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<div><b>Workshop Applications, OPP Workshop</b></div>
<div>From: "Reuning, Winifred M."
<wreuning@nsf.gov><br>
To: "Reuning, Winifred M." <wreuning@nsf.gov><br>
Subject: Corrected email address OPP new investigators workshop</div>
<div>Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:26:32 -0400</div>
<div> Please note that the previous email concerning the
OPP workshop for correct email address for workshop applications
is</div>
<div
> <span
></span> NewInvestigator@nsf.gov</div>
<div> We hope that this has not caused any
inconvenience.</div>
<div>Thank you.</div>
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<div><b> Resources for Earth Science and Geography Instruction
(RESGI)</b>, Mark Francek, CMU, this site replaces the old RESGI page.
The new site has a search capability and contains over 1000 earth
science, environmental, and other teaching resources organized
alphabetically. Most of the resources mentioned in this mailing over
the last five years are catalogued here. I will be phasing out the old
site http://personal.cmich.edu/~franc1m/homepage.htm this summer.<br>
NEW SITE IS:</div>
<div>http://webs.cmich.edu/resgi/</div>
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News</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">Check out this section both for
news tidbits, and for</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="-1">examples of how to communicate
science to a non-scientist audience</font></div>
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<div><b>GLOBE GROWS DARKER AS SUNSHINE DIMINISHES 10% to 37%</b></div>
<div>from The New York Times (Registration Required)</div>
<div> In the second half of the 20th century,
the world became, quite literally, a darker place.</div>
<div> Defying expectation and easy
explanation, hundreds of instruments around the world recorded a drop
in sunshine reaching the surface of Earth, as much as 10 percent from
the late 1950's to the early 90's, or 2 percent to 3 percent a decade.
In some regions like Asia, the United States and Europe, the drop was
even steeper. In Hong Kong, sunlight decreased 37 percent.<br>
No one is predicting that it may soon be
night all day, and some scientists<br>
theorize that the skies have brightened in the last decade as the
suspected<br>
cause of global dimming, air pollution, clears up in many parts of
the<br>
world.<br>
http://snipurl.com/6ei4</div>
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<div><b>A BREEDING GROUND OF DEATH</b><br>
Hood Canal looks beautiful, but pollution is nourishing plankton
blooms</div>
<div>from The Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)</div>
<div> BELFAIR, Wash. - Scuba diver Jerry
Ehrlich saw the signs of something ominous in Hood Canal starting in
the summer of 2002. The blunt-nosed six-gill sharks swimming in the
shallows caught his attention first.</div>
<div> You never see that, he thought. Such
sharks, which have a strong aversion to light, almost never leave deep
water. There were other deep-water dwellers -dogfish, octopuses,
shrimp - squirming in the shallows, as if trying to escape to
shore.</div>
<div> Deeper down, Ehrlich spotted wolf eels,
which usually stay close to their dens, meandering in open water. He
saw rockfish that couldn't swim straight. He found abandoned octopus
dens full of rotting eggs, and sea anemones, normally bright and
erect, slumped flaccidly against hard ground.
http://snipurl.com/670e</div>
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<div><b>STATE AIMS TO CUT GREENHOUSE GASES</b></div>
<div>from The Boston Globe<br>
Governor Mitt Romney plans to unveil a
comprehensive agenda on climate<br>
change today, which officials said would make Massachusetts the first
state<br>
to consider the impact on greenhouse gases when state regulators
evaluate</div>
<div>highway projects and other public construction plans.<br>
Massachusetts, which was the first state to
regulate carbon dioxide<br>
emissions from power plants, would go further by basing its
transportation<br>
planning and funding decisions in part on the greenhouse gases that
projects<br>
would produce. The plan also suggests giving the owners of hybrid cars
tax<br>
breaks and the right to use high-occupancy vehicle lanes even
without</div>
<div>passengers.<br>
The Massachusetts Climate Protection Plan
represents the state's effort to<br>
meet regional emissions goals that New England's governors and
Eastern<br>
Canada's premiers embraced in 2001.</div>
<div align="center">http://snipurl.com/670f</div>
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<div><b>GLOBAL WARMING IGNITES TEMPERS, EVEN IN A MOVIE</b></div>
<div>from The New York Times (Registration Required)</div>
<div> LOS ANGELES, May 11 - Any studio that
makes a $125 million movie about global warming is courting
controversy. But 20th Century Fox does not seem to have fully
anticipated the political firestorm being whipped up by its film
"The Day After Tomorrow."</div>
<div> Environmental advocates are using the
film's release, scheduled for May 28, as an opening to slam the Bush
administration, whose global warming policies they oppose.</div>
<div> Industry groups in Washington are
lobbying on Capitol Hill to make sure the film does not help passage
of a bill limiting carbon-dioxide emissions, which many scientists say
contribute to global warming.</div>
<div>http://snipurl.com/6btl</div>
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Programs, Courses, Internships</b></font>,<font size="+1"
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>SOLAS Science 2004: Travel Fund for
Young Scientists</b><br>
Halifax, Canada, Oct 13-16 2004<br>
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We are pleased to announce a call for applications for travel support
for young scientists wishing to attend SOLAS Science 2004. The
application form and more details can be found at:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/solas/ss04/support/youngsupport.html<br>
<br>
** The deadline for us to receive completed application forms is 23rd
May 2004 **</blockquote>
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The travel fund aims to support the attendance of the high quality,
young or early career scientists who could not otherwise attend, with
an emphasis on scientists from developing countries and regions where
SOLAS networks are not well developed.<br>
<br>
Please view the website above for full details of the call, or contact
solas@uea.ac.uk with any queries.<br>
<br>
Please circulate this message to any colleagues who might be
interested.<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Casey Ryan<br>
<br>
The Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study<br>
International Project Office<br>
School of Environmental Sciences<br>
University of East Anglia<br>
Norwich NR4 7TJ<br>
UK<br>
<br>
Tel: + 44 (0)1603 593 516<br>
Fax: +44 (0)1603 591327<br>
e-mail: casey.ryan@uea.ac.uk</blockquote>
<div align="center">http://www.solas-int.org</div>
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<div><b>Workshop Announcement<br>
"Bridging the Poles: Education Linked with
Research"</b></div>
<div><b>National Science Foundation</b><br>
Office of Polar Programs<br>
23 - 25 June 2004<br>
Washington, D.C.<br>
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Registration Deadline: Tuesday, 1 June 2004<br>
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For further information, please contact the convenors:<br>
Stephanie Pfirman (spfirman@barnard.columbia.edu)<br>
Robin Bell (robinb@ldeo.columbia.edu)<br>
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The goal of this workshop is to build stronger partnerships
between<br>
Arctic and Antarctic communities, and between education and polar<br>
research in order to engage the next generation of scientists,
engineers,<br>
and leaders, and inspire and educate the general public. A report
coming<br>
out of the workshop will define future directions for polar
education,<br>
including needed infrastructure, that will also maximize the
educational<br>
impact of the International Polar Year beginning in 2007.<br>
<br>
The workshop will identify strategies that will enable polar
scientists<br>
to conduct meaningful education and outreach, and for educators to<br>
include polar research in their classrooms and outreach activities.
The<br>
audience that we will target runs from K through gray: elementary
school<br>
through undergraduate, and the general public.<br>
<br>
Polar scientists and educators interested in attending this workshop
or<br>
being on our mailing list should send the following information
to</div>
<div>Margie Turrin (mkt@ldeo.columbia.edu):<br>
<br>
(1) Name<br>
(2) Institution<br>
(3) Address<br>
(4) Email<br>
(5) Phone<br>
(6) Whether or not you are planning to attend the workshop<br>
(7) Whether or not you are interested in contributing to the report
but<br>
unable to attend<br>
(8) Brief Statement of interest (maximum 100 words)<br>
<br>
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, 1 June 2004<br>
<br>
For further information, please contact the convenors:<br>
Stephanie Pfirman (spfirman@barnard.columbia.edu)<br>
Robin Bell (robinb@ldeo.columbia.edu)</div>
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