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<div align="center">04/30/04</div>
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<div><b>Ocean Studies Will Move to Other Planets.</b></div>
<div>Provided by cnn.com<br>
`Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Torrence Johnson has recently
proclaimed the possibilities of exploring oceans of other planets in
our solar system. Researchers are currently drawing up plans to send
orbiters to Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa. It is predicted that
Europa alone contains twice the water of the planet earth. Also, in
July of 2004, the Cassini spacecraft, launched seven years ago, will
be reaching Saturn's moon, Titan, to explore the implications of its
surface chemistry. Many opportunities could arise from discoveries
found in these vast, unexplored places.`</div>
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>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/02/17/space.oceanography.ap/index<span
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<div><b>NASA CURBS COMMENTS ON ICE AGE DISASTER MOVIE</b></div>
<div>from The New York Times (Registration Required, but is
free)</div>
<div> "Urgent: HQ Direction," began
a message e-mailed on April 1 to dozens of scientists and officials at
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It was not an
alert about an incoming asteroid, a problem w station or a solar
storm. It was a warning about a movie.</div>
<div> In "The Day After Tomorrow," a
$125 million disaster film set to open on May 28, global warming from
accumulating smokestack and tailpipe gases disrupts warm ocean
currents and sets off an instant ice age.<br>
Few climate experts think such a prospect is
likely, especially in the near</div>
<div>future. But the prospect that moviegoers will be alarmed enough
to blame the Bush administration for inattention to climate change has
stirred alarm at the space agency, scientists there say.</div>
<div>http://snipurl.com/5yhp</div>
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<div><b>BLAIR WARNS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AS THREAT</b></div>
<div>from Associated Press</div>
<div> LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said
Tuesday that the threat of climate change was the most pressing long
term issue facing the world and</div>
<div>reaffirmed Britain's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol on global
warming.</div>
<div> "We have to act and we have to act
now," said Blair, at the launch of a new organization that aims
to speed up cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.</div>
<div> The prime minister said it was important
the issue of global warming was discussed at the forthcoming G8 summit
in the United States.</div>
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<div><b>Rita Colwell Rejoins NCSE Board of Directors</b></div>
<div> Dr. Rita Colwell, former Director
of the National Science Foundation, has rejoined the Board of
Directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment
(NCSE). Dr. Colwell served as Director of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) from 1998 to February 2004, and as President of the
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute from 1991 to 1998.
She stepped down from the NCSE Board of Directors when President
Clinton appointed her Director of the National Science
Foundation.</div>
<div> Ambassador Richard Benedick, President
of NCSE, said, "Rita Colwell is a visionary leader who has made
enormous contributions to the nation during her service as Director of
the National Science Foundation. We are truly delighted to
welcome her back to the NCSE Board of Directors."</div>
<div> Under Dr. Colwell's leadership,
the National Science Foundation budget grew by over 68 percent,
surpassing $5 billion for the first time in 2003, and the agency was
recognized for excellence in both science and management. During
her tenure at NSF, Colwell oversaw a major increase in the
Foundation's support for environmental research and education through
such initiatives as the interdisciplinary priority area on
Biocomplexity and the Environment.</div>
<div> Upon her departure from NSF, Colwell
became Chairman of Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc., a newly created
Washington-based subsidiary of Canon U.S.A. whose goal is to identify
and develop life-science solutions with potential applications in
diagnostics and medical instrumentation. She will also serve as
Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland,
College Park, and on the faculty of The John Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health. There she will help develop a new
international center for the study of infectious diseases, water, and
health.</div>
<div> Dr. Colwell has co-authored 16
books and over 600 scientific publications, and has received many
awards, including the Medal of Distinction from Columbia University;
the Gold Medal of Charles University, Prague; the UCLA Medal from the
University of California, Los Angeles; and the Alumna Summa Laude
Dignata from the University of Washington, Seattle. She holds a
B.S. in Bacteriology and an M.S. in Genetics from Purdue University,
and a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the University of Washington.</div>
<div> Dr. Colwell presented the 3rd John
H. Chafee Memorial Lecture at the 2003 NCSE Conference on Education
for a Sustainable and Secure Future. Her lecture, entitled
"Obstinate Issues, Sophisticated Solutions," is available at
<a
href="http://www.NCSEonline.org/NCSEconference/"
>http://www.NCSEonline.org/NCSEconference/</a>.</div>
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<div align="center"><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Jobs for
PhDs</b></font></div>
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<div><b>US NSF: Oceanographer (Associate Program Director),</b>
AD-1360-4 GEO/OCE (Closes: 06/25/2004)</div>
<div>URL : http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?e20040072</div>
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