymesonet.org/>.
Qualifications: 1) Earned Ph.D. in Geography, Meteorology, or a
related field required. Strong ABDs also considered. 2) Must
demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching and research at
the undergraduate, master's, and post-doctoral levels. 3) Will be
expected to develop a strong externally funded research program.
Interested candidates must submit a letter of application that
includes teaching and research philosophy, curriculum vita,
unofficial transcripts, and the names of three references.
Department of Geography and Geology, Meteorology/Climate Search
Committee, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd
#31066, Bowling Green, KY 42101-1066
Review of applications will begin November 15, 2007. Position
will remain open until filled.
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(JOB 15) Asst. Prof. - Physical Geography/Atmos. Science - Department
of Geography - Simon Fraser University
The Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University invites
applications for a tenure track faculty appointment in meteorology/
climatology. We seek a physical scientist with research interests in
atmospheric science that link to one or more of physical geography,
GIS, and the human impacts of climate change. The appointment will be
at the rank of Assistant Professor and will begin September 1, 2008.
Applicants must have completed a PhD by the time of appointment
and should demonstrate a clear promise of excellence in research as
well as effectiveness in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate
levels in the Physical Geography Program. Prime responsibilities will
be to teach a sequence of undergraduate courses in weather and
climate and related graduate courses, and to provide research
direction and graduate supervision in atmospheric science. The
successful candidate also will be expected to instruct in other
courses in the Physical Geography Program as needed. The appointee
will be responsible for establishing an externally funded research
program in atmospheric science.
Applicants should forward a curriculum vitae, statement of
research interests and career goals, and reprint or sample of
research writing to Dr. Ted Hickin, Chair, Department of Geography,
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6.
They should also arrange for three confidential letters of reference
to be sent to the Chair under separate cover. Review of applications
will commence on January 8, 2008. For additional information please
see www.sfu.ca/geography
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however
Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The
position is subject to final budgetary approval.
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(JOB 16) Asst. Prof. - Meteorology - San Jose State University – San
Jose CA (USA)
http://www.met.sjsu.edu/
The Department of Meteorology at San Jose State University
invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the
Assistant Professor level, to begin in August 2008 (possibly January
2008). We seek applicants with specialization in either Synoptic
Meteorology & Forecasting or in Climate Dynamics; however, applicants
with expertise in other fields of meteorology will be given strong
consideration. Teaching responsibilities will include General
Education, undergraduate and graduate (MS) courses in meteorology;
innovation in teaching is strongly encouraged at SJSU. The successful
candidate will be expected to develop an active research program
involving both graduate and undergraduate students, and also
participate in advising, committee, and outreach activities.
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science or
a closely-related field by the start of the appointment. For full
consideration, send a letter of application, vita, statement of
teaching interest/philosophy, statement of research plans, and
contact information for at least three references by October 15, 2007
to the address below. Applications by email are encouraged.
Dr. Alison Bridger, Chair, Department of Meteorology, San Jose
State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0104.
Phone: (408) 924-5200, Fax: (408) 924-5191, email
<bridger at met.sjsu.edu>.
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(JOB 17) Research Assc / Post-doc - Regional Arctic Climate Modeling
- Department of Oceanography - Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)
http://www.oc.nps.navy.mi;l/NAME/name.html
The Department of Oceanography at the Naval Postgraduate School
(NPS) has an immediate opening for the position of Research Associate
with the primary expertise in high performance computing (HPC) and
secondary in ocean and / or sea ice modeling as required to advance
high-resolution regional climate modeling of the Arctic Ocean. At the
minimum, a MS degree in computational sciences or oceanography / sea
ice sciences is required, however candidates with a Ph.D. degree will
be given equal consideration. The position is initially for up to 3
years, renewable every year. Longer-term employment and advancement
of education is possible subject to the job performance and
availability of funds. The successful applicant will have expertise
in combination of Fortran90, MPI/OpenMP and state-of-the-art computer
architectures. He/She will be expected to work with highly complex
climate component codes, including ocean and sea ice models as well
as flux coupler and regional atmospheric codes. Depending on the
qualifications of the successful candidate, hiring may be possible at
either the Research Associate or Postdoctoral Fellow level.
Compensation will be commensurate with the applicant qualifications
and in line with the NPS pay scale system.
Interested applicants should send a detailed resume to: Prof.
Wieslaw Maslowski, Email: maslowsk at nps.edu.
US citizenship is desired but not required for these positions.
The position is open until filled.
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(JOB 18) Senior (5 yrs exp) researcher - Adaptation to climate change
and international development – Center for International Climate and
Environmental Research (CICERO) – Oslo (Norway)
CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental
Research - Oslo) is an independent research center associated with
the University of Oslo. CICERO's mandate is to conduct research and
provide information and expert advice about issues related to
national and international climate policy. CICERO's researchers come
from a wide range of backgrounds covering such disciplines as
political science, sociology, economics, and the natural sciences.
CICERO is in the process of strengthening its research on the
implications of climate change for international development in a
coupled social-biophysical context. People and societies in poor
countries are considered as particularly vulnerable to climate
change, but relatively little research has so far been conducted on
what the practical implications will be for development efforts. We
are seeking an experienced candidate within the social sciences who
can assist in building a research program in this area. Of particular
interest are research experience from developing countries, and
development work at the local, national and international level. We
are seeking a candidate who has experience or interest in linking
such research with vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.
The successful candidate will have: 1) PhD or equivalent in
relevant area 2) An ability to work in an interdisciplinary setting
3) At least 5 years of work experience on international development,
with field experience in developing countries. 4) Knowledge of
climate change. Work experience on the interface between climate
change and development desirable. 5) Excellent team working and
communication skills 6) Excellent command of written and oral English.
The position is sought to be filled as soon as possible.
For informal enquiries please contact: Senior Research Fellow
Grete K. Hovelsrud e-mail g.k.hovelsrud at cicero.uio.no, Tel +47 22 85
87 69 - Mobile +47 95 80 60 46) or Research Director Asbjørn Aaheim
(e-mail: h.a.aaheim at cicero.uio.no, Tel +47 22 85 87 61 / 95 74 39 57 ).
Please forward the application with a short and relevant CV by
October 19th 2007.
The application with attachments should be made into one PDF-file
(or Word-file) and be submitted by e-mail to: admin at cicero.uio.no
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(JOB 19) Asst. Prof. - Climate Scientist - Environmental Studies
Department - Macalester College - St. Paul, MN (USA)
The Environmental Studies Department of Macalester College
invites applications for a tenure-track climate scientist to begin
Fall 2008. Appointment will be at the Assistant, Associate or Full
Professor rank. We seek applicants who are committed to participating
in a broadly interdisciplinary department. The Department currently
has tenure-track faculty in environmental history and environmental
policy and we seek a scientist with interests that will complement
these areas. The position will include the opportunity to forge
curricular links with disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs as
appropriate. Specific areas of climate related interest could
include, climate dynamics, biosphere-climate interaction (including
agricultural systems), biogeochemical cycles, climatology,
meteorology, oceanography, geochemistry, and geophysics, among
others. The successful candidate is expected to build and maintain an
active research program with students. Teaching duties include
Environmental Science, courses in the area of specialty, including
climate change and rotating responsibility for the Senior Seminar
course. The Environmental Studies Department is housed in a renovated/
expanded science building with state of the art laboratory facilities
and equipment. Start-up funds are available. Send letter of
application, CV, statement of teaching philosophy and research plans,
and 3 letters of reference to Dr. Dan Hornbach, Chair, Department of
Environmental Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105.
Applications received by October 15, 2007 will receive first
consideration.
Macalester College is a selective, private liberal arts college
located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, whose vital
and diverse urban communities offer multiple opportunities for
engagement as an integral part of the student experience. The College
enrolls over 1800 students from 50 states plus the District of
Columbia and almost 80 countries. As an Equal Opportunity employer
supportive of making affirmative efforts to achieve a diverse
workforce, the College strongly encourages applications from women
and members of underrepresented minority groups. We are especially
interested in applicants who are dedicated to excellence in both
teaching and research in a liberal arts setting and who are committed
to working with students of diverse backgrounds. All faculty at
Macalester are expected to help sustain the Colleges distinctive
mission of educational excellence with a special emphasis on
internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society as they
pursue their individual research programs and engage with students in
and out of the classroom.
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(JOBS 20) 10 New Faculty Positions - Sustainability - Michigan
Technological University
- Houghton MI (USA)
Michigan Technological University announces a Sustainability faculty
hiring initiative that will add ten tenure-track positions, open in
rank, during the next year. These include three endowed chairs:
– the Robbins Chair in Sustainable Management of the
Environment;
– the Robbins Chair in Sustainable Manufacturing and Design; and
– the Robbins Chair in Sustainable Use of Materials.
Faculty selected for the Robbins chairs will be leaders in their
fields and have strong research experience, both within their home
and other institutions. Successful candidates for the remaining
positions will have outstanding records in their field for respective
stages in their careers. They will be expected to develop active
research programs and to collaborate in multi-disciplinary research,
education, and outreach efforts.
Sustainability underpins scholarship on a university-wide scale at
Michigan Technological University. Faculty from areas such as
engineering, forestry, humanities, business, and the natural and
social sciences are actively involved in multi-disciplinary research
and education. We develop processes, policies, technologies, and
materials that promote sustainable use of natural resources,
sustainable energy sources and consumption, sustainable enterprises
and communities, and access to clean air and water in both the
developed and developing worlds.
We seek applications and nominations for these ten positions. We
intend to develop a diverse applicant pool from a wide range of
disciplines related to this strategic initiative. Applications
received by December 15, 2007 will receive first consideration, but
applications will be considered until all positions are filled.
Attractive salary, benefit and start-up packages will be provided for
successful applicants.
Michigan Technological University is an internationally renowned
doctoral research university. The University’s mission is to create
the future by developing sustainable solutions to global challenges.
Michigan Technological University is located in Michigan's scenic
Upper Peninsula, on the south shore of Lake Superior. Houghton
provides a unique setting where natural beauty, culture, education,
and the diversity of residents from around the world come together to
provide a superb living experience.
Further details about the Michigan Technological University
Sustainability faculty hiring initiative are available at www.mtu.edu/
sfhi/hiring/. More information on Michigan Technological University
is available at www.mtu.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
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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://disccrs.org
DISCCRS poster http://disccrs.org
Workshop Report, Meeting the Needs of
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Graduates in a
Changing Global Environment
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